singing and playing

Owen, all on his own, sang "A, B, C, D, E, D, K" today. And he also sang "Now I know my A, B, C’s, next time…" I was so proud of him! He is so quick to pick new things up like that!

And later today, my girlfriend Jae and her boys, Jeremy and Adam, came over, and Owen crawled up the tree house all by himself. He smiled at me so big from the top – he was proud of him too!

Singing!

Owens favorite movie has always been "Musical Baby". He now asks for it by name – he calls it "Cul Baby" (he misses the music part in the title). And when he knows what parts are coming up he says them first (like "ta" and "dee"). Similarly, Owen is learning rymes and songs. In "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Owen sings the Baa Baa part, and in the alphabet song, Owen sings "Q, R", "W", and "Now I know…" It’s great to see how quickly he picks up on things!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Owen can now count from 1 to 10 all by himself! It is so awesome to hear him to do it! I am such a proud Mama!

Since the move...

As you may know already, we moved into our new house on Aug 7th. Here are some shots of Owen exploring his new domicile...

Here is Owen playing on his new quad... it actually broke and that was the only time he ever played on it becasue there were no others to exchange it wioth when we brought it back to the store, so he never got a new one. He will one day.

And here is Owen playing his new favorite game 'peek-a-boo'. He is looking at my through his laundry hamper. Owen likes to put it on his head and walk around thinking no one can see him. It is very cute.

And here is Owen hiding in the bathroom. We play chase and he will run and hide behind this thing in the downstairs bathroom and stick his little head as far behind it as he can (which isn't very far) and then I come in and 'find' him and then we laugh. He loves this game. In our old house his favorite hiding place was in his bedroom, behind the crib. He does like to hide in his bedroom closet, or tyhe main hall closet, but when downstairs there are no closets, so he hides in the bathroom. It's not the cleanest place to hide, but it could be worse. And this way I make sure to keep the bathroom really really clean.

"My new house"

Owen has a new house - and a new room - and lots of places to play!

We moved on Tuesday into a bigger (much bigger) house with a yard, and Owen is so excited! All three of us feel like this new house is our home now (although I think Owen felt that way before Gabe and I).

This is Owen (yesterday) pushing his lawnmower... er, rather... he is mowing the lawn! My friend Pam gave Owen this lawnmower and he loves it!

And here is Owen this morning posing with his bear. Now that Owen has a whole room for his toys where he can play, he seems to have renewed interest in his old toys. But Gabe bought Owen a little battery operated quad yesterday, so I'll post pictures of Owens excursions on that soon (once we give it to him).

And here is Owen playing in a moving box. He made us keep some of the empty boxes around for him to play in.