Thank You Auntie Liz!

Owen loves the books - thank you Auntie Liz!

Lanteigne Family Christmas

Frosty got one thing right

Owen has a bunch of family over visiting right now for Christmas, but he was more intetrested in sharing Frosty's carrot. Yummy!

Best Santa Photo Ever!

Maybe next year we'll get a good one... :)

New things

This is Owens new guitar. He pulled it out the other day, sat it on his lap, and started to play it while singing "Old MacDonald had a farm". It was great!

And next summer, Owen can sing to his new baby brother or sister. :) Check out Mama's blog for more details on the new baby.

Owen and Nathan

Owens cousin Nathan came over to play the other night, and this is how we found them: on chairs, watching TV and wearing these adorable hats. Thanks for the dress-up hats Auntie Lori!

Duck Park

Owen and I spent the morning at the Duck Park in Sardis. It was chilly, but sunny and dry - my favorite kind of weather!

Here is Owen looking at the ducks, playing on the swings, and then pretending to be a duck himself. We had so much fun!

Play Group

Play Group came over today. Owen is feeling 100% better, although he isn't eating much these days, I think his stomach really shrunk when he was sick. His gums don't bleed anymore and he lets me brush his teeth once again. He is so happy to get out of teh house now, or have friends over. Being sick is rough. I'm glad it's all over.

Feeling better

Owen went to daycare today for the first time in a week. He was so happy to get out of the house and play with his friends! He is on the mend but isn’t 100% back to normal yet. The one good thing that did come of all this is that Owen is weaned of his sucker. The last time had it was last Tuesday (6 days ago). Because his mouth hurt so bad, Owen refused it for a few days and no longer needs it. Yay! So Gabe and I hid them all and Owen doesn’t even ask for it anymore. Good bye sucker!

Dentist visit

We got home at midnight last night and Owen was asleep right away. At 1:30 he woke up sweating and screaming but fell asleep a minute later on my lap. I brought him into bed with Gabe and I. At 2:30am Owen woke up screaming again. This time we would not settle back down so I took him downstairs. We saty on the living room couch together for half an hour with Owen crying and shifting his position all the time. He finally asked for a milk bottle (which he chugged) and then I put him back to bed. I am so glad he is drinking – he hasn’t had much to drink since Monday and I am afraid he is getting dehydrated.

Then Owen woke up at 8am. We thought he would sleep more as he was up all night, but he woke up happy and wanted to get on with his day. So we got up and watched some cartoons. Owen drank my whole glass of grape juice, which was a large glass. I am so glad he is drinking lots!

Owen had a Dentist appointment today – his 2nd one. This one wasn;t as good as last time. Owen cried and didn’t like the chair. So he sat in my lap, and laid down with his head in the Dentists lap. The Dentist looked in Owens mouth 3 times and said that ll his 2-year molars seem to be coming in at once (the Doctor at the Hospiatl had told us that too).

Owens gums were bleeding way worse than yesterday and the Dentist said it was from me not cleaning them properly. What I need to do now is hold Owen down and properly clea his teeth and gums once a day every day. He said Owens gums might bleed while I do it for 2 weeks. But if they bleed for more than 3 weeks, than call him and come back because that is not good.

Owen also has skin growing between his two front teeth. If that doesn’t go away when he loses his abby teeth, the Dentist will have to cut that skin back. He said that is normal.

Owen didn’t have anything to eat all day, although he did have one more milk bottle before bed that night. He also had a 4 hour nap in th eafternoon.

Hospital visit

The three of us spent the evening at the Hospital tonight. Owens fever finally broke tonight around diner time. It has been between 102 and 104 since Tuesday. Papa put him to bed tonight while I was out at a baby shower. Half an hour after Owen went to bed he woke up screaming and covered in sweat. After at least a half an hour of screaming, writhing, and now calming down Gabe decided to take Owen to the Hospital. I met them there. We waited there from 9-11:30pm until we were tired of waiting and decided to go home. Owen was very tired, and had long since calmed down. He drank a juice box at the Hospital and ate a few squares of a Caramilk bar (left over from Halloween). That was the first food or drink he had had in over 24 hours. The nurses begged us to stay and said a new Doctor was coming in soon. We stayed and saw a Doctor within 10 minutes. He said Owens glands and throat were swollen, and Owens tonsils were red and inflamed. Owen also has some bleeding gums (we noticed this a little bit yesterday too). He gave Owen some Tylenol and sent us home. Owen was very well behaved for the Doctor and even sat on his lap. He said he has an owie in his mouth.

