A weekend of Fun….

Friday Marked Owen turning seven months old. It’s so hard to believe how fast this time has gone by. Friday was also Eric’s last day at United Way. It’s kinda a bitter-sweet moment for us. It has been a great job and a wonderful experience for Eric and our family to have him work there, but this new job will allow us to have me stay home…an opprotuity that I am thankful to have. While it will be hard for me to give up the professional aspect of my current life, I look forward to the little things that I will experience with Owen and Eric every day. I plan on finding volunteer work and possibly some sort of part time job, but that will be down the line a little.

This weekend our good friend Sarah’s wedding. Grandma Elaine and Grandpa John came up to spend the day with Owen so Eric and I could enjoy the ceremony and evening. They had a great afternoon and evening hanging out with Owen. It was such a blessing to have them come up to watch Owen.

Today we spent the afternoon doing some running, went to eat, and Owen and I took a nap. Owen ate his first “restaurant food” today. He had a baked sweet potato from Texas Roadhouse. I don’t think he enjoyed it as the ice cream he had the night before with grandma and grandpa :)

This afternoon was finally warm enough for Owen to play in his pool! And here are some photos...

He really seemed to love this silly snail. He crawled in circles around the pool to catch it, unknown to him every time he moved the snail was pushed further and furhter away...but eventually he caught it.

Owen also really liked the pool because he was really close to the grass...he kept trying to grab it.

Here he is crawling in the pool...well kinda a belly flop at this point.

Yup...he found the snail again!

Owen also figured out that he could stand up and then sit down really fast and make a big splash.

Owen has also been trying really hard to get under the coffee table in our living room. Well, tonight he was successful. I figured he would crawl up onto it, but instead he decided that he should just wiggle in and sit under it. He seemed so proud of himself!

Way to long...

So its been way to long since I've updated...so here it goes.

Owen's 6 Month Check Up...
Owen weighs 18lbs 3 oz. and is 27 inches long. This puts him in the 70th percentile for each. The doctor said that he looked like a happy healthy boy.

New Things Owen Can Do & First for our Little Man...

At the start of 6 months Owen could sit fully on his own for a long time. At about 6 and a half months he would get up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. Last weekend he was starting to do the "army crawl" sort of thing where he would scoot all around. This past weekend on Saturday Owen was crawling with his belly off the floor and going all over!
Sunday he started to pull himself up all on his own. Tonight I spotted him cruising from one end of the couch to the other. Owen also got to go camping for the first time the end of June.
Owen has 2 teeth breaking through on the top. Owen has started to eat more and more food. He love yogurt and will only eat cottage cheese if he feeds it to himself.

New Things For the Crammonds...
Eric has gotten a new job, with Helix, a computer software company. He will be working with companies around the country from our basement. He is very excited and will be starting next Monday. His last day for United way will be this Friday.
This new job will require some travel and we have decided that it would be best for me to stay home with Owen. I will be done with the YMCA on August 7th. I am really looking forward to staying home with Owen, yet I still am sad to leave the YMCA.

Some Photos...

Owen on his first 4th of July in Grandma & Grandpa Crammond's back yard. This is one of the few photos where Owen isn't eating grass that day...side note...one of the firs things started crawling for was grass.

This photo is Owen on his Grandpa's lap watching fireworks for the very first time. He did great at the fire works, even though he was up hours past his bed time. Eric and I enjoyed watching Owen watch the fire works. With each burst Owen would blink his eyes really hard...but he just kept on watching.

This was just a fun photo of Owen eating cottage cheese. I think there was more cottage cheese on the floor, fridge, counters, and chair then there was in our little Owen's belly.
This photo is from last weekend...we put Owen in one of our toy baskets and let him dig in the other one to get out the toys that he wanted. He played in this for quite some time.

This last photo is from this past weekend. Owen, Eric, grandma Carol, and I went out to gem gardens in Eau Claire. We snapped this photo of Owen. He is getting so big...kinda makes me sad.

