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Another post?? Yes!! I am trying.

Alright, so I am slacking big time on my blogging. I know this. I will try to do better.

Owen is SO MUCH FUN!! He is such a little person with a great and funny personality. He talks continuously, even if the words make no sense to the adults, you can be sure that he knows exactly what he is saying. He has inflection and expressions and everything. It is hilarious.

He is becoming a big boy. He can really communicate now (only in so many words...) and he talks to us and plays with us. One of our bedrooms is the playroom, or toy room, or back room...whatever we call it at that moment. When you say "Owen, do you want to go to the play room?" (or one of the other terms for that room) he lights up and RUNS to the door of that room. He LOVES that room. He can spend hours and hours just playing with toys and reading books. Sometimes he will just run back to that room and tap on the door to let us know he would like to play in there.

Also, he will let us know when he is ready to eat. Sometimes he will say "eee, eee, eee!" (eat, eat, eat) or he will run over to the high chair and grab on to it. If you say "Owen do you want to get in your high chair?", if he is hungry, he will RUN over to it and hang on until you put him in it.

The other day I was showing him a picture of himself. I kept saying "that's you! that's owen!" and pointing to him. I showed it to him again and he smiled and pointed at himself. It was cute. He really enjoys looking at all of our family pictures.

When he reads books he will point to something and say "was at?" (what's that?). He was pointing to Elmo when he asked that the other day, and I said "That's Elmo!" And Owen said "amo!"

He has a toy that sings the "ABC" song. He was trying to sing along the other day. I think he is going to be a pretty musical kid. He just LOVES music, and he LOVES to dance.

OH!! And his 4th tooth is poking out!!

Ok...now on to the pictures!!

Thursday at school was Easter Egg Hunt day! Yes, that is a Spider Man Easter Basket. Don't you know us by now?? The picture of me and Owen isn't the greatest, but I like it.

These are some pictures from Thursday. Owen was playing while I was making dinner. He came into the kitchen and was dying to help me, so I gave his a rubber scraper and a bowl and he went to town.

These next two pictures are of yesterday, after Owen woke up from his 3 hour nap. He's been feeling sort of puny (he and Travis both had a fever of over 101! FUN!!) The hair says it all!!


And today! This kid is CRAZY for strawberries!!

The great picture post

So, It's been a while, again. Oh well. What can you do? Life happens.

So there are going to be alot of pictures in this post, and probably another picture post coming up before long.

Here are a few things Owen is doing lately:

~ He can say "cheese." It sounds like "keeee", but he wants cheese if you hear him saying that. Owen LOVES cheese.

~ He says "whoa!" I am not really sure he is trying to say it, but he says it.

~ He says "read!" It sounds like "Re! Re!" One of his favorite things to do is read.

~ My mom came on the 21st to babysit Owen so we could go out with some friends for Travis' birthday. While she was here Owen started saying "Bopba!" That is what the grandkids call my mom.

~ Owen says "Hi!" on occasion.

~ He also says banana ("anana") and Mama and Dada.

~ He is still a crazy little dancer, loves music like mom and dad.

~ He now has 3 teeth!!!

Ok, on to the pictures!

We went to Abilene for Sing Song. We hadn't gotten any 1 year pictures taken of Owen, because it costs money and it was too much trouble. So we went to the Jacob's Dream statue on campus and took our own pictures of Owen. I think a few of them turned out really great! Here are some of them:


We went to the park the other day. We tried the swing and the slide, but Owen was just really interested in playing with the rocks.



And here is is in some of his new jammies that my mom bought him! He likes to play peek-a-boo with his shirt!

And here are just a few cute random pictures. One with my grandma, one with my nephew Jake, one of Owen's cute face, and one of Owen riding a pony on Western Day at school. (yes, I did let him ride it mom!)


And here is another diaper cake I sold.

There's nothing I hate more...

than a sick baby.

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Update with pictures coming soon...

Alright, Alright...

I'll update.

My sister and sister-in-law and mother and mother-in-law have all mentioned my need to update the blog. So here I am, with an update.

Owen is growing like crazy. He is over 13 months old now. He has two bottom teeth (almost all the way in) and I think he is working on a top tooth as well. Not sure on that one, though.

He is enjoying going to school 2 days a week (when I go to work). He really enjoys the playground. He also really loves reading books. He will go over to a book and squat down and pick it up and flip through the pages slowly, and right side up! It is pretty cute. Watching him dance is pretty hilarious. Sometimes when we say "Owen, can you dance?" he will look at you out of the side of his eye and smirk and start bopping up and down.

Nothing else is really going on. For some reason everyone is asking me if I am pregnant (don't know why, considering I have lost weight and not gained it), and the answer to that is a RESOUNDING NO! :) I am not, nor do I plan to be in the next few months. Yes Owen will have a sibling, no it will probably not be in the next year. Hope that answers the burning questions you had about when we plan to add another Tidbit. :)

What's that?? You really don't care about anything I have to say and all you want is to see pictures?? OH, well then here you go!

Owen's cakes for his second 1st Birthday bash!

Playing the piano with cousin Zac.

Owen loved the big boys.

Owen and cousin Mitchell.

Playing with (not so little) cousin Will.

They like each other.

Owen with my sister and brother.

Travis and Will.

Me and the littlest (until May) family members.

Fun backpack!

Spiderman is bigger than Owen.

Silly boy.

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HaPpY bIrThDaY oWeN!!!!

I can't believe he is one!! This will be a short post because quite frankly, I am exhausted.

Owen slept terribly last night...so he got in our bed with us very early in the wee hours this morning. So, we started our day with "happy birthday to you", and ended it with "happy birthday to you" also. He is such a sweet boy. His little smile is the best. And honestly, I like that he still doesn't have any teeth, because I got a whole year of that cute toothless grin!

We had a great day today! We had a little birthday party at our house and Owen got some great presents! It was so fun for Owen to have some friends over today. Here are some pictures of the day.

FROM THIS:

TO THIS:

These are the monkey cupcakes I made for the party (Owen loves monkeys):

Opening Presents:

Having his first piece of pizza for lunch (he loves it!)!:

Trying the cupcake (he really wasn't a fan of having the icing stuck all over his hand. And, he didn't eat much of it.)

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY OWEN!! WE LOVE YOU!