Easter with Gramma and Grandpa

My parents were here for the week of Easter.

On Saturday, we celebrated Owen's cousin Laurel's first birthday. She enjoyed eating cake for the first time.

We attempted to take him to Easter service on Sunday, but he spent most of the time outside the church, watching men spread out Easter eggs for the post-service hunt. Sitting still for an hour isn't part of his skill set right now.

Owen had a full Easter basket. His favorites include a bunny from Grandma McManus, which he has slept with each night since receiving it, and "career hats" from my parents.

He did enjoy going to the children's museum with his grandparents in Salem later in the week- lots of fun things to play with and climb on. We had such good time, we went back the next weekend with Richard since he had to work the first time.

Owen has gotten much better at colors. He's interested in the alphabet and numbers- he will count the even ones when we count the odd ones and will fill in letters when we sing the alphabet song.

He and Richard often go out to the yard to dig for worms, then they come in and Owen will

explain to me everything they found. They went for a bike ride this morning, and when they returned, Owen told me all about the farm animals they saw, and how they were eating grass- amazing that he can tell a story now- using mostly nouns. He has said a couple of sentences- if you count "ball down" and "coat on" as sentences. We do.

When we read him books and he learns about things, Owen wants to know if it's something he can put in his hand, or if it's something he can eat. So, for example, if you point to a flower, he'll ask "hand?". Yes, Owen, you can put that in your hand. "Eat?" No, Owen, you don't eat flowers. Then the next time he sees that thing, we will identify it as Hand or Eat. Sometimes he plays a joke with his car book and says he can Eat them, but giggles the whole time.