Week with the Olivers

Helen and her boys spent their spring break with us. We had lots of fun playing at home. Helen and I snuck away a couple of times while Travis watched the boys, and we all took a long walk to the park one day for a picnic, but other than that we just stayed at home. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the week.

One of my favorite things of the week was the almost all night party the boys were attempting. We had them in bed, lights out, and thought they were almost asleep. But slowly and steadily the toys came out, the lamps came on, and the talking got louder. They were being nice to each other and staying in the room for the most part. But at 10:30 Helen and I went to check on them and this picture is what we found! Were we mad? Of course not, we took pictures :) After a fairly quick clean up we again turned out the lights and it was only a few minutes until they all fell asleep.

Another one of my favorite moments was the narrow escape the boys almost made. Bergen had been in his room in trouble for something. Travis went in to talk to him and let him out. A while later I thought Travis was in the garage so when Bergen and the other boys out there to play, since they had a bat and ball (better not in the house) I didn't follow them out. I could hear the boys playing and after a while I heard the garage go up. I walked into our bedroom to grab something for Owen and happened to walk past my phone just as I was getting a message. It said this...Ah ha ha ha! Note to self: hide that key in Bergen's room again. Luckily the boys didn't go anywhere or get lost during their short time of no supervision outside. But seriously, it was hilarious!

My not favorite moment is when Nathan, Helen, and Joshua all got sick. Like really sick! It was not fun for them. I had to call Travis home to help with the situation. Thankfully he was able to because I'm not very good assisting with throw up. Amazingly no one in our family got that kind of sick. Since Joshua was still sick the day they were supposed to go home, we got an extra day with them! We colored Easter eggs together which is always fun.

Helen and I have tried countless times to get a good picture of our boys together. We still got plenty of silly, funny, and bad ones, but this time I think we actually got a really good one of everyone at the same time. All FIVE of them! Five, how is that possible?!

Owen TWO Months Old

Two month stats:

12lbs 13oz - 58th percentile

24 inches long - 89th percentile

Owen continues to be a great baby. He's such a patient little guy, mostly happy, and quite content. His cry is getting a little louder but we don't hear it very often. Sometimes I find him in his crib having woken up from a nap just looking around. He has started smiling at us. At first he would have a really big open mouth, shinny eyes, and trying so hard to turn up the corners of his mouth. A week or two of that and now he is giving very obvious smiles and it's super cute! He's sleeping longer at night, up to 6 or so hours, but it's not consistent yet. We will take them when they come though!

Bergen is still being kind to "bebe broder" and gives him attention in short bursts. I love (well sometimes) finding him in the crib to lay next to him or see how he's doing. I don't want him waking Owen up but it's nice to see Bergen showing his love to him. Bergen is definitely a proud big brother! He's likes to show off Owen to others, telling them he's his baby and that he's so cute.

Brothers are so fun!

Children's Opera and a Fountain

Spring break week we got to go to a children's opera in Ft. Worth. It was cute, but I wondered if Bergen was enjoying it. He kept telling me he had to go potty, but I didn't want to leave since the show wasn't even an hour and I hated to miss out on what we paid to see. Plus I was trying to feed Owen at that moment. After the show people could go to the stage and meet the actors. Bergen was not at all interested, nor did he want his picture taken. After we took a bathroom break Bergen was much happier and told me on his own he liked the cat. Phew! He did get something out of it. He was also much more willing to get a picture in the theatre. Walking back to the car we went past the museum, which has a water fountain. Bergen asked if we could have a picnic there. All I had was a couple packages of fruit snacks. So I said sure and we ate the fruit snacks for a picnic. Then he got brave and wanted to touch the water. I'm not sure why I thought this would end any differently, but what started out as touching the water turning into running through the water. Since we were going straight home I decided it wasn't a big deal and just let him go for it. He was soaked to the bone but hearing him yell back to me, "I'm having fun! I'm having fun mom!" was worth it all! Once he was cold enough we finished walking to the car where I stripped off his wet clothes. He rode home nakies with Owen's blanket wrapped around him. He wondered why I didn't have other clothes for him, but I don't think he minded since he had had so much fun. Note to self: next time we are going to be in that area...bring extra clothes. Just in case :)

Children's Museum

We spent a Saturday morning at the Children's Museum. We had a gift card to the gift shop. It was really fun to let Bergen look all around the shop and pick out something to buy. He had lots of ideas but decided on a ballon helicopter and a really cute Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site matching game (that's his favorite book right now). Then we enjoyed the activities of the museum. What Bergen loved the most was making a robot out of old boxes, containers, bubble wrap...basically trash, but he learned about reusing items. It was such a fun day he, and Owen, were asleep in the car when we got home. Bergen napping is such a rare occurrence these days I had to take a picture.

Owen Just Being Cute

Owen ONE Month Old

One month stats:

10lbs 10oz - 69%

(2lb 2 oz increase from his two week checkup)

22 1/4 inches long - 80%

Owen is such a snuggler! He loves loves loves to be curled up on your shoulder. That's also his favorite place to sleep. He does not like a binky and doesn't really like being tightly swaddled. A loosely wrapped blanket is good enough for him. He's very patient when it comes getting a diaper change or just having to wait a little while before getting to eat. He's a pretty consistent every 3 hour-ish eater, day and night. He likes being cuddled up in the swing, which has been great for letting me get a little more sleep sometimes. He's a super calm baby and I'm betting he will have a very mellow personality. He's a good little guy and we sure love him!

Fishing

Travis took Bergen out fishing in one of the ponds by our house one day. He loves it! He asks to go all the time. Thankfully it's an easy thing to do, grab the pole, the hot dogs for bait, and walk down the street. Since then they've gone quite a few times. Did I mention Bergen loves it? For as wild and crazy as Bergen often is, being outside with this kind of activity is a place he calms down and behaves so nicely. And as an added bonus, the fish in this pond are good biters so that makes it extra fun!

Family Visitors

We had about a month's worth of visitors who came to see Owen and help us out. Grandma Linton was the first to arrive. She was a great help that second week when I was the most tired and not feeling my best. She did lots of house work and kept Bergen busy by going on walks and feeding the ducks. She got a few quiet moments to hold Owen too, but I was apparently too tired to realize we didn't get any pictures of her here until after she had left :(

Then the following week Auntie Kel and Grandma came. They also did lots of chores and helping out with both boys. Auntie Kel entertained Bergen for hours and hours, energy levels were high from sunup to sundown! Running around and saying tag you're it, jumping on the trampoline, playing with trains and toys, and being a doggie - "stay doggie!"  We mostly stayed home, but did take a few small outings. We met Travis for lunch at Hard Eight BBQ. Another day we went to Hobby Lobby and Sam Moon, where there was lots of bling seeing and leather smelling. And mom went with me to Owen's two week checkup. Grandma went home after two weeks and then Grandpa Bjarnson came for a long weekend. It was over his birthday so we went to Babe's to celebrate. Bergen was not wanting his picture taken! It was very windy that day, hence the crazy hair. Playing darts is always fun and a few people want their own guns now :) And finally after just over a month Kellene spent two full days and part of another at the airport trying to get on a flight home. I don't think standby is her favorite way to travel after that.