Owen

It was Owen's birthday this Sunday.  He was excited for his birthday after Mason had his.  We weren't having a big party or a small one for that matter, we were just celebrating as a family.  But the days leading up to his birthday looked a lot like this:

The friday he was throwing up all day, the Saturday it was the other end, and Sunday, his Birthday, he was just not eating and sleepy.  He didn't eat any of his birthday dinner, or even one bite of his cake and ice cream.  Poor boy.  We thought he was all better until he refused to eat any cake.  The next day he was sick again, but today he seems back to normal!

So His birthday was low key and a bit of a downer.  But he was excited to get some presents.  I got him some special birthday cake goldfish and other special snacks as part of his gift, since that's usually the way to his heart, but he didn't want them!  So sad.  He loved his Octonauts toys, and the bubble kit he got, and the toy guns too!  

And he loved blowing out his candles on the cookie cake he wouldn't eat.

These are the pictures I took of him first thing in the morning.  He broke through his birthday banners before I got my camera turned on, and the flash made his sleepy eyes squint!

Oh our Owen boy.  What would we do without him.  He is ... sort of potty trained.  He still has fairly regular accidents, but they are getting better.  He is starting to test his bounds more and more and testing my patience too.  But he is such a sweet, good kid.  He talks all the time, and is getting easier for others to understand, but I love his little speech things.  They are cute.  We will probably get him tested for speech therapy just to see where he's at, but I sort of don't want it to change!  He started pronounces his S's more clearly just a couple of weeks ago, and it was exciting (and just a tiny bit sad!) He now says Mason more clearly, and Sadie too.  He loves Sadie so much.  Usually he is very gentle, but he did feed her a lego once which she choked on.  Good thing Jeremy was watching close, I wasn't home.  Since we have caught him trying to feed her lots of other things, but nothing as dangerous as a Lego thankfully!  Everyone loves Owen.  Brenna's friends all love him since he's so cute and always willing to play the baby in their games of house.

He is very fast.  Our new thing lately is to play family games of tag and Owen is pretty darn fast for a 3 year old!  He follows his brother around like he's the king of the world and Owen would follow him anywhere and do exactly what he does.  

This picture is from a week ago, we went to Encanto Park with Jeremy's mom and family and Owen had the time of his life doing ever ride he could!  Sure do love this boy!