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!