Dental Floss

Who would have thought that dental floss would be entertaining? Owen loves it though! If he isn't napping in the morning when it's time for me to take a shower and get ready he's in the bathroom with me playing with all sorts of stuff. We have toys in practically every room of the house so Owen has something to play with where ever we are. He also thinks it's great fun to pull out all the stuff that's under the sink and play with that. Or he can just flush the toliet over and over to entertain himself too. He's so cute when it's time for me to get out of the shower he hears the water turn off and he stops what he's doing and crawls over to where he can see me and gives me the biggest grin. He's so cute! Anyways about the dental floss he does the same thing...he just stops what he's doing so he can watch me floss my teeth. I'm not sure if it's the way you have to contort your face while you floss that makes him laugh, but he really is amused by it. He loves to have his teeth brushed so hopefully he will be a good flosser too.

The Big Show @ The Little Gym

Owen has been going to The Little Gym since he was 8 months old and today was the last day of the semester. Owen is know as a Bug at The Little Gym and if he was going to continue with the program he would be moving up to Birds this next semester. Unfortunately it's just too expensive right now. Plus at his age the parents need to be very involved with helping the kids do some of the flips and let me tell you it's getting pretty hard to do that stuff since my belly is getting bigger. I'm hoping that come next September we can put him back in though. He really enjoys it!

This is Owen's first crush - Miss Shannon our Little Gym instructor!
This is one of the tricks they use to help build the kids confidence while walking and also help the parents from hurting their backs!
They always set up different crawling courses for the kids. Owen especially liked crawling through this tunnel today.
Owen does this all the time, it's his way of saying, "Hey somebody turn me over"!
Here are all the graduates and their metals! Right to left - Hope, Sophia, Owen, Kaya and Margo. Owen is one lucky boy surrounded by all those cute girls!

Battle Scar

Here's a picture of Owen's puncture wound. We are going out this afternoon to buy that Mederma for kids scar cream so hopeful he won't end up with a battle scar after all.

Emergency Room Visit

Well me made it over a year without having to take Owen to the emergency room so I guess it was about time. Last night after dinner he was just standing up holding onto the coffee table when he lost his footing and hit his face right on the glass. He's done this many times and just cried and had a bruise the next day, but this time was different. He let out a blood curdling cry and then not long after that came the blood. Of course Mommy started hyperventilating so poor Daddy had to deal with two babies. When Owen hit the coffee table it forced one of his upper teeth all the way through his lower lip. The bleeding stopped pretty fast and so did his cries. He's such a tough kid. I decided to call the pager for his pediatrician and the on-call pediatrician call right back. Her husband is also an ER doctor so she asked if it was necessary for us to go in. He said that it would be a good idea to go in and see if he needed a stitch or at least to get the cut glued shut. So off to St. Francis we went at 7:30 last night. The ER wasn't that busy thank goodness, but it still took over 2 hours for us to be seen. Owen was a real trooper all around. His normal bedtime is 7:45 so he was WAY overdue. Once we got to actually see a doctor he examined the wound and decided that there wasn't much he could do for the outside since it was already healing. The inside wound he could actually pinch together so he decided to glue it together just for good measure. Owen laid there so patiently while the doctor was checking him out, but he didn't much care for being held in place when they were gluing his lip. After the glue dried which takes about 20 seconds it was about another 20 seconds before Owen already had bit the glue with his teeth and ripped it off. It wasn't absolutely necessary so we didn't have them reapply it. All that wait and a $100 co-pay for basically nothing. Oh well you live and learn!

Once we got home we fed and changed Owen and put him to bed thinking he would just crash since he should have already been in bed for almost 4 hours, but that was not going to happen. He actually did go to bed pretty good at first. He slept for about 45 minutes and then cried and cried. We rocked him and gave him Tylenol, but he didn't really fall asleep until 1:15 this morning. He's still asleep right now, but I'm going to wake him up so he doesn't completely get off his schedule. I didn't take the camera with me to the ER, but I'll try to get a picture of his lip later today and post it.

