He's Growing What?

Owen has been drooling and chewing on everything for the past month and Maya is continually asking what he's doing and why. If I'm standing next to him he'll lean over and chew on my jeans, chew on my feet, chew, chew, chew on just about anything he can get in to his mouth. I have been telling Maya he's growing teeth so she always wants to look. Today I was tickling him and he opened up his mouth to a big ol' silly baby grin and I realized the bottom two teeth have made an appearance! Luckily he hasn't seemed too agitated by the whole process and slept better the 3 nights prior to the teeth appearing than he had...well in his entire 6 months of life. I have to admit it made me sad for a split second...I want to freeze time and keep him, well, my baby(I will keep the sleeping though).

Dress Up!

Tonight we all participated in one of Maya's favorite activities, dress up! Owen was a French Chef...oui oui! Je suis un petit chef (de cuisine)! Then he was a pirate. Maya was a chef then Princess Tiana. I was a pirate and a flower. Chris was a chef but mostly played photographer. Maya loves dress up so we all had fun. Well, Owen mostly tolerated it and chewed on the pots from Maya's kitchen. So much fun!

It's an.....A!

We've been working on letter recognition lately and Chris bought Maya a letter tracing workbook. We have been working on the letter A. Today Maya wanted to draw letters on her aquadoodle pad. Low and behold she drew a recognizable 'A' next to my examples!

The Zoo

We love, love, love the zoo and go often. Well, as the weather permits! We lucked out and were able to go two weeks in a row. One week Maya brought her penguin Penny to meet the penguins at the zoo. Our favorites tend to be the gorillas (because there is a baby in the exhibit), penguins, elephants, giraffes, hippos and a visit to the carousel.