Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The music man


Sunday, December 20, 2009

Let it snow

Owen had a great time in the snow this afternoon. He and Daddy built a snowman together. First, they engaged in some parallel play:


Then, Owen decided to help Daddy:


One of Owen's major contributions was a "hat print." Initially he wanted to do a handprint, but when Mike saw Owen take off his glove, he told him it was too cold to take his gloves off. So Owen came up with the idea of doing a "glove print" instead. It was such a success that he was immediately inspired to do a "hat print" too!


Everyone was happy!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Close encounters of the Santa kind

This is the first year Owen has been old enough to understand Christmas. Last year, he fell in love with Christmas lights and Christmas songs, but this year he understands a lot more. And he seems to be a big fan of the holiday. In fact, we can get Owen to do almost anything by telling him it's for Christmas. Like, going shopping at Target, or not screaming because the neighbors have a wreath on their door and we don't. Or, sitting on a strange man's lap and asking for "presents," as he did last weekend. He was very calm through the whole thing, and took it quite seriously - so seriously that I had to ask Santa to tickle him to get Owen to smile. Santa looked understandably hesitant but did it anyway, and it worked, as you can see!