Cousins…

Cameron has had a very exciting and busy week this week. Stewart, Kate and Emily were up for a visit and Cameron enjoyed almost every minute of it! His only unsure moments were his first encounter with Uncle Stewart – Cameron was just up from a nap, Stewart hasn’t had a haircut in who knows when so we’re not sure if it was Stewart himself or just his Sid Vicious hairdo!

 Aunt Chrisitne and Uncle Bob were also up for a quick visit and Cameron had a blast on Wednesday with Aunt Christine. He was a bit shy with Uncle Bob at first, but that didn’t last very long.

Cameron had a blast with Emily. He followed her around laughing and pointing at her. He just wanted to play. Unfortunately, Emily is teething so she didn’t have much time for Cameron the first couple of days, but Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they had a ball together. They were ‘playing’ together. Following each other around and getting up to no good. We had a peek into the future – they are going to be partners in crime we think. Cameron had gotten into trouble for touching some of Granny’s ornaments. Emily then went to look at the ornaments, Cameron followed and pointed them out. He didn’t get close enough to touch them himself, but did keep his eyes open for us coming and then walked away as Emily moved closer to the ornaments! Wee bees!

Check out the photos on flickr and the video – it’s hilarious. Cameron was nuts that day. He was so excited playing with Emily and Aunt Christine it was like someone had wound him up. It was great to see him so happy.

What else…another tooth has appeared – bottom eye tooth. The potty is still around and we have had 2 successful poos on it. Walking is the only way to go, and he is doing really well with it, although he sometimes goes too fast and ends up on his backside.

He is doing really well and it’s great to be home with him.

 

Happy Canada Day!

Last year….

This year…

Crazy eh!

Cameron is doing well, but is teething – yet again! I got a bit of a look the other day – it looks like he has a few coming in at the same time, on both sides of the mouth and top and bottom – poor kid.

 

Where does the time go?

I just had a quick look at the site and can’t believe that my last post was June 5th…Where does the time go? I guess I spent quite a bit of the last month marking summative assignments, preparing exams, marking exams and doing report cards – not to mention enjoying every moment I had with Cameron after picking him up from Mum and Dad’s.

Cameron is doing great. He is now walking every where and only resorts to crawling when he has fallen while walking. He sometimes goes too fast -feet faster than the rest of him- and ends up wiping out or crashing into something. But, he gets up and keeps going. He does have quite a few bruises on his legs, arms and head, but it doesn’t stop him. Last week he had carpet burn on his forehead – he was going too fast and smashed right into the couch!

What else, Cameron loves to ‘read’. He reads his books by himself, but loves to read with Grampa. They read a Thomas book together every day, and they also read an aeroplane book every day too. The best is when Cameron is ‘reading’ by himself, he talks to himself as if he is really reading – it is very cute!

Cameron also loves to dance – he has progressed a little bit – he now shakes his sholders and swings his arms!

Oh yeah…he pooped in his potty today! We are nowhere near to training him, but we thought we would get him a potty and just put him on it when we thought he was having a poo. Now when you ask him if he is having a poo he looks at you and laughs so it is easy enough to throw him on his soft cushioned toilet seat…

So, all is well and now that the summer has arrived I will hopefully be much better at getting my posts up more regularly and hopefully I will have lots more to write about.

Cameron spent the afternoon in his pool today and he loved it… photos on flickr

 

What we’ve been up to…

Well it’s been another good week.  Mum and Dad left for Niagra yesterday for the Rangers Convention so I was off yesterday and I’m off today and Brett is off Monday and Tuesday.  Spending the day with Cameron has been great …he’s napping right now. 

Yesterday we went to the park. Dad takes Cameron to the park quite often, and Cameron loves the swings. So, Cameron and I headed over to the park yesterday. We did the swings and the slide and he liked both. We also played in the sand a bit, but it didn’t last that long – he started eating it, like everything else he finds.

He has started a few new funnyand cute things…

Aunt Christine does a wee rhyme for Cameron – round and round the garden went the teddy bear, one step, two step tickly under there.  She does cirlces on theh palm of his hand and then goes up his arm and tickles him under the arm. I have been doing it to him for a while now too and now he does it back to you.  He puts his finger on the palm of your hand and ’says’ the rhyme then he laughs when his meant to tickle you  – IT IS TOO CUTE!!

He also likes to tickle your feet

He has also started pointing…he points to whatever he wants. He will be eating his meal and when he wants a drink, he points to his sippy cup!

