Owenisms

Owen is now 16 months old! Where, oh where does the time go? He's starting to look like such a little boy, there isn't much time before we can't call him a baby anymore. He's already a toddler but it's so hard to let go of our baby!

His favorite words/things right now: dinosaur, christmas tree, santa.

he can make animals sounds (this actually started more around 14 months for clarification): puppy, kitty, dinosaur (rawr!), cow, sheep and the non animal train says choo choo and the bus says beep beep.

he is truly amazing.

We tell him there is a baby in my belly and he will put his head on it and listen. He also loves to give my belly "high fives", which we assume he is directing at his sibling. :)

Right now lots of things are cottage cheese in his eyes, today we were out and somebody walked by with ice cream. owen started yelling "cottage cheese! cottage cheese!" My favorite is the bowl of mush in his goodnight moon book. We read it to him every night and have for a while but only in the last week has he discovered that the mush is actually cottage cheese!

Sad day on the frontier

Ohh noo! The Frontier hotel in Las Vegas was imploded today to make room for a new fancy complex. The place was gross and moldy but starbuck and i loved it! We always made sure to stop by and play the horse racing game and eat at little caesar's every time we were in town. Seriously, as silly as it sounds, we loved that game. It was falling apart and when we would sit there racing each other, once of us would always win, so we came out way ahead. I'm going to go try to figure out what kind of game it was so this post will make more sense....

Edit:: Here it is, our beloved game. Apparently it is called the Derby game by Sigma and is on the verge of extinction itself. Oh woe!

Halfway To Go

Today I am 20 weeks pregnant. My belly finally started to pop out over the weekend. I could actually feel it yesterday, and I'm fairly certain I could see it growing larger before my eyes. Last night he/she was kicking up a storm and starbuck got to see he/she moving around through the belly. It's all starting to seem sooo real now and 2o more weeks is soon!!

We've been talking a lot about how this next baby's personality could possibly be. We were bleseed with a VERY active first baby and we won't know what to do if we have a sleepy baby! Owen's eyes were never closed for long. He had no use for a bouncer or any other "sleepy baby" device. He was never really a "baby" per se. He was alert from day one, and was smiling on cue by 3 weeks. Surely the next baby will have a totally different demeanor? If so, I'm sure the relaxation will be nice. If so, we'll just stay on our toes, we haven't gotten to come down off them since that hot day in july 2006 so I doubt we'll know any difference.

Week in Review

Was quite a busy week.
Last weekend, we went "camping" in a cabin in Mentone. It was so nice to be up and away from it all! Owen had a great time, esp b/c Mimi and Papa came up and he got to entertain. The weekend was filled with good food and lots of relaxing.

Our other big event of the week was signing a lease on a new store. It's going to be a baby/children shop and is really close to the house, just like we like. It was kind of unexpected, we had given up on finding the right spot here but it fell into our laps and everything unfolded perfectly, so we're pretty sure it was all meant to happen. That's the way we wait for most things in our lives to work, if it's too much of a struggle, we move on and wait for the right thing to come along. Sounds cheesy but that's how things work out best for our family. We hope to be opening in the next few weeks so now we're lost in a whirlwind of buying, planning, and utilities.

Have a great weekend!

We have FINALLY found something that will tire Owen out...Halloween! We had such a fun day all day today, I was sad to see it end.

Recap of the Saturday before Halloween

Yesterday was such a nice day! We got up early and ate breakfast at Lag's, our favorite neighborhood eatery then headed to Avondale Park for an art market. Owen wanted to jump in the pond and swin with the ducks sooo bad! It was all we could do to keep him wrangled and away from it. There was tons of pretty things to look at but we ended up just buying a sunday subcription to the paper (how arty) and a painted glass window that will go perfectly in the craftsman house we will soon have. Our current house is just not our style at all. It's nice and comfortable but not us. Oh well, next time!

Getting back on track-- we came home after the art market for nap time then headed out for lunch at mellow mushroom and spent the rest of the afternoon driving around and looking at junk. Today we are getting ready to head out to another pumpkin patch with Jeremy. Owen can't wait to see more puh-puhs!

I'm very relieved to report that our papa g got out of the hosptial yesterday and with a diagnosis of a few stomach ulcers but everything else they checked out is as good as can be!