A little O.C.

So, along with Owen's obsession with basketball hoops and balls, he is now officially obsessed with the letters of the alphabet, particularly the letter O. He goes around the house pointing out all the things he can see that have the letter O on them. At first I just thought he was saying O for everything, since we call him "O" sometimes as a nickname. While we were in Austin I realized that he actually recognizes the letter and was saying "O" only when he saw the letter O. For a few days he was also very interested in the letter C, so I was joking with Brent about how he is a little O.C. about carrying around the O and C magnetic letters we have and not wanting anything to do with most of the other ones. He has since changed his ways and is now very interested in pretty much any letter. It is actually pretty fun to teach him his letters. I wish I could take all the credit for teaching him, but I am pretty sure he learned it from the PBS show Word World, which is now his favorite show. Imagine that, television CAN be educational, who knew?

Here is a clip, I recorded with him pointing out some of the letters he knows. It was about a week or so ago and he is already know about 5 more since then. I will have to do another video in a couple of weeks. I can't believe my baby is growing up so fast!

Untitled from Melissa Clark on Vimeo.

Haircut and Basketball Hoops

This happened about a month ago, but I thought I would document it anyways. We finally decided that it was time to cut Owen's hair. I put it off as long as possible, but it was starting to get out of control especially on the top of his head. We put him in his chair, put a movie on and BOTH Brent and I went at it. At first Owen kept batting our hands away, but after I gave him a sucker, he was good as gold.

Watching the show before the haircut

The Before
The After

He was pretty sticky after everything was said and done

Here are a couple of random pictures that were taken over the last month.

Sometimes he watches his shows this way

Playing at the park with Dad. Owen is OBSESSED with basketball hoops. He goes crazy when he sees one on our walks around our neighborhood and will constantly be saying, "Dall." I have been trying to get him to say "Ball" but to no avail.

When we go to the playground by our house, all he wants to do is run around by the basketball hoops and if we brought our ball, he just wants to try to throw it at the hoop. It is actually pretty funny. He also loves to run down to the basketball hoop two houses down from us and just stand under hoop in their driveway. It actually drives me a little crazy, since it isn't our house and I am sure the neighbors think we are nuts!

Enjoying the first popcicle of the year!

You can't really see it in this picture, but Owen has food on his head. He thinks he is hilarious when he puts stuff on his head.

Random picture, but this is what I got the other day when I was trying to get him to smile at the camera.

Wearing the 3D glasses we got from going to Tangled in Austin. More on our trip to come!