Owen 8 Months

Owen is super active baby! He crawls and climbs everywhere. The other day, Eric let Owen crawl up the stairs and he went all the way up very easily. With Owen, we are a bit more serious about making sure the safety locks we have installed are actually activated. At this age, Andrew would stay occupied with a toy and stay in one spot for a while. Not Owen. He will explore a toy for a while, then be off to something else. I think the difference is mostly due to the fact that Owen is really interested in whatever Andrew is doing. Owen wants to be in on the action. And since Andrew is non-stop action these days, Owen is picking up the pace a bit earlier.

Andrew and Owen get into wrestling matches and roll around a lot. At Thanksgiving, Kelly and I put Owen and Caleb together to interact a bit, and Owen would start crying if Caleb touched him! It was funny that Owen's much larger brother can attack him and he loves it, but Caleb is "too scary"!

Just this morning, Owen is eating cereal. We've cut up Cheerios in half and he is just munching away. Full sized cereal is still too big for his little throat. And I fear choking above most things and I won't let anything full-sized near the baby.

Owen is now facing forward in his car seat. He's well over 20 pounds now. He has four teeth and is drooling all the time. I think he will have a full set by the time he's 1. Owen is still waking up at night, but it is getting better. We are going to start getting him to sleep in his and Andrew's bed room.

Owen's personality is very happy and smiley and super snuggly.

Mmm, socks.

At the Residence Inn in Dallas, Owen found the jar of candies on the coffee table and figured out how to open it himself and get to the goodies. I just watched him do it because he was so determined to get it opened.

"Hi, I sit forward now!"

"Hey Andrew, what cha doing? Can I come too?"