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The past couple weeks have flown by. Gracie and Owen got to hang out with me last week while Nick was out of town. That went very well and they were both cooperative for the most part. The past weekend was pretty low key. Nick had wrestling, of course, but I got to stay home with the kids and have some down time. It was nice. Friday night we went to the wrestling/gymnastics meet at ISU. Gracie got to see Ryleigh and they had a lot of fun together. She even posed for a picture with Cy, but that's on Nick's phone.

The previous weekend we went to the waterpark in Des Moines. I took my camera, but the battery was dead. Owen did pretty well for about 20-30 minutes and then he was done. I think a bottle was more important that swimming. He liked the water while he was in it though. We'll get to try it again in a couple weeks when we go back. Gracie, of course loved it and swam with her dad. Gracie struggled with sleeping in the huge queen size bed. We ended up having to shove her sideways against the headboard so she would quit rolling around in it. Owen slept great! It was nice.


Owen is still changing so much every day! He is almost able to sit by himself and rolls around all over. Not quite crawling yet, but he is able to move around quite a bit. He is getting so much more predictable with his schedule too. Especially when I have him home all day. Sometimes his naps get cut short at daycare because it is much more noisy there. But he is usually pretty content and happy. We have been trying to give him cereal for 2 meals a day. He likes it a lot and would sometimes prefer to have that rather than a bottle.
Both kids are doing well and we are heading down to Missouri this weekend to see my parents and sister.


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