Mama's Little Helper

Last week, The O and I endevored to make a batch of good ol' chocolate chip cookies for Bible Study. It's probably a good thing our fellow studiers of the Bible did not see the cookie-making process or they might have hesitated sampling one. Just kidding! We kept everything very sanitary, although Owie had quite the sugar buzz afterwards!

Owie is doing a good job helping Mom "stir"

"Mama turned her back for a second! I'll just taste a tiny sample!"

After the cookies were all done, I discovered that Owen is a very zealous spoon-licker. He must get that from me! The cookies turned out great!

Happy Half Birthday to O!

July 21 was Owie's one and a half year birthday. This is a holiday, known as the "half birthday" and not recognized universally, that gets high status in my eyes. We made it a great day of small celebrations for O. Jeremy was off of work, so we got to spend the whole day together.

We enjoyed fig newtons at Owen's Big Boy table and chairs...that he is now big enough to sit at alone.

We opened gifts, including a wonderful new counting book, O's first box of crayons and a new Boz DVD.

We tried to hit the sprinkler park, but alas the water was off for the day. Instead, we went to Wendy's, where O was allowed to make as huge of a ketchup mess as he wanted (wish I had a picture of that!) and then straight home to play as long as his little heart desired in the tub.

O got a popsicle in the tub ( a treat that speech therapy recommended to help O learn to keep his lips closed). It is working beautifully!

Quite the jokester!

That's a suspicious little face. I probably don't want to know what just went on in the tub!

I had to get at least one "artsy" shot!