cute scarlett and owen pics.

We just got a new camera so we took scarlett to the park the other day and took some pictures of her. it was freezing so we only stayed for ten minutes...maybe. but it was a fun ten minutes. then she went home and went potty(she is going to kill me for posting that picture someday) and then she took a bath. these pictures are here to document two hours in the life of scarlett and owen. he slept in his car seat the whole time we were at the park, so there aren't any pictures of him. but we did get bath pictures!

fatty bo batty

owie is a little sumo wrestler.

my owie is growing!

owen is smiling and cooing. he weighs 12 lbs the last time i checked. he is so different from scarlett. he sleeps in his own bed and likes it. he falls asleep on his own. really...he loves to sleep. and when he is awake he likes to look at everything. he is such a good baby...so was scarlett but she had some sleep issues and still does. i have two really good kids.

life lessons

i feel like i have learned a lot in the last year about being a mom. i have been taking a class at the college here called a biblical perspective on relationships. it has been so great, i am so glad i took it. i am learning a lot about how to have a good relationship with my kids and my husband. i have also recently came to the realization that i do way too much. so i have let go of a lot of my responsibilities and let mike help me out with them, so that i can be the mom i want to be. i get to do all kinds of stuff with my kids that i didn't get to do before. i am a more patient mom and scarlett is really benefiting from it. i am learning how to parent so that my kids will hopefully be well rounded responsible adults. i think the key to being a great parent is loving the heck out of you kids and showing them who god is by your actions as a parent. i am trying to let scarlett make some decisions on her own by giving her choices. just spanking your kids when they do something wrong is not the most effective way to do things. i think there is a time for spankings. but i think by putting them in time out and taking away privileges is also really effective. i think if we all try to be a good parent to our kids we can't go wrong. we need to love them enough to discipline them, and i think there is more than one way to do that.

yeah scarlett!

scarlett is finally potty trained! well i shouldn't say finally, i haven't been pushing her to do it. i just thought i would wait until she decided to do it herself. and she has decided that going potty in a potty is a great thing. i am so proud of her!

a tapier?

the other day scarlett and i were playing outside and she said "mommy, whistle like a tapier!" i had no idea what this was, nor did i know how to whistle like one. yet another word my two year old knows that i don't. a tapier is an mountain cow. it looks like a big wierd pig. she learned this from go diego go.

sister christy came to visit!

mikes sister christy came to see us last weekend. it was so great to have some of his family here, and she was such a great help to me. i was joking with my mom the other day about the fact that she was here for a few days and i was already used to having a "burper" for owen, because every time i got done feeding him christy would say "hand him over i will burp him". it was so awesome. scarlett was pretty sad when she left and is still asking where auntie kwisty went. they really bonded while she was here. we love you christy and thank you for taking the time to come see us!

Face painting fun!

the other night while i was at school, mike and scarlett got in to the face paints. they have so much fun when i am gone...i am jealous!

this is a prada shoe store in the middle of a field in texas. there is no door to the store and no town near it. it is just in the middle of no where. totally creepy!
this is our newest family picture. i have been having a hard time adjusting to life as a mother of two, so we took a little two day break and drove to a town in texas so we could relax. i got a hot stone massage and we had some time to spend together as a family which we have not had since i had owen. it was just what i needed. i feel a lot better and i am getting better at my great job as a mom.
scarlett found this pig and she was hugging it and talking to it and trying to feed it leaves. she has such a crazy imagination. when we were driving home from texas we stopped to get something to eat. they only had chicken strips and the only way scarlett will eat chicken strips is if i say they are giant chicken nuggets. we ate them in the car. as we were driving we saw a blimp in a field, so scarlett tore her chicken strip in half and she was talking to each half like it was two of her friends and then she held them up and said "look Josh and Raina, theres a blimp." also she is really in to peter pan, so she watches the movie all the time. i can't find a peter pan doll so she takes the brochure from the inside of the dvd case(it has a picture of peter pan on it) and she acts like it is her doll. she feeds it and puts it in the car seat. to everyone that sees her it looks like we are too cheap to buy her a peter pan doll.

This is scarlett's hair in the morning. the other day she went up to mike and said "daddy, my hair's all jacked up"! huh? who does that sound like? you remunds should know.

here are our halloween pictures. scarlett was a frog and owen just had a pumpkin hat. we handed out thousands of pieces of candy at our restaurant, to all o the kids in town, then we went to church where they had a little carnival. scarlett had a blast, and now she is on a major sugar high! yay for tonight!

here are some fall pictures we took of the kids yesterday.

the pumpkin patch at wal-mart

on wednesday we decided to take scarlett and owen to a pumpkin patch. it is a forty mile drive so we loaded up this kids around naptime and drove all the way out to the pumpkin patch. when we got there, there was a sign posted on the gate that said CLOSED! ahhhh! i was so mad and sad because we had told scarlett what we were going to do and then we had to break her little heart and tell her we couldnt go. so we went to wal-mart and got four big pumpkins for her to carve, and when i say her i mean me and mike carved them. all four of them! when we got to wal-mart she started screaming theres the pumpkin patch. they have these big cardboard boxes full of pumpkins and she thought that that was the pumpkin patch. she was so happy!

Scarlett is such a good big sister. it is really fun to see her try to take care of him and she gets really concerned when he cries...or makes any kind of noise because scarlett thinks he is crying if he makes any kind of movement or noise. I have to watch her around him though because she doesnt understand that she cant hold him or drop him. this morning she was tickling his feet and he was twitching them and she thought it was really funny...he was not happy!

Scarlett's fashion sense!

Scarlett loves to wear hats. she doesnt care if it looks good or not she wants to wear hats...and this orange bath mitt on her foot. she would love to leave the house like this everyday. she thinks she looks so amazing. i agree with her but we dont go out like this.

owens issues!

