Magic House

 

One thing we love about living across the river from St. Louis is the access of fun things we can do.  One of them is the Magic House.  We purchased a membership last Sept. for our family and it has been wonderful.  It is a great place to go for just a few hours or spend the whole day there.  We decided on a whim to go today and it was great to not stress about how long it would take to get there or what we would have to do in order to go. 

It is a really educational trip too.  The current exhibit is the Magic Treehouse series of books.  Abigail has not read them yet, but after seeing the exhibit I think she will!  The books seem to tell a story during different periods of history.  They had a display of pilgrims and how they lived.  They had a civil war medical tent displayed, a locomotive, and a schoolhouse during the early 1900s.  The exhibit had costumes for the children.  Abigail dressed for all of the time periods, but Josiah only did the first one and was done with that! 

Aren’t they the cutest little pilgrims!

Abigail dressed as a Civil War nurse and healed Josiah!

Owen enjoyed the view from Travis’ back.

He loved the locomotive and kept yelling “ALL ABOARD!”

I think she would make a great school teacher!

There is a bean stalk that goes up thru three floors.  They love to climb it each time we come.

Owen’s 6 Months Old

He is now  20 lbs and 27.5 in long.

He is a pretty happy baby now. He loves to talk.  He takes after his daddy!

Josiah’s 5th Birthday

Josiah had an Angry Birds party.

I got templates online to make the balloons look like the birds.

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My MOPs mentor Dorothy made the sugar cookies and I iced them.  The cookies were so yummy!

Makenna made the cake for me.  She is a young lady in our church who is baking cakes to earn money to go to China on a Mission trip.  On the way to the party the cake faced a bit of an accident, but I think it still looked great.  And it tasted great too!

On Josiah’s birthday we went to Incredible Pizza for the first time.  We enjoyed ourselves.  It has a pizza buffet and games.  We were given a gift card from the staff at church for Christmas.

They are riding a roller coaster.

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Mini Bowling was our favorite I think. Josiah got a strike once!

Owen 5 months old

 

Owen turned 5 months old while we were at my sister’s house.  We welcomed her 3rd baby, Kenji Nicholas. 

Josiah and Owen received matching PJs at Christmas and Josiah loves to wear it with Owen.  Owen still has a hard time not scratching himself at night.

Here is Owen on Valentine’s Day.

He loves his play gym.

Owen’s growing

1 week old

2 weeks old

3 weeks old

1 month old. During his first month he cried every evening.  He definitely had painful tummy issues.  It was hard.

At 2 months old he weighed just shy of 14lbs and 25 inches long. Abigail loves to kiss her baby brother.  Josiah does too.  Owen does not go a day or an hour for that matter without a kiss from his siblings. He still cried a lot in the evenings.  I got probiotics for him to try.  It seemed to help.  It seemed to help him not to cry every night.

3 months old. The evening crying slowed down a lot. You can’t see his scratches but Owen really likes to scratch his face and head when he’s tired, so we had to start putting socks on his hands. During our visit to Travis parents house for Thanksgiving we discovered that he likes watching football.  Owen had lots to say about football.

At 4 months old he weighed in at 17lbs and 26.5 inches long.  Owen drools a lot.  He goes thru many clothes and bibs a day.  He may be a thumb sucker.  I’m not sure if we can keep him from it.  When we have socks on his hands he still manages to suck on his thumbs.  He doesn’t do it all the time though so we will wait and see.  I bet you are wondering if he sleeps thru the night.  Well, he started to do better just before Christmas, then we went out of town, so of course it thru him off track.  We are finally starting to get back into the swing of things and are seeing that he will do just one feeding during the night.

One Week Old

Owen Andrew is one week old today. Right now Abigail and Josiah are enjoying some time with Mama and Papa for a few days. This is a special treat for them. My mother has been staying with us to help out.

Yesterday we went to the pediatrician for Owen. I was concerned since Owen had lost 9% of his birth weight before leaving the hospital and the doctors do not like it when they make it to 10%. However, the pediatrician said she was impressed at how much weight he had gained back. He was back up to 7lbs 13oz. He is nearly back to his birth weight after 6 days and she says it usually takes 14. So I was encouraged. The doctor thought that I must have been supplementing with formula, which I had not done. I thought about it though. I’m glad I did not do it now.

Time with Family

While I was in the hospital, my sister watched my children and took them to many fun places.  They had so much fun with their cousins!

Chuck E. Cheese

 

City Museum

Swimming at the hotel