starting to feel better

After a pancake lunch (hey, I'll give him whatever he wants to eat after not eating solids for so long) this is all Owen wanted to do this afternoon - wear his sunglasses and cowboy hat, brush his teeth, and watch tv.

sick... ugh

Owen is sick. Well, we are all sick, but Owen has it the worst. He has an ear, nose, and throat infection. And a wicked cough too. He says his owie is in his neck (he means his throat). He hasn't eaten solid foods in over a week (besides the occasional piece of chocolate, and 1 bite of ham on Sunday).

Hopefully he will get better soon, but he seems to be gettign worse everyday. Lovely. We have a doctors appointment on Friday. How lovely is our medical system than when a child under 2 years old is this sick (and had a fever of 101 on Friday night) that the doctor books an appointment for him at the end of the week.

Pumpkin patch with Play Group

Well, it's that time again!

Play Group went to the pumpkin patch last Saturday for our annual paparazzi festival with our favourite orange vegetable!

Here are some pictures of Owen with his buddies (and Mama with her friends too) at the farm on Lickman. Can you find the photo where Owen decided enough was enough???

Mowing the lawn with Papa

Owen loves to help Papa mow the lawn!

Play house fun!

pool time

Yo, yo, yo! Gangsta's in da house!!!!!

Haircut and hats

Owen has a new haircut and it makes him look so grown up. Here is Owen playing with his cowboy hat (and saying "yee haw!") and trying on his new Halloween costume. Owen is going to be a pirate. We are teaching him to say "Arrrrr, matey!".

singing and playing

Owen, all on his own, sang "A, B, C, D, E, D, K" today. And he also sang "Now I know my A, B, C’s, next time…" I was so proud of him! He is so quick to pick new things up like that!

And later today, my girlfriend Jae and her boys, Jeremy and Adam, came over, and Owen crawled up the tree house all by himself. He smiled at me so big from the top – he was proud of him too!

Singing!

Owens favorite movie has always been "Musical Baby". He now asks for it by name – he calls it "Cul Baby" (he misses the music part in the title). And when he knows what parts are coming up he says them first (like "ta" and "dee"). Similarly, Owen is learning rymes and songs. In "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Owen sings the Baa Baa part, and in the alphabet song, Owen sings "Q, R", "W", and "Now I know…" It’s great to see how quickly he picks up on things!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Owen can now count from 1 to 10 all by himself! It is so awesome to hear him to do it! I am such a proud Mama!

Since the move...

As you may know already, we moved into our new house on Aug 7th. Here are some shots of Owen exploring his new domicile...

Here is Owen playing on his new quad... it actually broke and that was the only time he ever played on it becasue there were no others to exchange it wioth when we brought it back to the store, so he never got a new one. He will one day.

And here is Owen playing his new favorite game 'peek-a-boo'. He is looking at my through his laundry hamper. Owen likes to put it on his head and walk around thinking no one can see him. It is very cute.

And here is Owen hiding in the bathroom. We play chase and he will run and hide behind this thing in the downstairs bathroom and stick his little head as far behind it as he can (which isn't very far) and then I come in and 'find' him and then we laugh. He loves this game. In our old house his favorite hiding place was in his bedroom, behind the crib. He does like to hide in his bedroom closet, or tyhe main hall closet, but when downstairs there are no closets, so he hides in the bathroom. It's not the cleanest place to hide, but it could be worse. And this way I make sure to keep the bathroom really really clean.

"My new house"

Owen has a new house - and a new room - and lots of places to play!

We moved on Tuesday into a bigger (much bigger) house with a yard, and Owen is so excited! All three of us feel like this new house is our home now (although I think Owen felt that way before Gabe and I).

This is Owen (yesterday) pushing his lawnmower... er, rather... he is mowing the lawn! My friend Pam gave Owen this lawnmower and he loves it!

