Owen is Growin'

Homer: "'Best in the West'...that rhymes!"


So Owen is coming along quite nicely, thank you...he's well over 20 pounds now, he can pick up his little Cheerios or puffs or crunchies and eat them all on his own. Here, Grandpa holds the puffs so he can eat them.


He plays really well by himself; he moves toys around, picks them up, puts them down, throws them...you know the routine, just like we all do with our own toys. He also takes out his pacifier on his own, and throws it around. He waves, almost on command. He talks up a storm as he tries out just about everything with his voice, including various volumes. Remember the scene from the first Austin Powers movie, where Austin has just been thawed out, and he says, "I'm having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE!!!" Yes, that's Owen. He's not quite sure how these cool noises come out of his mouth, and he's not quite sure what to do with those noises. All he knows is we all make noises come out of our mouth and he can do the same thing, quite loudly. And so he does.

And the biggest new development: crawling. He is crawling quite well now, though not completely on hands and knees. His legs are very strong and he can stand and support his own weight very well (though we still have to hold him up for balance or put him at the edge of a table where he can hold himself steady). But he hasn't yet figured out how to coordinate those powerful legs with the arms while he crawls, so his crawl is a bit more military-style. He just drags his little legs along behind, sort of moving them to help propel himself around, but not really up on them like a traditional crawl. He scoots around very efficiently this way, though...he crawled all the way from the living room through the dining room and into the kitchen the other night, Heidi reported.

And speaking of Heidi, he has inherited his mom's sense of humor:


Oh, and he loves to fly. That one he gets from me.


He also got to talk to Santa for the first time. BIG moment there.


So that's our little guy. Hope you enjoyed the pics. We'll have more coming soon, I'm sure. I'm also planning on posting some video of Owen doing a little crawling. Thanks for reading along.