I'll admit this post is for ME because its of the heavily-detailed baby book variety...stuff I want to have a record of. So...skip to the pictures if you're so inclined. For those who care to read on, these are tid-bits I've been writing down over the last month of so...
Rebecca:
- If you saw the last post--she's really close to walking! She's cruising around pieces of furniture and pushing carts/toys and has stood up on her own for a couple of seconds.
- She is fully weened as of last night! (Bitter-sweet, but mostly sweet!) We have been cutting out feedings one by one for a couple of weeks now. She hasn't been the biggest formula fan, but doesn't have a choice now. She has done great going straight to the "sippy" cup with straws (no bottle). She has even drank out of a cup (non lid or straw) a couple of times but it makes quite a mess!
- Owen loves to feed her. He hands her pieces of food from her tray and asks her if she likes it, Yes? No? Then he says he's teaching her how to eat. The other day he pushed a kitchen chair over to our fruit bowl, climbed up, got her an apple, brought it to the table and told her that "This is a peach. You will like it. Try it!"
- My mom (Bee) is teaching her how to eat healthy--she gave her her first "white donut" (the powdered sugar ones).
- Words she knows: fan (looks up), bird (also looks up, especially in Bee's kitchen where there is a big fake parot on the fridge), clap.
- She's saying lots of Da, Deh, Do, Beh. After Dada (which always seems to come before Mama--in fact, Owen called me Dada for a long time!) we bet she says Owen (or her version of it) pretty soon.
- In addition to clapping, she's able to wave on "command".
- She is SUPER squirmy. She prefers being down on the ground, crawling, trying to walk, than being held, especially if you're not moving. Changing her diaper has become a real challenge because she fights having to lay still.
- She is really really tough. She has taken some pretty impressive spills (out of Owen's bed, off his chair) and just keeps on going, not phased at all. We think part of it is her temperment in general, and part of it is a necessity of being a younger sibling trying to keep up!
- Teething hasn't been fun. She's had the two on the bottom for a while, and how a big ol' snaggle tooth on the top (left). The right one has poked through too, but it's not down yet. She'll probably have a full set up of teeth when we get back!
- I had forgotten how many transitions there are around this age...new food, new teeth, new sleeping schedule...she's sort of in between 2 naps a day and 1 nap a day. It's getting trickier and trickier to get them to nap at the same time (which is something I covet!)...although she's waking up earlier in the morning now that she's weened (no nursing her back to sleep--boo!) which is ensuring that she takes an earlier morning nap and therefore an afternoon nap that overlaps with Owen.
- I occasionally wear a baseball cap and when I do she LOVES to put her face right up in mine under the bill and then move away and bite the bill and move my head around. It's the first little game she's invented with me.
- Owen on the other hand is a master at inventing little games with her. His favorites right now are 1) having me put her on him on his little arm chair and they both roll off (and laugh!!!), 2) he jumps from the couch to the ottoman and says ribbit and she dies laughing, 3) he puts the two big couch cushions across the couch seat to the ottoman and creates a "cave" that they crawl under together.
Her favorite toy right now is Owen's chair. She loves to sit in it, stand in it, roll off of it, climb on him in it.
Her smile is sort of crooked these days because she sort of grinds her one top snaggle tooth on the bottom two. So cute!
Hot and sweaty. Let me assure you she didn't stay put on the blanket for long.
Playing with her big girl sippy cup and puff dispenser (which she's really good at shooting puffs from.)
Owen:
- Owen loves stories. He has a repertoire of ones we've made up about random characters we've made up. He requests them by name, character and plot and in doing so essentially tells the entire story before you get a chance. We've learned to be careful in making up new stories because he will request them again as if they're from a book and you have to remember what you said (or fear being corrected by a 2.5 year old)
- Frankie (the Fox who lives in Bee's backyard and is very mischievous)
- Speedy the Race Car, Tommy the Truck, Jesse the Jeep, Arnie the Airplane (they all act like people too and go on adventures with Owen and Frankie)
- Even if the story starts out about Owen and Frankie or Owen and Speedy, he always ends up including everyone else he knows...Bee, JoJo, Dahdo, Pam, Nana, Luke, Mel, Bailey, Blake, Dog named Blue, Alex, etc. etc. etc.