And here is Owen this morning posing with his bear. Now that Owen has a whole room for his toys where he can play, he seems to have renewed interest in his old toys. But Gabe bought Owen a little battery operated quad yesterday, so I'll post pictures of Owens excursions on that soon (once we give it to him).

And here is Owen playing in a moving box. He made us keep some of the empty boxes around for him to play in.

Camping at Tunkwa Lake

Owen is pretty upset to be home now. After camping at Cultus Lake one week and the Tunkwa Lake the next, being cooped up inside while we packand get ready to move in 10 days sure seems boring in comparison. He wantes to go for boat or wheeklbarriow rides, chase ducks and bugs and sit around a camfire eating marhsmallows. Inside sucks compared tobeign outside in good weather surrounded by friends.

To see more pictures of the trip, and hear a couple of good stories too, click here to go to Owen's Mama's blog...

Cultus Lake Camping Trip

Click the photo above to see mroe pictures of Owens most recent camping experience!

Highlights include:

• Owen swimming in Cultus Lake
• Owen's new 'big smile'
• Going to the waterslides
• Owen driving the boat
• Playing cards with Grandma
• Owen riding his very first tricycle
• and more!

17 months photo shoot with the bear

Here is the winner... although he does look a little scary...

a little late, but here are some more pictures...

Deanna had us and a few other Moms from play group with their kids and husbands (it was so nice to get all the Dads together finally) for a Canada Day BBQ.

Click the picture above to se all my photos...

Finally - a proper count!

October 2006
1. Mama
2. Papa (started off as "Bob-Pop", and became "Papa" in Feb 2007)
December 2007
3. This
4. That
5. Fish (it stated off as "hish", then went to "vish", and then became "fish")
6. Clock
7. Light
January 2007
8. Hot
9. Bye bye
February 2007
10. Nana
11. Baby (bay beh)
12. Kitty
13. Juice
14. Balloon
15. Spoon (it started off as "poon")
16. Blanket (it started off as "ba ba" and became "bay-kee" in May 2007)
17. Bottle (pronounced "bot")
18. Ball (it started off as "bap" or "bop" but became "ball" pretty quickly)
19. Hi
20. Yes
21. Jesus
22. Eye
23. Hat
24. Stairs (pronounced with a thick accent "sh-tay-eww")
March 7, 2007
25. Shoes
26. Chair
27. Cars (he sounds very English with this word – the ‘r’ is silent)
28. Please (it started off as "peeeee" and became "peese" in May 2007)
29. Sock
30. Off (Sock off is his first real sentence!)
31. Bowl
32. Boots
33. Up
34. Truck (pronounced "tuck")
35. Duck
36. Book
37. Bath (with a very long a – baaaaath)
38. Bum bum
39. Bubbles
40. Button
April 2007
41. Stand
42. Sit
43. Apples (which means apples or oranges – he calls them both apples)
44. Open
45. Close
46. Glasses (as in eye-glasses)
47. Toothbrush (which started off as "too-bah")
48. Uh-oh
49. Tractor
50. Sit down
51. Book
52. Sucky (what we call his soother)
* Bottle now sounds like ‘bot-tie’
May 2007
53. Tain
54. Breakfast
55. Dinner
56. Sausage
57. Puppy, and more often "hi puppy" (he puts ‘hi’ in front f a lot of things now too)
58. Soap
59. Outside
60. Hockey stick
61. Catch
62. Cheese
63. Sit down
63. High five (which sounds like ‘high pa’)
64. All done
65. Ana (as in Ana Wright)
66. Sasha (as in Sasha Wright)
67. Walk
68. No
69. Cookie
70. Airplane
71. Flower (which he pronounces "kow-ker").
72. Josh (as in Joshua Parson)
73. Circle
74. Kick
75. Poo-poo
76. Downstairs
77. Rock (he loves rocks!)
78. Water (as in a body of water and what is in his cup)
79. Kiss
80. Boat
81. Brush
82. Toys
83. Ow and owie (when he hurts himself)
84. Owen is even trying to say his own name! He calls himself Owie.
85. Mummo
86. Mine
87. Tickle tickle (‘dee-doh dee-doh’ and then he just touches you and you laugh)
88. Bouncy bouncy (for a trampoline)
89. Nose
90. Ears
91. Mouth

