The Little Bears Fan in the Big Bears Shirt

Cody decided to get Owen pumped up for the game last night and put him in one of his Bears t-shirts. Then Owen decided to get Daddy's Bear Head and put that on. He ran around the house in it having a great time! Go Bears!

A Fun-Filled Christmas Adventure at Pella Corp....and some other stuff

On Saturday morning we went to a little Christmas thing at Pella Corporation that they do every year for the kids of the employees. There are a bunch of different things to do like making ornaments, coloring cards, ballon animals, cookie decorating, and of course seeing Santa. Owen was a little young for a lot of it, but still had a good time. Here are a few pictures of our day, along with some other pictures we took throughout the weekend:

Cookie decorating with Dad.

Sampling the cookie.

"Nummy!" as Owen would say. He loved eating the cookie. Later, we let him out of his stroller and he kept going back to the cookie table saying, "Nummy, nummy, nummy!" I guess he takes after his mama in that respect. I refrained from decorating my own as no other adults were doing so, but I did have to sample Owen's. You know, to make sure it was safe for him to eat. ;)

Here he is coloring a Christmas card.

And here it is...our long-awaited Christmas tree. Still doesn't have the skirt on it and the ornaments were kind of thrown on--I'm usually a little more picky about placement of ornaments. When I decorated our tree at my parents' house, I even had specific spots where the ornaments had to go EVERY year. But this year, there was no time for pickiness!

Here's Owen checking out the tree. He does like to take the ornaments off, but he's not quite as bad as I thought he'd be. He does listen when I tell him to stop. I showed him where one is that plays music so he likes to go up to that one and press the button all the time. Then he dances to the music. It's too cute!

This is just a cute photo that Cody took of him while I was out shopping on Saturday. They had a fun time together while Mom was out purchasing gifts all weekend.

This is his new hat and mitten set that I bought him while I was out on one of my many shopping trips.

And here he is trying to take his temperature after finding the thermometer in the diaper bag.

So that was the weekend at the Muhses. I forgot to scan his picture with Santa so I'll have to do that and then post it for you all to see. Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season!

The Pea in the Pod

I went to the doctor this morning for my 12 week appt. He had trouble hearing the heart beat with the doppler so I ended up getting a free peek at the baby because he had to find it via ultrasound. He said everything looked good and the heart rate is 152 BPM. I got to see little arms and hands flailing around! It was a wonderful, unexpected surpise. As we were looking, the dr. said, "It's already breech!" I said, "You're kidding! What is wrong with my children that they don't know the correct way to enter this world?" (Owen was also breech.) He said, "Maybe we need to shine a flashlight up there and tell them to follow the light!" When I got home, I called Beth to tell her the story and she said, "Well, maybe it's not the babies' fault, maybe you guys are putting them in there wrong!" So we decided that Cody must have "backwards" sperm. Haha. I'm sure he will love that I posted that on here! In any case, here is a slightly cloudy picture of our 2nd backwards, but healthy, baby.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Ok, well not a lot, but at least it's a start! This morning I went to the doctor while Cody stayed home with Owen. I came home and Cody said, "Owen learned a new word this morning." I said, "Oh! What is it?" "Tree, " he says. I said, "Oh, did Barney teach him that?" Cody looks at me like I'm an idiot and says, "Uh, no, I did." I look to my right and the Christmas tree is in the room!!! Granted, it needs a lot of work, but he said he thought I would be happier if it was up so he decided to haul it up from the basement. How sweet of him! I know we still have to decorate it, which we plan to do tonight, and we will only enjoy for 2 weeks, but it is really nice to have it up and I do feel happier! So here are a couple of pictures of our not-so-pretty tree and the few decorations that Cody added himself.

I don't know if you can see it, but there is one ornament on it that Gary brought Owen at Thanksgiving. It was already sitting out so Cody put it on.

And here is his "skirt." Yes, that is one of Owen's bibs. He also put the star on top, which I didn't get in the picture. He said I should really appreciate that because it took a second trip to the basement to get it.

Check back and hopefully tomorrow we'll have much prettier pictures of our tree! I'm starting to feel the "scrooge" escaping me! :) And the best part is that so far Owen hasn't really bothered it too much. I'll get back to you on that after it's full of lights and ornaments!

Wheel Contestant in Training

As most of you know, Owen is a big fan of "Wheel of Fortune." We watch it every night, although some nights he's more into it than others. Tonight was definitely one of those nights. As soon as he heard the music, he jumped up and ran to the TV and started cheering and clapping. He has now also started to call out the letters after the contestants do. Tonight, when a woman found out she won a trip, she was ecstatic and put her hands over her mouth and jumped up and down. Owen got just as excited for her and put his hands over his mouth as he cheered! Now he just keeps walking around the house doing it. We were able to get it on camera:

Look out, Pat and Vanna, this boy is ready!

Procrastination, Mommy and Me Time, and the Bears Clinch the Division!

So here we are nearly 4 days into December and my tree is not up, nor have I bought one Christmas present. I don't know if it's the exhaustion that comes with pregnancy or what, but I just can't get into the spirit this year!! I had planned to get the tree up this weekend while Cody was away in Chicago at the Bears game. I got the area cleared out where the tree is to be placed, but I didn't have the energy to haul it and it's mountain of lights and ornaments that go with it up from the basement. Part of it is because I really do think I need Cody to help with the actual assembly of the tree. But I think the biggest part of it is knowing that I will have to spend the next 3 weeks keeping Owen from destroying it!!!! I feel like such a scrooge and just need to get with it and get it up!

On a happier note, as I said earlier Cody was gone Saturday and Sunday for the game which left me here by myself with my baby. We had planned to go with him but then the bad weather hit IL and he had to wait until Saturday morning to head out so we just decided that it was better if O and I stayed here. We had an awesome day together on Saturday. We played for a bit at home and then went out to lunch at Subway and did some shopping at Wal-Mart. Not anything special, but we just had a really good time together. Owen was so good the entire time. It was just one of those days that made me remember why I wanted to be a mom in the first place. And then the Bears won their game and are headed to the playoffs to boot! Now if I could just get those damn decorations up all would be well in the Muhs household!