Owen is getting very close to crawling, he still rolls around a bit while doing it but he’s getting better!

Lately people have been telling us that Owen looks like his Papa (Grandpa).  What do you think?

Owen recently figured out how to smack his lips and he thinks he is quite funny! This is one of my favorite videos of our son.

Go Utes!!!

Owen was so excited to get a picture under the tree in his Christmas PJ’s so he could wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from our family to yours.

So I was summoned to jury duty, again.  I was worried all weekend that I wouldn’t be able to save enough milk for Owen to eat while I was performing my civic duty.  I worried that Bernd wouldn’t be able to get any work done while taking care of Owen.  I worried that my house wasn’t very clean and Bernd’s business partner was coming over.  But I never worried about this…

So I was sitting in the courtroom with all of the other potential jurors when a security officer entered the courtroom and spoke to the clerk.  Next thing I know the judge is asking if anyone owned a silver Honda.  I raised my hand and the judge asked me to approach the bench.  Of course the first thing that went through my head was, what does my silver Honda have to do with this case or my ability to be a juror.  The judge then told me that my car had been hit and because of that he was going to dismiss me from jury duty.  

So I followed the security officer out of the courtroom and he started telling me what happened.  He told me that a lady had backed into my car and that the officer that responded to the accident got all of her information.  He was telling me that the whole thing was caught on the security cameras, he hadn’t seen the video or the car yet so he didn’t know exactly what had happened.  We walked up to the car from the back and neither of us saw any damaged.  We got to the front of the car and the officer said “what the hell did she do?!” 

These pictures don’t do the damage justice.  The front end of the car is a total mess.  She pushed the car back at least 2 feet.  Thankfully our car didn’t hit the car parked behind me.  Since the lady that hit the car was long gone by the time they found me I have no idea what happened but she sure did a number to our car.

So Bernd packed Owen up and came to get me and deal with the car.  By the time he got off the phone with the insurance company all of the jury members that were not selected for the trial were leaving the courthouse.  So even though I was dismissed early I didn’t get to leave until long after most of my fellow jurors. 

Before I learned that my car was hit I knew it was just a matter of time before they dismissed me as a juror because of the nature of the case.  Last time I was summoned to jury duty it was for a similar case and I was the first person dismissed because of my bias with this particular offense.  So I would have been long gone, but instead I got to deal with this loveliness.  Good thing I got my $18.50 of tax payer money for all my trouble, it made the whole experience totally worth it (that’s was completely sarcastic in case you weren’t sure!).

I have lots to talk about and I didn’t want to do a bunch of posts, hence the random title.

Owen’s new cousin was born on November 18th.  Cole is so cute and we are so excited to have him join our family.  We are already enjoying having 3 little boys in the family.  I can’t wait until they are all a little older and can play together. 

Owen had his 4 month check up.  Here are his stats.

Height:  25 inches -- 50%

Weight:  13 lbs. 11 oz. -- 25% (he dropped from 50%)

Head:  42 cm -- 50%

We were a little surprised that his weight dropped so much.  He is getting cute fat rolls on his legs and arms so I was surprised he was so low.  However people are always telling me that he is little so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised.  I think Cole might catch up to Owen before we know it.  Cole was almost 10 lbs. at his 2 week visit!

Thanksgiving was great as usual.  We missed Josh, Sabrina and the boys but it was fun to have Dan, Deb and family join us for dinner.  I didn’t get any pictures on Thanksgiving which I’m sad about.  Also there was no snow storms while we were in Park City which was disappointing.  I love being up there for Thanksgiving, sitting by the fire, with a huge snow storm.

We were playing Domino’s and Owen wanted to be on Jake’s team!  Owen loves his Uncle Jake.

I started feeding Owen cereal last week.  I wasn’t sure if he was ready or not but thought I would try it out.  I don’t know how much he is actually getting in his mouth but he is really interested in it.  I put Owen in his Bumbo fully clothed with a little bib on the first time we fed him.  I don’t know what I was thinking!  Since that first time I learned my lesson and I strip him down to just a diaper.

We recently had our first snow storm of the season which meant Owen got to taste his very first snowball.  You can’t see the snowball in this picture but as you can see he wasn’t too sure about it!  I don’t think he liked how cold it was on his hands.  Either that or else he was upset that the Utes were getting killed by TCU!

The first snow also meant Owen needed some new gear to keep him warm.  The hat is a little big but I think it will do the trick. 

Owen has now learned how to roll from his back to his tummy.  We’ve noticed that he only rolls to his left.  It doesn’t matter if he is rolling tummy to back or back to tummy. 

He has started scooting around a little bit and when he is on his tummy he lifts his bum in the air and gets on his knees.  I think we are going to have a crawler soon.  We never planned on having a kid at this house and now we are about to childproof it.  Hopefully we get moved before he starts walking.

Owen rolled over for the first time today!  I put him on his stomach for some tummy time this morning and he immediately rolled onto his back.  I thought it might have been a fluke so I put him on his stomach again.  Sure enough he rolled right over.

As soon as Owen started playing with his toes I knew it was just a matter of time until he stuck them in his mouth.  Well he figured it out!  I must say it’s pretty dang cute.  Luckily his toes are always clean!