Owen

Our eldest son has completely turned into a different little boy over the last few weeks. Kindergarten has turned him into a confident, outgoing little maniac. He has done so many things that we never thought he would do until he was maybe 10 years old...! A few weeks ago we went to AppleFest here in town and when we arrived we asked Owen if he wanted to ride on a pony. He said no and we both just thought he was too scared to do that but when we jokingly asked him if he wanted to ride on the elephant, he said "sure".

When he arrives at Kindergarten in the morning, he now eagerly goes into the fenced-in area to play with his friends and hardly notices us as we leave.

He runs away from us in public places now too. I absolutely hate this and I have had to become "that mother" in the grocery store when I have to sit him down and yell at him for scaring me

when I can't find him.

A lot to be thankful for...

Lately, in photos and a few words...

We went for a long hike on Sunday:

Owen has never been a kid that likes to draw or colour. Up until yesterday, we had never seen a legible drawing from him at all. Yesterday he showed us this picture and Scott and I blamed eachother for trying to pass off our own drawing as his to trick eachother. It turns out Owen is now all of a sudden able to draw things like smiley faces! He's been doing a lot of printing and drawing at kindergarten lately and it's obviously starting to sink in!

We also went pumpkin searching and apple picking on the weekend:

I love this picture of the boys:And here is a picture that sums up our lives with these two crazy kids these days. They are soooo loud and soooo wild all of the time they're together. We don't even bother cleaning this glass door anymore because it's frequently used for slobber episodes like this: