Good Thing

It's a good thing that I lowered Owen's mattress the other day, because when I went in to get him out after his nap today, this is how I found him:

STANDING UP IN HIS CRIB!

Lowering the mattress in his crib was a pain in the butt, and afterward I decided not to put the bumper pads back in because I was being lazy and I didn't think he really needed them anymore (plus, books that I read before he was born said not to even use them at all). BUT, after he had been in bed for about 20 minutes, I heard him SCREAMING at the top of his lungs, so I went in there and he had gotten his arm stuck through the bars. So I put them back in, but did not tie them to the posts, and when I went in the next morning to get him out, this is what I found:

I'm not sure how he manages to do stuff like this but he did the same thing at my mom's a couple of weekends ago. So I ended up tying them to the posts :)

On Tuesday, Ryan and I took Owen to the pool. The pool in Cedar Falls is really nice and it has a baby pool, lazy river, a family pool, two diving boards and three waterslides. The baby pool has lots of stuff for kids to do and climb on, which of course Owen can't do yet, but it will be fun in the years to come! Anyway, I took Owen in the baby pool first because I thought it would be warmer than the other pool (for gross reasons!) and he acted terrified! He clung to me like a koala bear! It was cute but he was pulling my hair out of my ponytail and I could have stood up and not held on to him and he would have hung on just fine. I was surprised because he LOVES taking baths. So then we took him over to the family pool and it was the same story there. I thought he was going to pull my hair out of my head, so I gave him to Ryan for awhile. Then he was fine! Little turkey! He started smiling and didn't cling to Ryan at all. And later when I took him back (Ryan wanted to go down the slide), he clung to me again like a koala bear. I did manage to unglue him from me a few times and we "swam" around. He seemed to like it, but if I didn't keep him away from my body a little bit, he would cling. I don't know if he just felt safer with Ryan or what, but it was kind of funny. We're going to keep going so he gets more experience.

Owen is always on the move! Today he crawled from the living room all the way to the bedroom, which is the length of our house. Maybe he was looking for his Daddy, who was still in bed. :) He's a master crawler now and getting fast! And yesterday he was babbling away saying "Da-da" quite a bit. He started doing that about 3 weeks ago, but only did it for a couple of days and then stopped until yesterday. I got a few of them out today. I'm working on "Ma-ma" now!

Here are a couple of cute videos I took today.

I didn't even have to clean it up because Ace came right over and ate what was on the floor!

What a cutie! And yes, he fell a little bit and bonked his head at the end. When I put the videos on the computer and watch them, Owen gets a big kick out of seeing and hearing them. He loved that last video!