Little Owie is ONE!

My littlest man is one! How did that happen?! I tried really hard to cherish every moment, stop and enjoy, be present and patient and document with a million pictures of the first year of my last baby. We’ve had our challenges with sleep (or lack thereof) but Owen makes us all so happy and is just always smiling, at everyone.

I think Owen is going to be our wild child. He is determined and stubborn, loud and voices his opinions, is curious and gets into EVERYTHING. He giggles when you say no and continues to do whatever he was doing anyway. Yet he is the cutest, happiest little guy who loves music, his brother and sister and dog. He’s started to follow Emmy and Ryan more and more and claps his hands when he sees them playing and then crawls right into the middle of things.

He doesn’t sleep. At all. He hates it, starts fussing the minute you walk near his crib. When he wakes up he is up sitting in less than 3 seconds. Its as if he avoids it at any cost. 

A few of his favorite things:

- My boob pads. Literally, yanks them out of my shirt and then him and Sadie proceed to fight over it. 

- He loves when we sing "if you are happy and you know it". Emmy sings it to him whenever he fusses and he stops. He even claps his hands to the beat at the right time.

- He is obsessed with climbing the stairs

- He's recently started to like the big legos and is so proud when he puts them together. He already needs to be challenged to be kept busy!

- His favorite book is "I wrote to a zoo to send me a pet". He gets so excited when I pull it out

- He loves Sesame Street! Well, at least the theme song :) He flaps his arms and claps every time. He also has this new dance move when he leans forward and shakes his head. No joke. 

We had a little family birthday celebration for him on Sunday. We had back-to-back softball/baseball games on Monday and Tuesday so we ate lots of sugar early. I took the day off to hang with him on Tuesday, like I've done with all the kiddos, our special day :) Although, I took him down to the children's museum only to learn it is closed on Tuesdays. So we just spent some quality time together :) 

We decorated the house with balloons and sesame street characters that hung from the ceiling. He LOVED it! Got all excited to pull on Elmo. The kids were so excited too. I think that is what has been so fun, to watch them love him so much :) 

I could not love him more!

Our first birthday fail with Emmy was we put a candle in front of her to grab. Our birthday fail with Owen was that we let him eat the candle. Literally took a bite out of it and we had to fish it out of his mouth!

Emmy spent so much time wrapping this present for him. So sweet. 

I re-wrapped some toys from the garage (shhh) we have to many! This has been in our garage for years. The kids always wanted me to bring it out and I always said  no. I don't know who was more excited to climb in this thing and throw balls around. Ha!