Update

Owen has taken to sleeping on his stomach or his side.
Owen has gotten mobile. He can now roll around the room to get to where he wants. He can also sit up from lying down on his own. This makes bedtime a challenge most night, he rolls around and sits up instead of just lying there and going to sleep because that was the only option he had before.

"Like father. Like son."

Owen has slept with his hands behind his head and his ankles crossed since he was born I think. He sleeps just like daddy. Owen has had some tough nights lately. It must be a 9 month old fad because both his cousins are doing the same. Sunday night was particulary challenging. He woke up several times crying throughout the night. I slept on the couch with him for a couple hours. Eventually Matt and I gave in at 4:00 a.m. and let him sleep in bed with us so that we could both get some sleep before work later that morning. This is how I found my boys when I got out of the shower.Luckily school was cancelled because of blowing and drifting snow and Matt did not have to be at work until 12:00 that day, so that helped.

Nine Months

Owen is nine months old today, I cannot believe it. Only three months until his one year birthday! His appointment is not for another 2 weeks but an unofficial weight from our bathroom scale is around 25 lbs. Owen has changed so much in the last week or two. He has figured out how to roll around the room to get what he wants. He has also started to understand what "No" means. He wrinkles his nose and looks at you like you are crazy, telling him what he can and cannot do. He is quite the stinker when he looks at you prior to doing what he knows he is not supposed to do, as if challenging us to tell him no again. It is pretty cute, we have a hard time keeping a straight face.

Here are some of his funny faces and a couple cute pics from the last couple weeks.

New Year/Simpson Christmas

We spent the New Year in Kansas with the Simpson side of the family. We had a great time, we were able to spend about 5 days with everyone. Owen (and us) got way more for Christmas than was needed, but Owen loved it. We also celebrated Dacey's 13th birthday with a suprise slumber party. Matt cannot wait until we have a little girl and slumber parties like that one :) He was a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing I think; but Matt, Owen, and the girls lived through the night to see another year!

Simpson Clan

The stocking is bigger than he is!

Again, quite a loot. He was in gift heaven! This was just the start to gift opening. Great Grandma and Grandpa Simpson came over later and he opened more gifts from them.

Dacey's 13th birthday. We had a suprise party for her at Pizza Hut and then 6 of the girls came to spend the night New Year's Eve night. They ate food, terrorized Dacey's room, jumped on bubble wrap and threw paper shreds at midnight (we made them go out into the garage to make noise and a mess, so they did not wake up Owen), watched a couple movies, decorated shoe shaped sugar cookies at 3 in the morning, and most of them stayed up until 7:00 the next morning. Needless to say they were not too excited to get up for breakfast at 8:00 so they could head home. I cannot wait till Owen is old enough to have parties and fun activities like Mom did for Dacey and the girls. I'm already starting to think what we can do for his first birthday party which isn't really that far off. Owen is going to be one year old in 4 months! It has went so fast.