Hanging out with Great Aunt Joyce.

9 months old today! He had his 9 month check up Friday. He weighs 21 lbs, 4 oz and is 29 1/2 inches. He still does not crawl but he is trying really hard. He usually ends up crawling backwards though. He loves standing up and started saying Da-da-da-da a couple weeks ago. He had already been saying ba-ba-ba for a while, now we need to work on saying mama!

Taken by Grandpa B on Memorial Day.

The boy has not been wanting to take an afternoon nap lately. I decided to try putting him down later than usual yesterday. I took him for a walk about a 1/2 hour before I was going to try putting him down. He passed out at the very end of the walk. I was thankfully able to get him into his crib without waking up and then he slept for 2 hours! Woo Hoo! He hasn't slept that long for his afternoon nap in a couple months! He slept through a pretty loud storm, thunder, lighting and marble sized hail. I just hope he keeps this up! Long nap = happy boy!

Here is a picture of Owen still cookin 1 year ago today, 23 weeks pregnant. Sorry it's kind of dark. You can click on it to make it bigger. This is before we bought our living room furniture and there were no lamps in the room. Now we have one lamp! We should probably get some more. But hey, at least we have couches, end tables and a coffee table now. We're making progress!

Dan started the painting project this weekend. He got all the old paint off of the front of the house, but it's just too humid right now to paint so he'll paint next weekend if the weather is nice.


Owen happy as ever.

This is how I discovered Owen after his nap the other day. He seems to think sleeping sideways in his crib is more fun than sleeping the regular way. Hey, whatever you want kid , just as long as you sleep!

Owen's bottom two teeth are coming in. They have just popped through the gum today. He doesn't seem to be too bothered by it. He's still sleeping well and in a relatively good mood, knock on wood. He's just chewing everything he can get his hands on right now.

Happy Mother's Day!

Trying to escape from the swing. Good thing there is a seat belt on this thing!

Owen's favorite thing right now is to be outside. He LOVES it! Too bad it's supposed to rain for the next 5 days.

Happy 21st birthday Aunt Emily!!!

My Aunts are the best!
Watching Baby Einstein with Aunt Libby and cousin Bridget.