progress to celebrate

Sorry, no pictures tonight....too tired to wait up for them to upload...but feeling guilty about my lack of posts as of late. So for now Owen is...

--FINALLY sparking an interest in books!!! He is beginning to go to his book basket and look at books and babble as he turns the pages, be entertained by books during car rides, see library books on the kitchen table and want to read them, bring me books and plop into my lap to read them with me, and imitate my inflections as I read his favorite books. YAY!!!

--enthralled with sitting on chairs. He just feels like such a big boy to sit on a chair like mommy and daddy.

--not fighting diaper changes!! Whew! Those were like wrestling matches for a while! Yesterday, I told Owen it was time to change his diaper. He walked into his bedroom, laid down in the middle of the floor (where we have been doing the changes as of late) and laid nice and still while I followed him into his room and did his diaper change. At first I thought it just might be a coincidence...but guess what?? ..He did it again later in the day and again for all his changes today! What a victory!!

"Pop"--new sound

Corn on the cob

The best $1 spent in a long time

Saturday morning Owen and I went to a few garage sales. Boy, did we hit the jackpot! We bought a kiddie sized broom (50 cents) and a lawn mower (50 cents)!! I don't know who was more excited about these finds--me or him. When we got home from the sales, he played with is broom for quite a while.

Notice Owen with is "snipped" paci below

Then later that afternoon we had to go run a few errands. When we go home, we went about our usual routine. I got Owen out of his car seat and set him down to grab some things out of the van. I brought in a load of stuff inside and left the door open behind me because he usually just follows me right inside. I started to unload a few things from their bags when I noticed Owen hadn't followed me in. I looked out the window to find....

Owen had spotted his lawn mower sitting outside our door and thought it was the perfect time to take it out for a spin. So, we "mowed the lawn" until Daddy got home and it was time to eat supper.

...Oh, the joy of lawn mowing...hopefully he thinks it's this much fun when he's old enough to really mow!

15 Month Dr. Appt.

Owen went for his 15 month check up on Thursday this week. He is a healthy growing boy! Here he is waiting for Dr. Hoover to come see him.

And his stats:

Weight- 23.2 pounds

(This time he was weighed on the "big boy" scale--the kind you stand on---the trick was getting him to stay still long enough to get a reading.)

Height-31.25 inches

**Dr. Hoover also recommended we get rid of his paci now, rather than battle it after our new bundle arrives...advice we knew we'd hear, but weren't looking forward to it. Well, I started on Friday afternoon by cutting off part of the paci tip. He wasn't sure what to think of the change but still clung to it for about 24 hours. Then last night when I was putting him to bed, I offered it to him and he declined. He went to bed with barely a fuss.! Naps are a little rough, but Owen is doing quite well with the transition. YAY!!