10 Months

What did 10 months bring? Two more teeth! Poor kid gets them every month like clock work.

He's also taken the mimicking to a whole new level. He can do tons of sounds, says momma and dadda regularly and loves making his daddy laugh.

Again it's impossible to get him to pose for pictures - he cracks himself up!

We love you Owen Lars and can't believe you're getting so big!

Christmas

We had an amazing Christmas. Eric's whole family was able to join us in Texas! It was cold, but we had a wonderful time and loved celebrating with the Oslunds.

We hosted Marc and Becky at our house and the rest of the family stayed at a house a few minutes down the road.

On Christmas morning, Owen checked under the tree to see what Santa brought (All of Owen's gifts were at the other house waiting for us to unwrap them together)

 This was actually a NICE camera that Eric surprised me with!

One of Owen's favorite gifts was his new wagon - he let Brynn and Margaret ride on it too.

We also celebrated Papa Lane's birthday

It was a great first Christmas!

9 month photos

We got some great pics of our growing boy at his 9 month photo session.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Owen in front of the Christmas tree

Who could resist those big eyes!

At the park 

The whole family

9 months and off the charts!

Man it's been a long time since I've blogged. A lot has happened over the past few months, and I'll try and cover the highlights so they'll be recorded for Owen's future baby book. :-)

Owen went in for his 9 month check up and surprised his mommy - he had two teeth I didn't even know about and was off the charts in height and weight! Owen often sucks on his bottom lip and doesn't show his top teeth when he smiles, so I had no idea his two top teeth had come in. They are huge with a huge gap in between them (thank God he's a boy)!

He clocked in at 25.4 pounds and 30.5 inches at his appointment - my poor back can't take much more of this and still no sign of walking.

He still is a speed crawler and pulls up on everything he can. He loves mimicking sounds and "clicks his tongue" so mommy and daddy can do it back.

Give Thanks

Thanksgiving was at our house this year.  It was the first time I've ever hosted, but things went off without a problem. It was a smaller crowd than in years past, but that was fine with me for my maiden voyage.

I had to show off our fall table - before the feasting began.

Owen loved his turkey dinner.

 When we weren't eating, Owen was the center of attention, and enjoyed being passed around from his granparents, aunts and uncles and great grandpa.

Owen showing off his two skills - clapping and drooling

Owen and Nana

Aunt La and Uncle Scott

PawPaw and Owen's new favorite bear

Eric had an exciting thanksgiving of his own. He hit Sears Thursday morning and brought this home just in time for the big meal and the big game. The Aggies won!

The Oslunds say goodbye to their 300 pound TV. (not sure why it's on BET)

And I realized I haven't talked about the dogs much lately - go figure. I'm not sure where Sophie was when I was taking pictures, but Shaddy and Sebastian got lots of attention and more than a few snacks.

The definition of lap dog.

8 months

A few updates on Owen at 8 months: He's broken the 25 pound mark! Owen is not a chubby kid (except for his cheeks) he's just really solid - everyone who holds him remarks on how "dense" he is. :-)

He also learned how to clap, can feed himself crackers and teething cookies, and can climb stairs all by himself!

He also would not stay still for pictures this month. The kid has 2 speeds - full throttle and asleep.

Enjoy :-)

just a few of the "poses" I captured...

And some of the lovely faces - this kid does not like the camera!

practicing his surf moves

Finally!

My cool dude...

Who drools like none other!

Halloween

Here's our serious scarecrow - I had the hardest time getting him to smile the entire night. (This may have been because our entire family was recovering from a stomach bug he brought home from daycare earlier in the week.)

Owen won 3rd place in the preschool and under costume contest in our neighborhood. He scored a $5 Wall-mart gift-card, which daddy promptly confiscated. :-)