1.  Owen is six today and is surprised that he doesn’t feel any different.

2.  My baby not only turned six today but lost his first tooth yesterday.  Baby no more I guess.

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3.  Our Christmas tree has practically no needles left from not only the dryness but the cats and kids playing among the lower branches.  I guess it’s time for it to go but Dad used to say we had to leave it up until Three Kings Day and that’s not until the sixth….

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4.  Owen is really good at being the birthday boy—-gasps of absolute delight with every present…  By the way—great job with the presents Aunt Debbie.  And Aunt Judi—your present for Owen is on the way—-I ordered it a bit late but Owen knows it’s coming….

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here he is fainting with delight:

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5.  Ernie and I are going to meet with Owen’s teacher after school on Monday.

6.  Today is a totally Owen-centric day.  He is in charge as it is his birthday.  God help us all.

7.  Leo has turned into a curmudgeonly teenager at the age of eight.  What does this  foretell about his actual teenage years?  He’s grumpy, sighs a lot and rolls his eyes.

8.  Six years ago I’d been in labor for twenty-four hours, the epidural wasn’t working and they were telling me not to push as that made  Owen’s heart rate go down, just to lay there for a few more hours to see if he’d move down on his own. Oh man. Later in the day a c-section rescued us both and when they showed me Owen I couldn’t believe it.  With his hair all wet he looked like he had tiny little blonde dreadlocks.  He already had a lot of personality—-literally right from the womb….and he smelled like a  baked good.  My little baked good.

9.  Happy Birthday Owen!!!!

5 thoughts on “Random Notes and Pictures from The Sandwich Life

  1. Thank god for that c-section. That labor sounds like mine, but I didn’t get the c-section. I got a series of surgeries later to repair the damage from the birth.
    Those pictures of Owen are priceless! Hooray for a tooth-missing, older, happy boy.

  2. First tooth on his sixth birthday…how cool is that! Happy Birthday to your big guy! They grow oh so quickly. Parker will be eight in a month and I can’t get my head around it. Owen looks great in his shirt.

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