First Haircut

Today Owen and I went over to a friends house so she could cut his hair. It's been looking pretty shaggy lately so we thought we should do something before it turned into a full blown mullet. My friend Jen has a Flobee, it's one of those suck and cut machines like they show in the movie Wayne's World only it actually works and isn't painful. It was really cool! It only took 2 minutes to cut Owen's hair and I didn't have to worry about accidentally poking one of his eyes out with scissors. Also since it hooks up to the vacuum there's nothing to clean up. He did cry a little, but it was mostly whining there were no tears involved. All in all I don't think he was really bothered by the whole process.

Before picture of the front
Before picture of the back
Owen getting his first haircut
All done!
Beautiful Baby Boy!

Water World

This morning we gave Owen a bath in the kitchen sink and he had so much funny splashing. Water was everywhere!!!

Betcha Bite a Chip

On Saturday Michael made the mistake of asking a pregnant women to stop at the grocery store and pick up a couple of things. I ended up buying 23 things instead. Candy was on sale and so was soup and then I saw the Chips Ahoy Cookies. I couldn't resist so I bought two packages. After eating dinner I decided that some of those cookies sounded good. I broke a couple pieces off for Owen to try, but no no he wanted the whole cookie. Instead of him eating it though he was feeding me. It was so cute. He fed me a whole cookie and then I gave him another one to feed me. He fed me about a third of that cookie and then he looked at me funny like, "Hey I'm getting ripped off", and then he shoved the whole rest of the cookie in his mouth. The above picture is me trying to catch any cookie pieces that fall out.

Owen outfit

GG made this super cute outfit for Owen and gave it to me at his shower last January. I'm so glad he's able to fit into it when the weather is cold. It's still a little big on him, but so cute. I had to roll up the pant legs, but Owen has these short little legs and a really long torso so it's not surprising. I love the bottom picture because that's when he discovered his name was on his shirt.

Happy Boy!

Owen just loves to walk around with his walker. It's his favorite thing other than his hedgehog. In the beginning he didn't know how to turn it around so when he would run into a wall he would just yell at us to come fix it. Now he's figured it out, but he still doesn't turn it around. Instead he walks around to the other side of the walker and pushes it back and forth. He'll do this for quite a long time too. Sometimes he gets himself stuck in the family room to where he can only take 2 or 3 steps and he has to walk around and push it the other way. It's pretty funny to watch.

First Steps

We haven't really been working with Owen on trying to get him to walk, but we decided to start the other day. He has all the skills he needs he just needs to build confidence. So on Friday night Michael was holding Owen out away from him and getting him to stand there and try to walk toward him. I happened to be filming at the right moment when he took about 3 steps. It's towards the end of the video. I'm so happy we have this accomplishment captured on film.

1 Year Check-Up

On Friday I took Owen to his one year check up with his doctor. It's so hard to believe still that he's a year old. The funny thing is this appointment fell exactly on the day we very first took Owen to see his pediatrician a year ago. (I know I'm a freak because I remember dates so well)Anyway Owen is perfectly healthy his weight is now 18lbs 1oz, height is 28 inches. He's still in the 1.6% for weight and his height went down from 11% to 5%. I do need to bring him back to the doctor in a month for a weight check and see how his appetite and eating skills are doing. And he also has to be completely off baby food in a month. I wasn't sure how Owen was going to handle that one, but ever since his appointment he's been eating better...not great, but better.

Got Milk?

Since Owen is a year old now he doesn't have to drink formula anymore he can have regular whole milk just like we do. At first I wasn't sure if the taste was going to bother him or not. I tried to see if he would take it cold so we didn't have to heat it up, but no such luck. Once it's heated up though he's in heaven. I actually think he likes milk better than he liked his formula. He's also holding his bottle now like a big boy. For the longest time he wouldn't eat unless you held it and lets face it, the kid needs to eat so we just held it for him. Slowly we started having him hold it and now he's a pro. The funny thing is he's started this thing where he keeps clearing his throat. At first I thought it was because of the change to milk and his cold. I thought that he must have some gunk in his throat and it's getting worse because of drinking milk. The other day he just kept clearing his throat at random so I think it's just a new trick to play around with.