Owen Lotus Arndt

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Owen and Landen hanging out on the deck while dad grills. Ahhh warm weather at last.

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Owen and Ava having a fun night of bowling.

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Owen is helping decorate the tree. He was very excited to pick out a tree. He is ready for Christmas.

Beautiful day for a walk

2009-11-11T13:26:00.000-08:00

Can you believe we're outside with no jackets in November? We visited our friends, Kelly, Brayden and Nadia and went on a walk.

Happy Halloween

2009-11-06T12:42:00.001-08:00

Owen and his friend Brayden. Owen was spiderman again and Brayden was Max (from where the wild things are). They both had a fun collecting candy and eating it.

4 Years Old

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We celebrated his birthday in Medford with Ben's parents. He helped make his cake. It's a wacky chocolate cake.

First Day of Preschool

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Owen started his first day of preschool on Friday 11th. He goes to Mount Olive. His teacher's name is Mrs. Jane. On the 2nd day of school was his birthday and he got to bring treats to share with his class. He brought donut holes. We can't believe he is already in school. He loves it and so do we. He loves being around other kids and being constantly active. He goes Tuesdays and Fridays and on Wednesdays, he goes to BSF with my mom.

2009-06-09T16:41:00.000-07:00

Ben and Owen fishing off the dock at the cabin.

Caught first fish

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For Ben's birthday and for a little vacation we rented a cabin up north with some friends. The dads and the kids did a lot of fishing. Owen caught his first fish.

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Having fun with grandpa Bill "poppy" at the park.

Let's Ride!

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Ben and Owen adding training wheels to the bike given to us from his cousin Isaac.

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Owen "helping" grandma Sally frost some cupcakes. I believe all he really wanted to do was eat the frosting.

2009-03-26T12:37:00.001-07:00

Owen is good at entertaining his brother. Here he is reading a book to Landen.

Buddies

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Owen and Landen are good buddies. It will be fun to see them play together when Landen is older.

2008-11-02T10:16:00.001-08:00

Owen as Spiderman and his friend Brayden as a Pirate. What a fun night of getting candy and eating a lot of it!

2008-10-20T16:42:00.000-07:00

Do I have the looks to be a Gap model?

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Owen practicing for his senior pictures.

2008-10-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

Owen in his Michael Jordan outfit.

dance machine!

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Owen with side burns and "soul patch"

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Owen with Grandma and Grandpa Arndt

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christmas morning

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christmas 2007

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different year...same fear of santa!

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Friends at the Pumpkin Patch

2007-10-29T06:21:00.001-07:00

fall day at the park

2007-10-29T06:17:00.001-07:00

Owen's Birthday at Pinehaven Farm

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owen's birthday cake

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Owen's traditional outfit for his 2nd Birthday

2007-10-29T05:58:00.001-07:00

packers!!!

2007-08-07T09:36:00.001-07:00

Mini-Me

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jello pudding

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lawn mower man

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Mini-Golfer!!!

2007-04-09T09:44:00.000-07:00

Spring is here and Owen is ready to get outside and play. He is really starting to talk a lot now. His vocabulary includes: "mama, dada, more, please, all done, where'd it go?, James (our dog), NO, juice, go, cheese, football, ball, book, choo-choo, shoe, and newer words all the time. it is fun that he can tell us more what he wants!!!

2007-03-26T13:24:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhh...Springtime!

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Cool cat!

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going sledding

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Ready to play

2007-01-05T11:51:00.000-08:00

Owen could barely move in his snow pants.

Owen and his cousins

2007-01-05T11:49:00.000-08:00

Santa Clause came to town

2007-01-05T11:46:00.000-08:00

Owen wasn't too sure about Santa this year!

2007-01-05T11:40:00.000-08:00

Christmas 2006

2007-01-05T11:35:00.000-08:00

Adoption Finalized

2007-01-05T11:29:00.000-08:00

Owen's adoption was finalized on December 15th...he is now a US citizen even though he could not name any presidents or recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Christmas time!

2006-12-06T08:11:00.000-08:00

Owen and Great Grandpa "Hovie" having a chuckle at Thanksgiving

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halloween

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Grace & Owen

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pumpkin patch

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pumpkin patch

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more leaves

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owen in the leaves

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future painter?

2006-10-15T16:49:00.000-07:00

birthday cake!!!

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So many fun presents

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Owen's Birthday

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Owen's Birthday

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Owen in his traditional Korean clothes given to him as a gift by his foster family.

