16 months: photo session

I booked a photographer to take some photos of us when you were 16 months old. I was hoping to capture the milestone of you walking. Unfortunately, you didn't start walking until a week after the photo shoot! That's ok, we got some lovely winter photos of you all rugged up and doing our favourite things like reading and playing with bubbles. I love your smiles and even your frowns!

16 months: haircut

You do not like getting your hair cut but last month I found a kid's hairdresser that wasn't too far away and hoped that sitting in a model car and watching cartoons would be enough distraction for the hairdresser to get the job done. It kinda worked. At least your hair is shorter! The hairdresser had to work quick because you were not happy and squirmed everywhere. Here are some pics and a video.

 The finished hairstyle!

June daycare photos

Here are some photos from your month at daycare. I didn't see a June report from daycare unfortunately.

16 & 17 month sticker photos and video

17 months old and so mobile! You are getting more confident walking around, especially if you have a goal and destination! You look so proud of yourself while you're walking, with a big smile on your face. You also dance a lot now, with your funny one-legged tap and bum wiggle. So adorable!

• You can now say: 'there', 'book', 'more'. Still babbling away most other times. 
• You still love books and request your bath book every time you take a bath. We have so many books lying around the house. You're fascinated with all books, even my cookbooks! 
• Your favourite toy is still the red firetruck and the 3 firemen. You push it around the living room and kitchen, moving the firemen around, pressing the siren. 
• I bought you a few duplo sets but you're not that interested in playing with them yet. Your favourite thing it do is dump out all the duplo and sweep your hands through to make a huge mess. There is one duplo piece that you like to play with, it's a window that you can open and close. You take the little lego farmer and play peekaboo with the window pane. 
• You love to go to the kitchen and open up the drawers and cupboards. We had to babyproof the kitchen the other week. There is the one drawer that we can't babyproof; it has all your plates, cups and utensils in it. Any moment you can, you'll totter over to the drawer, take everything out and start stacking them on the kitchen floor. We're forever washing them at night!
• You love listening to nursery rhymes. When I ask you, "Lucas, do you want Mummy to sing a song?" you'll give me a huge toothy grin and clap your hands. When I finish singing, you'll clap your hands again. I think they teach you to clap at the end of a song at daycare.
• This week, you did not cry when Daddy and I left for work in the morning when your grandparents were here. It's a huge milestone. You still scream and cry when we leave you at daycare.
• You love pressing buttons, turning off lights, playing with the dvd player, grabbing our phones and ipads.
• You like to eat udon, rice and risotto. You will eat carrots and broccoli. Hate bananas. 
• Your favourite thing to do is go outside to the backyard, take the pegs out of the bucket, play with the rocks, go to the mandarin tree and demand we pick a mandarin for you. Today, I picked the very last mandarin on the tree so unfortunately, we won't be able to do this anymore.

16 & 17 months: lots of videos

You have such a unique dancing style! Watch how you shake your leg and wiggle your body...

Playing and dancing to your new drums, a gift from Aunty Marie.

You are already a candy crush addict! So young and already playing on the ipad...

 
You have the cutest way of doing 'high-five'. This is with your grandparents at lunch last week. When they ask for a high-five, you move their hands so that they high-five each other.

I took you out for dinner last week after daycare...this is you being cheeky after dinner.

16 months: walking at the park

We went to the local park near your grandparent's place so you could practise more walking.  You had a wonderful time on the swing, slide and cruising around the equipment.

16 months: First steps

You've finally taken your first steps at 16 months! We've noticed you taking a few steps this past week but in the last couple days, you've become more confident especially at home.

Here are 2 videos I took last night of you walking. It's obviously tiring you out as you had to lie down after a bit of exercise...haha

16 months: bubbles

I tried out the new bubble machine. You loved popping the bubbles.