- Owen likes to make up songs too, but they're almost always to the tune of Old MacDonald. He'll also joke about them, singing "Old MacDonald had a....sandwhich!...is that right? He he!" He also likes to really belt it out and add syllables (usually "ee"): "Jesus loves Me-eeeee, this I know-ee!", "Bee though my vision-ee, oh Lord of my heart-ee!"
- His favorite books right now are Curious George
- Somewhere he picked up saying "Yes-Sir-Y-Bob" but he has made it his own by mostly saying "Yes-Sir-Y-Bobby" or "Yes-Sir-Y-Bob-the-Builder".
- He says "This is very serious" when he's playing with his trains.
- Owen to Kyle: "Will you help me wif someping wight quickt?" Kyle: "Sure, what is it?" Owen: "Let's play trains!"
- Getting him into his pajamas one night, he pushed his hand through the long sleeve and when it came out he made a little mouth with his fingers (like a puppet) and said, "Hi, I'm hand" in a deep scratchy voice. Where did he come up with that?
- He loves to practicing casting his little fishing pole...he hits the bottom to release the line, picks up the toy fish attached to the end (where the hook would be) and throws it across the room. Pretty close...
- He's also learned how to play a modified version of the card game "Go Fish"...cards are face up and everybody wins!
- Anytime we go to someone's door or someone comes to our door he yells "surprise!" (even if it's not a surprise at all).
- I bought a little bath toy tea set that is pink and was clearly intended for Rebecca but Owen really likes to have "tea parties" in the tub. One day I told him he should make crumpets to serve with his tea. I explained that a crumpet is sort of like a cookie. He said, "Alright Momma, I will make you a very special trumpet...it's called a hot dog!" If your pretending to drink looks to real he says, "no! pretend!".
- I put a milk jug in the trash yesterday (I know, shame on me) and Owen saw it and said "Momma, what is this doing in here? That's funny! Momma, you should put it in the wecycling because it's made of pwastic!".
- I've already mentioned that Rebecca loves Owen's soft toddler-size arm chair, and so does Owen. He likes to run from as far back as possible (like the kitchen) and jump into it. But that's not enough. He tells you to go in his room so he can run and jump in his chair and "you will laugh!". Then he says (quietly, to himself) "Ready, Set, Mark, Go!"
- "Menungi" is one of Owen's favorite words. Each time we ask him what it means he makes up something else like "it means don't break my trains Rebetta" or "it means I need more juice" or "it means let's go swing".
- He started doing this thing where he folds his fingers in (like a loose fist) and puts his hands together and it sort of makes a heart. Then he puts his hands into your hands (palms open) and "give you a heart for later," then he'll make himself one and "put it in his pocket". Surely someone taught him this but we haven't figured out who.
- Owen is very particular about his goodnight kisses. If he doesn't like it then he says "that's not a very right kiss" and you have to give him another one (I just hate that!).
- The toddler-variety stream of consciousness talking hasn't gotten us into trouble yet (like saying something inappropriate to a stranger), but it has made for lots of laughs. His prayers sound more like a game of eye-spy...
- The other day he put on some of his toy doctor kit and told me he needed to go take a nap because he didn't get much sleep last night at the hospital! (I wonder where he's heard that before?). Similarly, one day when Kyle was post-call Owen instructed him that playing trains would make him feel better.
Owen enjoying a "dewishoud and refreshing" milk shake. The boy knows what he likes!
Enjoying some rock throwing and watermelon eating with Kyle along the Barton Springs Green Belt.
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