Happy Birthday Owen!

Here is Owen, on his first birthday - looking gorgeous for Grandma. He spent the day having fun with her after Mum and Dad went to work. Before that, though, he enjoyed opening his presents. Here he is with the baby laptop Mum and Dad got him, so he could be like them.

Being a one year old, he also had a lot of fun playing with the wrappings and boxes from his presents!

After Mum got home from work, he had a joint party with Michaela, since they share their birthday. She had been a bit ill, but was very brave and back to normal by party time. The party was just a bunch of babies crawling and cruising around the living room, just like Cerys's party which we all enjoyed so much last week.

Since it was his birthday, though, it was also an opportunity for Owen to experience small amounts of cake and biscuits, which he enjoyed very much. He didn't like being up at 2am with a sore tummy, but we can put up with it if it is only once a year!

He had a really great day. It is hard to believe he has been around a year, and that he has come on so much from when he was born. When he was so peerie, we thought he would be about 5 before he got this big! He had an appointment through the week with a doctor at the hospital, a one year check to see how he was doing. He was on his best behaviour, cruising and even crawling a bit and shouting and chatting and waving at me. She said she didn't think his coming early had had much of an effect, and he wasn't very different from any other one year old. It is what we thought anyway, but it was nice to hear her say it!