our room

I worked on our room last week and created a mama/baby shrine! I had my alter already but it just was not visible to me and I didn't like that so I got a new dresser and hung some pictures and voila! (SP?)
There is also a shelf (bolted to the wall) for Owen with all his stuff on it. Cute huh? He can go a play in the corner when we are in our room and he is totally content. (usually..for a little bit at least!)
I am finally making Owen a blanket...? Cute huh?!

snugglin

climber

we totally have a climbing monkey on our hands. YIKES! Childproofing has taken on a nre level. Things have been bolted to the walls! seriously.

messy dinner time

need I say more?

jail bird

he woke up the other morning with his feet hanging out the crib and his his arm reaching out too...I wanted to hand him a tin can!

Geez, everyday it is something new!

These last few weeks have been really fun. Not that it hasn't all been fun, but he is starting to interact a lot more and hos personality is really shinning. Just last night he started doing pat-a-cake almost completely. He was just rolling it and at breakfast yesterday he started clapping. He was clapping before but this was clapping with intent. So i proceeded to sing pat-a-cake and he was clapping with me and all of a sudden when it came to roll it he rolled it! I thought "what a coincidence. Let's try again." so we did and he did it again. This time clapping in the "paaaat it" part. Wow, he is doing it! How exciting. So Wednesday is dinner with Bethany night and at dinner I was telling them about it and we started pat-a-cake and for the first time he "threw it in the oven" I was so amazed. So hopefully I will be able to get video of that and put it on later today. My big boy! He so great. He also started waving and doing "sooo big!" He doen't quite get the soo big yet. He puts his hand up to his big head and squeezes! It's great. His head IS soo big!

not sure which is worse!

Cat or Owen?

shadow

i liked the shadow of the play time at the park. What do you think?

a day at the park with poppa and big sis

After picking up Bethany on Saturday we went to the Vancouver Farmers Market. There is a park there (the oldest park west of the Mississippi F.Y.I.) and we had our breakfast in the park and of course played.

Owen loves to swing

We have a park literally 2 blocks from us that we love to walk to. Finley loves it because she gets to run and Owen loves it because he gets to swing. I love it just because it's a park!! Here are some pics from our outing the other day. mmmm....bark dust!

bath time video

try this one too!

video test 2

Okay...we are trying! It has only taken us 5 months since we got our video recorder but at least it is getting done right??!! so here is another test and hopefully this works so we can continue adding video. Please leave comments as to whether you are able to view it or have problems. Thanks.
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video test

video

the many boo-boos

I can not believe that owen is not totally black and blue since he has started pulling himself up on EVERYHTING! He has had sooo many tumbles. It seems like he would have a fear of tumbling and be more careful, that is definitly not the case! I think he has only become more gutsy. He is strong and daring. That scares me. I guess neither Mike nor I can deny he is ours! :)

Here is his boo boo from the shoe rack at work yesterday. I thought for sure it would leave a mark. I put some arnica on it and BAM gone! That stuff is great. I swore it was going to look like I abused him today. Not so much. YEAH.

these posts are all about owens toosh!

it just so happened that 2 days in a row he was wearing something on his toosh that was really cute and i had to get pics of it! what a cutie bootie!

who is a ham??

It really is funny whenever there is a camera around Owen totally hams it up. Here are the latest pics for ya.

8 months today

WOW, really? 8 Months? Okay, it does go fast! To proove it he has started pulling himself up on everything! I mean everything! I had to lower his crib AGAIN. Nothing is safe anymore. I can not leave the room and leave him unconfined.
Mike let Owen fill out his very own mothers day card. Very sweet. These are my mothers day flowers. Thanks Becky and Mike.

First Mothers Day

We went to another Momma's house for the first mothers day celebration. It was a nice potluck dinner. Here is a shot of the babes playing and havin a great time. Unfortunatly owen was not well rested and had a breakdown later. That's just how it goes. Still we had a great time. He climbed the stari all by himself...scarry.

Afterwards we went to Council Crest Park and hung out in the sun and had a beer and let the tush get some air. What a cute butt!

Happy Mothers Day

So I meant to post yesterday and wish all ya all a Happy Mothers Day. Here is a special wish from Owen too that he wanted to share!

I got a massage from Cory the other day that was somewhat limited due to Owens lack of cooperation! He wanted to give me a tooth massage instead! How sweet of him. Unfortunatly it didn't help my back :( (check out that widows peak...wow)

buddah babe

Well we are having a garage sale this weekend and that is my excuse this week as to why I have been slacking on the posts. Owen is actually playing in his crib at the moment and that is why I have this moment to catch up. It will be short lived! Here are a few pics.
We went to see a belly dancing show the other night and Owen loved it! One of the dancers gave him her bendi . It just completed the buddah babe! ENJOY!