Look Who's Crawling

6 Months

Now that Owen is only days away from being seven months old, I am finally uploading his six month picture.

17 lbs 7 oz (49th percentile)

27 in long (62nd percentile)

• Loves playing with his sister
• Working on sleeping at night - We've begun letting him "cry it out" which sounds so harsh, but was necessary. I am so tired of waking up 4+ times a night. Owen is a bit stubborn though. What took Grace three days to master is taking a bit longer with our dear son. *Since I am actually posting this almost a month late, I will let you know things are a ton better, but we are still working on it.
• I think it's funny that I forgot to take his socks off in this picture.
• Is still on the verge of crawling.
• Loves baths - in an attempt at creating a schedule at night, Owen gets a bath before bedtime. He couldn't be happier, which makes the cranky time before bed a lot easier on mama.

Grace wanted in on the action when I was taking Owen's picture, so here ya go:

And finally... becuase when I saw this picture I couldn't stop laughing:

It's About Time

My blog posts have been somewhat lacking lately. There are two reasons for this:  this last month has been CRAZY busy, and my hard drive was almost completely full thanks to all my pictures. In order to add more pictures I had to clean off enough room to hold them. I'm still working on making room, but I can now start my computer up without it taking fifteen minutes and I managed to upload a few pictures.

A lot has happened in the last month.
Owen is now sitting up and army crawling all over the house.

Grace is almost potty trained although we are still working on staying dry at night and occasional accidents; well, sometimes more than occasional, but she's two.

Owen is eating solids now. It took awhile for him to catch on, but now he is following in his sisters footsteps and there are times I can't get the food in fast enough. We have a lot of fun during meal times, especially in the mornings when we sing songs while I feed Owen. Some of my favorite songs have been, "Jesus Loves Me Too Much," and "Don't Build Your House on the Sandy Land" where, after explaining that Jesus is the rock and we should build/give our lives to him, Grace told me, "I give Jesus my head." I told her that was a great place to start.

Sometimes my kids also let me do photoshoots with them and sometimes I have to bribe a certain two year old with chocolate chips in order to get the pictures I am hoping for. These were chocolate chip bribed pictures, and yes, Grace decided she would also find out what the lights tasted like:

Mom, this is the adorable coat I found for Grace. I am in love with this coat is. Thanks Grandma.

 

The weather has definitely changed and fall is here. That means it is coat season, and I found some adorable coats for Owen at garage sales this summer, one of them being this great little Elmo bomber jacket.

I also bought the a cute bear coat for him before he was born and wrongly assumed he would grow like his sister. Because of this, I bought it in a six month size thinking that's what he would be wearing during the fall. Nope, my six month old is wearing 9-12 month clothing, so I had to put the coat on him and take pictures before it didn't fit him at all anymore.

So that is the last month in a nutshell. I hope to soon put up Owen's six month picture, even though he is closing in on seven months, and let you all know about a huge answer to prayer that is both amazing and bitter-sweet.

Best Buds

Grace has a best little friend, Eloise Adams, whom she calls Elala. Whenever they see each other, they squeal with delight, and run and hug each other. So cute. Here are a couple shots of the two of them.

 

5 Months

Normally Owen is dressed in a white onesie for his monthly photo shoot, but my little boy is a heater and it being the end of August, it was just too hot for clothes.

16 lbs 7 oz

• Close to crawling
• Does not like to go to sleep at night - we're talking 10:30 or 11 pm every night and fighting sleep with every ounce of his little body
• Gone are the days of him sleeping 7 hours straight; now we wake up every four hours or so for a snack - Awesome
• Still very happy go lucky
• Has a smile that just melts my heart
• Loves peek-a-boo
• After several attempts at eating cereal, he's not very interested in it, so we'll try again next month.

Time for a Little Owey

So I've noticed lately my posts have been very heavy on the Grace pictures. Not a bad thing since she's so adorable and says really cute things. Just the other day Joe taught her to say Allons y (Let's go in French) which she repeated multiple times in her toddler voice. Speaking of Joe teaching her things, we've been working on potty training, and instead of hold it, he taught her to "clench it," so she tells us "I go potty, clench it."
But there I go again going on about Grace (I really can't help myself, she's at such a fun age for pictures and saying funny things.).
So Owen... Owen had his first bites of cereal this week. He's very involved in his eating and more cereal ended up on his body then in his mouth, but it was a first try, we'll keep working on it.

Keeping in line with firsts, Owen took his first swim earlier this month also. He seemed to like it. I think I may have two little water dogs on my hands.

He also fell asleep in our hiking backpack. I stuck him in there so I could get some stuff done around the house and have my hands free. Works great until my back starts hurting.

He is also a great laundry folder, or rather a cute distraction when I finally break down and fold the literal mountain of laundry I have sitting next to our dryer.

Lastly, I got a great picture of my grandpa and Owen. Love them both and love this picture.

The Aquarium

Last spring I bought a couple of tickets to the Newport Aquarium at an auction put on by Joe's School. Last week we finally had the chance to go. I'd say it was worth every penny.