So I am trying to blog once a week to keep everyone up to date. It has started getting dark, last night Gini and I had to drive with the headlights on! I shouldn't complain about the dark because soon there will be more than I think any sane person can handle but it feels good to go to bed and it be semi dark at nights.

I uploaded a number of pictures to document this past week.

When I come home from work I walk in and say, "Where is Owen" and he usually giggles and runs and hides and I chase him. Well the other day I came in and this is what I saw.

When he heard me come home he was sitting on Mom's lap and he just pulled her sweatshirt over his head and burrowed himself right up to her. He is a nut.

He usually wakes up and wants to read, he was sitting in his bed reading and decided he wanted to lay down. 

Gini returned on Tuesday!!! YAY!!! It has been so nice to have our mom back. Since she has been back though the weather has been pretty crummy. I have felt really bad for her because it is A LOT harder flying West to East so the return trips always kick our butts. She wasn't feeling good from that and then all the bad weather just made it worse. So Saturday it was really nice and we went for a bike ride and a little trip to the beach. Yes even in the arctic circle we have beaches.

He likes to wear sunglasses.

We took a break to soak up some of the sun.

This is the North Harbor. If you look at Gini's blog from the winter, this is where the ice path is.

Owen loves this beach, it is really sandy, no waves, and he can wade out about 30 M and still touch

In the background of this picture is a dock. Owen would run down to the end and then lay down and scoot right off the edge like it was a step. He would land in water that was about chest deep and just start laughing and then wade in to the shore, and do it again. He was totally fearless about dropping off a dock into the water. I have mixed feelings about it because it is nice to see him just being adventurous but makes me worried that we'll have to watch EVERYTHING he does.

On Thursday my boss' girlfriend came in from Utah for a week. Poor guy has known this girl for 10+ years and it wasn't until he moved to Sweden that things worked out for them to start a relationship. Now they are 8 time zones away and trying to figure out how they can make it work. There is a boat that takes about 50 people out for a 3 hour boat ride with all you can eat shrimp. It was fun and quite an experience. The shrimps were all boiled, whole, with the head whole, so you had to peel them and tear the head off. It was really fun though.

She is so beautiful, I don't know how I got so lucky.

The sun was actually setting on the boat ride back in.

Owen loves nursery because they have cars and animals. He has struggled to experience anything other than that though, hopefully soon. The boy with Owen is named Leo, they are a few months apart and the other kids in the nursery are all only there for the lesson and then go to sharing time. I volunteered for the third hour to watch these two. It was a lot of fun, it was neat seeing Owen interact with other kids. My parents tell a story that when Mallory was little I pulled her arms out and tried to touch them together behind her back. I didn't understand limits and playing softly. Neither does Owen...he was playing with Leo and decided he was going to "Get him" and he pushed him over and then put his hand on his head and just pushed it into the ground. Leo just looked at Owen like, uhh what are you doing. And Owen just laughed and then walked off before I could pull him off. We are working with him on "being soft". Heaven help us.