A Little Update

Now that school has started, life is just plain crazy at our house! We've been busy as a family on weekends and evenings, and love love love spending time together. We've been to the park, apple orchard, mall, for walks around our neighborhood, and lots of other places.

Here's what our kiddos are up to lately:

OWEN

-is loving preschool and comes home singing songs on a regular basis

-likes to make up stories and giggles at all the funny parts

-uses words like "investigate", "actually", "gloomy", and "cumulonimbus"

-likes to play hide and seek

-loves to jump

-can identify the shape of Minnesota and a few other states

-is looking forward to Halloween

-likes hanging out with his friends Rebekah and Nathen (and Elijah when he's in town)

-only stops talking to eat and sleep

-has a great ear for music and the Beatles, Elbow, and Gungor are his favorite bands

(the other day he was trying to sing "Angels from the Realms of Glory" and it somehow morphed into "Yellow Submarine"- Ha!)

-likes to read the book "Owen" by Kevin Henkes( He says it's the story of when he was a mouse)

ZOE

-is the smiliest baby in the world

-looks even more like her daddy

-is almost 6 months old and is wearing 12 month sized clothes and size 4 diapers

-is one pound away from exceeding the weight limit for her carseat

-sings (Ahhhh Ahhh Ahhh)

-squeaks

-has learned the sign language for "more", "milk", and "all done"

-plays peekaboo- pulls the blanket over her face, then down again

-laughs at silly faces

-loves the mobile over her crib, and pointedly looks at it as we're putting her to sleep to remind us to wind it up

-LOVES her big brother and watches him all the time

-sits up in a bumbo seat and exersaucer

-eats rice cereal, oatmeal, peas, beans, peaches, prunes, bananas, carrots, formula, and milk(not at the same time)

-has hair that sticks straight up in the back

-usually sleeps through the night

When Mommy Has Too Much Time on Her Hands...

YARRRRR!

Birthday PARRRRty

Owen turned 3 on July 12th, and we celebrated a few days before with a pirate themed birthday party, complete with friends, cake, ice cream, balloons, and treasure hunt! Here are a few pictures of the special day.

First the treasure hunt- did you know that there is a pirate in Arden Hills? He wrote us a message with sidewalk chalk!

Now cake and ice cream!

And friends! We had so much fun celebrating together!

Happy Birthday, Owen!

Serious Cuteness

Zoe has become very social and smiley lately. She gives big grins to Mommy, Daddy, and big brother Owen. Sometimes she'll even sing with us when we sing to her!

Special Pancakes

Today Mommy tried out a special pancake batter squirter. She made some letter-shaped pancakes and put them on plates to see if Owen recognized them. Here's what he said:

Owen Sings for Zoe

Owen says "Check this out!".

Birth Announcement

I made a little announcement for Baby Zoe at babycenter.com. You can check it out here.

Zoe

Here she is! Zoe Elizabeth Rimbo was born last night (April 14th) at 8:24 pm. She almost missed seeing Will Ferrell on the Office.

At 8 lbs, 4 oz, She wasn't as big as her brother (9 lbs, 10 oz), but she was still plenty big. Nevertheless, once she was ready to go, it only took ONE push to get her out.

Her big brother loves her very much, and we'll have more pictures up soon, once we get back home where our sync cable and TV is.

Still waiting.

(See title.)

Waiting.

Waiting some more. What's that? You've never had a baby before?

There's a lot of waiting.

From the Front Lines

For fans of the birth of Owen Rimbo, we're bringing you live coverage of the birth of Baby Rimbo #2, from United Hospital in downtown St. Paul.

The long and short of it is this: Angie's OB said, "This baby's getting big. If you don't want a C-section, we might want to induce."

So we are. We checked into the hospital about an hour ago, and we're just about to get Angie onto pitocin to speed up the process.

I'll keep blogging and tweeting and whatevering. Pictures to come soon, once this kid is out breathing oxygen.