These Days

                              Our Big boy at the Park with mom :)

                                                   Popping Bubbles at the Park.

Owen is Such a Big boy these days 4 going on 40 he says the most adorable things peppered with things no 4 year old should know. He is Hilarious and makes us crack up daily. His favorite show is Jake and the neverland pirates... or Oso. His favorite color is Green, favorite foods are cookies, Jelly toast, salty apples, avacado, Bananas and cheese. Oh and fish the kid loves fish salmon and steel head mostly but will eat any fish we give him. Owen is in Taekwondo and has his belt testing tomorrow :) He is an amazing boy full of piss and vinigar! just like his parents.

Wowsers it's been awhile. Raising a child is like being in the twilight zone, one day I have sweet infant who eats, sleeps, and poops and the next I have a walking talking 4 year old.  I've decided I should start blogging again to keep a diary of sorts of how our boy is growing and what we have been up to. This picture says it all :) Owen is in taekwondo. I got my license and Owen is the most adorable child ever.  

I decided..

That I need to write more on here...

Here is a list of what I do every day...

1) Wake up and Make Coffee (after opening Owens bedroom door and Kissing that sweet sleepy face good morning!) This is usually about 8am ish

2) Make Owen some Chocolate milk ( milk with a drizzle of choc. syrup) fix our coffee to our liking and take a seat...Enjoy said coffee.

3) Make breakfast (eggs, toast maybe some potatos) Enjoy with family...

4) The following 3 hours Monday, Thursday and Friday are spent playing with Owen, watching cartoons and checking the computer. On Tuesday and Wednesday however we spend that time cleaning up and getting ready for our playdate (tuesday) and story time (wednesday)

5) Lunch Time for us is usually between 12 and 1pm. I make Chicken and a veggie and a carb we eat and then its nap time for Owen. This is when I do most of my cleaning and relaxing. I do dishes, counters, floors and normal pick up and then its my time to watch what ever I want look at facebook check craigslist or just sit and stare in to space...this lasts about 2.5 to 3 hours by the time O wakes up its almost dinner time I put a show on for him and start deciding whats for dinner...

6) Dinner pretty much the same as lunch. We always sit at the table (Me and O) With water or milk and eat our dinner together. I think this is important since daddys at work we need to make sure O has normal dinners and learns his manners and such even if its just me doing the teaching.

7) After dinner its about 630 or 7 and for the rest of the night Owen and I play with his toys find a fun project to do or just have a dance party in the living room. When 9 rolls around I put O in the bath, then into some jammies. Depending on what time he woke from his nap him and I might watch a movie together and then its bed time.

8) Bed time is... I put owen in HIS bed, make sure he has his blanky and his otter and give him kisses we say our prayer and then I'm out of there! I might go back in a time or two to put him back in bed but for the most part he just goes to sleep.

9) A few hours later after some alone time and possibly some reading or internet time (i'm addicted I know) Jesse gets home we talk about our days... maybe eat a snack and then head to bed ourselves (usually 12-1am but last night it was 3am ) Snuggle in and fall fast asleep.

10) Start all over 8am.

Lately...

Wow its been awhile. We have moved out of the mold infested apartment :) Finally We moved in March I think (I know I have a terrible memory) Our new place is nice its just upstairs from the mold but we're sticking it out until our lease ends in September. In the end of February we went on 'vacation' to California to visit Jesse's mom, dad and grandma. We stayed in Santa Cruz which is Jesses home town. It was a long trip down on the train (20 hours) and not that fun with a almost 2 year old. We celebrated Owens 2nd birthday while on vacation. On the way home (Yes on the train) Owen and I stopped and stayed with my mom for over a week while Jesse came home to finalize our moving arrangements. Anywhoo now we are in our new place settled and Jesse has started a new job as a manager :) of a burger place (Blast Burger) its delicious! His first official day is in fact today. It seems like life is finally falling in to place and we can take a deep breath and enjoy.

My hair.

I fixed the mullet look :)

Mold update

So We are still dealing with mold. Right now the majority of it is "cleaned" definitely not fixed but not as easy to spot. The manager just yesterday sent both proposals from the contractors to the management company... So I am having to push pretty hard to get something done and I hope it happens soon. Today she was not in at all so far. I am having a very hard time understanding why it is taking this long. On Monday January 24 we had to bring Owen to the ER because his cough got so bad. The doc said its an upper resp. Infection and Croup. He said we can't really prove its the mold that is to blame but come on my child had been living in a room that now the entire wall needs to be repaired... I am upset that we are all sleeping in the living room trying to avoid mold, we have to sleep with the fresh air on our heads just to sleep with out coughing. I WILL get this fixed soon I'm talking this week with the managers help or without we cannot live in the living room its ridiculous!