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Random bits of Owen goodness

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3yX0I03BlI

We’ve been teaching Owen how to cross the street for months (and months and months)—and we even do it on our little dead end street that barely gets any traffic. He hasn’t quite gotten it yet (which is good, since I’m not sure he’s ready to cross by himself, even if we do live on a fairly quiet cul de sac), but he knows more than he lets on (as I’m sure most toddlers do), since within the last day or so, he’s begun saying (in random places at random times, not just outside) “Car that way? [looks one direction] Nope. A car that way? [looks other direction] Nope. Car that way? [looks back other direction] Nope.” Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s hilarious.

Of course, each time I try to record him saying it, he stops. I finally got this video, which you can’t really make out very well, but hopefully you will get the idea. And then, you will also get to hear another new thing he’s just started doing—that godawful screeching. It sounds likes he’s saying SOMETHING…I just don’t know what it is. It almost sounds like a version of WATER but he generally says that more clearly, so I really don’t know. If you have your speakers up to hear the bit about the car, be warned you might blast your eardrums when it gets to the screeching. 🙂

Hiding!

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He loves playing in/around/with our neighbor’s tree (between our driveways) and this is one of his favorite hiding spots!

I posted it on Facebook, and enjoyed the comments…

Jeremy R => Who’s hiding? The tree??? I don’t get it. 😉
Steven N => Needs a bigger tree… 😉
Therese K => Awesome for the seeker!
Christine V => wow, you can’t even see him!

Owen just scared the crap out of me.

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He has never really been terribly inquisitive—like pulling things out of cupboards, opening kitchen drawers, getting into stuff under the sink, etc.—so we honestly haven’t really worried too much about putting things away.

So just now, we were upstairs and I was in the bedroom and he was out and about and came into the room rubbing his eyes and his face was all wet and my first thought was he had been crying and was snotty—but he wasn’t crying. And then I got closer and smelled chemicals on him. 88|

I immediately tossed him in the tub and rinsed his face and head and tried to do my best with his eyes.

Yeah. He got into the oxyclean spray carpet cleaner. Apparently he likes to play with triggers now |-| and grabbed it off the floor and was playing with the trigger and sprayed himself in the face.

Fortunately, he seemed to be fine. I kept a watch on his eyes, and they didn’t even get pink (let alone red) so I think it mostly just got on his face.

So tonight—and from now on—we make sure everything is put away.

Sunglasses, pizza, and Skype!

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He saw these sunglasses sitting on the counter and has co-opted them as his own. He was super excited to wear them and wore them around the house for quite some time. He just LOVES them.

Tonight was the first night we gave him mini slices of pizza instead of cut up pieces—and he seemed to do just fine!

The glasses make another appearance during a Skype call with Grandma Marsha and Uncle Rob!

Driving with daddy!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnr5vVyTQiU

Owen loves car rides, so when Tom came home from work today, he coerced Owen into the passenger seat for a mini car ride! Then off they went at a whopping 2mph down the street. When they came back into sight, Owen was in Tom’s lap driving—and was having a ball! The rest of the night he kept saying “More drive! More drive!” 🙂

More words, volume 19.

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Bagel
Bump
Conductor => Thank you, Chuggington!
Cupcake
Daisy => Thank you, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!
Do you see ___?
Donald => Thank you, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!
Earth
Fetch
Goofy
Goose
Grasshopper
Leo => Thank you, Little Einsteins!
Maggie faster.
Mama hiccup.
Mama inside.
Mama tired.
Mama try.
Mickey => Thank you, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!
More fetch.
Owen fetch.
Owen try.
Pocoyo is in bed. Where did Pocoyo go? => Most comprehensive sentences yet!
Present
Quincy => Thank you, Little Einsteins!
Rhinoceros
Thomas
Tiger
Trumpet
Volcano => Pronounced as cano.
Wake up cano!
Yogurt

Owen helping mama read a story!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IxlpZZLKsM

Owen loves the book Ten Little Ladybugs and has taken to helping me read it—he says SCREECHES the numbers as I turn the pages. The screeching is normally VERY enthusiastic—and completely adorable—so I finally decided to have Tom record it. Of course, that was the night his performance was totally understated. I’ll still keep trying to get the other version. 🙂

Someone doesn’t like the new rules.

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We have probably 50 apps (half of them paid for) for Owen on the iPad, but ever since he discovered Tom’s games, he throws a shit fit (probably 75% of the time) if I try to get him to play his own age-appropriate games. It’s getting to the point where we’re going to delete our stuff or take it away from him entirely.

And it’s not so much that Tom’s games are going to scar him for life or anything, but rather that they’re more complicated and Owen gets frustrated because they don’t “work” for him or he opens up the website or tries to buy the full version of a free app or whatever. AND we paid money for apps he loved until he found the other ones. KIDS!

Initially we had our apps on separate pages in separate folders, but it didn’t take him long to figure out how to open other folders and swipe to get to other pages (where our stuff is).

So I decided we’d just have new rules. He can play anything on the first page and in his folders. Anything else, and the iPad gets taken away. And we had to start somewhere… This video comes in after I’ve already explained it once and he was already getting worked up. I know, poor kid. Having to follow rules. :>>

And with most of his tantrums, it was over about as soon as it started when he got sidetracked by wanting to watch Pocoyo or play with his trains or something.

One last community pool visit…

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It still grinds me that the pool closes after Labor Day weekend—it’s the south, it stays warm a little later than that. :## So anyway, this was probably one of our last visits…and he had a blast!! (I just wish he’d remember that every day when I ask him if he wants to go and he has a meltdown because he doesn’t want to go.)

Watching the canos!

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Tom was burning twigs and dead bushes from the yard, and as soon as Owen saw the fire pits, he exclaimed VOLCANOES (or, in his exact terminology—canos!). 🙂 He stood on the deck and watched them and was so into them…

I finally just sat him in the chair where he sat for a good 20 minutes just watching and chattering about the canos…telling them to “wake up” when they started to die down. Tom also said he had to feed them, so Owen was saying “nom nom nom.”