Happy 1/2 Birthday!

My (not-so) little baby is six months old today! That flew by so fast, as everyone told me it would and will continue to do. I try to just appreciate the way he is right now, because I won't get these easy times back, but I still keep getting excited for when he learns to talk and walk and starts eating real food and all that.

Speaking of learning to do things, ever since my last post when I talked about Owen doing pushups, he continued to do them and also started pulling his knees under his body in a crawl position. Then, over the last few weeks, he has been coming closer and closer to crawling. He can get where he wants to go, but his arms haven't mastered the art of crawling quite yet, and he normally just falls to his belly after his knees go forward. Or he just rolls everywhere. BUT, today, on his 6 month birthday, he has come SOOOOOOO close to crawling, that you can ALMOST consider it just that. I have a video and in it he falls a few times and goes backward a little bit, but there are a few moments where you think he's just going to take off!

My little punkin is also getting pretty good at sitting up. He can't get into that position yet by himself, but if we put him in that position, he can sit there pretty well. He is such a strong little guy!

The best part of my day is when Owen laughs. He thinks I'm hilarious, he thinks Ryan is hilarious, and he LOVES to laugh at the dogs, especially Ragnar. Raggie can just be eating his food and Owen will die laughing. It's the best sound, but I have yet to get it on camera. It's hard to get video of Owen doing things because when he sees the camera, he'll stop what he's doing and just stare at the camera and want to play with it. But as soon as I do get video of it, I will share it.

I've also been giving Owen a sippy cup with water in it to practice with. He actually does ok with it. He can grab it and most of the time can get the sippy in his mouth, but I think he usually just chews on it. But, if I hold the cup and put it in his mouth, he likes to drink from it and will open his mouth and flail his arms so that I will give him more. He does make a big mess with it though, so I only use water so far :)

The tray had quite a bit of water in it by the time he was done and Ragnar licked it up, which Owen found hilarious, of course! His shirt was also soaked :)

Last weekend we went to my brother and sister-in-law's wedding reception, so here are some pictures of Owen having a great time at his first wedding.

Having fun in the stroller!

Flirting with Amanda

Dancing with Grandma

Dancing with Grandpa

Family photo

He loves it up there!

Owen has been lucky in the last few weeks because he has gotten to see a lot of family, especially grandparents. We saw a lot of people at the wedding reception, my mom babysat overnight the weekend before, and Ryan's mom and stepdad came up for a visit during the week. They live a little farther away than my family, so we see them less often, but they always come bearing gifts! Ryan's mom ALWAYS finds good deals on stuff, too! I wish I could find the deals she does :)

We took a family picture then, too. I didn't realize until later that Ryan and I were both wearing Iowa shirts. Owen has an Iowa shirt that I wish I would have put on him, but the one he's wearing is Vikings, so I guess I'm ok with that! :) Ace was in the picture, too, but Ragnar got left out. :(

We were thinking about getting milestone pictures taken soon (we wanted 6 month ones), but we'll see. They would be nice to have, but I'm not really sure how worth it they are. You should see how many wedding pictures we ordered - 1! We have all the proofs, though!