Owen has jaundice! it was pretty bad so he had to do light therapy. for those of you who dont know what that is, it is a really horrible way to get rid of jaundice. they have to sit under this light box for 15 hours a day. i could only take him out to feed him and change his diapers. after the second day of this i decided i am not going to put him through this anymore and so we took him out. i put him in the sun a couple times a day and now his jaundice is going away on its own. we get to hold him and take him out of the house and i love it. i hated not being able to bond with him! oh, he sleeps so good! he slept all night last night. i had to wake him up two times to feed him and he fell right to sleep after i was done. and scarlett has been sleeping really good lately too. i keep asking myself "how did i get two amazing kids!?

we had visitors!

My dad and step mom came to see owen this week. it was so nice to have them. we have a lot of fun with them and they have a lot of fun with our kids. my dad had a long beard when he came and scarlett shaved it off this week. i stupidly did not take any pictures of it...her face was hilarious! we also carved some pumpkins and she had a lot of fun with that too. she made a huge mess. we had been telling her that we would get some pumpkins and it got put off because owen arrived early, so she was really excited about it...i didnt take pictures of that event also! i need to get on the ball with picture taking.

sorry! he was 7lbs 12.9oz. and 21 inches long. they said if i had not told them he was a month early they would have never guessed it. scarlett is doing some off the wall things and one of them is ryan(my brother) was taking scarlett out to the car while we were at the hospital and she and ryan dont get along very well. she thinks he is like her brother and she fights with him! anyway, thay were walking out of the hospital and they got to the lobby and there were a lot of people standing around, scarlett was screaming and crying and so my brother was embarrassed enough by that, and there was a man staning in the corner of the room. he had huge mucles and tattoos on his arms and scarlett stops crying and walks up to the man and flexed her muscles at him for like five seconds and then walked off and started crying again. my brother thought he was going to get his butt kicked. Ryan asked scarlett "what were you doing?" and she said in a crying voice, "I showed him my muscles." i dont know where she comes up with some of the things she does.

i forgot to say i am doing great, i dont even feel like i had a baby. Scarlett is sick with a cold and she cant be around the baby right now because he is premature. i am a little sad about this because it is not how i pictured coming home. i thought she would be with us and be able to hold her brother and kiss on him. and i feel like a HUGE part of our family is not around to share all of this with us. She will be home soon and i cant wait for that! she is such an amazing big sister so far.

He's here!

I finally had Owen Michael Remund on Wednesday morning. He is so healthy and perfect. he was one month early but he was breathing fine...that was a big concern for me! i went into labor on tuesday night and i kept saying this is a joke and they are going to let me go home and i did not except the fact that i was having a baby until they gave me an epidural. i am so glad he is here and that he is safe.

i am pregnant with a monster!

today i went to the hospital to get my last ultrasound, well i think it is my last. the lady said that he is measuring big, which is something i have been aware of for a while now. then she said he weighs 8.4 pounds! i still have three weeks to go...at least! i will soon be on the news for having the largest baby in america! she said that it is not 100% accurate, she thinks he weighs around seven pounds...which is still big! oh well they say he is extremely healthy and he is over reactive for my weekly non-stress tests, which is excellent. i am just really happy about this because i am a little more stressed about this pregnancy because of the car accident.

my kid is a genius!

the other day i was outside painting some shelves, and scarlett was outside with me. she had gathered up all of the nipples for the baby's bottles and she was stacking them on top of each other. she had stacked them so high that they were starting to curve and fall over(kind of like a curved bridge). she looked at me with a really serious face and said "look mommy i built a cantilever". i was laughing so hard! she knows what a cantilever is from a curious george movie. i had to look up the definition on wikipedia...she is smarter than me! but a cantilever is a type of bridge or a platform that is anchored by weight on the base of the platform...for those of you who dont know that.

Scarlett's Birthday!

Scarlett turned two on Sunday. i hate that she is growing up...but she is so much fun right now! she had a great birthday party. we had it on saturday. she got lots of toys and books...those are her favorite things. i thought that her birthday would be boring this year because i am pretty miserable and i didnt plan as much this year as i did last year. she had a blast...as soon as she opened her presents she was in the toy zone. she did not want to be bothered by anything. she didnt want to eat she didnt want to talk to anyone...she didnt even pee for a few hours...i guess she thought it would take to much time away from her toys. she still wakes up in the mornig and sees her new toys and she gets soooo excited.

another funny story.

I keep telling mike that scarlett is always listening to everything we say...even if she is not in the room she can still hear us! tonight we were watching tv and there was a girl on that had a big butt and mike said "man she has a big booty!" so then we hear scarlett say mommy has a big booty! so i said thank you and gave mike a dirty look. i think he is beginning to learn what not to say.

a funny story about scarlett

Scarlett is really into copying everything people do. We were in church the other night and there was a lady doing sign language and i noticed that Scarlett was being really quiet...which is never a good sign. then i noticed everyone around us laughing. i looked down at scarlett and she was looking at the lady doing sign language and she had a very serious look on her face and she was copying the lady almost exactly! kids are great!

ahhhh!

i am not sure how i can shrink my pictures. oh well i am trying! tonight i went to the hospital for the 50th time this pregnancy and found out i was having contractions. they weren't serious enough to be on medication but i did have to get a shot to make them stop. i just hope i dont have to keep getting them. i am really ready to have the baby but not ready enough. i want him to be healthy and safe so i need him to stay in my tummy a little longer.

i think i did it!

so i am finally trying to do this blog thing. i hope it works...if it doesn't i don't want to write a bunch of stuff that no one will ever read so this is where i will end my first blog.