Oahu - First Day

So we made it. We brought just one “gadget” shy of Circuit City on the plane with us. From a computer with a DVD to a video iPod loaded with Elmo to a digital camera and a camcorder (don’t forget the phone with the digital camera and video recorder). It’s good to know that the majority of the time spent flying was actually spent coloring. Sure – Dad did most of the coloring and drawing but O was having fun directing Dad what to draw…

Here is a pic of O watching the video iPod on the plane and here is a pic at the place we are staying – Turtle Bay – click on the link to see the place we are staying and go to flickr to see more pics. Hopefully, we will post some pics each day.

Owen Reading Brown Bear

One of the first books that we read to Owen was Brown Bear Brown Bear. It continues to be a favorite. Tonight while trying to capture some Valentines Greetings (sorry that didn’t work but Happy Valentines Day) … we did manage to capture Owen reading Brown Bear Brown Bear all by himself. He hasn’t done this before and it was a pretty cool moment.

Updated with YouTube clip

Busy Month

Its been awhile since the last post. Coming off the busy holidays and a visit from Grandpop Loughery - January kind of flew by – and here it is February. Owen started swim classes in January and we are making some good progress. He loves the water but definitely is still more comfortable if he is grasping on to Dad and a rubber duck. We also decided to take a vacation at the end February to the north shore of Oahu – we will bring the computer and upload some pictures while we are there. The winter has been cold (for northern California) but pretty dry up until this week. The rain is actually a welcome site – snow up in Tahoe!

Crashed Out

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Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

Owen sleeping... or when he finally fell asleep.

Big screen version of video

If you want to see a bit bigger version of the video below - click or cut/paste this link
http://www.videoegg.com/video/cMyQWV

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Thanks again to everyone for all the great gifts!! Owen enjoyed all of them. We got a lot of video but I can only post so much... come out and visit and we can bore you with the rest of video :-)

If you want to see a bit larger view of this video click this link - http://www.videoegg.com/video/cMyQWV


Thanks again - Happy New Year!

Christmas Video Coming Soon

Just wanted to say thank you for all the great gifts for O and us. I will be finishing up some Christmas video this week and posting soon.

First Trip to the Movies

Owen had his first trip to the movie theater this weekend. "DeeDee" was in town so we all went and saw "Happy Feet." The first time outing went well. Only had to take a couple of breaks from the movie - (Owen got a little hyped up on sugar from the chocolate covered raisins)But all in all he seemed to really enjoy the experience.

Christmas tree hunting

Christmas tree hunting
Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

Christmas Tree Shopping

Christmas Tree Shopping
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Dance the Night Away

Summer 2006

With winter coming - thought this would bring a nice warm summer memory

Marching along

another hair that was cut

everything Elmo

Owen and Elmo
Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

Hitting a new point – Owen is now at a stage where everything he does Elmo has to do. From bath, to brushing teeth. Tonight Owen insisted that Elmo needed to wear a diaper, and was distraught to know that we didn’t have pajamas that would fit Elmo. Kim negotiated a compromise and put red PJs on Owen so they would look like… oh and Elmo had to be wrapped in the blanket and apparently he requested his own sippy cup of milk.

The Great Pumpkin did not show…

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Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

Rumor has it that Owen wore his costume at daycare with the other kids… but we didn’t get to see it – this is the closest we came. If we get a picture - we'll post it.

Click on the picture to go to flickr – there are some good shots from the weekend. The last day of daylight savings was a nice long hot day. We celebrated by going to the beach. The next cold and winter like… such is Nor Cal weather.

Indian Summer

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Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

imagine that someone wrote my name in the sand...

Owen and I went down the beach after work to enjoy the much overdue and often over hyped "Indian Summer"

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

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Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

Fun day at the HMB Pumpkin Art & Wine Festival.

Owen's Second B-day

Owen's Second B-day
Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

well... actually these are from the day before his second B-day because I will be traveling tomorrow during his b-day. This year we had a little quiet family celebration...kind of too quiet. But the home made mac-n-cheese was good and so was the cake. Thanks to everyone for his gifts! If you look closely you can see the balloon's tied to Rupert in the background. More B-day pics on Flickr.

The video function is broken... but try clicking on the this link - click here to see some video... it should take you to a new page with some video of the b-day cake. As soon as the video function is fixed, I will fix it. Or... maybe since Google (the owner's of this service) bought YouTube for $1.6 billion - I will have to start using YouTube and not VideoEgg.

Pumpkin Picking

Pumpkin Picking
Originally uploaded by rick loughery.

The annual pumpkin picking trip down to Half Moon Bay... this time at a new spot.