Cam - you are a hot mess already! You are in to EVERYTHING and you are crawling all over the place. We baby proofed the house for Caroline, but I think we are going to have to do a whole new round with you!
*He weighs somewhere around 20 pounds!
*He is in size 2 diapers, but will head on up to threes once we are finished with this pack.
*He is in 12 month clothes and sleepers and they fit him right now. I'm sure his toes will be popping the seems in just a couple of weeks!
*He is real deal crawling. He was army crawling for a couple of weeks, but he is up on all fours and is not afraid to go anywhere. Caroline stayed in the living room for a long time and eventually ventured out into the other rooms, but Cam has no fear. He will crawl any where we are. He has also discovered the door stoppers and the rubber thing on the end that fits perfectly in his cheek!
*He is eating real food for three meals a day now. We don't need his ranitidine anymore! After he recovered from his surgery I was home with him for three weeks and worked to get him on a schedule. He wasn't sleeping worth a darn (45 min to an hour naps - which may be fine for some people, but I know he needs a lot more than that), so I worked to get him on a 2 - 3 - 4 schedule. I was feeding him every couple of hours hoping he would sleep, but since he was snacking he wasn't getting really full. So I started feeding him when he woke up (a fruit and a 5 - 6 ounce bottle around 7 or 7:30) and then I let him be up for 2 solid hours. At that point I put him down. He started sleeping good 1 1/2 - 2 hour naps! Once he gets up from that nap I feed him lunch around 11 (a veggie and a fruit and a 4 ounce bottle) and then I let him play and play and play. The goal is to put him down after he has been awake for 3 hours. If he wakes up at 11 I push him until it is 2. He would be good for about 2 hours and then he would start getting fussy. We started taking walks every day during that third hour to make sure he was good and tired. I would then feed him 4 - 5 ounces and put him down. Most days he does a good 2 - 3 hour nap in the afternoon. Then he eats dinner around 5 - 5:30 (a meal and a fuit/veggie and a four ounce bottle). By then it is time for some play, bath time, and a bottle around 7:30 for bed! Of course, as soon as I have a day that works great he shows me the next day that he is in charge! He will wake up 45 min into a nap and throw the whole day off, but for the most part he has gotten on this schedule pretty well! He goes back to day care Monday, which will throw all of this off, but at least I know he is capable of getting on a schedule of some sort!
*We moved him up to the medium sized Zippy and he still loves it. He can sit up in his crib now and he can do all of that with his Zippy on. By this point, Caroline had a 'daci' and a bobo, but Cam doesn't want anything to do with any of that. He took a paci for a month or two and we have tried to introduce him to a bobo, but with his hands covered in the Zippy, he just sucks on the corner over his hands if he needs something, but he does this very rarely. He just isn't a kid that needs a lovey of any kind.
*He got his second tooth the week after surgery, so now he has two little toofers down there - Roofus and Reefus the Teefus! He bulldog smiles some times like he is trying to show them off.
*He has started eating puffs like a mad man. Occasionally he will get one stuck and he will throw up all over the place, but he was really good really quickly at getting them in his mouth.
*Since he can sit up completely on his own and the surgical tape came off, he now takes baths just sitting up in the water with is Big Sissy. He LOVES to splash all over the place and feels like he is big stuff in there. Sissy loves it, too!
*He talks all the time. He says 'mamamamama' when he is particularly mad about something. He says 'b' sounds a lot, but he isn't quiet often when he is awake.
*We have a whole toy section of the living room for him, but the kid wants two things - shoe strings and dog bones. We have decided not to fight that battle. Better to build up his immune system when he is little!
*The boy will throw some fits already. You take something away from him - watch out. He threw his first fit in Target last week. I was not prepared for how quickly that happened!
*He has started to wave and is mouthing 'Bye bye'. He doesn't know what he is doing yet, but it is cool to watch him figure it out.
I really don't know how time has moved so quickly. He is it that my tiny little baby is now a mobile, fit slinging, talking, smiling happy boy?! I am so in love with him and so glad I got to spend a few weeks at home with him at this age. He learned something new every day I felt like and I was glad to be there to be a part of it. Unless he is tired or hungry, he is the smiling-est, happiest, funniest little kid. I am so glad I get to be his mama and get to watch him grow up! I love you, Bubba!
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