Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

So if you've been following my blog, you may have noticed I am somewhat of a...I don't want to call it "liar"...um, a teller of small exaggerated un-truths. For example - "Check the blog out soon! More updates will be posted!" And then three weeks later, the update might be posted. And another week after that, something else might get posted.

So, my small exaggerated un-truth for today...this will actually be my last Charleston post :) I claimed the pictures from the aquarium would be it, but...I misspoke.

I suppose this post isn't technically about Charleston...just about someone who lives there and something Owen received there. For Christmas, Owen received a very special gift from Aunt Katie. She was making him a cross-stitch blanket. (A little back-story...My great-grandma made each of her great-grandchildren a cross-stitch blanket when we were babies...all 35 of us. Jonah, the first great-great-grandchild, was the last baby to get a "Grandma Sewell blanket." My grandma had actually passed away a little more than a year before Jonah was born, but she had made one last blanket, in anticipation of some great-great-grandchildren she figured would be coming soon :)

When we opened Owen's present at Christmas, the blanket had just been started (actually re-started...long story!), and all we got to see was the picture from the package showing what it was going to look like. I suppose it was okay getting the present a little after Christmas, considering at the time, Jonah was only 4 1/2 months old, and this was the first cross-stitch anything Katie had ever made.

So, when Owen and I went down to Charleston last month, Owen got his Christmas present. He got it on May 25th - exactly 5 months after Christmas. His blanket is beautiful (and very well-made...it survived it's first trip through the washing machine)!

Owen's "Aunt Katie Blanket"

Owen loves sitting on his blanket and playing with some toys!

Owen also likes to lay on his tummy and play with the noses and eyes of the animals!

I cannot talk enough about how much Katie has meant to me these past few months (really a lot longer than that, but especially since I have been a mom). I don't know if Owen and I would make it if it weren't for her willingness to answer my 300 questions a day. :) I am in complete awe watching her be a mom to Jonah - she blows me away. With the risk of sounding completely moronic and cliche, watching her be a mom to Jonah makes me strive to be a better mom to Owen. Not in some weird competitive sibling rivalry way, but just in a completely inspiring way.

Sleeping with the fishies

So, there wasn't really any sleeping involved (or dumping dead bodies into the water), but in Charleston (don't worry, this is the last Charleston post), Owen took his first trip to the aquarium.  He loved it!  He was so interested in watching the fish swim around.  Pretty much like everything Owen does, it was so cute!!  As I had briefly mentioned before, I forgot my camera, but, my cell phone took a few alright pictures.  

Posing with some alligators (or crocodiles - who knows?) :)

"Hey wait, you gotta check this out!"

Loving the aquarium

Rub-a-dub-dub...

...two boys in a tub!

In Charleston, we thought it would be a way too cute (but, in a few years a totally humiliating) picture to have Owen and Jonah take a bath together.  They had a blast, and of course the pictures are adorable.  I think they are perfect blackmail material for when 13-year old Owen and Jonah are misbehaving!  

Their "Oops, we've been caught!" faces

Check out here.  Does anyone else see the resemblance? 

Seriously concentrating on their toys

6 Months!!!

Yuck!!

Owen is 6 months old already! I can't believe my baby boy is already a year and a half old. Don't get me wrong, I am so incredibly excited to see what's in store for Owen, and loving the stage he's at right now, but man, it is moving fast!

ETA: Thanks to our friend Hoop for pointing out how much of an idiot I am! Time isn't quite moving that fast - Owen isn't one and a half...just a half a year :) Don't worry - no missed parties!