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!