fidfam update; stretching time with owen

things have been wonderfully uneventful here in "ladery ranch." michael's here for a week before he does the commute to norway and we're just enjoying the day to day. we start out our mornings with a stroll led by owen on his new tricycle (we got a great deal at [of all places!] toysrus--pics and videos coming soon!) and sierra, me and michael trailing behind. michael's been having international-round up calls up in the office in the morning before the big go-live at the beginning of september and i've been working on my conference paper for october. it's been blissful just doing the tag-team with michael and getting that wonderful balance of together time with some room-of-ones-own writing time. michael and owen are getting quite masterful at duplo legos while owen and i are becoming skilled flip-flop players. last night we even sat down after owen went to bed and watched the netflix movie (which was beautiful, tragic, artsy and literary all at the same time--i even got to pull my old graham greene book off the shelf and quote from creased pages) 've had out for nearly seven months. i think it had been about that long since i had sat down and watched anything other than charlie & lola or thomas & friends. tomorrow morning we're going to our favorite breakfast cafe and then to see the tall ships in dana point.

so after our morning walk we usually do a little yoga. this morning we started out late and owen went straight from his trike to his trains, michael got on coffee and i took some pressure off my back by doing some "still" stretching on the floor. later in the morning, however, owen dropped his puzzle pieces and said "mommy! it's stretching time!" as if he had just remembered that part of our morning routine. so here's owen doing some pretty impressive yoga stretches:



ans yes, at the end owen just sprints off "to run really really fast!".