Owen started daycare a few weeks ago. Aside from him already being out sick twice (once with an ear infection and once with croup -- both his first :( ) he's doing pretty well there. I need to snap a picture of him playing with (alongside?) the other kids because it's super cute.
One of his favorite games currently is chase the ball :) He crawls around and hits the ball forward and chases it. It's a fun game for mommy and daddy because he pretty much does it all on his own and they just need to make sure he doesn't get distracted by the pretty outlets or go headfirst down the stairs in the living room (although he actually has done that last one once: they're only 2 and carpeted, so he was ok. now he waits for mommy's help when he gets to the stairs, though!) Here's a video from a few weeks ago playing the game. He generally moves a little faster than this, but you get the idea:
As the title of the post says, Owen is getting pretty close to walking. He's been standing for 5-10 seconds on his own, and he loves to walk around with someone holding his hands, or with a push-walker. Here's a video of him doing the push walker at home; there's an even better one at daycare that looks like a little shopping cart and is easier for him to change direction with. He loves it!
And finally, he's still our little water-baby. Here's a sequence of shots showing our little monster-butt crawling from the office into, his favorite, the bathroom, where daddy was getting the bath ready. We don't even have to tell him which direction to go!
