I have been bad--sorry for no posts

It has been almost a month since I have made a post. Things have been busy with the end of summer and the beginning of the school year. Well we have done so much since the last post on August 13th.

9 Months Old
First, on August 15th Owen turned 9 months old. He went to visit Dr. Lane and she said he is doing very well. He is 18.5 lbs. (25 percentile) and 28.5 inches long (50 percentile). She is happy to know that he has been eating table food since his about 7 months. He has 2 teeth already, and 2 more were coming in (they came in on August 26th). Dr. Lane also said that 2 more teeth are on their way, we see a lot of rubbing and runny noses right now, but no teeth yet. Owen is crawling like crazy, standing on his own and walking 1-2 steps at a time on his own. It is so hard to believe that he is doing all this already, it seems like yesterday he was a baby just laying around.

Westmoreland County Fair

On Auguat 20th, we took the baby to the Westmoreland County Fair. He was afraid of all the animals except the goats. He looked at the animals, but clung onto us in fear. It was a lot of fun!

Going back to work

On August 25th, Mommy and Daddy had to leave Owen and go back to work for the school year, so Owen went to Grammy and Pappy's house. He had a fun filled day full of lots of walks and playing like crazy.

Trying to help with the dishes

Owen has found that he can crawl on and around almost anything. He decided today that he wanted to help take the clean dishes out of the dishwasher. I missed the best picture of Owen, he was actually on the door of the dishwasher looking into the dishwasher (too bad the camera was in the car).

Owen loves to look out the front and back door

Owen loves to look out the screen doors. Most of the time he is tormenting the dog by pounding on the screen and squealing at him. It is so funny because he just wants the dog to react and when he does he is so excited. We also think it is so cute that he stares at the dog in hopes that he comes in the house soon.

Owen loves to eat

I think if Owen could eat everything in sight he would. We have not really found anything that Owen has not liked. He has tried Buffalo burgers and steak recently and he loves it. The doctor said that he should eat as long as he is hungry and that is so funny because I think he would eat forever. We love to eat dinner with him and see him shoving in the food. He is defintely going to grow up to be big and strong.

First High School Football Game

Mommy, Daddy, Grammy and Owen went to the Latrobe vs. Derry football game at Derry. Pappy was the referee so Owen got to see Pappy in action. Pappy held him but Owen was not too happy. Owen was wearing his Latrobe Wildcat gear. Owen lasted almost the entire game, but started to get a little tired about 3 minutes before the game was over. Latrobe won the game.

Our Little Wildcat

We got Owen a Wildcat outfit to wear to the football games. We took his picture with the soccer ball and put the ad for the Jr. High Girls soccer program.

Movin' and Groovin'

Owen is truly movin' and groovin'. He is going crazy. Dancing (bouncing up and down) when the music is playing.

I'm getting big!

Owen is getting BIG! He is growing out of all his toys and clothes. He has gotten quite a few BIG BOY toys recently thanks to some of Mommy's friends he is still to small for some of them but it was fun to put him on the quad and push him in the car. We also got him a Radio Flyer which he absolutely LOVES--he giggles and has a good time as we pull him through the yard in it. He is starting to walk and he has his push toy that helps him. Owen has his train table that he got from the Hoffman's, he likes to stand on his own and play with the trains on it. He is standing very well on his own playing at the table. On Tuesday, Daddy saw Owen walk across the living room with the push toy. It is hard to believe that just 9 months ago he was just laying in my arms and couldn't do much of anything.

Going...Going...Going

We love to take Owen places. He does a great job and really enjoys people and going places. Aunt Charlene and Matthew were here the other week and we went to Bushy Run, Heinz field for a tour, and Carnegie Museum Dinosaur exhibit. At Bushy Run, Owen watched while they were shooting the guns and did not take his eyes off of them. At Heinz Field he kept babbling at our tour guide , it was sort of funny. When we got to the Dinosaur exhibit, he was pretty pooped out so he decided instead of looking at the dinosaurs that he would take a nap.

Bushy Run--Owen liked the feel of the skin.

Heinz Field--Owen thought drinking a bottle on the field was a great idea!

Owen liked the museum, but really got pooped out and had to take a nap.

Steeler training camp

Two weeks ago we went to the Steelers Night practice at the stadium in Latrobe. Owen was our autograph boy, we got him a football so that he could get autographs on his first football. We got him a Hines Ward Jersey hoping that he would get his autograph, but we didn't get it, but we did get quite a few other autographs. It was alot of fun!

Owen really didn't like Steeley McBeam very much he cried when we were trying to get our picture taken with him.

Silly boy!

Owen has such a personality it cracks us up. He is so silly at times. On our trip to visit Brad, Tiff and William he discovered how to make the raspberry sound and he did it for 45 minutes in the car, now he does it all the time. He is truly turning into a little boy with LOTS of personality. It is hysterical to begin to stick your tounge out because when he sees you doing that he starts to raspberry.

Owen LOVES Library story time

Every Thursday during the summer we went to Adams Memorial Library to the 6-24 month storytime. Owen made quite a few friends during storytime. We always had to play wiht the trains in the children's room before and after storytime. Owen alwasy was excited during the stories and fingerplays. After the stories he loved to play with the shake eggs, books and felt pictures. Hopefully Grammy and Pappy will take him to storytime in the fall!

We are. . . . PENN STATE!

On our way home from our trip to Rhode Island we stopped at Penn State. This was Owen's first time at Penn State so we had to take him all around campus and get his picture at SOME of the most imporant spots--the LION and the CREAMERY. On our walk across campus, we spotted the Summer Nittany Lion walking around with the MANY tour groups, so we chased him and got Owen's picture taken with him. Well.......Owen was afraid of him and cried (you can see it in the photo). After seeing the mascot lion, we went to the lion statue to get his picture taken--we can't wait to put these pictures up in his Penn State room. Our final stop was the Creamery, Daddy and Mommy had ice cream and Owen of course freaked out cause we were eating food so we gave him a touch on his tounge and OF COURSE he wanted more!!!! It was a fun trip to Penn State and we did get him his Penn State fall outfit for football season.

Owen thought the Lion was scary, OH NO!!!!

THE LION STATUE--Owen loved it he was excited to sit on it and looks like a little ham in the pictures.

Mommy loves the lion paw, it was real hot so Owen couldn't sit on it!








CREAMERY PICTURES! YUMMY ICE CREAM!