So we were having hot dogs for dinner. Linda asked if Owen would eat any, and I said probably not, though we will certainly try. So imagine my surprise…when he scarfed down the few pieces I cut for him…then proceeded to eat AN ENTIRE HOT DOG! 88|
Of course, who’s to say whether he’ll eat another one anytime soon…
I’m not always great at uploading videos when I take them, so here are a few from earlier this month.
You just never know when a simple action (like kicking the ball back through the gate) will become a fun game.
Playing outside while watching himself being recorded.
Playing with two of his favorite toys—the screen door and a ball—until the dog next door barks and he has to look at it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Owen’s comprehension level has been growing lately—for the past month or so, if you ask if he wants to go outside, he runs to the gate (or the sliding door if the gate is open) and once outside, if you ask if he wants to go inside, he goes straight to the door. He also knows when he gets shoes on, we’re most likely going into the garage—and sometimes he’ll even wait outside the car door.
More recently (like within the past week or so), at naptime or bedtime, when you say it’s time for nap/bed, he will go to the gate/stairs, go up the stairs, then go to his room and wait for you to put him in the crib! What a good little boy!
So this morning, Tom brought him into our room for some cuddle TV time and when it was time to go downstairs, I told Owen, and he went directly to the stairs…then proceeded to go down all by himself! What a big boy!
Sorry about the bad video quality—I wasn’t prepared so didn’t have the lights on, then turned them on, then turned on the phone’s flash…but you’ll get the idea. 🙂
Thank you, Grandma Marsha! I’m finally big enough for my chair and I love it! I carry it around and sit in it all the time!
Just look at the new eating style he came up with!
And then he caught on pretty quick once I showed him the right way to do it…
A new thing Owen has been doing lately…rolling around and covering his face with the burpie. He thinks if he can’t see you, he’s hiding. 🙂
Guess what we noticed this morning? (The other one isn’t anywhere close to being fully in yet, but I colored it red anyway.)
Normally Owen only gets a sucker after shots or during a haircut, but they had a bowl of them at the restaurant today, so we gave him one. We missed recording the BIG smiles when he saw it and realized what it was.
And then, him watching himself with the sucker…
Last night Tom and I both watched as Owen stepped off the last patio step—with no assistance and not holding the sides. Of course, neither of us had our phone (camera) on us. So this morning we were out for morning playtime when he started doing it again—and I caught it this time!
Owen liked the bulgogi we made for dinner last night. The kid won’t eat hot dogs but he’ll eat marinated barbecued beef. :??: I guess I should be happy, because bulgogi is closer to sushi than hot dogs are…but hot dogs are just a bit more common and easier to make for his lunches.
And tonight we had baked chicken for dinner—which he wouldn’t touch, of course—but he ate the hearts that I quick pan fried. Really? What toddler will eat chicken hearts but not the actual chicken?
What a strange bird.
We just moved him into size 6 diapers. At 19 months. The 5s were just leaking way too much. We thought we’d at least use the Size 5 overnights for during the day—except he completely soaked through it and his pants in 2.5 hours. 😮
And I bought some clearance PJs today at Target—size 3T, thinking I was planning ahead—except I looked at the weight range listed on them: 32-35#! So they should fit him now! 😮
I bought this many months ago when it was on sale at Target, and it’s been waiting in the basement. I was getting ready to give it to him and had it sitting on the island in the kitchen…when he walked by and saw it, so reached up to get it! Stinker!
Since he LOVES stacking (see the Crayon video from earlier today), he loves this set. He also loves the “ball” on the top of one of the columns.
So we gave Owen these crayons the other day and he just LOVED them. He didn’t actually color with them—but had A TOTAL BLAST just stacking them and unstacking them and stacking them…over and over and over. He kept himself busy for at least 20 minutes while Tom and I ate dinner!
So we got them out again this morning while Gramma Jean was sewing something for me and I was eating breakfast. Then Gramma Jean started this new game…and then he actually started coloring! (The video is a bit long, but I just didn’t feel like editing it today.)
