About My Son

This is a special post for my son (warning--- this is just me bragging about my boy). For those of you that don't have sons and daughters, you may not realize the special connection that exists between mothers and their sons. My mom always told me about it and I didn't really get it, but I do now. Perhaps it is the knowledge that one day he will leave me and belong to another woman or knowing that he won't always want to be in my lap giving me hugs and kisses. I am not sure what it is, but I sure love this little boy.

Owen is a busy boy that is constantly on the go and getting into trouble. His first words were "get down" because we were constantly telling him to get down from whatever he had climbed up on. He has an innate love for cars, trains, trucks, tractors, swords and anything else with wheels--- I didn't realize that this was so natural for boys, but it is! We never had any of these things in the house before but he just started making blocks become cars and would make the noises so we bought him a car to play with. Whenever he hears a truck, he will raise his head to see and say, "truck"; same thing when he sees airplanes.

Owen is adventurous. In addition to the endless climbing he does, he watches others and then tries to do like them. He climbs right in to pools, runs right up to sprinklers, joins right in to play with other kids-- he is so fun like that.
For the first 18 months, Owen has hardly said anything. I have tried not to worry about it because I realize only a few words is normal for this age, but it was hard since Ellie was talking quite a bit by a year. However, this month, Owen has just exploded with talking! He says about 10 new words everyday. He knows almost all of the letters in the alphabet (no doubt thanks to Ellie's incessant singing of her ABC's). He can count to 10 and down from 10. He knows and says many shapes like circle, square, triangle, star and crescent (yes, crescent).
One of the best things about Owen is that he is an independent kid. He doesn't mind playing on his own or finding something to do by himself. However, he really loves his mom (thankfully). He always is eager to climb in my lap and rub my arm (not the elbow pit like Ellie but still equally as annoying). He gives the best hugs and kisses ever! I have to kind of force the hug sometimes, but he gets in these moods where he will just give kisses away and I am right there to take advantage!
I think I have a special connection with Owen also because we are both 2nd born. I always have made the extra effort to make sure I took lots of pictures of him (and subsequent child) and recorded special moments because I didn't want him to feel lost in the shuffle. It is something that I worry about with Owen because he is so independent and I don't want to forget about him and not spend equal time with him just because he doesn't demand it as much (for those of you that don't have more than one, once you have another you are in constant fear that you are not giving each child everything, and truth is you aren't and you have to just do your best). I suppose this is just going to get worse now that there are 3 kids and now that he is the only boy.

I am so in love with my son! He is growing up so fast and he has just changed so much since the beginning of the summer. When I got pregnant this third time I demanded that it be a girl and it was, now the next one-- I had better get another son!:)