So hard to believe Owen has rounded the 1 year mark and is 15 months old already. If I only had one word to describe Owen right now, it would be "busy". He is very curious about everything and wants to get into whatever he can get his hands on. He recently has been obsessed with toilet water. He has successfully dunked his arms to his elbows in various toilets in our house at least 5 times now, sometimes I am literally standing right there, but you can't get to him fast enough when you see what he is going to do. The picture above was taken just seconds before he threw both of the slippers he's holding into the toilet!! This brings us to his next favorite thing to do which is to try on and carry around shoes. He loves to wear Ava's slippers because they are just big enough for him to get his feet into, but not so large that he can't still walk in them. Quite often, one of my shoes is missing from by the door and I will find it in his room or some other random place in the house. He also loves steps (going up them he is like lightning, but not so great going down). We have to watch him pretty closely around any steps because he is very determined to take a leap of faith off the top to see what happens. Thankfully we have a gate, but at other people's houses, it's not so easy.
Sleep: Owen is sleeping from 7-7:30 pm until 7:00 am. His typical nap is 12:30-3:30pm. On occassion, he will still take a short morning nap and then a couple hour afternoon nap, but our schedule doesn't permit that very often.
Food: Owen is not scared to eat. He loves cheerios and bread probably the most of any food. I usually have to mix his meat and veggies together and feed him that first which he typically eats very well. Then I will give him a piece of bread afterwards. If he gets the bread first or with his meal, he won't eat anything else. He also loves bananas (he can eat an entire one with cereal for breakfast!). He loves grapes, pineapple, and apples. He doesn't seem to care for cheese all that much unlike his sister or barbeque sauce. Otherwise, he's not a very fussy eater. He doesn't always eat great for all 3 meals, but usually 2 for sure. I'm not too worried, I think he gets plenty!
Speech: Owen babbles nearly all the time as he's walking around the house. We hear lots of "ba ba, na na, da da, ma ma" and other more complicated words that make no sense to us but he's always trying them out to see what our reaction is. He seems to be able to comprehend things we say like "where's your blanket?" or "where's Ava?". He shakes his head "no" when he's done eating or doesn't want something at all. Ava enjoys making up things that she thinks he is saying which is always comical.
Teeth: I wish I could report that Owen has gotten more teeth. His gums are swollen and I know he's been in pain several nights with teeth coming in, but we haven't seen anything yet. He still has the same 8 teeth he's had for quite a while. He hasn't been sleeping well for the past couple weeks. Without Tylenol, he's been waking at least once per night. I'm hoping we can get over this soon.
He continues to adore everything Ava says or does. They are starting to play together a lot more which both of them seem to enjoy. Owen is usually the first one to leave but Ava is quick to try to recapture his attention if she can. 
