the mowrer family: dinosaur

here are both of the kids in a photo together. i am going to try to take their picture here at the beginning of each month. i wanted to do this with lottie sue and you know that didn't exactly happen. but this time i MEAN it.

i like to think of what this photo will look like in
10 years but when i do i start to tear up so i stop

i am also very excited about the fact that we will be welcoming a new nephew/niece to the family in august - becce and mike are pregnant with #2! harlan is gonna have a new best friend! happy! happy! joy! joy! the more, the merrier!

my oh MY, the sun is OUT today and lemmetellya it is fab-U-lous. the birds are singing, the sun is shining! february is sooooo bleeeeeehhhhhh (aside from the birth of one baby gilmore and our anniversary). but i digress...i have been a blog slacker and am here to make up for it. first, to your extreme delight i am certain, lottie sueisms...

she often calls me jenny or matt, well - matt. if you ask her our full name it's "mommy/daddy sue mowrer"
she told one of the dads at ballet last week that she wanted to lick his head
she called me a "mean ogre" for not letting her eat her food off of the floor (like the cats)
her imagination play is on high, she constantly plays with/talks to/feeds/chases/runs from monsters - yeah, monsters - not sure where it started but they are always here. they aren't scary monsters really, the most terrifying thing they do is chase her but it's a fun chase
she will tell me something and then ask me "do you understand what i am saying?" - like i'm an idiot of something
this might be tmi but if she goes #2 she likes to announce that she had a "giant poop" to anyone that will listen
she calls rowdy "rowdy man"
she likes to jump across a room rather than walk across it
for some strange reason that no one understands, she states that kevin is her best friend (no logic)
she is a literal thing - she was asking matt for something (if she wants it she likes to ask for it over and over until the has it) and he told her to keep her pants on - her reply was "but daddy, i DO have my pants on"
lottie sue likes to reads books to us and she loves to sing songs
she calls any item of clothing "ballrina ______" - she is sorta obsessed with ballerinas
i bought her a dress last week and when she saw it she yelled "oh my, look at my wonderful dress!!!"
she likes to help us give rowdy a bath
she flew a kite for the first time this past week (so did matt)

one other cute little story has to do with her friend at school, irie. he has been in her class last year and this year and they REALLY like each other. lottie sue always talks about irie and his parents say he does the same about lottie. i dropped lottie off last thursday and irie was already there, when he heard us come in he yelled "OH GOODY, LOTTIE SUE IS HERE! LOTTIE SUE IS HERE!" - it's adorable. and yesterday when we walked in he yelled "hey guys! it's lottie sue! she's here! oh boy!" and came over to meet her, took her hand and led her to the train table. it's almost too much, people.

rowdy turned 5 months last week and he doesn't have many isms yet but i can tell you that he likes to stand (with assistance, of course), laugh, talk, eat his fingers, drink bottles and sleep. he also likes to to watch lottie sue play and his favorite person in the world is matt - no contest. rowdy is an angel baby, we have no complaints! he has also been teething, his little fang teeth broke through but have stopped coming out. i think it would be awesome if he only had fangs for a while...we'll see. we could have a lot of fun with that...saying things like "i vaunt to suck your bottle" and so forth.

sunday was no today mind you but it was still nice. we parked it outside for a while, here are a few photos.

rowdy in the swing (that don't impress him much)

lottie sue playing her favorite past time "nite nite"

lottie's dinosaur eating grass

lottie sue bossing everyone around (par for
the course), instructing them to be quiet

matt goes dino on her and she does NOT like it

rowdy is bored

a self portrait of rowdy and moi

and now i have some randoms for you. when we transferred our old photos to the new computer we did not do it right, no method to the madness. so i keep running across random items, which is kinda neat but i know i really need to get them organized.

this is a photo from granbunny's childhood, she's at the beach with her parents/my great grandparents (john and dicey) - back in the day you could just drive your car all over the beach

i also downloaded the newest photos from lottie sue's camera. she has an eye.

here are few that were on my phone. i think they are from the last month.

rowdyman as a monkey

one of matt's masterpieces

lottie sue before school on pajama day (she was way excited)

and these photos were on the camera, matt took them one afternoon when i went to the movies with the girlz.

righto - super cute

grubby mcgrubgrub

here's rowdy in the chair all by his lonesome. carrie bought him these overalls and i put him in them almost every day. i love them. he's my little farmer boy.

rowdy is plumping UP

and i don't know how i missed this one - matt took lottie sue to her first movie. the only kid thing playing was the chipmunk movie so that's what they saw (matt said it was terrible).

she's a big girl

right now i am training to run a 5k with my friend amy - it's hard but we are using a training program (couch to 5k) that is working for me. there is an app for my iphone and it's super neat. i also have the nike+ running thing and i am obsessed with it. ever day it downloads my info and makes pretty charts for me to look at - i LOVE charts. anywho, our race is in three weeks and starting this week all of our runs are without breaks. i can now run a few miles (without stopping - could NOT even run half of one without stopping before) and my mile runs are getting faster each week. i can do it but i am super slow, someone's grandpa lapped me today (true story) at the track. but i also want to say that he was in my freestyle step class afterwards and he was kicking it like no other. so basically - yes, i rock.

well that's all i have for you now. i leave you with a few interesting stories, if you are so inclined...

purevolume lists the top 20 unsigned artists, you can download one song from them for free (thanks to becce for the link)
sandra bullock picked up her razzie - that's cool
the kanye moment at the oscar's - matt and i saw this and didn't know what was happening
placebos are getting stronger, food for thought
meet sharona

i thought this was pretty funny. that jimmy kimmel, so handsome.