Blankenship Family!: Owen is 18 Months Old!

My little man!

I can't believe he is a year and a half old already!

Size: Owen is still wearing size 18 month clothes. Some of his pants were a bit long for awhile, so I just rolled them up, but now I don't have to roll them anymore. He must have gone through a growth spurt this month!

Special Trips/Visits: We had a VERY busy December. We went to visit Santa a couple weeks ago (see my previous post) and then had Jimmy's family in town to celebrate Christmas. Then, of course, celebrated Christmas with my side of the family. It was a whirlwind, and I'm not going to lie, stressful, month! I'm looking forward to our lives settling down for awhile in the new year.

Favorites: Owen loves reading in his new faux leather recliner! My Oma bought him this adorable recliner for Christmas and he is hopping in and out of it all the time with a book to read.

This has to be one of my favorite pictures of all time.

He is reading Good Night, Gorilla (thanks Hall family!).

He loves cookies! He said his first two word string of words: "Mama, cookie!!!" Since he said it once he is saying it all the time! Of course I have to give him a piece of my cookie. :)

Owen loves to sit in his big boy chair with us at the table. He no longer sits and eats in his high chair. We have graduated him to the booster seat at the table with us. Dylan will be starting solids soon, and I didn't want any possession issues over the high chair, so we moved him up a month or two before Dylan would be needing the high chair. Owen gets a kick out of sitting up there with us!

Owen LOVES music! We have started a little family tradition of playing music while we eat dinner instead of the T.V. running. Owen sits at the table and dances away! He has his favorite songs that he likes to jam to a little more than others. Don't we all?

We have had a few warm days this winter where Jimmy will take Owen and Dylan to the park. Owen can now climb the jungle gym from one end and walk to the other end and go down the slide by himself! I can't believe he is getting so big and can do this on his own! I have several video clips of this, but they are so hard to upload...

We had our first snow of the winter a few weeks ago. I bundled Owen all up and we headed outside for some fun! He absolutely loved the snow. He kept tripping and falling all over the place, but cracked up when he fell. It was adorable!