August 28, 2012

Wow, so much has happened since the last post.  Our little man is now One!!!  I can't believe it, I don't feel old enough to have a one year old, but I love watching him grow and develop every single day.  I feel like we have had a lot of firsts the last couple of weeks.  These are his first since the last time I posted anything.  On 7/25/12 he stood up by his self for about 8 seconds after letting go of our hands.  On 8/4/12 Cameron pooped in the bathtub for the first time, I couldn't believe it.  Let's hope that doesn't happen very often.  On 8/9/12 Cameron took 5-6 steps on his own.  We are still working on walking. We can leave him standing up by himself and sometimes he will take the 5-6 steps to walk to us, or he just smiles and laughs and sits down.  He is just being a booger and when he decides he wants to walk he will.  On 8/18/12 he clapped his hands for the first time.  We took a walk as a family and Cameron was in his stroller and I looked down and his was just clapping his hands on his own.  So now we ask him to clap his hands and he does, or we sing the song "If Your Happy and You Know It" and he claps.  One more first that he just started doing yesterday was actually standing up in the middle of the room all by his self without pulling up on anything.  He did it for a couple of times for my parents when they watched him yesterday and a few times for us when he got home last night.  So I have a feeling it will be anytime now where he puts it all together and just starts walking on his own.  One of his last things that Cameron will ever do is he breastfed for the last time on Sunday 8/26/12.  Its kindof sad for me, but over a year ago I would not have imagined that I would have enjoyed or even lasted an entire year of breastfeeding.  It was an amazing gift that I was able to do it.  It has been a little bitter sweet so far.  I miss that extra contact with him, but it is also nice to have my boobs back to myself.  Haha.  Those are all of Cameron's firsts that he has done . 

We had a wonderful day for Cameron's first birthday party.  We had it on Saturday August 11th and were joined by all of our family and close friends.  The weather was perfect.  Cameron had a good day and mostly hung out with his Pap and Papaw that day.  It was great having our families and friends their to celebrate his first year of life and hope to have many more great parties.  Cameron ate some cake, but he was pretty clean about it.  He picked at the icing and ate it and everytime he put some in his mouth he made the "Mmmmmmm" sound.  I am not sure if it had anything to do with the cake or not, but Cameron was up for 3 hours in the middle of the night Saturday night.  He didn't go back to sleep until about 6am and we ended up having to wake him up at 8:30 to get him going so we could go to the Zoo with Jason's family.  I wasn't exactly sure how he would do, but he absolutely had a blast.  He wanted Cecil to hold him the majority of the time and he stayed awake until 2:30 and then crashed for about an hour or so until we woke him up at Montgomery Inn.  We all had a great weekend and it was just good to be with family. 

Momaw Rita, Great Momaw, and Aunt Courtney

Pap, Cameron, Grammy, and Baby Tyler Hale (Best Buddies in the future)

Cameron spent his real birthday with Grammy and Pap (my parents) on their boat and had a great day playing and just having fun.  The following day he had his One Year check up with the doctor.  The doctor said he looked great.  He weighed in at 19 pounds 10 ounces, 28 3/8 inches long, and his head was 18 inches around.  The doctor said he looked great and the only concern I had was that since I had started giving him whole milk he was using the bathroom a lot, sometimes up to 8 times a day.  This was also causing him to have a really bad diaper rash.  The doctor said to try him on 2% Milk and Since then his bowel movements have decreased quite a bit averaging 1-3 times a day now and his diaper rash looks much better now.  We are continuing to work on trying new "Real" food.  One thing that he absolutely loves is grean beans and watermelon.  He its those all by himself, but we are still working on other things as well.  So we are still eating stage 3 baby food and mixing in real people food when we can.  Another new thing that he just started last week was actually drinking the 2% milk cold out of a sippy cup.  Its not much, maybe an ounce or 2 a day sometimes, but before he wanted nothing to do with it cold.  So I am happy with that.  So we are continuing to work on real people food and drinking cold milk out of a sippy cup so we can get rid of the morning and evening bottles. 

Cameron's sleeping routine has got a lot better.  He typically sleeps through the night now.  He usually goes to sleep between 9:30 and 10 and sleeps til atleast 8am.  We still have sometimes where he wakes up in the middle of the night and I have to lay on the couch for a little bit for him to fall back to sleep.  I haven't figured out on those nights what causes him to wake up.  But I am hoping that happens less and less.  Cameron also usually takes one nap a day and lasts atleast 1 1/2 hours up to 3 hours which is rare.  He may sneek a 30 minute second nap in if its in the car between places. 

Cameron is a very happy boy and just loves to play with his cars, balls, puzzles, and books.  He also loves to be outside and on his Smart-Trike or ride toys that he got for his birthday.  He is still really only saying "Dadadadadada."  But if you ask him where something is he usually points to it. 

I think that is everything that Cameron is up to these days.  He is a very busy, happy little boy and we just love him so much.  We look forward to watching him grow and develop, but he can take his time, because I love him at this age.  Until next time, enjoy the pictures! (Sorry I am having technical difficulties)

Loves riding his Gator

Lounging on his couch