It’s bath night here so I told Owen to go say “Gramma—bath time!” and he went right over and said “Papa—bath time!” Since my dad can’t resist that cute voice, he is now getting a lesson from gramma in giving Owen a bath. 🙂
Category Archives: Toys & Games
A new game! Score!
Gramma taught Owen a new game when getting undressed!
A buddy!
The almost 4yo neighbor kid (I’ve talked to his mom a few times) and his mom were walking by when Owen was playing in his police car and the little boy desperately wanted to play with it. I invited them into the yard and the boys proceeded to play together amazingly for close to an hour while her and I chatted at the edge of the road. It was a riot—Owen just let the kid drive because he doesn’t really want to do it himself. Then they’d take a break and run around the yard chasing each other. The mom reprimanded her son for pulling on Owen’s shirt while they were playing—and I thanked her, but had to tell her that he actually LIKES that…and then she saw what I meant when Owen backed up close to the little boy again, waiting for him to grab his shirt again! (Oops! I guess that was a bad game to teach him!) Then they got out the bucket of bubbles. Then it was back to the police car, with one driving and one chasing. Back and forth, back and forth. Owen had a BLAST, laughing and screeching (even though he doesn’t look thrilled in this picture). It was awesome to see…and I hope they come down to play again!
Lookin’ good!
Police car!
He was out playing and I had the garage open doing stuff in there and he saw the police car…and of course wanted to play with it. I had to dig it out (it was literally buried behind and under stuff) and he loved it!
He still won’t drive it, though he did actually hit the gas pedal a little and knows it moves!
Our little knight!
After 9+ months in the toy box, he finally dug out the entire outfit today and wanted it all on!
“Christmas” Morning
We had “Christmas” this morning (since Owen won’t know the difference) so Santa could give him the train table…and he LOVED it! (We were sure he would, but you just never know.)
He is also really into opening presents now, and thinks every wrapped present is his. Soooo cute!
Also, Owen is now in 5T pants. Some 4Ts still fit, but they’re a little tight in the butt and thigh area.
Lastly, we got a decent family photo in the first session of 20 pics! (And of course, Owen looks the best!)
And with his stocking!
Golfing!
Grannie and Grandpa took Owen on a walk and they came back with golf clubs!! Which meant, of course, they had to have some instruction…
Why I can’t get rid of toys!
Every time I think about putting this house away for good, he starts playing with it again!
Another clue!
Current helicopter pronunciation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG5x59b3r7c
This is how he currently pronounces helicopter—approximately helicop(t)opter. Mom and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Under! Under! Under!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1U9YrIFQ0
He loves getting under the covers and then using the iPad under there. He wiggles and squirms so much that he totally messes up all the covers on the bed. But dang it’s cute.
Little boy car noises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2GtJoLt0o
Is this just a little boy thing? He just started making these noises on his own!
I told him a toy wasn’t his.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6arBIeK-48
Quite some time ago, I bought a duplicate Cars Mack Hauler
He’s making connections!
Tonight we were headed to a friend’s house for dinner and Owen already had three cars in his hands and wanted to take two other toys and you could tell he was a bit confused as to just how he was going to make it work. So I told him to put everything in his basket—assuming I’d come back in a few minutes and have to actually do it myself. So imagine my surprise when I saw him standing at the front door…holding his basket…with all his cars and toys in it! I asked Tom if he had helped him and he said no. So Owen understood what I said and actually made it happen! YAY OWEN!
Then as soon as we pulled up at our friend’s house, he says “[Vir]ginia’s house!”
Also, over the past few days when he says he wants to go outside (or if we’re getting ready to go for a car ride) he will start saying shoes and coat and head off to find them. He even managed to get his Crocs on by himself!
Slide climbing!
He just LOVES driving with daddy!
Since the weather was gorgeous and Owen hadn’t played outside yet, we surprised Tom by meeting him down at the entrance to the subdivision (which meant a half-mile walk to get there). Which then meant Owen could do something he loves…
Owen’s Personalized Train
So back in Michigan, I took advantage of a deal (Groupon or Living Social or something) for wall art for Owen’s room. They had lots of cool stuff, but since they were a fairly new company, they were offering personalization services for free—so I took advantage and had them design Owen’s name into a train. They actually emailed me three samples, I combined them into something else, and that’s what I ordered. We knew we’d wait until we were moved into the next house before we put it up…and it happened to be our old house in North Carolina. We had originally planned to put it in his bedroom, but there just wasn’t room once we got everything set up…so we decided to put it in his playroom…and he LOVES it. When he saw it, he was so excited—saying CABOOSE! CABOOSE! and then saying the letters of his name!
He’ll play anywhere!
At daddy’s softball game!
Well, actually it was softball… Tom called to tell me he was in a pickup softball game if we wanted to come. It was a gorgeous day and Owen was up from his nap, so off we went. And Owen was REALLY excited about the whole thing—he just kept hopping around saying BASEBALL! BASEBALL! BASEBALL! and was ever MORE excited when someone handed him an actual softball to carry around! Of course I didn’t capture the best parts, but I did get some to give you an idea.
And then running the bases with daddy after the game!
Playing and watching!
Playing cars and blocks with Gramma Jean. The foyer rug is perfect for roads and garages and it got used A LOT during this visit!
Everyone watching The Backyardigans.
The slide is new again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M172HjVXq1o
The slide has been in the garage since it got put away for the hurricane, so I got it out yesterday when I was getting things organized. Owen was THRILLED with it, and went down it about 20 times in a row. Of course, by the time I got my camera out, he was about done.
Hiding!
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!
We have a strange boy.
He started out conducting with the wand, and then…he just gets strange. 🙂
I turn my back for a minute…
You probably can’t hear it, but at the very beginning, he’s quietly saying grasshopper, because there was one on that plastic tower that he was trying to shake off. When I finally made the connection between what he was seeing and saying is when I come in.
Someone doesn’t like the new rules.
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.
First jetted tub bath!
Again, we didn’t want to waste the full tub of water left over after Irene…so we let Owen take a bath in it…with jets and bubbles! And of course, he LOVED it!!
Stuck on the tub!
He was trying to rescue his trains…and got stuck. How dramatic!
Enjoying a cool morning!
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!