Spelling

Well, Reuel and I were just blown away by hearing that the kids' cousin Miss Z (who is roughly Owen's age) was spelling phonetically and doing a bang-up job of it.  Genius! And then, lo and behold, Owen spontaneously tried it himself today.  This mom did not know he had it in him, so I was very excited and impressed to see that *some* of the work with reading we attempt must be making it through a sometimes stubborn noggin' :}  For the online baby book...Owen drew three pictures of himself on three post-it notes, and labeled them, 'Baby Owen', 'Toddler Owen', and 'Big Boy Owen'.  Except, he thinks the word Toddler is Tobbler.  And I don't correct him, because it's cute :)

'BAB OWEN'

If you're in the mood to decipher, you can see 'TOBLR' (well, Owen's version of R), and then his name 'OWEN'

 

This one says, "BIG BOEE OWEN'

I think Owen accurately captured a similar look for himself throughout the stages of his childhood, don't you?  :)  For some reason he's not big on drawing arms.  Or hair.  Just blobs and legs!  Having a dot for a nose is a recent innovation.  In similar news, he's started attempting to color in the lines, and uses different colors for different parts of a picture.  Apparently there is some healthy competition in his preschool class and the kids accuse each other of scribbling like babies, and this has prompted Owen to move his coloring up a few steps.  Nice!  (He used to be very content with taking one crayon, swiping it across the entire picture about 5 times, and pronouncing it 'Done!')

Fun to watch the kids grow and develop every single day.  Asher's hot on his heels...but that's for another day.