A Day At The Beach

So, we went to point clark for the long weekend again this year but for us it was more of a short weekend.

We had some issues on the way there with our Jeep - our exhuast fell off - if we were smart we just would've come home so that we could fix it. Needless to say it was a deafening ride home!

Georgia had a good time and Owen just wanted to eat the sand!

Georgia had a great time throwing rocks into the water at the beach.

Owen mostly wanted his Mommy.

Georgia did some "tanning"

They played together a bit

We took Georgia to the playground

Owen loves his car.

Owen ATE (surprise!)

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WE blew bubbles

We watched the sunset

and the fireworks

and she took off down the road

she left me here stranded . . .

This follows Beautiful Loser and is followed by Katmandu on Bob Seger's Greatest Hits 2

"took off down the road" for some reason she can't remember "Sunspot Baby" but she can ALWAYS remember Katmandu

Who would've thought an almost 3 year old little girls favorite musician would be Bob Seger -

I wish I knew a way to contact him to let him know of his young fan.

Everyday

"mommy, where's beautiful loser"

"do you have Katmandu in the car, today?"

"who sings Bob Seger"

When she sings the words to beautiful loser - her favorite part is "faster when you fall" and "can't have it all" such sad, deep lyrics for a young girl

I guess if Grampa didn't have any influence over her mother liking Bob Seger, he definetely didn't have any influence here, did he?

Good thing mommy likes Bob Seger, although I think Katmandu is overplayed, let's see if we can influence her on Shakedown!

A photo of the only way an almost 3 year old girl dances to Katmandu

My sweet baby boy

yes, he is still a baby!

sometimes i forget this but when i am holding him in my arms and he is crying "mmmuummmuummmmmuummmm" i am reminded of the sweet little baby that i brought home, the helpless, needy baby.

when he has just had a bath and he has that new baby smell to him again - that fresh, youthful sweet smell.

when i hold him close and he smiles,

when i come home from work and the baby who is so good when mommy is gone, so good to go to sleep without his mommy, baby who doesn't need his mommy when she's not around,

when that baby turns into a sucky for his mommy, waking up when she comes home just to have her hold him.

that's how you know - he's still a baby.

okay so he eats real food now (mostly mush but no longer just milk)

and he's almost crawling - he's mastered the tummy shuffle so he can move around on his own

and he sits upright without falling over every 2 minutes

and he now says daadaadaa

and he babbles with his sister

and he doesn't sleep 18 hours a day

and he smiles all the time (so much better than the newborn closed eyes all the time)

and he's triple the size

and he puts everything in his mouth
and he loves his sister (even though she tortures him)

and he's afraid of dogs (he's very first fear)

but he's still my baby and that won't change he can grow all he wants (if i could stop it i might but just for a while) no matter how much he grows and learns at the end of the day he is a sweet baby boy

and he's mine.

sweet dreams owen

3 till 3

3 months until Georgia is 3 years old - how did that happen?

She is such a beautiful, sweet, smart, cute, lovable little girl, there aren't enough words to describe how wonderful she is. She can do so much and knows so much.

In the last 3 years she has learned to crawl, walk, talk, dance, sing - she can count to 13 (sometimes she skips 10 tho) she knows her ABC's and can draw most of the letters. Her absolute favorite song is Katmandu by Bob Seger then Beautiful Loser followed by "took off down the road" which is what she calls Sunspot Baby. She also seems to really like Zip a dee doo dah by Miley Cyrus - we have been dancing to that song lately and I taught her how to do a curtsey and she does it with such grace!

Along with all her wonderfullness she does have her moments - she can throw a fit in a heartbeat if you catch her at the wrong moment and sometimes she makes these really annoyng sounds that I mostly blame on Owen because they didn't happen until after Owen was born and most of these sounds Owen makes as well.

Becoming a big sister has brought out an amazng side of her that I am SO glad I got to know - I always knew she was sweet but watching her with her little brother has proven that 1000 times over. She loves him so much and although she does have her jealous moments for the most part I think she is very happy to have him - in her words "he's mine brother" - don't even think about taking him from her.

We also recently went through the worst experience of my life, POTTY TRAINING, thankfully I "think" the worst of that is over! She only has the occassional accident. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done, together wth Georgia she has learned to remember to go to the potty and have also grown, I am not sure how - I wouldn't say I am smarter or that I learned anything - maybe I did tho - maybe I learned how to be calmer for the sake of my child - my stress stressed out Georgia and I coudn't bare that - I had no choice but to breath.

There's nothing sweeter than a Georgia hug, or kiss, or "i still love you dear". She always knows when mommy is sad and that's when she throws in the "i still love you dear" which always puts a smile on my face.

She is starting to sleep through the night in her OWN bed every once in a while and I always miss cuddling with her when she does that.

Georgia is our amazing little girl and we are very lucky to be blessed with her sweetness every day - Georgia we love you and thank you! We hope the next 3 years are just as sweet!

As I read this back to her a tear rolled down my cheek and she wiped it for me . . . awww

Owen's Christening

This weekend we had Owen Baptised. It was unbearably hot, why didn't the church have air conditioning? It was ridiculous!

We had our friend Judi take pictures for us again and as always we are so excited and can't wait to see them. Judi has been with us from the beginning photographing all the important moments in our lives - I wish we could afford to have her take pictures of the kids on a daily basis but I guess 7 times in 5 years is enough.

Owen looked so adorable in his Kenneth Cole suit and Georgia looked Gorgeous in her summer dress. She was so well behaved didn't seem bothered at all that the day was about Owen, although it probably didn't seem that way to her because all the wonderful people in her life did a great job of giving her plenty of attention - making sure that she too had a good day!

Thank you to Oma for all her hard work with baking food for the day - Thank you to Gramma and Grampa for the gifts for the kids and your help setting up and making sure that Georgia was taken care of in the potty department - Thank you to Auntie & Uncle Michael for being Owen's Godparents for your help with the day and being patient with me and being pictures on more time for me - Thank you to Jenelle for an attempt at a cake, I am sorry that it didn't work out because I was very much looking forward to tasting it however I really hope that you don't feel bad anymore, it was not a big deal and everything worked out in the end! Thank you to everyone else for coming and making the day wonderful!

Now I will stop blabbing and post some pictures!