18 months, 4 weeks

On 'Wellington's Best Slide' with dad :-)

Owen is growing up so fast! His understanding is so sophisticated I feel like he is almost all grown up already and if you could get him to sit still and watched carefully enough you could almost see him getting taller. I guess there is a whole lot more to come though!

18 months, 3 weeks

Having fun with the water feature in Te Papa

18 months, 1 week

Walking up the Mount Victoria lookout with dad

18 months, 2 weeks

Owen with his English grandparents after testing out his awesome new balance bike

Owen has started putting two words together in short sentences this week, like 'daddy work' after seeing Ian leave for work in the morning.

18 months

17 months, 3 weeks

Having fun with grandma and great grandma!

17 months, 2 weeks

Owen contending with corn on the cob.

He can now recognise and name "O" for Owen :)

17 months, 1 week

Here is a picture of owen just casually hanging out with a tiger..

We tried counting up all the words we could think of that Owen could say and got about 75, there were definitely more we didn't think of and he is learning more all the time. This morning he was going through the fridge pointing at everything for me to name it. He took particular delight in the word marmalade. He also thinks the words, elbow, pumpkin soup and tiki are very funny.

17 months

16 months, 3 weeks

Helping out in the garden.

16 months, 2 weeks

I'm ready for my bath now!

16 months, 1week

<p dir=ltr>16 months, one week</p>
<p dir=ltr>Took Owen to the beach and he had an absolute ball. He was so excited when we got there he just ran around laughing for about 10 minutes. </p>
<p dir=ltr>He is most definitely a toddler now, not a baby. He loves the word 'no' and is starting to test boundaries. He learns more words every day and is still obsessed with being read to. It is his first word when he wakes up, the last thing we do before sleep time and one of his favourite things to do during the day too! (He even has requested books in the middle of the night in the pitch dark, I'm not even sure if he was awake or sleep talking!) </p>

15 months, 1 week

15 months, 4 weeks

Owen enjoying the lovely summer sun

15 months, 3 weeks

Owen is learning more words every day, and can now pick out an 'O' from a page of text and point to himself :D

14 Months 1 Week

14 Months 1 Week
Owen is getting more and more confident moving around.
He can now climb up an entire flight of stairs!

14 Months

14 Months

Owen has grown up so much! He is a real toddler now. He can understand heaps of what we say to him and is learning more every day. He has a lot of words now, if they count as words his first words were 'woof woof' and 'meow', and 'dropped' followed soon after. He can now say quite a few more, and understands things like "Shall we put the blocks in the box?" or "Can you go and give that to grandma?" even if grandma is at the other end of the house! He is very excited about learning to use cutlery and copying all the things he sees us do around the house. In this picture you can see him mimicking me blowing bubbles for him. He also loves brooms and sweeping and the vacuum cleaner and brushing his teeth and 'weeding' the garden. Let's hope these interests continue!

13 Months, 3 Weeks

13 Months, 3 Weeks
Owen with his very first hockey jersey, a gift all the way from England (thanks Pelbee!)

Well, it has been a while. You miss one week and you just lose the momentum :S  I've still been taking the photos, so I will try to backfill.

37 Weeks

37 Weeks
Owen adores spending time in the garden, unfortunately
now it is getting colder time outside is going to be limited.
Owen understands when I say and do the baby sign for milk now
which is pretty cool; he is starting to eat more solid food now too

36 Weeks

36 Weeks
Owen is absolutely obsessed with standing up.  He constantly wants to pull himself up to standing holding my hands - he hasn't yet figured out you can use inanimate objects as leverage as well though. The other exciting things he has learned are how to turn pages in his books by himself (so long as I hold them up for him to get a grip on), how to kick a ball and he seems to understand his first baby sign for 'milk'.