Up On The House Top

We cancelled our Dish TV in Omaha about 2 years ago. Naveen has missed it every day since. We now have Dish TV in our new home and can rot our minds with hours of recorded episodes of Shark Tank and Hardcore Pawn.

The old dish comes down!

We have a creek in our backyard (along with a cemetery...). Mr. and Mrs. Mallard don't like it so much so they have decided to roost (do ducks roost or just chickens?) on our roof.

It wouldn't be an appropriate blog post without a photo bomb of the little guy.

We have been exploring different parks in the area looking for ones with baby swings.

Finally we hit the jackpot and Owen sure does love to swing!

(Not sure what the deal is with the video, it just showed up from my phone instead of sending it to YouTube yada yada yada. Must have been part of an update.)

He had so much fun the first time I thought we may as well go again.

Piano Man

Hoover likes to lay under the piano to hide from Owen.

Those days are over.

Pastie Party

192. That is how many pasties we made. The meat hand pie variety, not the glittery tassled nipple cover variety. I may be on the more liberal side of things but I don't know that I am ready to go to a party and make nipple covers with friends and family.

I don't know the rules yet but as a parent I think you are supposed to say your kid is amazing and just the best at everything and way ahead of his time. I will go the other direction. Owen is almost 11 months and doesn't crawl. It bothered me for awhile to see all of these younger babies crawling up a storm while mine laid in a writhing heap on the floor. This past weekend he finally did it. Owen crawled. About 5 inches. And he didn't like it. I am fine with that. It was the cutest thing ever!

His crawling form needs some work. It is pretty clear that he would much rather be standing. Owen has also started the hands free standing which scares me to death!