Owen's Birthday

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Owen choosing his destiny...wisdom, wealth, long life or success

Owen's Birthday

2006-09-18T17:18:00.000-07:00

Owen's Birthday

2006-09-18T17:15:00.000-07:00

Owen's Foster Sister wrote us a letter wishing him happy birthday from his foster family in Korea.

2006-09-18T17:11:00.000-07:00

north shore autumn

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north shore autumn

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North Shore Autumn

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Owen and cousin Jacob

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Owen loves being outside

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2006-03-28T14:22:00.000-08:00

Owen and his new cowboy blanket!

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bath time in the sink...

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Splish splash Owen's taking a bath...

cowboy

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baby feet

2006-02-17T12:29:00.000-08:00

This little piggy went to the market...

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Aren't I cute?

Toes!

2006-02-17T12:21:00.000-08:00

Owen has discovered his toes!

I see you!

2006-02-17T12:18:00.000-08:00

Owen is very attentive and curious...

Interesting Things About Korea

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1. The weather was just like it was here, but no one wore hats and all the buildings were so HOT.
2. Only cross the street where there are white lines, otherwise, you go underground to cross over. You don' want to jaywalk, otherwise you could get hit. Their driving is a little different.
3. There are many tv english channels. Mostly movie channels or ESPN. We saw a funny kid show where there were 2 teams and one team had to try and throw a paper airplane while his teammates try and catch it into a net. But the other team is waving big fans at the one who is trying to throw the paper airplane.
4. The subway is very, very clean. And very quiet. If someone is talking, it is usually kids. When an elder person comes onto the subway, someone younger will move so they can sit down. Also, you don't wait for people to come off and on, you just push your way until you are off or on. The seats are heated.
5. We ate at a Subway sandwich place and it was like our Subway, but behind in its time. There was white or wheat bread and the club sandwich consisted of some meat that had some white in it and some turkey and small pepperoni.
6. The style of clothes is very trendy.
7. You probably could not guess how old anyone is. All look so young.
8. Korea is a very large city. 11 million people live there and about 25% of the population lives in Seoul. There are not homes like we have here. Mostly everyone lives in apartments.
9. A lot of the stores or restaurants we were at played American music.
10. The most shocking! - Koreans are tall! They range in height just like here.
11. We may be saw only 2 people that were a little bit chubby. Mostly everyone is slender. It is probably because they have to walk everywhere. I can't believe how much was walked.

Our Trip: Saturday, February 4th

2006-02-07T19:39:00.000-08:00

We come home! Owen was so good on our long trip home. We took a small van to a location to get onto a bus that took us to the airport. Tricia had Owen in a hip carrier. He took to it very well. He slept on the way to the airport (1 1/2 hours) and then we stood in line at the airport to check in for about another hour and a half and he just looked around and didn't mind at all. After we checked in, he was fed. On the plane, he did pretty well. There was a Korean older woman who was sitting next to us. Owen was a little fussy and she took him out of Tricia's hands and rocked him to sleep. Later we let her play with him. She was so cute with him. He liked it. Everyone kept telling us how cute he was "You have cute baby". We met at the airport another couple who had just adopted. They went through the agency, Holt, which Tricia was adopted from. Their boy is 9 months old and about the same size as Owen. We find out that they are from Omaha (where Tricia is from) And the wife is from Minnesota. Her family lives in Ramsey (where we are building our house). So we exchanged contact information and we hope to see each when ever they are here visiting or when we are in Omaha visiting. So after being on the plane for about 13 hours, we wait for our next plane in Chicago. Owen again is doing very well. He ended up sleeping the whole time on the flight back to Minnesota. It was so good to be back home. Tricia's parents met us at the airport. It was a tiring total of about 21 hours of travel time, but well worth it!

Our Trip: Friday, February 3rd

2006-02-07T19:29:00.000-08:00

We became a family! The foster mom and her daughter brought Owen to the agency. It was happy and sad all at the same time. They told us his sleeping/eating schedule. They gave us formula and some medicine (he had a small cold). They also gave us some diapers and some gifts for Owen. The daughter gave us a letter that was written to Owen. She asked us to email her and keep her up to date with pictures and how Owen was doing. She said that he was her younger brother and that she will miss him, but was glad that he was going to a good family. Of course there were tears when we said our good-byes. When we got back to our room with Owen, it was his nap time, so the first hour and a half, we didn't get to play with him. We ended up laying with him.