The Pumpkin Patch: Owen- 15 Months

This is a few days late… but better later than never! Owen turned 15 months last Friday and we celebrated by going to the doctor and getting shots!

Owen's 15 Month Stats:
Height: 32.5 inches (91st percentile)
Weight: 26.5 pounds (91st percentile)
Head Circumference: 47.5 cm (70th percentile)

Owen's Favorite (at 15 months)...
Toys:
-Play Kitchen, Cart of Food and Ikea Pots and Pans (he likes to walk around throwing items from the cart)
- All of Rex's toys (he likes it when Rex follows him around trying to get his toys back)
- Big Dump Trucks and Hotwheels/Matchbox Cars

Food:
-Cheese
-Grapes
- Milk… still getting 4 bottles a day but we learned at our doctor's appointment that he should be getting less milk from bottles and more from the sippy cup these days. We are working on this.

Development:
- Working on going down the stairs. He likes to try to walk down holding my hands.
- Working on vocabulary. He is behind other children his age in this area so I am trying to read to him more and trying to repeat easy words hoping some of them will stick. Owen should know 5 words at his age and he only knows 2.

House Projects

Just before Christmas, I got a new piece of furniture for the living room- a teal cabinet/console table. I needed something on the wall above it. So I decided to do a gallery wall. It turned out beautifully! I'm glad I did my research before taking on this project. It might look like a bunch of random things thrown up on the wall, but I did actually go through several steps to get it looking like that.

1. I had to decide on a color scheme. I wanted to pull the teal in from the table and also navy because I have navy pillow on my couch. I think gold looks really nice with teal and navy and I thought black frames would be better than white or brown frames.

2. First I looked through frames I had sitting in storage to see if I could use anything I already had (this was unsuccessful). Then I went to Homegoods and Hobby Lobby. I really hit the jack pot at Hobby Lobby.

3. Next I measured the area I wanted to cover on the wall and made a template on the floor. That way I could easily play around and get all of my items arranged perfectly.

4. I used kraft paper and outlined every item complete with an 'x' marking where the hook is to hang the item. Then, I taped all of the kraft paper templates to the wall. Once everything was up on the wall, I tweaked the arrangement to get it just right.

5. Finally, I hammered nails directly into the kraft paper using the 'x's' I marked. Then I hung my items. This step actually took the least amount of time. Here is the finished product…...