Early birthday present

My birthday isn't for another month, but Ryan and my parents knew I couldn't wait that long for my birthday present...a new video camera!! Yay! I couldn't wait that long because our camera is still in the shop, and Halloween is this Sunday, so I needed something! Some friends of ours gave us a costume for Owen to wear that their daughter wore when she was a baby, so Owen is going to be a skunk :) I tried the outfit on him and it is so cute! I'm not sure that we will do very much, if anything at all, for Halloween, but at least I can get some video of him in the costume. We might walk around to a couple of places in our neighborhood. I'm not going to give out candy this year because our dogs are ANNOYING when it comes to strangers being anywhere near the house, otherwise I would have said that Owen would have been the cutest little helper. :)

Well, since I got a new video camera, I just had to get some video to put on here. It isn't the most interesting video I've taken, but it does show Owen "going crazy" (although it isn't when I told him to - it's just while he's playing with a toy), the fact that he LEARNED TO STAND UP BY HIMSELF and then he was pretty tuckered out.






I was surprised that he fell asleep while drinking his bottle. He hasn't done that in a looooong time.

He is ALWAYS on the go. Walking all over, making messes everywhere, bothering the dogs, trying to get into the cupboards even though they are tethered shut. The only time he sits still is when he's eating (and that's probably only because he's strapped in!) and sleeping. The other day, Ryan was complaining that he won't just sit and snuggle with him and just hang out like he used to. I agree! I want to snuggle with him! I do get to, a little bit, when I nurse him, which I'm down to two times a day on that. I was pumping or nursing when I came home for lunch, but most of the time he wasn't ready for milk when I was home and I got tired of pumping, so now I don't even make enough milk except for those two times a day - usually around 7 am and 5:30 pm. So he's up to two formula bottles a day now too, plus all the table food he eats.

He cracks me up. Right now he is chasing Ace, the chihuahua, around the kitchen and living room. Ace really doesn't care to have much to do with Owen, and right now all Ace wants is to eat and drink, but his food is up on the table because apparently dog food tastes good to babies, too. And playing in the water bowl is tons of fun. So Ace is hungry and thirsty and being chased by a crazy 10 month old baby, who thinks it's hilarious.

He also cracks me up when he takes a bath. He doesn't use the little baby bath anymore, and he just has a blast in the tub with all that space and water to splash in. He also has dunked his face right in the water a few times, and then freaks out and grabs for me and hugs me. It's funny. Then, he grabs for the plug in the drain, and when our tub drains, it makes a very loud sucking/slurping noise and it scares him. No, it terrifies him. He starts screaming and crying and it is sad and hilarious all at once. Maybe it's mean, but I kind of like the way he hugs me really tight when he's scared. :) I don't drain the tub when he's in it anymore, though, because I don't want him to have some weird, irrational fear of tubs or something. Tonight, I drained it when he was out of the tub on my lap, and told him to wave bye-bye to the water, to try to make it seem like an OK thing. He didn't freak out, but he watched very intently. And even when he was still in the tub, every once in a while he would stop playing and stare at the plug in the drain, like he was keeping an eye on it.

Well, hopefully next time I post I'll have some Halloween video and hopefully some pictures, too!

Broken Camera :(

When I was about six months pregnant, Ryan and I decided to get a new camera so we could take lots and lots of pictures and video of our cute little baby. And we did take lots and lots of pictures and video, until that cute little baby turned destructive! He loves to play with electronics - cell phones, remotes, cameras, DVD players, etc - and we should know better than to let him. Owen dropped Ryan's cell phone on the concrete on the 4th of July and broke the screen, and now he broke our camera :( BUT, it is in the shop and is hopefully going to get fixed for free.

I WISH MY CAMERA WASN'T BROKEN! Here are some new things going on with Owen:

-He's a walking pro. He is everywhere all the time and can practically run. He still can't stand up on his own without something to hold onto to pull himself up, but it's not too far away.

-He LOVES to feed himself, which is awesome! It's definitely messier, but it's actually really nice not to have to feed him all the time anymore. There are some things that we still have to feed him, of course, but he loves feeding himself AND the dogs.

-He's getting his two top teeth. He's a really good teether (so far!). No fevers or fussiness. He's just his normal, happy self.

-He is smart. If I say, "Owen, go crazy!", he will sway back and forth and wobble his head. This started the other day when I twirled him around by his arms and then we I put him down, we were both dizzy. I said, "Mommy's crazy!" and wobbled my whole body, so he mimicked me to get me to swing him around again, and now I just have to tell him to go crazy and he will. It's awesome, because it shows that he's learning language!!!!!

-Today I almost left work to go home to hang with my boys because Ryan texted me and said he was playing the radio and Owen was dancing with him. HOW CUTE! And another example of why I NEED MY CAMERA! I got a little preview of this when I came home for lunch, and Owen's dancing looks a lot like his "crazy sway". But I really wanted to blow off work when I read that text!

Owen went to Omaha last weekend with my parents because my little niece got baptized. My mom took some pictures that are pretty cute, but I don't have any of them saved on my computer. I promise that there will be LOTS of pictures next time (if not my own then I will steal some of my mom's) and I'll try not to go so long before I post! I just hate to post without pictures, but I thought I better get this new stuff down before I forget!