Big Brother Owen

"Its me, Eh-yee! Its Big Bruvver Owen!"

This is the frequent refrain heard throughout our house. Well, that and "Owen, please stop touching your sister. Give her some room. Don't put your face right up to her's like that please. I'm trying to feed her, could you just wait a second, please." He loves her so very much, he can't help himself. Owen is constantly wanting to hold her, touch her, kiss, her, "yook" at her. Its driving me slightly crazy, but I also think its sweet. He's forever commenting on how cute or pretty she is and comes up with new nicknames for her on a daily basis. Today is Tico Eh-yee, which Will has told him he doesn't like as a name, but which Owen is sticking to. Yesterday it was Eh-yey Eh-yeephant. The other funny thing is that Owen calls her Elliot Anne a lot, far more than Mark or I do, we usually just call her Elly. He was having a bit of a temper tantrum yesterday about something or other and ended up screaming "I want to kiss Ehyeeot! I want to kiss Ehyeeot!" over and over. Well at least she'll know her full name. Of course, William loves her too, and also frequently asks for "one more kiss" from the baby, but Owen is particularly besoted right now.

Unfortunately, these photos are blurry, but I think they capture the devotion quite well. (And yes, that is the same outfit she had on in the other photos...it was the same day, when I had two minutes to actually take photos! I promise to try to blog more and add more photos soon. Since the boys are awake at 6am, they don't nap anymore and Elliot has a fussy period from about the boys bedtime until her's at 10pm, there's never a moment in the day for me to get things done. But once a routine establishes itself, and if we have more days like this one, where the babe is sleeping in and the bruvvers are playing with Daddy in the basement, I'll be back to a more regular blogging schedule. I have so much to say and write posts in my head throughout the day. Maybe one day soon it will transfer itself onto the blog! For now I hope you can live with the occaisional photo I manage to put up)