Category Archives: Playing
One last community pool visit…
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.)
Ugh. It’s starting.
I just had to fish two Matchbox cars out of the toilet. :down:
But man was he having fun in the bathroom when I caught him!
Playset nap and play
He seems to enjoy laying down on his slide and pretending to sleep.
He loooooves playing with the hose…and getting his feet wet!
Counting Bs – Mirror – Tractor
Somehow he’s forgotten to count. 🙂
Who’s in the mirror?
He plays with his cars anywhere and everywhere.
I got him a real Cars tractor. It makes noise and everything.
I asked Owen to smile with his new tractor:
Playing outside–finally!
He wanted to go outside for bubbles, and since it was fairly nice out (considering), I cleaned out his water table, put the slide together, and let him play. Of course, pretty much as soon as I had the slide up, he was on it!
As soon as I was done filling his table with water, he pointed to the hose, said “Hose. Water” and then made the sign for more.
And this was him hiding when I was trying to spray him with the hose!
Wake up, water!
In order to try and tempt him into going up to the sprinkler, we tell him to tickle it or tell him to say “Wake up!” Tom is off screen stepping on the hose. 🙂
Old Navy Mannequins
Owen was SUPER intrigued by the family of mannequins at Old Navy and spent most of the visit talking to them and petting (and ticking!) the dog!
And a real video…
And then being intrigued by the mirror (and knowing who he is, as well as who I am in the reflection)…
Ducks at Marbles
http://www.marbleskidsmuseum.org/
Our friends took us to Marbles Kids Museum in downtown Raleigh. Owen had a blast and especially loved the big train table, the car racing area, and the ducks…
No jumping for Owen!
We took Owen to a bounce arena (a new Jax business with lots of bouncy stuff), thinking he would LOVE it since he loves to jump and bounce on the couches, beds, and chairs. But apparently his love is limited to things he shouldn’t actually be jumping on because he was completely freaked out by the bounce houses and we got a lot of “NO THANK YOU”s. I guess we’ll try again in a few months.
Attack of the Wind
Fun with squeeze dispensers.
Poor little guy.
Poor little guy. His whole world has changed (disappeared) during the past three days and the outbursts and tantrums have reached an epic level (i.e. more in the past two days than his entire life). Once we realized HE realized things were missing (like when he asked for “more couch”) we started trying to say “chair gone—bye bye chair” which seemed to help. But he still had outbursts like this on and off all day (this one was just this morning after he ASKED to go out and play in the water—we took him out, but then he didn’t want to be out there).
The good thing is that for the most part, the outbursts are over within a few minutes at the most and then he calms down or goes back to being happy and playing with his cars or watching movies.
And there were really fun times, too, like when he discovered that we made him a tunnel!! And when we went and played/hid in the upstairs closet for a good 20 minutes…opening and closing the doors, saying “spooooky” and hiding from daddy.
I can’t wait until this is over and we can get back into his schedule. Everything was off yesterday due to the movers being understaffed, so instead of being done loading the truck by 5, they were here until 9:30. And since they were running behind, I postponed the carpet cleaner—so instead of him being done by 8, he was done at 10 (and he was cleaning the upstairs at Owen’s bedtime, so Owen didn’t go to bed until 9:30). But Owen was a trouper and lasted pretty well until about 9:15 when he started asking for “more nap.” So sad and cute at the same time…
Fun at a new park!
We stopped at a new park on the way home from my chiropractor… Owen wasn’t too sure about it at first, but quickly got into it.
My biggest surprise? His hood came off and he let out a big OH NO (you will hear it) and wanted me to put it back on!
And then he went down a slide. The only one of four that had standing water and gunk at the bottom. Of course. Boys!
His response? WET! And of course I had no change of clothes (since we were in Tom’s car). It wasn’t terribly cold, so I stripped off his pants and he rode home in his top and a diaper! 🙂
Piggy!
This guinea pig has been in Owen’s preschool/playroom at the community center forever, and he’s never really taken much of an interest…and I’m not even sure I’ve told him it’s a guinea pig (although I probably have). So today, he just started saying PIGGY!
Splash! Jump!
New and bigger slide!
Owen has outgrown his little slide that we got at the garage sale last summer…so it was time to upgrade. After a few weeks of waiting and searching, I found one on Craigslist and picked it up today! I surprised him with it after his nap!
