Wow…5 months already. How time flies. Owen is such a good baby. He has slept thru the night since the first month and is very comfortable around lots of different people. My mom watches him on Monday and Tuesday over at my Grandma’s house and then my sister watches him Wednesday-Friday. So Owen is loving life getting to hang out with grandma’s, aunts, nephews, etc. I think that is why he never wants to sit down and constantly wants to be held…hmmmmmm!
Owen also has been on 2 plane rides. His first trip my mom, Owen and I went to visit Kate and Rob in North Carolina and guess what we got first class both ways. Well you see my son and I only fly first class. Yeah right I wish! My mom worked for United so we flew stand-by and were lucky enough to get first class both ways. Not so shabby! And then his second trip Darren and I took him to Canada to visit with Grandmo, Gramps, Nana, Auntie Colleen, Uncle Al, Ashley and Travis! Owen had such a good time in the warm Vancouver weather hanging out, drinking lots of bottles and a few Kokanee beers. A true Canadian through and through.
At his 4 month checkup he was 13 pounds and 8 ounces and I swear now he weighs about 30 pounds. He is a big boy and carrying him around in his car seat is going to have to stop soon enough. I have muscles but they are definitely not that big. We started feeding him cereal. We started with brown rice cereal and he pretty much hated it. He gave me the craziest face and spit out every last bit of it. So we switched to oatmeal cereal…much better! He is now on a bottle for all 6 feedings and is doing great! He can suck down a bottle in 2.2 seconds. It is quite scarey. Oh yeah and our little man can also hold his own bottle and has been doing that for the past two weeks. Pretty cool eh?
Steve and Melissa had their second baby, Baby Jack. He is awesome! Darren and I have visited with them the past few weekends and it has been so much fun! I just love the fact that all our kids will have the opportunity of getting to know one another! Morgan who might be the cutest little girl I have ever seen will definitely be the leader and all the boys will follow her around! Danny and Mo are coming in today to visit for the summer –we all have been looking forward to that for months! So overall, summer has been great and will continue to be!
Other fun things happening...Corrie had her baby Matthew in April, Lauren is having a girl in September and they moved back to Illinois and are now living in Algonquin -(Darren and I are so happy!), Darren's friend Lawrence and Katie just got married and had a great wedding in Whistler, Maureen retired and can now come and visit us anytime she likes,Darren and I sold our condo and will be moving to River Forest and renting an apartment above my sisters and looking forward to it. We are in the midst of house hunting but taking our time.
We hope everyone is well! Love and miss you all!
