Owen counted to five this week! He's been obsessed with the 'meet the numbers' video my mom got him for Christmas, and a couple of days ago when we were putting markers away in the box, he counted them off as he put them in, all the way to five. I was REALLY impressed. This feat has not since been duplicated :) He also really seems to be getting the association of numbers and addition. I gave him one piece of candy the other day and he said, 'Mo? Mo? Two!' That accomplishment earned him a second piece, indulgent mommy that I am.

Also associated with said movie, Owen looks at his Cracklin' Oat Bran every morning now and gets a big smile and says 'We-wo! (Zero!), Ffwooo (blowing sound), Pop!' In the video, the number zero blows bubbles with a bubble wand and they pop in the air. He also knows the letter 'O', so I'm not sure how he assigns zero to the cereal instead of O.

Owen LOOOVES mediterranean curry flavor near east brand cous cous. He is a fairly picky eater, so this was a big surprise. He ate about half the box in 2 days.

We went to the Mus. of Science this morning and had a great time. We visited the tamarin monkeys first and there was a quiet classroom of ~5th graders observing the monkeys' behavior sitting in the stands. Then we walked in. Owen paid no mind to social rules that would lead one to also be quiet when walking into a room of quiet people. Instead, he started jumping up and down saying 'Bih! (Big!) Tees (Trees!) Ooh Ooh Ah Ah (monkeys!) run! run! Ala! (Water!) Hay! Ooh Ooh Ah Ah! The 5th graders were giggling quite a bit.

Well, my napless one is tiring of his crib sentence for today so I'm going to go release him. I thought sure the Museum would tire him out, but nope. I want to take a nap so badly but I can't manage to do it when he stays awake, my brain won't let me. Alas.