June 2007
92. Nial (kid in daycare)
93. Sophie (kid in daycare)
94. Jonah (as in Jonah Jordan, but he sometimes calls Christian that too)
95. Blocks (his little wooden blocks)
96. Thank you ( pronounced ‘ti ki’)
* Blanket is now said properly
97. Nap
98. Night-night
* Owen is trying to say ‘I love you’ – it warms my heart when I hear it!
99. Apple sauce (it’s so clear too!)
100. Bat (as in baseball bat – but for the most part he still calls them hockey sticks)
101. Horse (and the sounds they make – neeeeeeigh)
102. Bear (for any stuffed animal bear and as the name of the neighbors dog)
103. See yah (a very cute alternative to ‘Bye’)
104. Yeah (as in yes)
105. Cows
106. Sheepy (as in sheep)
107. Gnome (for the penile shaped gnome in the garden)
108. Doggie
109. Airplane
110. Big ball (he is saying a lot of 2 word sentences now)
111. Pool
112. Ta-da (when he is proud of what he has done)
113. Lion
114. Bike (for both motorcycle and bicycle)
115. E-I-E-I-O (when we sing Old MacDonald) – except he doesn’t say the ‘O’ part
116. Owen also tried to sing Twinkle Twinkle little stay and says ‘Twinkle’ pretty good (it sounds like Tinkle)
* He also often will sing "Up" in the song too – he is so smart!

Getting ready to move again...

Owen moved into this house where we are now when he was just a few months old. Now we are moving again, so Owen is practicing putting things in boxes - mainly himself. Hopefully this will be our last move for a while (a looooong while).

Big people dinner

Today for dinner we had chicken, potatoes, and corn - all 3 of us. Gabe decided that enough was enough and Owen could just eat what we ate. So he made Owen a little plate, cut everything up really small and gave it to Owen. Owen loved it! His favorite part was the corn.

Owen's new play place

Owen loves to play in my shower. He also loves to play in the walk-in closet. So sometimes I find shoes in my shower.

16 months with the bear

I always said I would do these monthly bear photos until Owen was bigger than the bear. Well he still isn't bigger if he is seated, but it is getting increasingly harder to get Owen to sit by the bear, or sit still period. We might be done these monthly bear shots at 18 months.

Pool Party!

Owen got to see his Play Group friends today which was great becasue we havdn't seem them for a long time. Owen got to swim (or rather, stand) in Keira's pool with Olivia, and he rode a car with Hayden, and shared his lunch with a few others too! It took him a little while to warm up to everyone, but soon enough he was running atround and talking to anyone who would listen. We had a great time!

My new cousin!

Owen got a new cousin on May 25th. Click the photo below to see more photos of our visit with the new baby (he doesn't have a name yet) on my online album.

The new baby

77 words!

My little chatterbox now says (at least) 77 words! And has full understanding of them all too! I am so proud.

2 new molars

Well now that Owen is feeling so much better he has let me look inside his mouth. He has two new molars. Now he has four molars in total. He had one with just the two sides poking through that is completely through now, and the other three just have the two sides poking through. He still has some teething pains, but is feeling soooooo much better.

We even got to go visit some friends today and Owen learned how to say "Ana" and "Sasha". Once we got home we played outside for a long time and Owen learned how to say "Yucky" (in regards to Papa's beer car ash tray - gross).

Thanks to everyone for your prayers and get well messages for my wee man during the roughest few days he has had in a long time. Hopefully it will be a while before we have to go through that again.

ear infection

Owen has an ear infection. Dr. LeGresley gave him a prescription of Apo-Cefachlor that he is supposed to take twice a day for a week and then he should be all better.

I put Owen down for a nap at 10:30 and he was up at 11:30 crying and soaking wet with sweat. His fever had broken. He was 98.6 then and 98.8 at 12:30. I think he is on the mend now. Pesky little teeth.

