Something is Working

I am not sure if biting nails is genetic or not, but occasionally I find Owen biting his nails. I do not bite my nails and my questioning as to whether it is genetic or not leaves only one person to blame - GREG. I am not a fan. I am constantly telling Owen to stop and reminding him that I will cut his nails and we don't bite them. The other day he was watching Greg and yelled "No Daddy". Greg asked him, "no what". Owen said no and put his finger in his mouth. (he still can't say as many things as he would like and I can't always understand him, he has developed his own sign language and does a wonderful job conveying to me what he wants to say). I was thrilled and delighted!!! Hooray Owen. I hope that something I say is getting across to him and if I cannot stop him, at least he can help me keep Greg's fingers out of his mouth.

We have all been very busy lately and have a bunch of Halloween events this weekend. We went to our first trunk-or-treat party this week. I realized it was just a lazy way to get a lot of candy, yes I know, nothing is safe anymore but seriously, the kids just kept going around and around filling up their bags. Because I am 31 now and getting so old I can say.. Back in my day that much candy would have taken hours to accumulate. Kids have it so easy. Despite my grumblings about the event, Owen had a great time. He is a giraffe and loves wearing the suit. We are going to the kid's school tonight to carve pumpkins, and then heading downtown Arlington tomorrow for trick-or-treating with the businesses and then participating in a pumpkin roll, then we are joining my dad, Kristi and the kids at their karate party. My dad told their instructor that he does magic tricks and offered up his services for the party. He bought a bunch of tricks off the Internet - I told him he better practice before tomorrow. He says if all goes well he is starting a side business. For next week, we are heading to Edmonds to trick-or-treat downtown with Angie. We went there last year and loved it. I can't wait!! I love Halloween. I told Greg that I like dressing up for Halloween, he said that he never knew that about me and asked why I hadn't dressed up since we have been together. He must have forgot that we have no friends so we don't go anywhere and my work usually consisted of myself. Dressing up for Halloween isn't very fun when you work alone.

Owen is getting in trouble. He just hit Robee in the head with something, I told him to say goodbye and that we were going downstairs. He started to cry. I told him to tell Robee he was sorry. He went over and said "sorry beea", "big hug beea", then looked at me as if to say, can I stay now. I said we are still going downstairs, he leaned back over and said "sorry beea" very unconvincingly and then gave me the look. I kept saying no and he kept hugging Robee and looking at me waiting for my answer to change. We finally stayed cause I started laughing. Then he tried taking Robee's toys, I told him we were going back downstairs if he touched it again. He looks at me and sticks one finger on the toy and smirks at me. He does that to me all the time.

My yoga class is still going well. We were supposed to have our last class yesterday but due to a cancellation last week when we lost power due to a crazy windstorm we have one more class. We have our make-up class on Tuesday and then our next session starts on Thursday. We have 14 students now and we believe 9 or 10 are coming back for the next session. We are so excited. We are teaching through the parks and recreation at the city and they called yesterday to work out next session which will start in January. We are going to teach our basic class, a yoga for weight loss class and a toddler yoga class. Hopefully we will have people sign up. We are both loving it. We had a hard class yesterday and Angie and I are both sore. I am not sure that says anything good about our physical condition as an instructor. At least we feel that we are giving a good workout.

Greg and I are disputing how he is spending his evening. His baseball team is having a meeting to discuss the new season and to find out what they all need to work on during the off season and how they want to run practices during this time, to discuss the draft and what positions they need and to talk about the new team manager, etc. Ha ha ha ha. He is trying to weasel his way there and tonight is pumpkin carving night at the school and we are going with Felix and Robee. I wonder where he will end up. There is only one other married guy on the team, I told Greg if they were all married there would be no team meeting tonight. Poor Greg. I told him if he were going to play baseball perhaps this would be a different conversation. Just have the team send him the memo. (As soon as they have a meeting to discuss their salaries, he can go to all the meetings he wants). I still love him despite being such a nerd!

Well, we are off to carve pumpkins...should be interesting!