3 (3.5) months

Dear Owen,

Well actually, you are now half way to 4 months, but we have just been so busy having fun with you and Levi that I have barely had time to sit down and breathe this summer:0)  You have already done so much in your short little life – road trips and music festivals, visiting tons of family and friends, and lots of camping trips!!  But now, at your 3.5 month mark your personality is coming through strong and clear, and I couldn’t love you more!  These are a few of the things we now know about you that further show us you were always meant to be here.

1)      You love being outside more than any baby I have ever known.  Stepping outside of the house you look up at the trees in amazement.  Your arms and legs slow and still and you lean your head back and stare open mouthed at all of it.  You can ride around for hours outside in on of your many slings and never make a sound. 

2)      You are a natural camper (most likely because of #1 above).  You have now been camping at 2 music festivals, Edisto Beach State Park, Smoky Mountain National Park, and 1 ill planned private campground near Chimney Rock (don’t worry, we won’t do that again).  You’ve loved every minute of it. 

3)      You love to swim.  I have to admit this one took me by surprise a bit.  It took us 2 years just to get your brother in the water, and truly he only began to really like it about a month ago.  Which coincidentally, was when I decided to stick your feet in the pool one day and you didn’t scream.  You just kind of looked at me like, “now what?”  So I took you in with me and your whole face lit up.  You swam around kick kick kicking your little legs for 45 minutes.  I eventually pulled you out because your lips where starting to turn blue but you were so happy in the water. 

4)      You have developed a personal alarm system that every younger sibling should have.  If Levi does anything to you at all that does not meet with your approval – you send off an immediate blood curdling scream that could raise the dead.  He cannot so much as look at you sideways without our knowing.  Clearly you were destined to be a younger brother.

5)      Speaking of Levi, he thinks you hung the moon (and the stars and the sun…)  First thing when we wakes up every morning he crawls over us to give you kisses and the last thing he does at night is stand next to your crib and blow you kisses.  He’d rather “snuggle” next to you on your playmate than do anything else, and he likes to hug and whisper into your ear how much he loves you.  Yesterday while he was laying on the floor next to you I heard him whisper “Baby Owen, I love you with my whole heart”, and I thought right then that nothing could be more perfect.

6)      Every time I look at you, you smile and my heart explodes

Love,

Mama