"Any Day Now" Has Arrived

Charly finally took her first steps tonight. The most she took was 4! Great Job Charly!

Quick Stats

Yes another post about Owen. But grandma's want to know. We went to his 3 year check up yesterday. He now weighs 37 pounds and is 40 inches tall. He is doing well except with speech. We are having is hearing checked and having a speech evaluation done with in the next month.

La Policia Mexicana

I laughed so hard watching this. If you speak any Spanish or have taken a Spanish class ever, you should watch.

SNL la-policia-mexicana

Three Years Ago

I can hardly believe that three years ago this morning Owen came into our world. After 38 weeks of pregnancy, craving potatoes and gagging at the smell of buttered popcorn and sink drains, the first addition to the Trent Family arrived. Weighing only 6 lbs and 13 oz, 20 and 3/4" long, he made a dramatic entrance. We nearly lost the little guy due to a prolapsed cord, his heart beat plummeted low with each contraction and he was not rebounding. I was told he needed to be delivered immediately. We were scared that our baby might not make it. I closed my eyes and thought of the only thing that came to mind, the song A Child's Prayer. With in 5 minutes of being told we were going for surgery we were in the operating room and baby Owen was delivered. A sweet yet intense spirit filled the room, it was joy, excitement, love and reverence all at the same time while a little boy cried his first cry.

We named him Garett Owen Trent. Garett after his Daddy and Owen because it means 'young warrior' we thought it was what he would need to be to survive in the world we live in today.

He came out long in length, with long fingers and big feet and resembled a skinny wrinkled up old man, not quite fitting in to his over sized skin.

When we were leaving the hospital with Owen we laughed because no one was stopping us from leaving. We joked are they seriously trusting us to take him home?

This is Owen at 3 months old, he grew so quickly!

Check out the chub on this guy. :)
He grew so big so quickly that we had to move him over to a big boys car seat at 5 months. He stayed at the top of the charts (and off the charts) for height and weight, and I got buff arms.
As a mom I had a very skewed version of reality, if his wrist rolls every started to part I would get so worried that I wasn't feeding him enough. I was next to tears in the doctors office worried that he was starving. The doctor chuckled and told me I had nothing to worry about. No kidding, what was I thinking?

Owen at 1
Around this time his eyes changed from Blue to Green!

Slowly getting more hair.

Love you too bud!

Owen's devotion to the paci was true. And finally we ditched the paci when he was 2 and a half.

Gosh Owen, you are so cute!

Bear is Owey's cuddly pal who goes everywhere Owen goes.

Owen today. He has grown so much! As most of you know, he loves Superman. Other things among his long list of favorites...Bear, his blankly, Wall-E, his family-each one of them, Buzz Light Year, cars, trucks, planes, helicopters, jumping, running, "swimming" in the bath tub, playing in the sand, going to the Bounce House, making messes, going to nursery at church, talking on the phone with Mya, and playing with Play Dough.

One wish he has - to play in the snow.

Love you!
Happy Birthday!

Charly Girl is 10 months!!

It is amazing to me how quickly Charly is growing up. Today she turned 10 months! She is still sweet and cuddly - thank goodness! Some of her favorite things to do are chewing on things, standing up on her own, cruising, squealing :( , saying Mama, Dada, Baba, and Ohhh and Goooo. She has learned to slide off the couch and bed. Charly is learning to climb and walk. She is protesting baby food and only wants what is on my plate or crackers and the bottle. If I give her the same food I'm having but not off my plate, that's a no go. She has learned that screeching usually gets Owen in timeout, so we have to really watch carefully so we don't punish the innocent. Charly now has 5 teeth and 3 stubborn ones that refuse to come through. She sleeps through the night on and off, lately I could use a few more restful nights.

Our Goo Goo Bear

So long!

Owen's Birthday Party

Owen turns 3 this coming Monday! We celebrated today. We had a nice small get together with Owen's pals. It was Superman themed - Owen's all time fav! We started decorating two days early since I love party decorations. :) I think they go up and come down too quickly. This way we get to enjoy them longer. Owen has had so much fun anticipating his party, especially the blowing out the candles part. We had Superman tattoos for the the kids, a pin the crest on the Superman and a big blow up Superman that the kids could attack for fun.

The decorations were simple but fun and festive!
When Superman party decorations make my house look better it's a good indicator that I really need to decorate.

The cool center piece.

Yum! Red, Blue and Yellow M&M's

The cake. Darn Blogger flipped my photo. :(
Sooooo the cake was two chocolate layers with chocolate pudding in the middle then covered in Cool Whip. It's tastey and not terribly sweet. The squeezy icing tubes I used got runny, but oh well, Owen thought it was so awesome.

Hurray! He got to blow out the candels!

Score! A Mega Tron Potato Head!

Superman / SuperOwen shirt!
A special delivery from the McMullin's in Idaho. It wasn't going to arrive until Monday, but we were suprised when it showed up at our door during the party.

The after party. Chill'n with Dad. (Dad is always a good sport when Owen uses him as a jungle gym, or as the perpetual punching bag.)

