Happy Valentine's Day!

First thing this morning, Owen discovered his Valentine's present. We bought him a craft table and its now in our family room. He has been loving art projects so much, I wanted a place where we could do them here at home, and Owen was very excited to sit at it.

Owen is feeling much better today, you can tell he's much more himself, because he's been walking all over the place, playing well, and eating again. His fever has been down now for 2 days, and he's also getting more talkative again.

We went to Owen's class party, there were other parents there that came for lunch, so it was nice to meet some of the other Mom's & Dad's. Owen was afraid that I was going to leave at first, but he started to warm up and played independently, even ventured away from me and had fun.

It will be interesting to see how he handles school tomorrow when I actually have to leave again. But it was nice to see him there and having fun. All the kids had a good time, each Mom had brought in a treat, Owen and I brought in Jello Blocks. The kids loved it.

Then we left there and went to Gymboree. We were about 10 min late, but we still had plenty of time to have fun. We got to see Sofia and Ms. Robyn who had a very scary night last night - Sofia got a bout of Croup, and ended up going to the ER in an ambulance. She's OK, and not contagious, but they were very scared last night. Hopefully their Valentine's day only got better.

Owen was very cute, I know he was getting tired, because this was our 2nd party, and well past his nap time, but he was just adorable, loving the bubbles.

After a 3.5 hour nap from Owen this afternoon, we exchanged some Valentine's cards and presents. Owen gave Daddy the photobook he had made, it was so cute - I gave it to Owen and said - give that to Daddy, and he walked over and handed it to him, it was adorable. Owen and Daddy gave Mommy some flowers and a nice new bag for my laptop.

We then cooked a nice dinner, and Owen gave Daddy a very nice gift. He has stopped saying Dada and is now very clearly saying Daddy... Mama has never been more jealous.

Owen's walking is getting much stronger also. He is really developing a desire to walk everywhere vs. before when he would walk some places and crawl others, now he pretty much toddles all over the house, only crawling if he is playing or fallen and can't get back up. He's also started standing up unassisted. He's not doing it consistently yet, but when the will is strong, he can actually stand and maintain his balance with out pulling up. This is very impressive to see, because he has seemed to master it so quickly after starting to walk.

Here's one more from today, Owen loves to echo Daddy, and one of his favorite words is UhOh, when he drops something or falls down. Can't help but post this cute video.

What a wonderful and fun Valentine's Day.