February

Doing a bit of drawing

Doing a bit of "cooking"

Testing his 13 teeth on an apple

Climbing high enough to reach his books on the 4th shelf

Good old Library books

January 09

Testing out the buggy frame (he climbed in, of course. Then we talked about snakes!)

Why we keep a long pillow around the top of his cot.

It was a long day...

Chasing some sheep with a bottle of rice. The idea was to shake it and they would come to get oats. Now they come for oats if they SEE us. Ü

Faking sleep.

December. The end of 2008!

Sorry this is a bit late, but ...December!

Guess what he's doing here? hehe. (Hint: he has a baby sister.)

He likes to walk on the treadmill, and he can turn it on and press the buttons. (There is a safety key, which we hide, for obvious reasons.)

Those little chairs come in handy.

A trike for Christmas (though he actually spends more time fixing it with plastic tools than riding it!)

Funny how, of all the Christmas presents, the $2 plastic toy from the supermarket is the favorite!

The sandpit is great, too!

November

Yesterday, Dec 3, we found a half-cut molar! Silly mummy thought that teeth came in order, and a new tooth would be next to one he already has. Alas, no. But it explains the odd behavior the last 3 days... dribbling, grizzling in the night, not wanting to have his bottle, asking for bikkies and then spitting them out, grizzling and naughtiness from dawn to dusk... oh yeah, and extra early mornings!

This one is on the top left, and I think 2 teeth will fit between it and the four front ones he has. Plus, there are lumps where new molars are bound to pop out soon. Sigh. Poor little boy.

Wearing Daddy's hat

Knitting again... now trying the "with yarn" version

Too clever for his own good. Now he gets growled at more!

Self portrait. I didn't even realize he could reach the camera, let alone turn it on and snap his foot, until I saw the flash Ü

Next he puts his foot up onto the top, but decides it might be a bit risky... maybe when he's nineteen months old...

October pics

The Adventures of Byron, monkey extraordinaire...

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Swinging from the treadmill...

Creative altitude adjustment...

Evel Knievel...





practicing running from danger (and saying "fast fast fast!")...

Top of the ladder...




UFO Spotting... Ü



Traversing the Wilds behind the shed (note tribal-style handprint in ash on face)...

Brushing up his Jungle Telegram skills...

In disguise (lion) with lion repellent (water)...

Top-of-the-range Adventure Equipment (hat and Wiggles thongs)...

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Word list: Got up to 300 and then mummy stopped counting. Talks all day.
Puts a few words together, like "Naughty. Tip. Water. Floor." Nods his head to confirm.
Chats to Jasmine. Calls her "little girl" and says "what doin? TV?".
Takes her toys when possible.
Goes to bed with no fuss, now. Parents will enjoy while it lasts.
Doesn't eat much. Runs around all day.

September

This month has seen a big jump in Byron's vocabulary. So I spent a week writing down all the words I heard him say. By the end of the week I had about 100 words, and he was adding new ones every day, just copying what he heard. He seems to understand most of the words he's saying (saying "stab" while poking Nathan with a pen, for instance) and he's starting to learn that he can ask for things and communicate a bit. Lots of fun.

Here's the list I'd written: (and how he pronounces them, if not properly)

Bella [Uncle Matt's dog. Very popular for a while]
Blanket (Blan)
Bath (Bahf)
bus
bird (buh)
bear
down
arm
brush (bahsh)
car
guitar (tar)
amen (ah meh)
eye
cheese
fly
chop
door
draw (door)
clock (kyock)
boat
book
dance (dass)
Byron (bine)
jump (jup)
Hi 5 (ha fah)
puppy
more
no
nappy (nap)
pants (pass)
outside (ow sah)
Jasmine (Jass em)
milk
pinch (pish)
knit
pull
home
hey
ice
mop
milo
mess
playschool (pay soo)
pasta
keys
mix
hot
Henny (Henry [the Octopus from the Wiggles])
Fifi [from a cartoon]
pear
oops
say
step
Zara
sock
wool
sleep (seep)
sweep (seep)
star
up
round
rain
shut
toes
table
toast
tea
story (soary or stay)
shower
top
turtle
sultana (tana)
stab
stuck
box
bottle
drip
fruit
dish
icecream
yogurt
hammer
don't
dad
mum
squirrel
drum
bang
well
chocolate
sharp


He also tries to sing bits of Wiggles songs, like "quack quack", "nummy, nummy" (from "Fruit salad"), "Ho To" ("Hot potato"), "toot toot", with various actions. hehehe.

He is very quick at climbing on the kitchen chairs, now, since he realized that he can reach a lot of new things.

Asleep on the bouncy again.

Doing the actions for "Fruit Salad"

Static little adventure cubby under the bouncy

Reading "Henny". It's actually a very glittery book called "Dolphin finds a star", but all he cares about is that little purple octopus you can just make out on the last page. That's when we discovered he could say "Henny!". Then, to make sure we understood, he repeated it a hundred times.

Caught eating sugar.

From August

In his little denims

"Dance, Teddy, dance." Teddy, with wool tied to his ears and baby shoes on his feet, gets taught to "dass dass dass".

Quite pleased with himself and his chair-climbing ability.

Asleep on the floor again!

New little utensils. He got the hang of the fork very quickly.

Having a go at "The Chronicles of Narnia".

Wearing his new mittens on his feet.

Having his lemon butter sandwich at his kid-sized table.