I'm so glad that Owen has good friends. And that most of them were able to celebrate with us. We missed the ones who couldn't make it. As a mom, it feels so good to see your child having fun and being happy. He loves to be loved and loves to play! Being surrounded by people who love him made today one of those extra special days for Owen. Thanks everyone!

SCORE!!!!

This is one of my most favorite parts of the year. It is consignment sale season!! I'm so excited! This morning was the All 4 Kids sign up for volunteers and sellers and I got in! Getting in to volunteer and sell isn't the biggest challenge, it's getting the shifts you want. I have tried for about 4 seasons now to get the bag stuffing position (it's nearly effortless) and I got it this year! Plus another working shift so now I get to shop extra early. :) I am so happy. :)

If you have no idea what I am talking about... Where have you been? Welcome to my world of obsession! Check out the Bargain Watcher on my side bar and also All4Kids.com (it's the best of them all).

I'm Caught Up

I've officially caught up my blog. Scroll down to Dec 6th, that is where I left off. Since I didn't mention it in the earlier blogs. I hope you all had wonderful, safe and a Merry Christmas, as well as a Happy New Year.

I've already begun working on all of my new projects, mostly cleaning out the house and trying to find new organization methods for the house. Wish me luck I will post all my success and ignore all the rest. :)

Yikes!! Don't show Dad!

Wendi and Marilee were over the other day and the kids got into the bow box, filled with the bows she is making. I'm sure Daddy will be thrilled to see his little boy with bows in his hair. Well it was fun.

Charly's Mop on Top

I usually keep her hair up in a pony tail. It flips under perfectly. I love it, it looks great naturally with little to no effort on my part. Today we went for the hair band look. I knew it would only last for about an hour before she tore it out so I thought I would share. Of course no picture of my daughter would be complete without something in her mouth.

Cooking with Owey

When Charly is napping I try to spend some quality time with Owen. He likes to cook, it's more like stirring and pouring stuff. I won't let him near a flame, he not to be trusted. So we have been trying new recipes, cookies, cakes, dinners, whatever looks good. He is such a good helper and it a good time for teaching. This day we made those no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies. They didn't turn out well. The heat must not have been high enough, so we tried again, another failure. I think we will be skipping this "easy" classic. :)

December 28th Christmas x 2

After going through all my pictures for my blog I realized that again I have managed to take most if not all of the pictures, leaving me out of all the family and holiday pictures. This will be a New Year's Resolution for me, I will hand the camera over so I can be in the recorded family memories.

Okay so we arrived safely from MS and tried to rest before our big day the next day. :) Owen was loving all the present opening. And Charly could care less, she was just happy to be in her own bed. I was happy to be home too. It's nice to go away, but I love my own bed.

Super Owen! To the rescue!
He loves to tie blankets around his neck to be a "Super He-o" even though he has two real capes.

Yea! More presents!

Some flare for Garett's desk.

Charly eating more presents.

Bob the Builder from Grandpa Charlie! Thank you!


Later Christi and Skot came over. They came in from Chicago for the holidays. We love it when they visit. They are lots of fun! Owen talks about Christi every time we get dressed for church (because she had bought his church jacket that he loves) so when she came over he was asking if we were going to go to church. :)

Our little Goo Goo Baby. She was having so much fun, new people and new things to chew on.
That is a 12-18 month shirt. It was a touch tight but I wanted her to wear it since it was the closest thing we had that resembled a candy cane.

If you can't tell from the pictures, she is the sweetest little girl.

One of Owen's favorite toys. Clean up on isle 2.

Christmas In Mississippi

With Garett's work schedule we were not sure if we were going to have the time to go to Mississippi to visit family. Last minute we got word that we would be able to go! So we packed quickly and took off. I was worried about the kids having a hard time with the long car ride but it worked out fine since we left at 7pm, they slept most of the way.

Hey big guy. It looks like you need a taller seat.

Charly wasted no time falling asleep.


Since we drove through the night we had time to visit and relax. Charly took a nap on nearly everyone there. :) Owen spent as much time outside as possible. He loves exploring and playing in the dirt. There are horses next door so he liked watching them too, but chasing the cats was the best. He kept trying to rub their backs with sticks and what Owen called a hammer, the cats knew better than to hang around for that kind of love.

Charly taking a nap with Aunt Nicole.



Notice the cat in the bush. I just happened to catch him goofing around.

Owen's "hammer". It's metal and dangerous for sure. No wonder the cats were running. No cats were harmed. And the "hammer" was removed from the toddler.

Charly catching some rays, it was 70 degrees. :) I miss the warm weather. While we were in MS Charly started to wave at everyone. It was so funny, everytime Charly saw Nana Charly would throw her arm up and wave.

Owen in persuit.

Opening presents.

Eatting presents.

Owen's cousin Keaton. Keaton is 3 months older. They look like brothers. They played together well too.

Saturday we said out good-bye's and headded home. We tried leaving earlier in the day. We ended up having to take time in the middle of the trip for the kids to get out and move. They did so well with the break in the middle, it just made for a long trip home.

The family. Wayne is missing.

I love you too Owen.

This is the double I Love You, also known as Airplanes, but not Hang Ten. I keep telling him that it's Hang Ten too, he gets mad and tells me No Hang Ten Mama. :)