Communication

People (mostly doctors) ask us if and how Owen communicates with us. Now look at the pictures below and tell me if you can interpret what Owen is telling us. Keep in mind he loves these two people.

Do you see any differences?

This is Owen's new stander. In the first two pictures it was his first time in the stander and he absolutely did NOT like it . His therapists (which he loves to come) tried anything and everything to get him to open his eyes or smile, not a chance! Even after we took him out and laid him on the floor, no smiles. In fact, I have never seen anyone try so hard not to smile as Owen did that day. He was mad and he was going to let all of us know that.
After that day, he has started to enjoy his time in the stander. He likes to watch us help him color or draw.

Owen loves us to hold him and he tells us that too. I usually snuggle and sing with him and Lenn plays the wii with him. He loves both.

Then there is this little face. It started out when he was starting to get sad he would turn down his bottom lip and begin to cry. It was so cute we could not help but laugh. He soon caught on to that and now he will do it for attention too. When we react, he smiles, then we turn down our lip, he grins then turns down his again. It is hilarious!

So the conclusion we have come to is that Owen can definitely communicate his needs with us.

BASEBALL

In June Bentley played softball and Abby played t-ball. They both loved it. They played last year and this year they could not wait for it to start.
Bentley has become quite the player. He is a little hustler. He catches on to sports pretty quick. Abby has been counting down to t-ball since January. After her last game she said, "Oh great, now what am I going to do ALL summer"! She says the funniest things.

Touching the Logan Temple

Owen really was happier than he looks in this picture.



Our Stake President challenged every child in the Stake to touch the temple so they might feel the spirit and have the desire to one day return. So last month we decided we had better get that done, and we did. It was a nice day and Owen was doing okay.

FYI: Owen is feeling much better these days. It turns out that he wasn't tolerating what we were feeding him because it was too concentrated. Thanks to a great friend we figured that out and hopefully he will only improve from here.

~Live, Laugh, Breath~

I have been meaning to let you all know about this event but have neglected to until now. This event is in honor of a little girl named Makenzie. Her parents are making sure she makes a difference. She was diagnosed with SMARD, which is in the SMA family, and passed away last December. They are putting this event on to help raise money for research and find a cure for this disease. For more information please visit www.livingformrw.blogspot.com.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day was definitely different this year. The weather was crazy and normally I would not have cared because growing up we always knew it would rain on Memorial Day, but the whole week before? Now that is just crazy!!

We wanted to have Landry's grave decorated the whole week before. It did not happen that way. It was either too cold, windy, rainy or all of the above! We can handle crazy weather, but with Owen we have to be more careful. We finally battled the weather on Friday and got it decorated. Then we decided since we were out of the house with Owen to go on to Logan and have lunch. We had a good day and everything went well.

This picture is perfect~Bentley worrying about something and Abby without a care in the world!

Owen loved watching the tractor wheels turn in the wind.

We picked up some balloons in Logan for Landry to add to the decor. One for each week.
Here kitty, kitty! (It's an inside joke) On our way home we saw this baby skunk crossing the road so Lenn got out to get a picture. It is too bad they have to smell so bad. It was cute enough that Lenn wanted to catch it and have it de-scented.