Fun with the hose reel
Once again proving you never know what will be fun. * NOTE—It’s a little long and all the same thing over and over, but it’s still cute. And mostly for the grandparents. :wave:
Thief!
I was sitting here when he came over, grabbed my hand, and said “help”—so I got up—and he promptly took my seat! Stinker!
When it’s too quiet…
You know the drill. Suddenly you look up and wonder where Owen is because you haven’t seen or heard him in awhile…so you go on a mad dash. This is where we found him—in the laundry room playing with some balls.
He’s such a good kid.
Playing outside on a nice day!
It was the first nice day in FOREVER so after we came home from the park, he still wanted to play outside. This is just a short video of him playing.
Playing on our bed!
Someone likes the slide again!
We have been going to the community center preschool once a week for the past 10 weeks, and Owen has NOT ONCE wanted to go on the slide—even with my coaxing AND watching other kids—until, of course, the last five minutes of the last session today…at which point he apparently decided he loved it and went down about eight times before I had to stop him (class was over).
So when we came home and after his nap, we went out to play (since it was like 68 degrees) and I hauled out his slide from last summer…and…HE LOVED IT! And was old enough to climb up and slide down on his own (though I had to help him a few times until he got the hang of climbing up). He slides down then says “again!” over and over.
Splashing! Playing!
Today was the first nice day of the year—55 and sunny—so Owen and I went outside to play! The first time we went out, Owen was excited to see THREE trucks come by—the garbage truck, the mail truck, and the FedEx truck! When the FedEx truck went by, he said “X! F!” 🙂 He also enjoyed splashing in the puddles.
After lunch, when it was about time for Tom to come home, we went out again. This time there was much more splashing!
He did not want to go inside—he apparently now remembers how fun it is to be outside—so we went out to the porch while the grill heated up for dinner. He wanted to play with Maggie’s toy…but she wanted the toy more, so she knocked him down trying to get it. He had a fit until I went downstairs and brought up this toy from last summer. You should have seen his face when he saw it—so happy!
Playing with mom’s hair
Cardboard Tube Fun!
You’ll have to listen closely to hear his contributions!
Great Wolf Lodge
Grannie Lin had two free day passes so we bought two extra tickets and we all spent a few hours at the park watching Owen have a complete blast! We didn’t take too many pictures (we didn’t want to carry any cameras around) but we did take a handful right before we left.
Snow spray!
A short video I forgot to include in the original birthday day post…but it’s cute, so I had to post it!
I had kicked some snow off a bush, and he saw what it did…so he started throwing snow in the air!
Happy 2nd Birthday, Owen!
Happy birthday, Owen! Smile for your first picture of the day!
I was amazingly proud of him at our play group today. He actually sat in the song circle for the first time EVER…for THREE songs even! And was pretty happy and smiley about it! At the end of song three, he announced loudly “DONE!” 🙂 and then, surprise #2…he went to the playdough table! What? Huh? Awesome! AND THEN…he actually participated in the art project!! He put glue on the paper (and maybe in his mouth) and stuck some stickers on! And he kinda liked his birthday crown! And grandma AND dad were there to see it!
So when we got home, we tried for the “official” birthday photo…and lucked out with this one:
Then he had his nap, and we got to experience this when we got up:
Then since it was pretty warm out (32!) we decided to take Owen outside. I know he doesn’t like to play in the snow, so I didn’t even put his snowpants on him. We gave him a few sled rides and you could see he didn’t really care too much. Grandma Jean coerced him up onto the porch…
…where after a few minutes, he suddenly laid down, crawled toward the bushes, and started playing in the snow between the bushes! He was digging and digging and flinging snow around—his mittens were packed with snow. Then when you thought he might be done, he’d do a low-crawl to the next section of the porch and dig some more. Surprisingly, he didn’t seem to mind the cold at all!
After dinner, it was time for CAKE—and he certainly knows cake when he sees it! 🙂
And then for the day’s big finale…a BAF!
Pool Basketball
Since Tom had the day off, we took Owen to the community center pool. At first he didn’t really want anything to do with it—not even when we gave him a ball. But after about 30 minutes he started loving it, and we ended up staying for almost two hours. Here he is shooting hoops with Tom’s help…
Our little climber!
Last night he learned that if he turned the basket over, he could sit on it and still play with his toys on the entertainment center. So it wasn’t long before he figured out he could climb on it… So this is what happened when I looked away for a minute…
