Owen had his 2 month wellness check-up today. 

Here are his current stats:

Weight: 10 lbs 12 oz (50%)

Height:  23 inches (50%)

Head: 39 cm (50%)

So he is a very healthy proportional kid.  The Doctor said he was doing great and couldn’t believe he was sleeping through the night.  For those of you that don’t know Owen has been sleeping through the night pretty much since he was released from the hospital.  Lately he has been sleeping from about 10:00pm to 7:00am.  I don’t know what we did to deserve such a good sleeper but hey I’ll take it!  Owen got his first round of immunizations today and he did great.  Hopefully the next day goes as well as the actual shots did.

Some of Owen’s other accomplishments have been showing emotions, he smiles all the time and has started laughing a little bit.  He also talks to us when we talk to him.  It takes his whole body to get the little sounds out but he loves it when he hears his voice.  He also really likes to hold people’s hands.  When he is upset or needs comfort if you let him hold your finger he calms right down (usually).  He loves the feel of his soft blankets against his cheeks.  If he is getting sleepy or needs comfort if I put his blanket over him and put a corner on his cheek he snuggles right into it and calms down.  Also he loves to stand up.  The Doctor was surprised when we told her that because he is so young.  But he loves to stand up and sit down.  I think he likes it so much because he can look around and see what’s going on.

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m liking staying home with Owen.  It has been a real adjustment staying home and not going to work.  I miss my friends at work so much and the adult interaction.  However, I love being Owen’s Mom.  I feel bad for those of my friends that want to stay home with their kids and can’t.  So even though it’s been an adjustment staying home I am grateful that I have the opportunity to do so.

Bernd continues to be the cutest, best Dad ever.

It’s the end of an era.  5 ½ years ago I started working at Making Memories and now I’m done.  Today I turned in my laptop and my key to the building.  I never planned on staying at Making Memories so long.  I thought I would finish school and move on but I made so many good friends at MM that I could never let myself leave.  I had so many great (and not so great) experiences while working at Making Memories.  I made some amazing “real” (that’s for you Danielle) friends that I know I will have for a very long time.  I will miss everyone very much.

It’s a strange feeling to wake up and not go to work.  I feel like I have been working for so long that I don’t know anything different.  Bernd and I feel so lucky that I get to stay at home with Owen.  I don’t know that I ever pictured myself as a stay at home Mom but as soon as Owen came I knew it was the right decision.  It will take some getting used to though! 

I went to lunch with a friend yesterday and we got talking about how grateful we are to have married such great men that know what it takes to provide for their family.  I am eternally grateful for Bernd’s hard work.  He has such a great sense of responsibility and works very hard to make sure that Owen and I can live comfortably.

So to all my friends at MM, I will miss you.  Keep in touch.  Thanks for all the good times.  I wish you all the best with everything.  (Sorry to those of you I didn’t get to say goodbye to)

*I don’t have pictures of everyone so don’t get offended!  Don’t look too close at the Halloween pictures with me as a sailor.  They are some of the very few pictures I allowed to be taken of me while pregnant.

We just got back from San Francisco and we had a great time.  Thanks to Josh and Jake we had an excuse to take a family vacation.  Here is a quick rundown of our trip (sorry there are lots of pictures and for some reason we don’t have any with Sabrina in them but she was there, sorry Sabrina).

A quick trip to the beach so that Josh and Jake could participate in a practice swim.  Harrison loved playing in the water and the sand and Grandma loved playing with him.

Two cute guys hanging out in the hotel room.

A trip to the Jelly Belly factory where we bought way too many beans.

Josh and Jake’s swim from Alcatraz, the reason for the trip.  The first picture is of Grandma and Grandpa with Owen on the pier.  It’s kind of hard to see but the next pictures are of the 400 or so swimmers that swam the race.  They took them out on a boat and dropped them off near the island and they swam to shore.  The white “waves” are the swimmers.

Risk of this.

A visit with Tosh, Lisa, Kennedy & Isabel (I can’t believe we don’t have any pictures of this).  Thanks for coming down to tourist town to see us!

A trip to the Muir Redwood Forest.

A few of these.  My favorite San Francisco treat!

A visit to the Aquarium by the Bay on pier 39.  (Owen looking at the fish and Bernd eating a jellyfish)

California Academy of Science.  Very cool, highly recommended if you ever have the chance.

And one really amazing baby that was a great traveler, thank goodness!  Thanks to the fam for a really fun trip.  Can’t wait for the next one.