What else…he still crawls away when he knows he is going for a nap! But he goes down fine at night time?

Without any effort on our part, Cameron is down to 1 bottle at night. He won’t take a bottle in the morning and he is drinking water and milk during the day.  We were joking the other day that Cameron is following the fit for life regime – he loves grapes and he has grapes every morning along with either half an apple, half a pear or half a banana! He loves his fruit!

New to his food list this week – asparagus…yep, asparagus – loved it! Think that might be right now.

So, everything is going well and Cameron is keeping us busy…

 

Another busy week in the life of Cameron Walker

Cameron is doing great. He has had another 2 teeth come through – on top. He hasn’t been too bad, but he has had a few Tempra moments

He continues to eat well and has added a few more things to his list of foods:

pears, strawberries, veggie burger, ravioli, baked beans and a ham and cheese subway sandwich!  This brings me to the cheekiness that is Cameron Walker.

Friday, night Mum was up at ours (I had physio and Brett was helping Dad run a bbq and bar at a soccer tournament). Mum and I decided to have Subway for supper. Cameron had had is supper – veggie burger, potato and green beans and yogurt. Anyway, we were eating and Cameron decided he wanted to try some of Mum’s sandwich – he pulled it away from her and took a huge bite! You had to be there maybe, but it was really funny!

Keeping with the theme of cheekiness – Cameron, knows when he shouldn’t be doing something – he checks to see if you are watching and either way he does what he isn’t meant to do and laughs!

He also ‘runs away’ when you go to get him for nap time. As soon as Mum puts the music on in Cameron’s room (at my Mum and Dad’s) he starts to scream and crawls away from her! Too funny!

What else…he has started dancing – he moves his knees and now also shakes his shoulders – it is really cute and very funny.

He likes sneezes. He laughs none stop if you sneeze. We have been pretending to sneeze and he know does the same thing and thinks it is hilarious!

He can now drink out of his sippy cup, although we still have to hold it for him sometimes…He gets his bottle in the morning and his bottle at night before bed and the rest of the day he drinks his milk and water.

He has also started to walk by himself. He is standing alone and then just taking off. He has gone from one end of the basement to the other – by himself , without us ‘making’ him.

He is doing really well. We are all doing well.

 

lots of new things again this week…

Well Cameron has had another busy week full of lots of new things.

The biggest new thing – he has started walking! Last night he decided to start standing alone for quite a bit – we figured about 30-40 seconds and then out of nowhere he decided to start walking. He went about 10 steps all by himself! And now he will walk to you (one of us at one end of the room the other at the other room) not holding on to anything! It’s great! He is so proud of himself! We will try our best to get a video of him…

Cameron has also mastered climbing up the stairs – he loves doing it! We just follow behind him and he makes his way all the way to the top of the top floor. It makes it much easier for us too…not having to lug 26lbs up the stairs!!

Yesterday we went to see Thomas the Tank Engine (at St Laurent Shopping Center) . It was a good show for older kids, but not the greatest for someone as young as Cameron (hard to see the stage), although he did ‘dance’ to the music. He still loves Thomas and stops everything when he hears the music!

We got a webcam yesterday so we could talk to Brett’s mum and dad and so they can see Cameron. It is great- they were able to see him walk this morning and he was crawling around and being his usual busy self.

Cameron is busy! He is all over the place – crawling and walking (holding on to the furniture) he almost never stops!

He also started dancing…wiggles his bum and bends his knees. He has also started to shake his shoulders -it is really cute!

New foods:

watermelon, cornbeef, ribena popsicles, goldfish (crackers), eggs (scrambled) and I’m sure there will be more to add to the list this week!

Brett is enjoying his new job and I am getting back into the swing of things.

 

Another good week

Well I survived another week at work:-) Actually, I have nice kids in my classes so it’s been a good start back. Cameron is doing well and adjusting fine to getting up early and staying at granny andgrampa’s during the day. He has been good for them and hasn’t given them much hassle…

Cameron has 2 more teeth coming in – 2 top molars- one on each side.

He got his shots on Monday and didn’t have any reaction so we were all happy about that.

He has a few more first to his list of foods:

carrots (baby and big ones too),

broccoli – not a real fan yet

cauliflower;

bbq chicken – grampa’s bbq chicken -

jello – orange

french toast

grill cheese

kraft dinner

milk

and the way things are going we will be adding something new every day!

Cameron continues to crawl everywhere including up the stairs. He is walking holding on to everything and at times stands alone for seconds….we don’t think it will be too long before we are chasing him around…

All is well.

