Stair Climber

Owen has learned a new trick which makes it pretty much impossible

to leave him alone for longer than 20 seconds.

Crawling up the stairs is not the problem.

 

Once he gets up, he's just not real sure how to get down

 

So he typically just makes a jump for it.

 Lucky for him he normally has his mom there to catch him.  

 

Santa's Elf

Say hello to santa's littlest elf.

 

Holiday Playdate

What better thing to do right before the holidays

than get together with some of Owen's favorite little buddies.

Though it doesn't show by his expression, Owen LOVES getting together with his friends.

Truth be told, his mom loves it even more.  ;)

Olivia and Ava decorated and baked sugar cookies and played with homemade peppermint scented playdough, while Graham and Owen crawled around and played with whatever they could get their hands on.  I love watching the two of them together.  

It has become quite funny because Graham loves to wrestle and is not shy about tackling Owen.  Owen will be crawling or playing with a toy and Graham comes up behind him

with such a cute playful grin and crawls right onto his back.  As a mom maybe I should be protective, but all I wanted to do was get my video camera to catch all the hilarious footage.

Plus, Owen has no siblings to rough him up, so it's good for him to help toughen him up.

What a fun day to lead us right into the holidays!!

 

Ornament

We decided to decorate our tree tonight

and a very special ornament was the first one up.

Merry Christmas Little Owen!!

We're so excited for you to experience your very first Christmas.

 

Little Explorer

Thankfully this is as close as he's made it to the tree.

 

He'll crawl over, reach out and touch the branches,

but then he's good.  That's enough exploration for him.

And who needs a tree anyway, when you have such an amazing green bowl to play with.

 

Cruisin'

Look who's Standing...

That's right.  Owen started his new cruising phase about a week or two ago.

He's been pulling himself up on anything and everything that he can.

Nothing is safe anymore.  

I had already cleared out the bottom level of shelves,

now we've moved up to another level of mischief.

And how is it that he knows exactly what he shouldn't touch, and goes straight for it?

Zoo Cutie

Owen and I have been doing our best to take advantage of these 

uncharacteristically warm December days.

With the temperature in the upper 50's yesterday I decided to go walk around the zoo.

Hopefully Owen is amused by all of the different animals he gets to see,

but at the very least, it is a nice change of scenery.

 

The highlight of the day was seeing the 3 week old giraffe.

 Here is a picture of him with his mom to give some perspective on how tiny he really is.

He is, by far, the cutest thing I have ever seen at the zoo.

He alone made our trip completely worth it.

I kind of want to go back today just to see him again.  :)