Messy Eater

So lately I've been posting about Owen's eating habits...so I feel like I shouldn't break the habit quite yet :) He loves spaghetti and these were taken after his second plate

 

He also takes after his mom and loves ice cream! Thankfully Bruster's gives little ones a free ice cream cone (and thankfully Pampers makes great wipes)!

When in doubt, pinkies out!

I've noticed lately that when Owen is eating he is very proper! His pinkies are always out!

Cake Bandit

Those of you that know me well know that I love sweets! I can eat sweet stuff for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in between :) My favorites are ice cream and Publix birthday cake. Yes, I'm a cake snob...Publix marble with buttercream! Marcus and I celebrated 5 years of marriage (it will be 11 years together this Fall!) so we treated ourselves to a Publix cake. I shared some with Owen and of course he loved it. One day I was watching TV on the couch and Owen went into the kitchen, I just thought he was playing, but then I realized how quiet he was being which is always a bad sign! When I turned the corner I had to run grab my camera out of my pocketbook so I could share this with him when he's older....here's what I saw first....

Then I saw this......

And here was the damage done....

Yes, it was my fault because I didn't put the lid on all the way and I didn't realize how determined a toddler could be. Owen is known as The Cake Bandit!

Sharing

Owen has learned how to share things...or at least how to share with people he likes! He has been going around sharing his food and drink with Marcus, myself, Elmo, pictures of his GG and even trying to give juice to Grammie's cat! It is too funny to look at him now compared to 17 months ago. Life has totally changed, but only for the better. Now I'm amused at a 17 month old sharing his fruit snacks with me, ahhh this is the life!

Hot!

Owen has been learning new words and his newest word is hot. We've been trying to teach him that the iron and the stove are hot. So he'll go around pointing to the stove and saying "ot". Well we were out in the yard earlier this week and the next door neighbor was burning some trash. Owen pointed to the fire and said "ot!"I was so excited that he realized the fire was hot because he's never even seen fire, so I thought may be it was just a coincidence. Well today he was watching Price is Right (his favorite show by the way), and there was a replica wood burning stove with fire inside, he pointed to the TV and said "ot"! For those times when I feel like everything I'm trying to teach my wild man isn't sinking in, it's nice to have days like these :)

Headbutt

Owen has been testing his mommy and daddy lately as he's learning how to be more vocal. That's a nice way of saying that he's started pitching a fit! He will squirm and try to get down if he doesn't like something you're doing. Well the other day Marcus was trying to change his diaper and he picked him up to put on his pants and Owen hit him in the head. Here's the conversation that followed...
Marcus: "Did you see what your son just did?"
Me: "No, what?"
Marcus: "He just head butted me!"
Me: "Well, I'm sure he didn't do it on purpose. He was probably just trying to get away."
Marcus: "Oh, he did it on purpose all right because he smiled at me after he did it!"

I just had to laugh at that point! Although I do think that he gets that temper from his Daddy :)

Reading Books

So you know that I'm a teacher, so of course I've been reading to Owen since he was about 2 weeks old! We read books every night before he goes to bed. Our doctor told us that most babies his age won't sit for a whole story. He will sit if it's a book he chose. If it's one he doesn't want to hear, he'll push it away :) Well lately he's been going and choosing books and bringing them to me to read. Guess what book Owen brought me today, my little scholar picked up the phone book and carried it to me to read!

Life Lesson #16: Share books with your children, even if they're babies!