So what happens this morning? Not the night diaper, but after breakfast, he was wet again. WHAT THE—?? I didn’t think he was close to needing the next size because the 5s are really still fitting okay (and this diaper wasn’t really that wet, either, so it wasn’t like a major overflow) but I don’t know what else it could be? I’ve been very careful how I put them on since he did have the leaking issue yesterday.
So after I changed him, I just left him with no bottoms since it was warm in the house and almost nap time. I went to get his milk and by the time I got back (30 seconds?) I saw a diaper on the floor and a naked butt on the couch! The stinker had taken his diaper off! For the first time! Needless to say I put bottoms back on him!
Today was the first time EVER Owen soaked through his diaper when we were out and about. We had gone to two stores and were taking him out of the second cart when I noticed the seat was damp—then looked at him and his pants were SOAKED! 88|
Good thing my mom was with me and able to help change him/his clothes at the car—and thank heavens for having that box of goodies [clothes, wipes, etc.] in the car. I just chalked it up to a bizarre occurrence and us probably needing to change his diaper before we left.
But then after we got home (after one more store) I noticed (as he was walking into the house) that his butt was wet AGAIN! :??: I mean, I know he drinks a lot, but he has never leaked like that before. EVER. And the second diaper wasn’t really even that wet—and it looked to be on okay. So who knows…
Gramma Jean is saying the alphabet in the background, and once in awhile you can hear Owen say a letter. But moreso, he’s enjoying chewing on his new monkey toy.
Tom and I went out to dinner and much to our surprise, Owen was still up when we got home about 9pm! He just was NOT tired! After some playing, he got a special pillow ride from daddy…
You just NEVER know what he will find funny…
Owen was laughing during one of his favorite shows (Word World).
Owen was looking like a little ragamuffin, so I decided it was time for a haircut. We got yet another new stylist (we’ve had a different one each time we’ve been there) and she was pretty good. She asked if he could have a sucker and I said sure, I guess so. Turns out it was a GREAT idea—he LOVED it! He still doesn’t like the water spritzer and the clippers turn him into a crying snotty mess, but he loved that sucker and by the end, it was all over him and me.
He was so sticky from the sucker and covered in hair that I decided to give him a quick bath outside when we got home. He loved it! This is him playing afterward (watching himself in the sliding door, of course).
And then trying to climb into the water table, and kinda getting stuck. 🙂
This is probably how he uses his chair about half the time. Cute, but not really a good thing to do.
After his nap in his dark room, so I was using the phone light to record.
Of course I missed the best parts of him on the couch, but this is some of what he was doing.
And one of his sleeping positions…
Talk about frustrating.
In addition to the like-something-one-day/week-but-not-the next, he sometimes (okay, most times) just FLAT OUT refuses to even try something. I put it on his tray, he takes it in his fingers, and holds it out to me—which is his obvious way of saying he doesn’t want it. It makes me nuts because it didn’t even get near his nose or touch his lips! How can he tell from just looking at it that he doesn’t want it? (Yeah, sometimes us adults can tell. But we’re adults.) So at this stage he apparently enjoys licking the ground or chewing on my shoes—but refuses to try fried zucchini, rice, or tilapia? :##
That said, while it’s frustrating as hell when he does it, it’s also kinda cute. I mean, he’s at least being good and handing it to me instead of dropping it on the floor (although he WILL drop it on the floor if I don’t take it).
I just noticed today that Owen is getting tooth #13! It’s just a little point, but it’s definitely through the skin!
Owen loves balls—we all know that. And he always seems to want balls that aren’t his, even though he has a ton of his own. Just this afternoon, he saw a soccer ball in our neighbor’s yard and made a beeline for it. She let us borrow it for awhile. Last week, he was immediately attracted to some lady’s volleyball at the park (and when we went back the next day, went right to where she HAD been sitting to look for it again).
So when I was in Target, I got him his own soccer ball. And we decided to give it to him as he was waking up from his nap. Watch, and enjoy!
