Owen's Monkey Business

Owen turned fourteen months last Thursday and it's a whole new ballgame. Since then, he has started: *eating some snacks and meals at his child-sized table and chair *picking said snacks out of the pantry and carrying his plate to the table *getting cat treats out of the pantry and sitting down with them to feed the cat. *pointing at balls, trucks, globes, balloons, dogs and other objects of interest in his books *getting great joy out of observing us and mimicking our every move An example of the last happened last night at my parents' for dinner. Grandpa spilled a glass of water on the carpet in the living room so I jumped up and ran to the kitchen to get towels. I had to run back and forth three or four times to get paper towels, then dishtowels, and so on. Owen watched me run with giggles and rapt attention. As soon as I sat down, panting and out of breath, he laughed wildly, stood up and threw his sippy cup on the floor to mimic spilling his own water, then started runn...