100 Days of Happiness Day 5

Oh hello. It’s Owen here… I know my mom posts a lot of pictures of me and talks about me a lot, because… well, I’m a pretty big deal around here. You might be seeing me quite a bit for this 100 Days of Happiness thingy my mom is doing. I’m almost 9 months now, so yeah… I’m getting big. I don’t really care for crawling much. In fact, I really just want to walk to tell you the truth. When my mom tries to sit me down on the floor I do this really neat trick where I make my entire body stiff as a board so she can’t put me in the sitting position. She has to stand me up, which is where it’s at. I hang on to the furniture and bounce and laugh… Pretty soon I’ll be running all over this place and it will be soooo fun. I can already see all the things I want to do – like climb on the stairs, open all the drawers and cabinets, jump on Henry’s dog bed…  I’ve been working really hard on getting my teeth. I have 3 and a half – two bottom ones, a top one and a new edge of a top one… I love to eat, too. I eat everything. Broccoli, sweet potato, avocado, chicken, salmon, apples, yogurt, oatmeal, noodles, peas, puffs, you name it – I’ll eat it. I’m doing much better with my sleeping and that makes my mom so happy. I will wake up maybe once per night, but that’s no big deal and soon I won’t even do that. There are always a lot of girl children around – which is fine by me. My sisters are always close and love to play with me. Brooklyn sings to me and reads me stories. Quincy holds me and plays toys with me on the floor. Peyton carries me, changes my diaper, and takes me on “the baby express” which is a game she made up just for me. Gosh, I love them. They always have friends over who play with me, too. Girls are pretty great. Sometimes during the day they leave and it’s just me and mommy. We do errands and take walks outside. I love to go sit in my Daddy’s office. He bounces me and throws me around the most. I think it makes mom nervous, but Daddy is strong. He always plays my favorite song for me, “Three Little Birds,” by Bob Marley. I get soooo excited when he puts it on. So that’s what’s new with me… Like I said, I’m sure you’ll be seeing lots of me. Love, Owen Jeffrey (or as mommy calls me: O Jiminey)