Growing, but still my baby;)

Owen will be 17 months on thursday! I cannot believe it. we feel so blessed!  He hasn't grown a whole lot physically, only about an inch since and not quite a pound since we picked him up. But, mentally, he is a little sponge and tries to learn everything!  He tries to copy us, his cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. He LOVES to follow older kids around and do what they do. He just did so this past weekend with his cousin Elijah. I swear with his new haircut, he almost looks like Elijah's little mini-me, LOL! 

He is doing really well, and I can't believe that next Friday 07/08/11 is our 6 month post placement eval!  It's hard to believe that we were over in Russia just 6 months ago picking up our "little Rascal" as Andy likes to call him;)  He's so fun to watch and play with. He was really cute yesterday, playing with his snoopy blanket putting it over his head and walking around, like a little ghost:) I swear he looks like Linus too, carrying that blanket around:) 

He's our precious gift, and we cannot wait to get some extra time with him over this holiday weekend. He's still my little baby though, and I still rock him to sleep sometimes, and cuddle him. He is extra clingy to me since I've gone back to work, worried that I'm going to leave him everywhere we go since he's gone to the sitters. I do like being his ceenter of the world, but I also am anxious for him to learn that we're not going anywhere and he is always going to be with us. Hopefully he'll start understanding soon. I've been at work about 6 weeks now, so I'm hoping over the next 6 weeks he starts to feel better about visiting people. What's funny is he doesn't even cry in the morning when Andy drops him off to work. I think it's good that Andy is the one that is dropping him off, because I don't know if it would be different with me doing it.

Anyway, I am trying to learn how to be a blogger, it is difficult with being on the computer all day at work, and then wanting to spend time with Owen. I'm going to start working more on our site, to update information about our adoption process and timeline that we had with bringing Owen home. I'm hoping one of my family members will help me do it;)  (shout to Jessica and Theresa....:))