Owen’s newest thing is pulling himself up from sitting/crawling to standing and will do it on any surface or wall he can find. It is like he is obsessed with it. Sometimes he pulls himself up by grabbing my hair or my shirt and using that as his stability. Today in Babies First Story time class he was grabbing other babies heads and hair and trying to pull himself up- he tried to pull the hair clip out of one little girls hair and then tried to use her pants to pull himself up and nearly pulled her pants down! Then he grabbed him friend Ksenia’s face and made her cry!  He is also getting into everything. He just loves exploring. He will make his way around the room holding on to furniture and the wall and grabbing everything in its path. Today when we were upstairs in his room he was standing at his bookshelf and pulling each book off at a time and throwing it on the floor. He did the same at his toy box.  He is very interested in everything and just wants to touch and learn. His crawling is getting better and he is almost doing a real crawl versus a wounded soldier crawl. He is getting much faster and you have to watch his every move

He also loves to show off his tricks of waving, clapping his hands/paddy cake, and high fives.  He is starting to understand games like peek a boo, and his favorite is when he drops something on the ground and I pick it up and give it back to him and he drops it again or taking off my sunglasses and then I put them back on and then he takes them off again etc.  Some of his favorite non toy items seem to be keys, tv changers, and recently he has been having fun with Charlie’s empty food bowl. Nick gave him a wooden spoon yesterday and he spent about 20 mins banging it on Charlie’s bowl.

.Lately he seems to becoming more attached to me. He seems to always want me to hold him and gets mad/sad when I leave the room and very happy when he sees me. It is nice that he is attached to me but it makes me nervous for when he starts daycare in a couple of months.  I am going to try to take him to the Good Life Fitness daycare more often so that he can get used to it.

Two nights ago Nick and I were playing with Owen and all of a sudden I noticed some redish/pinkish stains on his collar of his shirt. Since Nick fed him dinner I asked him what he fed him that was red/pink. He said he didn't feed him anything that color. Thats when we realized it was blood and was coming from his mouth. We both started to get scared and Owen started crying when we tried to touch his mouth to see what it was. When he finally let us see his mouth we found a good size rock in there! He must have picked it up off the floor at the front door where Nick takes his work boots off. However, when we noticed this blood he had been upstairs for probably 15 mins, so that means he had the rock in his mouth for at least that long and was chewing on it! That was scary! First a peanut when we were in Florida, now a rock, what is next!?