 

12 month check up

Cameron had his 12 month check up this morning…

Everything is good. He is doing really well and the doctor said to keep doing what we were doing as he was coming along really well and he is strong and healthy.

So, Cameron now weighs 26lbs and measures 78cm (31inches). He has 10 teeth and is doing all that he should be and more.

Nothing else to report right now – all is well.

 

Where has the time gone?

I can’t believe that it has been so long since my last post…and I can’t believe that Cameron is now 1 year old, I am back at work, spring is here and summer is on its way…

So much has happened in the last month.

Cameron has gone from his commando crawl to full on crawling – at some speed, I must add. His legs sometimes go faster than his arms and he ends up doing a face plant! He is everywhere, very quickly and is loving being mobile!

He is also ‘walking’ a lot more. He manges to move around most rooms holding on to whatever he can get his hands on for balance – it can be a chair, a table, a desktop, your leg, your bum, your arm – anything! He can also walk holding on to only one arm. He loves to be standing and often will simply stand and laugh.
He has started ‘dancing’ when he hears Thomas. He still loves Thomas. We are going to take him to see Thomas in 2 weeks – Thomas is visiting Ottawa….

Cameron has had a few rough nights and days with teething – his 2 molars are now in – they are huge and no wonder he wasn’t in a good mood!

The new teeth have help Cameron try new teeth…he has tried lots of new foods :
carrots,
olives,
lettuce,
pancakes,
waffles,
hambuger,
apple,
banana,
pickles,
ham,
green beans – he loves green beans
I’m sure there is more, just can’t remember. He tries anything we are having and for the most part he likes it.
oh yes, birthday cake!

Cameron had a great birthday…unfortunately, the Mackies from Milton were unable to make the trip up to Ottawa (they have all been sick). Aunt Christine, Robert, Aunt Carol and Uncle Hugh came to Caemron’s party and of coarse Granny and Grampa too.
It was a really nice afternoon – Cameron was very good -no melt downs and no tears – he loved uncle hugh this time. Cameron was sitting on Hugh’s for ages…

Cameron was spoiled by everyone and was loving all the attention.
He had a great time in his new wagon from Nana and Grandad (Walker) and he got lots of lovely outfits and books. He also got some great toys and lots of Thomas so he was very happy. Kate spent ages making Cameron a lovely name (Cameron) piece to hang up on his wall in his room (see picture in flickr)

Cameron has also started waving and saying ‘bye bye’ when you say it to him.
And so far one of the funniest things he does is shake his little musical car and waits for whoever is there to sing “the bluebells are blue” and then he laughs!

Everything is going really well and we all -Mum and Dad included- survived my first week back at work. It was weird not staying home and spending the day with Cameron and it felt like I had never been away from school, but everything seems to have fallen into place and no one seems too tramatized by the change.

I’m sure I will remember something else once I save and post this, but….
Check out the birthday pictures on flickr

 

Smiles…

Well not too much has happened since my last post. Cameron is doing well. He is still teething – the two molars seem to be through and now it is just the eye teeth that are still working their way down and up. He has had a few rough moments with very red cheecks, but he isn’t really too bad.

We took Cameron to the Experimental Farm last week – it was a beautiful day, so we thought we would make the most of it. He is still a bit too young to fully appreciate the animals at the farm, but he seemed to enjoy himself. He saw cows, calfs, horses, pigs, sheep, and rabbits. He did really well until one of the cows vered towards him and then he wasn’t too happy about being there….

Cameron and the cows

Cameron and I went to a house warming on Saturday afternoon (a girl I work with) and Brett stayed home for a nap – he was working nights on Saturday. Anyway, it was a good afternoon and Cameron was really good. He enjoyed playing with Nate and chatting up all the lovely ladies! At one point he was sitting on Christina’s lap with his arm around her neck and he was ‘chatting’ away to her – it was hilarious!

Cameron has mastered the comando frog crawl and has started crawling (like normal kids) but he hasn’t mastered it yet so the comando crawl is still quicker.

He has also started to pull himself up on the couch and anything else he can get a grip on.

His newest thing is smiling for the camera…it is hilarious…he scrunches up his face and squints his eyes. He does it on comand though -check out video on flickr.

So, I head back to work in 2 wks (May4th) -should be interesting.

We are celebrating Cameron’s birthday next Saturday (May2nd). Nothing too big, just family and a cake really. Will post more after that