Getting Big Pushes from Strong Owen

My friend Owen is so big and strong. After pushing my friend Olivia around on the car, he still had energy and enthusiasm to push me. His mom even took off his socks and shoes for extra grip on the wood floor. Owen had pretty good speed too on the straight-aways. Corners were a bit tricky, and an adult had to get us turned around, but all in all, I'd rather have Owen push me over my mom or dad any day!

I Don't Know!

Over the course of this past year, I have learned many things. But I have to admit there are many things I still have to learn. When I am confused, I can now express my incomprehension by shrugging my shoulders and raising my hands, to indicate to my mom or dad that I need further understanding about something. However, the reaction I get from them is laughter and then they point their fingers at me and imitate my expression! So I guess they don't know everything either! We're in for a bit of a time then this coming year!

I Am One Year Old!!

I had a weekend long celebration for my birthday. My Gramma and Grampa came out from Kelowna on Saturday, so I opened up some presents with them. Under this wrapping paper is a Giggle Care Bear from my Auntie Karen who couldn't be here with me because she is living in the Cayman Islands. I miss you Auntie!!
This is a cool present from my Gramma and Grampa--it's a Noah's Ark with fuzzy animals that fit inside the boat! Cool present!
The change of outift means it's Sunday--the day of my birthday party! The celebration started off to a good start when my friend Ella came over and she made me laugh and laugh by chasing after balls that popped out of this toy beside me. I normally just watch the balls pop up and fall down around me, so this was quite entertaining to see her run after the balls. I'll have to try that sometime!
These are some of my friends who came to my party. When the party was in full swing, I had 14 children in my house (ages 2 months - 8 years old) and 8 adults (ages 32 - ???) I had a great time. My dad made a chocolate cat cake (more birthday pictures to come from other cameras) and I got sung to and I opened even more presents! It was a great day to be one.

Play Group Birthday Party

My playgroup friends and I had a joint one year birthday party today because we were all born in Janaury last year. First there was Jacob (not in the picture) then Charlie (not in the picture) then me, then Keira (who you see just walking away), then Owen (sitting to my left). Wow, time sure has flown by! It feels like it was just yesterday that I was brought home from the hospital!
Before the festivities really got under way, I decided to try out my walking. My mommy was nice enough to follow me around the room as I held on to her hands. As much as I like this new way of getting around, I think I'll wait a bit longer until I try it out on my own.
Then Owen's mommy handed out these party hats. Owen actually kept his on during the party, but I didn't like the feel of the elastic on my chin. For some reason my mommy thought this was funny. Go figure.
Then it was time to blow out the candles. There was a problem though....none of us knew how to blow out candles! I thought the cake was pretty (made by Jacob's gramma) and I tried to touch it, but my mommy was fast and thwarted my effort. I'll try again on Sunday when it's my own party! Then we sat down and ate some good chocoate cake. It sure is fun having a birthday!

Bath Time Fun

So here I am having my bath. This is one of my favourite times of the day. No matter how cranky I am, when my feet hit the water, I become a new baby. The picture where I am not looking at my mom's camera, I am actually studying the effects of how my hands moving through the water very rapidly produce different sizes of waves. I have learned to get the waves quite high and often I can even splash my mom--who is not even in the bath!














This other picture represents my first bubble bath. My dad always gives me a bath on sundays, so he came up with the cool idea of adding my shampoo to the WATER (as opposed to my hair which my mom always does). This created a very cool effect---bubbles!! My dad even put these bubbles on my head to make me a little hat! Alas, it's back to normal baths with mom from monday-saturday. I can't wait for sunday to come again!

Church photo

So I had to get my picture taken today after church for the new church directory. I didn't really want to get my picture taken because I was grumpy and I just wanted to leave, so I started to cry. My gramma tried to get me to cheer up by waving my toy Elmo around over her head very quickly. So the expression you see in this picture is a actually a show of concern over the fate of Elmo---fearing that he would shoot out of my gramma's hand and land on the floor. However, it all turned out okay, the picture was taken (without a smile from me), and I got to go home for lunch and a nap!

Fun Times With Food

I love eating apples. I actually can hold the apply if it is small enough. For this picture, however, my Mommy held the apple for me because it was a bit too big for my little hands. I don't like the skin though, because I choke on it, which makes my eyes water and then Mommy gets a concerned look on her face. But with the skin off, I'm good to go!

Playing with my toys

This is one of my favourite parts of my day...sitting on Mommy's clean floor and dumping out my two boxes of toys. I love to scatter all of my toys around me so that I am surrounded by toys. I can actually get some good distance on the lighter ones. I also like to stack my toys, especially my mega blocks. I can stack them on the sides of the box, or if the box is right side up, I can put the blocks back inside the box---but this is usually Mommy's job, so I'll leave it mostly to her. I also have this toy piano that makes cool noises when I press on the keys. I'll be just like Mommy in no time!

Cuddles With My Daddy

I love my Daddy very much. Here we are on New Year's Day, lying together on Mommy and Daddy's bed. My Daddy was very sleepy and he wanted me to sleep with him because he (and Mommy) didn't get much sleep last night as they were out at a couple of parties. I, on the otherhand, slept great and was in no need of a nap that day. Eventhough we didn't sleep together, we cuddled and I played with my Daddy's nose while he was resting. By the way, I now can point to various parts of my body: toes, hands, tongue, sometimes ears, and today I learned belly!