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.