6 months old!

I can hardly believe that Owen is six months old. The time has gone so quickly. He has gotten so big-we have our doctor appointment next Friday so we will see then just how big he his. He is doing great at sitting, rolling all over to get places, standing against things if we put him that way, love bouncing, eats a ton of fruits and veggies and smiles a lot. He love to explore things too.

Here are a couple of photos we took this past weekend for his 6 month photos. They are all from grandma and grandpa Crammond's back yard.
He seemed to love the little white flowers. He even picked some and tried to eat them...good thing we were quick. Owen got the toy octopus from one of his four year old cousins-she decided that he would like it-and he does. It was very kind of her to give him the toy her mom had just made for her.

Owen and Daddy

Eric had a great Father's day. We were able to spend it with Eric's family and my mom. I got Eric a web cam-so we hopefully can start using skype with family and friends. Owen and I worked to make Eric a cork board with Owen's foot prints around the edge. Eric said his favorite part of his gift was the card from Owen. I picked one out with a white background on the inside and I helped Owen "sign" his name. Eric said he was so touched by it.Here are a few photos from the day.

Grandpa John, Eric, and Owen Well I didn't get both of their full heads in the photo, but they are both looking at the camera-I guess that must be some sort of an accomplishment.

It brings me so much joy to see Eric and Owen interacting. Owen truly loves Eric so much, and Owen brings Eric such joy too.

One of Eric's favorite ways to hold Owen is on his shoulders...its so cute. Unfortunately this time we learned an important lesson-don't do this shortly after he eats...o-well that's what laundry detergent is for.

Wonderful Weekend

We had a great weekend. Owen and I headed down to Portage Wednesday night. Thursday we spent the day at Devil's Lake State Park. We meet two of my cousins there and it was a great time. Here is a photo of Owen that afternoon:

That evening we met up with Eric's Sister and mom at the concert on the square in Baraboo. We hung out with them and had a lot of fun.

Uncle Ian even stopped by the park to hang out with Owen for a little while.

Friday we went to see my cousin and her four kids in Appleton. They all had a lot of fun playing with Owen. They hadn't seen him since he was about 6 weeks old...They were were so cute to watch all of them play.

We spent Saturday with Eric's family. Eric's mom and dad just got back from a trip and they gave he a few new things. One was a sippy cup...his first. It was warm so we thougth we would let him try. He was very wet by the end but it was cute to watch. He was able to get it up to his mouth and get water out.

He also figured out that if you tip it upside down you can get water out too.

On Sunday we spent the day at the Crammonds. We fed Owen in the highchair that grandma Crammond used when she was a baby and when Eric was a baby.

Grandma Carol had a lot of fun with Owen this weekend. She even watched him so Eric and I could go out to dinner just the two of us and out to play Bingo with Eric's Family.

Aunt Liz was doing laundry on Sunday and thought Owen might like to go in the basket.

He seemed to like being able to stand in the basket all by him self.

When we got home on Sunday night we had a surprise wating for us. Owen's Great Aunt Jean sent Owen some new goodies...including these adorable new summer PJ's.

All in all it was a great weekend-I loved being able to spend so much time with Owen and our family.

Teeth

Our little Owen has two teeth coming through now...I need to get a good photo of the teeth...but for now here is him with his teething toy.

This isnt a good photo of Owen, but you can see how he is sitting up on his own really well now. He will sit for a long time. He seems to be having so much fun lately-Eric and I are so lucky.
This was just a funny photo of Owen, he looks so shocked.

When Owen is done with his meal I sometimes let him eat the last little bite with him holding the spoon. He gets such a big grin when he gets himself the food.

I just love his big blue eyes in this one!

A Weekend in the Garden

This weekend we spent alot of time in our garden. We should be eating a radish or two by the end of the week. Here are few photos from our adventures. We took our pack'n'play for Owen to hangout in while Beth and I worked in the garden. We had a really great time!