Easter

Owen's first Easter is going quite well. Right now he is asleep near his mat. He did very well at church this morning.

As you can see below, there are new pictures. The first is of the quilt my mom made for Owen. The top left hand is my mom's, the top right is Jeffy's mom's, we are the next row - me, Owen, Jeffy - then the two on the bottom are our dads' hands - mine on the left, Jeffy's on the right. Above Owen's hands is his full name, below is his birthday. I designed the quilt last year and my mom made it. We looked through books and books of quilts but couldn't find anything I really liked so we designed our own. I really like the way it turned out. Mom has been bugging me for about two months now to get a picture of it up. (Sorry it took so long, Mom!)

The second picture is of my new haircut. I had gotten sick and tired of my long hair and all I was doing was pulling it back into a ponytail to avoid Owen grabbing it and to keep it from getting supper staticky (which it had been doing lately). It was time to cut it. I told my stylist to give me something (1) short, (2) easy to take care of because I'm lazy and (3) that I can style but that I don't have to style. I think she did a great job. I was the talk of the school on Friday - people kept coming in to see my hair cut because other people had told them the needed to see it. I love it!

The last picture is of Owen today, just so you can see how much he's grown. We went in for our 6 month check-up on Friday. He is now in the 97th% for height (28.5"), and at about the 30th% for weight (16# 7 oz.) He's nearly doubled his birth weight, which is just where he should be at 6 months. He's just about 3 oz. shy according to the scale at the ped's office.

Wednesday was actually his half-birthday. I took the day off, not because of that but because I had an appointment with an orthopedic doctor. I've been having lots of pain in my left foot for a little over a month now. I went in to my regular doctor a couple of weeks ago and he sent me into the orthopedic guy. Turns out I have a stress fracture in my left middle metatarpel. I was walking around on it for four weeks without knowing what was going on. All I knew is that it started to hurt something fierce on March 9. March 8 was a waiver day. That means that the teachers had to be at school but the kids had the day off. I took advantage of the fact that there were no kids there and burned off a little bit of energy running down the halls and sliding in my socks. That's what broke my foot. I'm a little embarrassed to say the least. The good news is that it's healing nicely and should be all healed in another couple of weeks. I'm not to go walking for exercise for another 4 weeks. I'll test that out on May 11 when we go to the symphony (4th and 5th grade classes go and we walk the mile each way. Downhill going, uphill coming back, and a picnic at school when we return. It's one of my favorite days of the school year.

Ok, more about Owen. He's been on solids for just over two weeks now. He loves them! Friday night we introduced a new food - carrotts. He's pretty excited about them. I think he's just excited about any food. We've eliminated two formula servings during the day now, which means we are sitting at 2 feedings a day where he gets formula. That is going to decrease even more as we work toward three meals a day with solids, plus nursing.

We are headed over to Jeffy's brother and sister-in-law's for dinner in just over an hour. Have a wonderful Easter!