My Favorite Movies Growing Up (I think I am weird)

Alright, so I was doing some of those "Top Five" things on Facebook, and one of them was "movies you grew up on". I had to do it twice just to cover the movies I watched literally hundreds of times. I decided just to do a blog post about it instead of filling out another few of the Facebook things.

So, here it is. The movies I watched growing up. I PROMISE I WAS BORN IN 1980.

ELVIS - yes, I LOVED Elvis when I was younger. I still do, but not nearly as much as I did when I was a pre-teen. I had all of his movies, and I watched them over and over. So he gets a category all his own. Here are the Elvis movies I watched. I am sure there are more than I am listing here, but these are the ones I remember.

Blue Hawaii

Fun in Acapulco
G.I. Blues
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Viva Las Vegas
Jailhouse Rock

FRANKIE AVALON - He gets his own category too. I watched these movies so many times the Blockbuster and Hollywood video down the street knew my name. (just kidding)

Beach Party
Bikini Beach
Beach Blanket Bingo
(I still know the theme song to this one! Eek!)

Grease
(shame on you if you don't remember Frankie in this one)

Did you catch that all of the movies above are musicals? Yeah, I had a thing for musicals. I'll just go ahead and list the other musical movies I liked as a kid here:

Sound of Music

Gidget

Tammy and the Bachelor
(I know she sings at least one song in this, so I am counting it)

Newsies

Gigi

West Side Story

And here are just some of the random movies I loved.

All I Want for Christmas

Shag

Where the Boys Are

Mom, what am I forgetting?

And of course no post is complete without a picture of Owen. So, here you go.

Wordless Wednesday

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

This week, I did not let my son play with a box of tampons to entertain himself while i used the restroom. Even if I did have to pee (pardon my french) so bad, I would never do that!

I also certainly did not let my son drink soda at a restaurant because it kept him somewhat happy and quiet. I would never do that.

I definitely do not let my son listen to Lady Gaga's Poker Face because when he dances to it it is so hilarious. Not me!

I did not smother mixed veggies in butter for my in-need-of-many-calories son. And I definitely did not eat all those veggies myself when he refused to eat them. And I surely didn't let him just eat "a few of his favorite things" for lunch because I was too tired to deal with pulling out many things to see what he was in the mood to eat. I did not let him eat 6 large strawberries, an applesauce and some yogurt melts - by the fistful - because that is what he wanted to eat. I didn't feel like a terrible mother when he threw up ridiculous amounts all over his high chair after consuming said food items.

I did not let my son run around shirtless because i had to take his shirt off because it smelled like vomit and I was too lazy to put a clean one on him.

I am not enjoying snuggles and kisses from a shirtless boy.

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Wordless Wednesday

Another post?? Yes!! I am trying.

Alright, so I am slacking big time on my blogging. I know this. I will try to do better.

Owen is SO MUCH FUN!! He is such a little person with a great and funny personality. He talks continuously, even if the words make no sense to the adults, you can be sure that he knows exactly what he is saying. He has inflection and expressions and everything. It is hilarious.

He is becoming a big boy. He can really communicate now (only in so many words...) and he talks to us and plays with us. One of our bedrooms is the playroom, or toy room, or back room...whatever we call it at that moment. When you say "Owen, do you want to go to the play room?" (or one of the other terms for that room) he lights up and RUNS to the door of that room. He LOVES that room. He can spend hours and hours just playing with toys and reading books. Sometimes he will just run back to that room and tap on the door to let us know he would like to play in there.

Also, he will let us know when he is ready to eat. Sometimes he will say "eee, eee, eee!" (eat, eat, eat) or he will run over to the high chair and grab on to it. If you say "Owen do you want to get in your high chair?", if he is hungry, he will RUN over to it and hang on until you put him in it.

The other day I was showing him a picture of himself. I kept saying "that's you! that's owen!" and pointing to him. I showed it to him again and he smiled and pointed at himself. It was cute. He really enjoys looking at all of our family pictures.

When he reads books he will point to something and say "was at?" (what's that?). He was pointing to Elmo when he asked that the other day, and I said "That's Elmo!" And Owen said "amo!"

He has a toy that sings the "ABC" song. He was trying to sing along the other day. I think he is going to be a pretty musical kid. He just LOVES music, and he LOVES to dance.

OH!! And his 4th tooth is poking out!!

Ok...now on to the pictures!!

Thursday at school was Easter Egg Hunt day! Yes, that is a Spider Man Easter Basket. Don't you know us by now?? The picture of me and Owen isn't the greatest, but I like it.

These are some pictures from Thursday. Owen was playing while I was making dinner. He came into the kitchen and was dying to help me, so I gave his a rubber scraper and a bowl and he went to town.

These next two pictures are of yesterday, after Owen woke up from his 3 hour nap. He's been feeling sort of puny (he and Travis both had a fever of over 101! FUN!!) The hair says it all!!


And today! This kid is CRAZY for strawberries!!

The great picture post

So, It's been a while, again. Oh well. What can you do? Life happens.

So there are going to be alot of pictures in this post, and probably another picture post coming up before long.

Here are a few things Owen is doing lately:

~ He can say "cheese." It sounds like "keeee", but he wants cheese if you hear him saying that. Owen LOVES cheese.

~ He says "whoa!" I am not really sure he is trying to say it, but he says it.

~ He says "read!" It sounds like "Re! Re!" One of his favorite things to do is read.

~ My mom came on the 21st to babysit Owen so we could go out with some friends for Travis' birthday. While she was here Owen started saying "Bopba!" That is what the grandkids call my mom.

~ Owen says "Hi!" on occasion.

~ He also says banana ("anana") and Mama and Dada.

~ He is still a crazy little dancer, loves music like mom and dad.

~ He now has 3 teeth!!!

Ok, on to the pictures!

We went to Abilene for Sing Song. We hadn't gotten any 1 year pictures taken of Owen, because it costs money and it was too much trouble. So we went to the Jacob's Dream statue on campus and took our own pictures of Owen. I think a few of them turned out really great! Here are some of them:


We went to the park the other day. We tried the swing and the slide, but Owen was just really interested in playing with the rocks.



And here is is in some of his new jammies that my mom bought him! He likes to play peek-a-boo with his shirt!

And here are just a few cute random pictures. One with my grandma, one with my nephew Jake, one of Owen's cute face, and one of Owen riding a pony on Western Day at school. (yes, I did let him ride it mom!)


And here is another diaper cake I sold.