I want to remember always

Owen does so many things that make me stop and think...I want to remember this forever! The list below is just some of the things over the past few months/weeks I've been collecting in my head. Writing this post gave me a great idea! I’d like to start doing something like this…maybe even once a week…where I post a list of “Remember always” along with photos. I know we photograph Owen on a weekly basis. We’ve also been doing a lot of video capturing. This may be a bit of a overlap with my Thankful Thursday…and I’m not sure how I’ll keep them separate...but I’ll find a way to fine tune it! It’ll be like my little journal of Owen and also my gratitude journal. I’m thankful everyday for the blessing I received the day I met my son. Now why didn’t I think of this sooner?!?

The following things are things I want to remember about Owen...always.

How you grab my pointer fingers and pull me all around the house…taking me any and everywhere you want to go and showing me things you want to do and play

That you pull Chicka Chicka Boom Boom off the shelf no matter where I put it in your mix of books…and the way you stomp your feet with excitement as I flip to the first couple pages and started reading. Even if after 2 pages you wander into another room for something else!

How you and your Penguin climb into your Mickey Mouse Clubhouse ball pit and roll it over on its side and sit and watch Over the Hedge from inside of it.

That you LOVE Bananas, yogurt, chicken nuggets, ice cream and chocolate milk!

That Dadda tells you to crush your sippy cup on your forehead after you slam down a 10oz cup of Chocolate Milk in under a minute...ok two minutes!

That you run around the house saying Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah really loud

That you love my ladybug apron

That you like to pull me under the dining room table and have me sit there with you…and just sit...

That you play with your stuffed animals in your crib for 30 minutes every morning before you are really ready to get out of bed.

That you play with and throw your stuffed animals out of your bed at night if you aren't quite ready to fall asleep…I wish I had a video of you doing this!

That when I ask you for a kiss you stick out your bottom lip and your tongue and toddle over to me

That you like to freeze dance (something we learned on Disney Channel) with your Dadda and I’m not sure who laughs harder…you or Dadda or me

That sometimes you give me a kiss without having to ask for it

The way you look when you’re sleeping in your car seat

That you snore a little when you sleep in your car seat

Hearing you figure out your oh’s and oooo’s.

That you like to stack things on top of each other…even if they aren’t supposed to be that way

That you LOVE being outside and you will sometimes wander to the back porch and grab the back door knob to show us how much you want to go outside

That when you don’t get what you want…you throw your entire weight into a limp noodle and pretend to cry

That the other night while playing on your slide you chose to go head first down it…not once, not twice, but 3 times!! Daredevil!!

That you love water…so much so you super manned through landscape rocks at Butterfly House just to get to it

That just this week, you walked over and sat down in my lap after you drank your milk and we were watching a movie…and you sat there watching the movie and snuggling in my lap.

I love you little man.