July 21st, 2010 at 4:57 am
by Mommy (Development, Generally being cute, Social)
Trevor has made up a new song which goes along like this “Apple falls from the tree and bird poops…” and then some mumbling and repetition and so on. He is in a propeller phase where he must look at the propeller of every boat we pass. He is speaking more Croatian words though he is not interested in grammar. He wants me to jump into “mora” (sea) and when he is in the shower says “not my hair, only tjela (body)”. He is starting to say “Dobar dan” (good day) now and then and his firetruck “gasi vatru” (puts out the fire) and when sun goes down there is “samo mjesec” (only moon) in the sky.
Trevor is more comfortable with the “mora” now though he thinks other people should jump first. He now has a lot of friends on the beach, though most of them are at least 20 years older than him. Yesterday, a new girl was standing with some of his friends and he got her to put on his shoes and go play in the sandbox with him very smoothly. As always, he is cautious around kids his own age.
Owen-towen is growing like a weed too. He now has top teeth. Ironically, they are the I-teeth so now he looks like a little baby vampire. He has mastered crawling though he still does not do it too much. He is still the most distracted baby while feeding, but now he can actually get back to the boob after he rolls away from it. He has also figured out to go to the fuller boob once the one he has been draining is empty.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 10:03 am
by Mommy (Social)
Mommy, Owen is kicking me!
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March 29th, 2010 at 4:34 am
by Mommy (Development, Social)
Owen is almost at the stage where he can sit in tripod position. He can sit now, but only for a moment until he falls over. He must have been going through a growth spurt because he has been eating a lot. It seems to have slowed down now. He is paying more and more attention to his brother and all other goings on. He is no longer content to just lie around and get massaged or tickled during bath time, he wants to be held so he can kick and dance around with his feet. He is very social and the more I hold him and entertain him, the more he smiles and laughs.
Trevor is making new logical connections, today he discussed the difference between knee and leg with daddy. He managed to dress himself to go outside with no help whatsoever, including zipping up his jacket. He has a few tricks to make Owen laugh. For example, he sits or lies on his belly or legs and Owen giggles and smiles so I assume it far from bothers him. Trevor is still very interested in beavers so he gets Chris to show him different videos on YouTube.
Trev will need to work on understating smiles for the camera. This weekend at his grandma house, Trev asked me to put Owen in the toy stroller so he can push him around. Owen seemed happy enough with the situation so we run to get a camera. It went something like this:
“Smile!”
“Ok, don’t smile.” At this point he realised that the wheels on the stroller were bending and demanded that Owen be taken out of the stroller lest it broke. We managed to convince him to do another pose before taking Owen out.
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December 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
by Mommy (Development, Events, Social)
Owen Christopher was born this Sunday morning at 8:18 AM. He weighted just under 3 kg (6lb 9.5oz). He decided to join us after a night out in Carleton Place. We had a nice dinner and went to a pantomime show a friend of ours was acting in. Owen was active the whole night and half way through the second act I started feeling contractions. After the show we quickly said goodbye to our friends and rushed home for some last minute preparations and a nap. Around 1:30 it was time to go to the hospital where we arrived at shortly after 2AM. Everything went really well and Owen was born in the morning.
Because we had planned a night out, Trevor had spent the previous day and was sleeping over with his cousins. He ended up spending an extra day with them and had a great time, particularly at the Christmas party in the Lansdowne Park. He was quite curious but cautious when meeting Owen eventually declaring “I like Owen”.
So far Owen has been pretty easygoing. He naps a lot and is a good feeder. He has the funniest little screech though we don’t hear it very often since, when he is hungry, he just opens his mouth.
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October 30th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
by Mommy (Development, Social)
Trevor is slowly nearing that 1000 questions a day phase. He is being very observant about his environment and is constantly commenting on things around him. This morning, he was reading his “The Very Lonely Firefly” book where the scene starts after the sun has set. He pointed out that it is dark, both on the page and outside. Sometimes he makes silly mistakes. For example, on Sunday we were coming back from the hockey game at the Civic Center and he pointed out the “other” Moon. Chris and I were a bit perplexed until Trev explained that the “original” Moon only shows up at night.
