Friday, September 23, 2011

Fun weekend

Owen had a couple of extra play buddies around this past weekend when our friends Chris and Leslie, and their two boys (Eli, 2, and Jacob, 9 mo) came down for a visit from Raleigh. Owen and Eli had fun "fishing" in the screened in porch, reading stories, playing with trains, and running around the Aquarium. Jacob did his best to keep up with the older boys using his impressive seal-crawl skills.



Last night, when another friend stopped by, Nate had Owen practicing all the various sounds he can make (e.g., "Owen, what noise does a cow make?"...."mooooooooo"). Nate threw in a new impression for Owen to imitate, that of my various grunts and groans, which I can't seem to avoid when attempting to get up from any seated or prone position these days. Clearly, Owen thinks Dad's impressions of Mom are spot-on: