Physically
Owen is supporting himself alot better now. He can sit up by himself unaided for around 10 minutes at a time, 
and can even hold himself up on Dad's shoulders. 
This means it's really hard to hold him, as he's always wriggling around and trying to get a better view of the world. BTW, that's Jon - an Australian friend visiting us on his way through Europe.
He's also becoming more mobile, even though he isn't crawling yet. He can roll from front to back and back to front, and can cover impressive distances in an unexpectedly short time. This means we have to be even more on the lookout to make sure he doesn't do anything dangerous. In this photo, he started on the playmat in the foreground.
Owen uses his feet alot - almost as much as his hands. Sometimes when he could reach for something with either his hands or his feet, he'll opt for the feet. He's even taken to sucking his toes.Moving around is hard work, and since we've come into summer and there's no air conditioning here, Owen's been sweating like a pig! He doesn't seem to mind it, though he's getting some heat rash on his back. In the sun he has to wear some cute sunnies and a hat - see the last post for a good photo of that.
Verbally and Socially
Owen's range of sounds has expanded a great deal over the past 2 months. He often babbles "mamamamamama" or "dadadadadada", mixed in with squeals, exclamations, raspberries, and funniest of all - growls. He started around about the time of our church camp (hopefully we'll get around to a post about that one some day), and amused everyone when he growled at rather inappropriate times - like in the middle of a bible talk, or prayer.
His growling has earned him a new nickname - Löwen Owen (Lion Owen). It's not gramatically correct, since it is 1 Löwe, 2 Löwen, but it rhymes. By the way, Löwenbräu (one of the German resturants in Sydney) means "Lions brew". In this photo, Owen's wearing his lion suit. He's also standing up with support. He really loves this, and sometimes won't let you sit him down because he gets his legs in the way!Owen reacts much more to other people now. He's really excited when Dad comes home from work, and smiles and babbles to everyone he can. He actually hates to be away from people. When we want to put him in bed for the night, he starts screaming as soon as we THINK about leaving the room (he's good at mind reading).
While on the sleeping topic, he sometimes sleeps on his side now, and never ends up where you put him.Fun
Owen now has a bath every day - and he really likes it. Here he is practising pouring.Owen loves to hear us singing to him - it's one of the ways to stop him crying.
Toys - being a boy, toys that appeal to his primal instincts are good. ie anything that could be seen as a weapon. Here he is with a club and his sword.Food
Owen has now eaten several vegetables and fruit, rice and muesli cereal, and even some meat (chicken). His favourite is pear (sweet and wet) and water (wet) - probably because of all his sweating. When he drinks he sometimes holds the cup, but he hasn't worked out that you need to tip it to get the water out.
He tries to feed himself, but it isn't very successful, unless you define success as food everywhere else except his mouth!
When he doesn't like a new food, he makes a bit of a face, but this doesn't last very long. Hunger usually wins the day. In this photo he just tried potato for the first time.
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