Florida

I did pretty good on the plane considering we had a two hour delay...although I am much more active on the plane than I was last summer :) No magazine reading for mommy!

Cool!

Cracker!

Stop eating all of the sand!

I sure am glad this pool is heated!

Keeping myself entertained while they all watched basketball...

Again, sorry for the delay. I was much better at this blog while on maternity leave and summer vacation:)

Luke, Owen, and I were lucky enough to visit Naples over my spring break. I have never seen Owen as happy as he was for the four days we were down there. The kid LOVES being outdoors, and that is all we did! Unfortunately grandma was not there, as she was with Aunt Megan and his new cousin, William. We had fun with grandpa though! His most favorite activity was crawling down the long hallway from the elevator to the condo. He insisted on either getting out of the stroller or your arms the minute he saw the hall--too cute! His second favorite activity was eating sand and shells...hopefully he will outgrow this by the time we go to the beach this summer!

Thanks for the great memories, mom and dad! We can't wait to come down again. And after visiting it got me to thinking...why did I ever leave that place??? Should've transfered Luke down there ;)

It's been awhile...

I was able to stay home from work today while Owen was 'sick'. He had a temp yesterday so he couldn't go to day care today, so I was able to spend some QT with him :) He has gotten to be so much fun, each day seems to bring about a new discovery. We still aren't walking, but we are getting very close with the help of furniture and his walker.

Owen is also quite the talker already! He has been able to say 'dog' for awhile now, but he is finally adding the g. He is also fascinated with daddy's truck and says 'truck' all of the time. Some of his other favorites include 'bye bye (said with a southern twang), 'hi', 'mamma', 'da da', 'birdie', 'cracker', 'cookie', 'up', 'pout pout' (for his favorite book), and most recently, 'night night'. Now, keep in mind that we as parents know what he is saying, the common folk may still think of all of this as babbling. But we have our son figured out (well sort of).

And when he can't quite tell us what he wants, he is starting to use his sign language more frequently. He does 'more', 'eat', 'finished', and 'night night'. It is amazing to see everything begin to click. Today he went in front of his bookcase and repeatedly made the sign for 'more' over and over. I guess he wasn't done listening to books. It made me laugh because this sign is usually done just for food in our house!

Bath Time!

Right after Owen's 1st birthday, mom finally decided to get rid of his baby tub. I know that it was probably long overdue, but he always seemed content in his old tub. Well, he had a blast as you can see in these pictures. He couldn't stop crawling around the tub, there was tons more real estate to explore! Too bad his love for a bath was short lived, he now finds them to be very irritating and tends to cry throughout the whole thing...let's just say our baths are usually done in record time these days.

Happy 1st Birthday!

Get this thing OFF my head!

Is that all for me???

Yum!

Somehow, we managed to get all of the icing out of this shirt...

Daddy did a nice job picking out the balloons!

Snowy Day

Hey mom, I think I have enough layers on. Can't you see how rosy my cheeks are??

Owen enjoyed his first snow day home with both of his parents! We got a ton of snow so we had to take him out for the photo opp. We spent more time getting him bundled up in makeshift snow gear; footie pajamas, LC sweatshirt outfit, mom's socks, track pants, and Jordans. At least we had a real winter coat, hat, and gloves. The funniest part of the whole get-up was watching him try to manuever around the house before we went out. He totally looked like the kid from the Christmas story! What a great day, we love you Owen!!

I'll be Home for Christmas

Enjoying my early Christmas present from Grandma

Sprinkling reindeer dust so Santa can find me at Grandma's

Thanks Uncle Teddy and Aunt Kelli

I love the fish!

Yes, Molly, we know. You were the one to put him to sleep :)

Bye, Bye Grandpa! I had a wonderful visit!

We had a wonderful time back in Michigan for Owen's first Christmas. We stayed at the Piepkows the entire time since my parents were in Florida. Owen was spoiled rotten and had a great time! Owen has also come into his own over these past two weeks; crawling all over, starting to pull himself up, and saying 'hi' on any cell phone, whether you want him to take yours or not. Unfortunately, he has also picked up some bad habits. We have already broken him of the 4:30 am wake up calls with Grandpa Zippy, but he still likes to whine when he doesn't get his way and worst of all, he enjoys hitting anyone who is in distance right in their face. What happened to our sweet boy?? He is also becoming a lot more vocal and points to things and says bah-dah for everything. Not sure what this is supposed to mean...

Thanksgiving Weekend

Laughing at Uncle Teddy

I learned how to crawl this weekend!

Touchdown!!

Thanks to everyone who made it to SC for the festivities! We had a great time, these are just a few pics from the weekend.