Katie ate some of Grannie Lin’s potato salad tonight! (Well, okay, some teeny pieces of mashed boiled potatoes—but with flavoring!) I know it’s normal for babies (kids) to try new foods…I’m just SO conditioned otherwise because of Owen that it still kinda shocks me.
YAY KATIE!
Owen: Holding out his broken-apart Lightning McQueen Lego car We have a problem.
Papa takes it from him to look at it.
Owen: Take your time.
Katie had to get her flu booster this morning and it was still COLD so she got to wear her new monkey hat (from Gramma Jean, if I remember right).
Well, just the jacket, really. 🙂 This is the next item from the Jenny’s-old-clothes-for-Katie drawer. She wasn’t being especially cooperative this morning so no super cute photo.
Then Owen chimed in and said “I want to sit with her!”
And hugging her. I think. Well, at least he’s loving on her even if it really isn’t a hug per se.
Thanks, Uncle Rob!
And as a sidenote…I had to do a double-take when we opened this on Christmas because this is what I saw:
Notice anything? 🙂
So I contacted Carter’s and long story short, they replaced it (and wanted mine back for their QA team)!
Grandma Marsha, Owen LOVES LOVES LOVES his birthday game! Here he is having fun in Elmo’s World!
Who would have thought it would be freezing cold and snowing in North Carolina today? Of course, Owen was excited and wanted to go out and play in it!!
Making a snowball with daddy!
Mama says “Pictures, please!”
Back inside to find Katie and Grannie watching out the window…
Katie’s first snow!
The fam.
Thanks to friends Tom and Karen for this super cute outfit!
Coming home from errands, we look in the back seat to see this:
Owen was hitting everything with his hammer when he discovered the pots and pans…
Owen always seems to sidle over to Papa when he’s eating a PB&J…and of course Papa shares it with him!
After practically DRAGGING Owen outside, he had a BALL (no pun intended) with Papa playing soccer and practicing catching the ball!
He kicked it under the car and said “SCORE!!” 🙂
This is how he catches the ball about 90% of the time—LEG UP!
Throwing the ball to Papa!
Helping Grannie make Jello.
It was difficult to try and get a picture of her tooth because she always sticks her tongue out! But, we found a way… You see, she HATES getting her hands and face wiped, so after I fed her and wiped her, I had the camera ready! 🙂
And if you look closely, you can actually see #2 coming in as well (just under the surface)!
Dressed for the occasion (thanks, Grannie Lin)!
Enjoying her first actual teething biscuit!
Tom took this video of Owen singing one of the songs from his new Xbox Sesame Street game (which also appears in a recent Sesame Street episode).
I think it kinda looks like a sea lion. 🙂
My very first Lego creation done without instructions and only from a picture. It only took me about 30 minutes. 🙂
After being gone on vacation for five days/four nights and then being gone again most of Tuesday…Owen is our shadow.
It’s soooo cute…yet so sad and pathetic.
At one point, Papa and Grannie left to go out to dinner, and Papa came upstairs when they got home. As soon as Owen saw him, he started freaking out and crying, saying “Don’t leave! You stay here!” Poor kid thought that we were going to leave again because they were back.
I hope we’re out of this phase soon because it just breaks your heart (especially because we have to be strong and not cave in).
Tom and I took Owen out for a special treat this morning since he was such a good boy while we were away! Yep…ice cream for breakfast!
And I love how she’s grabbing Maggie’s paw!
I honestly didn’t really miss the kids until we were on our way home…
And then it was pure awesome seeing Owen come running out of the house to give us both hugs! He was SO excited that we were home! And it feels like he changed a ton—his vocabulary and enunciation seems better and he even seemed lighter!
I hate leaving him, but I like the welcome home greeting we got!!
We were out of town (for the first time ever on a birthday-month photo day!) so Papa had to take the picture! He had just about as much luck as I do—there were about 30 attempts! 🙂
And apparently Owen had a good time with Katie, too!
I’m still surprised Grannie got him to play with it!
We were sitting around this morning before we headed to the airport, and Owen was playing on the iPad. I wasn’t really paying close attention to him but my ears suddenly perked up when I swear I heard him say dammit. I brushed it off as just not hearing him correctly (it was almost a whisper) but a minute or so later he said it again!
“Dammit. I can’t get /whatever/.”
I turned to look at Linda and said “Ah, his first swear word.” And she agreed that’s what she thought he had said before.
I am not 100% sure where he picked it up, though I’m pretty sure it was me—as I’ve been known to let it slip now and again. And at least he used it correctly!
Katie seems to like the burp cloths just like Owen did.
