Five Quick Tidbits

1. Owen's vocabulary is growing fast and he's starting to form little sentences. His most used words are: car, poop, bird, food, monster (in a monster's voice; I'm looking in your direction, Ed), momocycle, no, more and most recently, mess. His favorite expression is "what happened?" He says it all the time. I love it because it reminds me Fred Willard in the movie A Mighty Wind. If you have a second, check out the video. Owen sounds exactly like him.

2. Ed is watching Transformers the Movie for the first time with Owen, as I type. Owen is fascinated by it which makes Ed a very happy guy. Here's what I'm hearing:


"Uh oh! What happened?"

"All the constructicons merging to form Devastator. The Dinobots are trying to stop him from destroying Autobot City."

My boys.

3. After Owen toots, he says "beep." We have no clue where he picked this one up. We suspect he made it up on his own which makes it even more hilarious.

4. We took away the pacifier. Or as we told Owen, "paci went bye bye." The first couple days were rough but, overall, it was easier than we thought it was going to be. He still occasionally asks for it but we just remind him it went bye bye and he seems okay with that. He still has his blankie so I think that helped the transition.

5. We had a very nice Valentine's Day weekend. The weather was gorgeous so we spent a lot of time outside, barbecuing and fixing up the yard. Nothing lifts the spirits like that first day you can open the doors and windows all day and clean and do yard work. It also doesn't hurt that the whole neighborhood is barbecuing so it smells wonderful. It's been a little hectic around here the last little while and this weekend reminded us why we're working so dang hard.



That's all for now. We'll be seeing quite a few of you very soon and we are so looking forward to it. Love to all.