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.)
He was trying to rescue his trains…and got stuck. How dramatic!
Every once in awhile I get a video of Owen that is just so precious I could watch it over and over and over all day long, smiling the entire time.
This is one of those.
Tom set up the sprinkler and Owen positively loved it. Just look at the joy in his face!
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.”
The show Owen was watching had a catchy tune playing and people dancing, so I started to dance and said “Mama dance!” Owen got right up from the couch and said “No! Owen Dance!”
He seems to enjoy laying down on his slide and pretending to sleep.
He loooooves playing with the hose…and getting his feet wet!
I gave him one spoon for his yogurt and cereal, except he didn’t seem to want to use the spoon for the cereal. So I gave him another spoon. Watch and learn, people.
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:
If you want to watch a larger version in HD, go to YouTube.
Owen was just waking up for his nap, when I gave him a new Matchbox tractor…
He wanted to watch Cars, so we were watching Cars. Then he decided he wanted to watch “mouse” (Stuart Little) and I said no, we were watching Cars because that’s what he asked for.
See ensuing tantrum (and this actually the tail end of the tantrum—it went on for a good few minutes BEFORE I started recording):
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)…
Aunt Rose bought him this cool water toy awhile back, but we left it in the package so it would be a special treat once we moved. Well, he keeps seeing it and getting super excited..so we finally got it out…and it kinda freaked him out. 🙂 He wasn’t too sure what to think of it…and he’s still not sure but he did have some fun with it.
Poor kid just couldn’t get comfortable to sleep…
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…
On a road trip to Raleigh…with his puzzles!
Fun with squeeze dispensers.
Dancing in his seat! He looooves the movie Cars and knows parts of it and always dances along to it. It’s adorable.
Look what Gramma Jean taught him!
You gotta love Little Einsteins catchphrases! This one is in (I swear) every episode so we hear it a lot…and it gets repeated quite a bit. You’ll probably have to turn up the volume.
Another repeat, plus a nice clear “no thank you” like he says now instead of no. 🙂
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…
I thought he might like the frosting I had just made… His first licking-out-the-bowl experience!