My friend Mindy was here with her little boy that is almost 7 months old and Owen had just whacked Sam with a plastic baseball bat and so Mindy was holding Sam and Owen I guess really wanted to go check on him and since he was standing he just took a couple of steps. He gets scared once he realizes what he's about to do or is already doing and just hits the floor.
I know everyone tells me to enjoy the time before he's walking which I have, but I am so ready for this stage.
Owen has become a FANTASTIC sleeper lately and I can take zero credit for it. He's been sleeping 11-12 hours straight at night then will take one 1.5-2 hour nap and then another nap that's around an hour. He's been doing this consistently for the last few weeks so I'm okay with sharing it here :-) I do think that the transition to 1 nap will be coming soon as he seems to be able to stay awake longer in the morning. I'm not sure how I feel about that yet!
Owen's become clingier lately. Pat dropped him off in the nursery on Sunday morning and Owen didn't want to let go and gave Pat the saddest face. We had our MOPS group on Tuesday morning and he did the same thing for me. They said he was fine until moms started coming to pick up their kids and he got sadder as he saw kids leaving. Up until now he's always gone to other people with no problem so this is new!
Owen has made it known that he knows what he cannot touch lately. He'll often point to things, usually cords, and just shake his head. Usually he has enough self-control to keep from touching things but there are definitely times where the desire outweighs the consequence. He like to pull himself up on the tv stand which is fine but he knows he's not supposed to touch the dvd player or the Xbox. Those times where the desire to touch them takes over and he gets caught and hears me say "no" he will instantly pull his hands away and put the on the other shelf like "I'm not doing anything mom!" The one thing I'm going to have to work on is that there are many times where he will continue to disobey until he sees me move towards him. Our goal in training him is that the time to obey is the first time and not when mom or dad start moving. We won't be doing the counting strategy around here.
I don't want that last paragraph to be the end of this post so here are are few photos and videos of Owen to end things on a happy note!
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| Am I really going to do this?? |
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| I'm doing it!! |
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| Love love love this face. He's also wearing one of Pat's old outfits. |
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| Watching some basketball and eating graham crackers. |
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| Owen LOVES daddy's guitar. Pat led worship on Sunday morning and Owen got so sad when I wouldn't let him crawl up to the stage. He's become and huge fan of daddy in general too. |
I stumbled upon your blog when you posted Owen's birth story on facebook. I've read a bunch of your other posts... I really like it-plus Owen is super cute.
ReplyDeleteObedience is something I'm working on too. For this age what kind of consequences to you enforce? Do you just tell him no then if he does it again you remove him?
just curious :)
Hi Cathy! Glad you've enjoyed reading the blog :)
DeleteDisciplining has been such a difficult thing to figure out with Owen but I feel like we've kind of gotten a handle of what works (for now at least). Owen made it very clear when we needed to start which was the easiest part. With Owen we will tell him no then if he continues we'll swat his hand then remove him from wherever he is. We talked about the distraction method which works in some cases but we figured that wasn't dealing with the real issues since he knows what he's not allowed to do/touch.
Somedays are more difficult and I feel like all I'm doing his telling him no and other days it's barely an issue. It's definitely tiring at times but you really have to think long term :)