It's only been 5 days and already I'm totally missing Ritchie. It's kind of weird but ever since she left, there has been so many things have been asked of me regarding weddings.

Happy Chinese New Year to all! It's the year of the Ox and so far the year has started off well but it's already had some bumps.

I finally got around to uploading some more photos, all the way back starting from October of '08. Hit em up in the gallery if you want!

It's been a great holiday, a needed 2 weeks off from work, and a lot of family time in between!

I had one other objective this holiday, and that was to make a proper mudroom in the back entrance of our house.

Happy New Year Everyone! I just thought that I would journal all the words that Rowan can say at this point in time:

1. Mama
2. Ma
3. Mum
4. Dada
5. Yeah Yeah (Grandpa)
6. Bak Bak (Great Grandma)
7. Uh-oh
8. Wow
9. Oh My
10. Light
11. Duck
12. Truck
13. Water
14. Hockey
15. Ball
16. More
17. Mum-mum (when he's hungry)
18. Poo poo
19. Vroom
20. Beep
21. Juice
22. Apple
23. Nana (Bananas)
24. Fish
25. Roar (When he sees animals)
26. Upstairs
27. Up
28. Down
29. Elmo
30. Roro (his own name)
31. Owie
32. "da" (after we sing "Oh Cana...)
33. Rice
34. Noodles
35. Boom boom (What he calls drums)
36. Clock

I think that's it for now. He's working on a few new words but I'll update that later on! Amazing how fast the little guy learns!

Other notable accomplishments:

1. Going poop in the toilet (3 times successfully as of today).
2. Climbing all the way up the staircase, and climbing half way down.
3. Putting food in his mouth with a spoon or fork 20% of the time.
4. Telling us when he has a poo poo or want to poo poo 20% of the time.
5. Climbing chairs.
6. Playing Wii Music.
7. Smiling on command in front of a camera.
8. Giving things to people we ask him to.
9. "Slam Dunk"
10. Kicking balls and other toys.
11. Turning the TV on and off.
12. Opening the DVD tray on the DVD player.
13. Wiping his own mouth with a napkin.
14. Playing Peek a Boo with his own hands.
15. Playing a kazoo.
16. Dancing, especially to the Hot Potato song from the Wiggles.

There are a few more but these are the things that jump out of my mind at the moment. I can't wait to see what he'll do in 2009!