Ouren Updates-June edition

I decided it was about time to do some updates on all of us. So here we go:

Mike: Mike continues to be the best husband and Daddy possible (most days anyway). His department of work is going through a lot of changing and reorganization since combining forces with another entity in New Mexico. He'll continue to be the IT Manager until August and then we are anxiously awaiting to see where he'll fit in after that. He continues to work so hard and we are anxious to see what happens. His loves of science fiction, movies, Nintendo, Xbox, and reading are never wavering.

Becca: I continue to work part time at SLCC. It has its good days and it's bad days, but I enjoy it much more now that I work a normal day-time shift. I am both happy and sad that it's summer. Happy to be able to let the kids outside to play, to BBQ often, to camp, to be outdoors etc. but sad that means an entire school year has gone by and the kids are another year older. I am super excited to start rearranging rooms in this house and finally be able to start my "nesting" phase for baby girl. I've been ordering goodies and gearing up to get started next month.

Caleb: Caleb officially finished the First Grade on Friday. He was both happy and sad to have it be his last day. He has loved his school and especially the Chinese program. He has already asked both me and Dad several times if he can go back to the same school and learn more Chinese. He came home with another beaming report card. We are so proud of his progress over the last year. He really worked hard, learned a lot and continues to baffle us with how much Chinese he knows already. Some of his favorite things right now are his DS, Lego's, playing Lego Star Wars on the Xbox with Dad, learning all about the planets and space, and some of his old favorites, like dinosaurs and stuffed animals linger on. He chose not to play baseball this summer but is looking forward to getting back into a few swim lessons over the break and playing at the babysitters house while Mom is working. He also has a new fond love of Otter Pops and has wanted one most every day since June hit so far. I think the thing he's most looking forward to this summer is going to the Bees game on the 4th of July like we normally do. He's been talking about it non-stop. He continues to be both an awesome and an obnoxious (at times) big brother to the twins and he's looking forward to baby girls arrival, and to have a new room soon.

Zaric- Zaric has finally been moved off the waiting list for speech therapy and we attended our first 2 sessions. The first session wasn't very productive as he wasn't very cooperative. But the 2nd one was a lot better and I can see progress in him just in the last few weeks. Both on his own and from the sessions. He continues to love playing outside, running, cars, trucks, airplanes and is finally starting to like to take a few minutes out to actually be read to. Up until now he's never had the patience for it. He continues to be our "Dennis the Menace" and is always innocently causing mischief wherever he goes. He's my early riser and worries about his brothers whenever they aren't around, especially his Doodle, whenever Zaden is missing, he starts to panic a little. He's starting to show some interest in potty training and loves to sit on the potty, we just can't seem to catch him at the right time to actually get him to go on it. But we'll keep working at it.

Zaden- Zaden loves to be outside as well. He loves to be read to and is having fun starting to learn his shapes and colors and a few numbers and letters. He loves to watch cartoons and movies with his big brother. He continues to also love playing with car, trucks and airplanes. He is my only child that will sleep in (past 7) on a regular basis and still loves to be my cuddle bug. He is also starting to like to sing along with songs on the radio and can already sing the tune to Star Wars on his own. He cracks us up regularly. He's starting to also show a little potty training interest and follows Zaric's lead of sitting on the potty, even if it's just sitting.

Faith- Baby girl (as far as we can tell) continues to grow, thrive and kick her mommy. We have hit 25 weeks today. It seems like she's coming too slow and too fast all at the same time. The last OB appt was short and sweet and we have another coming up this week. I continue to give myself progresterone shots in hopes that she stays in there longer than her brothers at least and have been trying to take it easy as much as possible which is easier said than done with 3 others running around demanding Mom's attention most of the time. The middle name debate continues, we'll eventually agree on something. We are so excited to meet our little pink caboose and bring her home to this family full of chaos and love.