102.5

I made a doctors appointment for Owen today at 1pm. He still has a fever. It broke yesterday for a few hours (went down to 99 something), but it was over 101 when he went to bed although he seemed happy and in good spirits. Maybe it was because Grandma and Grandpa were here to play with him.

I got up at 6am this morning and took his temperature and it was 102.3 so I called in sick and decided to stay home and take Owen to the doctor. At 9am his temperature was 102.5 so I have him 1.5ml of Tylenol and called the BC Health Nurses line. They said it sounded like a virus or teething, but I should call the Dr. So I did and they want me to bring him in this afternoon. Since then he drank a full juice box (which is better than yesterday so far) and we watched Musical Baby and Nature Baby and then I put him down for a nap. Poor Owen, he is so lethargic. I know there is something wrong, but I hope it is just teething. He is never so out of it and cuddly. Mind you, I do like the cuddles.

Sick baby

Owen has had a temperature of 102 for 2 days now. I think he is getting more molars in as he doesn’t have diarrhea and isn’t puking. He is a super sucky baby today though and spent the last 2 hours on my lap with his sucker and blanket refusing to move. We watched Musical Baby and Nature Baby each twice and a Thomas the Train video once. He is now downstairs in his exersaucer (which he asked to go into) watching Nature Baby yet again. Thank God for these videos!

15 months photo with the bear

Sorry it's late... the actual "15 months old photo with the bear' is the top right hand one in the above collage.

Owen loves his chairs!

My godparents

Uncle Matthew and Auntie Krista are my godparents, and they came out for a vist last wekeend and we all went to the Aitrport for breakfast (and pie). We had lots of fun watching the helicopter land and the planes drive around. And then we went back home and I got to make Auntie Krista laugh with my tricks and my fake laugh (my Mama loves my fake laugh). It was lots of fun. Thanks for coming to visit Uncle Matthew and Auntie Krista!

So much so quickly

I am losing track of all the new things Owen can do now. He had a hot dog last week and liked it. He can say at least 10 new words and phrases now. He talks all the time – it is so cute! He knows a lot more stuff, can figure out so much more, and understands just about everything we ask him, or tell him, to do.

He says "breakfast", "dinner", "sausage", "please", "puppy", and more often "hi puppy" (he puts ‘hi’ in front f a lot of things now too), he says "soap", "outside", "hockey stick", catch", "tractor", and "all done" (which he says when he is finished eating).

When reading, if you ask him where things are (animals, ball, apple, etc.) he knows where they are and will point to them.

Owen turned 15 months old last week, and for all of you waiting for his picture with the bear I promsie it is coming soon (I hope to take it today). Owen is now 27 pounds (or maybe even heavier), and he is so big he can't fit on his change table anymore (so his legs now stick off the end). I just gave Owen his 4th haircut and it makes him look even more grown up. He has his four front top and four front bottom teeth, plus one molar top and one on the bottom, with another one coming in now. And Owen is now wearing size 24 month pants and size 2 tops.

Bath time!

More Kelowna pictures

I was told that I didn't post enough Kelowna pictures (Auntie Vic), so here are some more...

This is Owen pumping some serious iron! He loved the mini trampoline but was terribly afraid of the Pilate's ball. He overcame his fears, however, and by the second day was loving the big ball too!

And here we are at the park near Grandpa's house. Owen loves park now - the swings, slides, and everything else!

And this is Owen and Papa just chillin' after a hard day of playing and relaxing (Mama did some major shopping and scored Owen 3 new pairs of shoes (one of them is in the picture above). Grandpa has a balcony on the front of his house and you can see the beautiful view from the swing on there. Owen liked looking at the little boy and his dog ("euff") next door.

And this was us saying our goodbyes when it was time to go home. We just caught the tail end of their football game and decided to kick the ball around with Owen until he got sidetracked by a puppy ("euff"). We will miss you Grandpa Kim, Uncle Dusty and Uncle Jesse! Thanks for having us over! See you soon!

Yay Canucks!

Owen stayed up to cheer the Canucks on tonight...This was him happy after their 1st goal (to tie it up)
This is Owen calling Grandma... "Hey Gamma, did yuo see that great shot???"

And this is after they scored their third shot to seal the deal (the last goal was a few seconds later).

Yay Canucks!