Trev is now able to tell me a sentence or two about what he did in daycare that day. He is also eating on his own more, though it really depends on the dish. If it is chicken soup with alphabet pasta, or cream of wheat, he will eat it on his own without prompting. With pasta he will eat about half the plate and then ask for help. He has no interest in eating his morning cereal on his own.
Trevor is very athletic and he loves to play hockey with the 10 and 15 year old boys at daycare. They seem to like playing with him and say that he has very good skills. He has tried to convince the two year old girl to play with him as well but with much less success. He can get her into other trouble, however, and their latest fun thing to do is spilling water in the bathroom and skipping naps.
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July 18th, 2009 at 7:55 am
by Mommy (Events, Social)
This is our last full day on the coast. I haven`t seen Trevor too much because he is in dida-daycare pretty much the whole day. He is having tons of fun. He looks like he has grown and has almost a surfer dude look with his dishoweled dirty blonde hair and mischievous grin.
He has adjusted well to the life on vacation. In the morning we start with a nice cup of milk at the caffee.
Followed by some running around the town. 
A nap and then off to the beach. 
First to get all muddy… 
Then get rinsed off in the sea during swimming lessons with auntie Babar. 
Put the sun to bed. 
And then home for crepes. 
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July 11th, 2009 at 9:54 am
by Mommy (Development, Events, Social)
Trevor is as happy as a tornado in a trailer park as he now has his dida and auntie to play with him. Amazingly enough, I have not any pictures with me at the moment though many, many pictures have been taken since we got here. I will add a few later when I get to them.
Despite the fact that he never bothers speaking in Croatian when he is with me, as soon as he got here, he showed off his linguistic foo and amazed everyone with the command of his mother tongue. He got a bit lazy since and slipped back into English, but hopefully it is just a front.
He is very active and happy. He climbs on chairs and in and around his crib. He has not yet climbed out of it though he tries quite often. There is a little zipper that lets him get in and out without climbing and he usually asks us to open or close it.
He is quite good at listening to us and, since we got here and we explained to him that he has to be careful with old glass doors he has not hit or slammed them, he carefully opens and closes them.
Yesterday we went to the zoo and he had a great time. He does not yet have a favourite animal though his preference for puddles got the adults in a little twist.
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June 18th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
by Mommy (Development, Social)
Trevor is getting quite good at four word sentences. He is also getting into the habit of pointing out things whose names he knows. Whenever we pass the fire station he says “fire engine” and “fire engine house”. He points out every single city bus on our way to daycare in the morning.
Trev is very good at getting into his crib, but is still trying to find a way to get out. He likes the idea of potty, but has not translated theory into practice.
On the weekend we had our first swim of the season. Trevor loved floating in the boar and jumping in the pool.
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May 28th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
by Mommy (Events, Social)
We’ve had a lovely trip to Vermont the other week. We were in Southern Vermont, close to Manchester. We stayed at Wiley’s Inn, which apart from having plenty of room to run around, an outdoor cat and birds right outside the dining room window, had a big play room with lots of toys. This made the big difference, particularly in the morning when Trevor went to play while Chris and I were getting ready.
We went for a hike the first day and it was really nice. Trev walked a little bit, particularly when he got to yield a walking stick. Though we convinced him to hop into the backpack for the steeper parts.
The rest of the weekend was too cold to hike so we went to visit a few farms and small towns. Trevor thought that animals, particularly chickens, were hilarious.
The trip there and back was pretty good, considering it is a 6 hour drive. Trevor was amused by large trucks and trailers though he did get bored here and there. Fortunately he thought navel oranges are hilarious so we were able to distract him. On the way back we hid a few books and toys and brought them out strategically to keep him amused.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
by Mommy (Development, Social)
Trevor and I have been trying to make the most of the beautiful weather that we’ve been having. We have been biking and going to different parks. He is getting quite skilled with the play structures and loves going down slides.
Yesterday we went to the aviation museum with his friend Annabelle. They were so cute, they were holding hands whenever they needed to walk to a different area.
Trevor is starting to get more out of his Sportball class, every time he is able to follow more directions and do the exercises more accurately.
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