6 Month Update

I’m a little late in posting his 6 month stats but here they are along with some fun pictures.

	6 Months	4 Months	Birth
Weight	17 lbs 12.5 oz (51.3%)	15 lb 2 oz (44%)	7 lb 9.5 oz
Height	28” (90.7%)	26” (84%)	20.5”
Head Circumference	17.5 (77.7%)	42.5 cm (74%)	n/a

At Cameron’s last doctors appointment he got more shots including his flu shot. He did well and the doctor said that he is doing great!

He is continuing to eat and explore solids. Some days he is really into eating and others he could do without. I assume that one of these days he will enjoy eating more. He is still breast fed and I feel so great that I have made it this far. I am not making as much milk as he drinks anymore so I have to supplement with about 30-40% formula. My goal is still to make it to one year.

Exciting news this week…Cameron got his first tooth. He is getting a front bottom tooth and seems to be taking it well. Hopefully all of them will be this way. I think its wishful thinking though.

Sleep is going much better in the past week or so. He’s really starting to like sleeping through the night and I am enjoying the break!

Cameron & Frankie

Jodi took some great pictures several weeks ago and I just had to share because she did such a great job! Frankie is two weeks younger than Cameron and they are going to be best buds.

Happy Thanksgiving

Charles and I hosted Thanksgiving again this year. We were going to go to Spokane originally however, our plans changed due to Charles’s work schedule. Charles smoked a turkey and a ham this year both of which were AMAZING!!! Here are some of the pictures.

Dad was in the hospital this year getting his second hip replaced. He is hoping to be back up on the slopes in the Spring. Since Dad always carves the turkey no one in our family knew how. Charles and I watched a YouTube video and he is now a pro.

Happy 6th Months

Cameron turned 6th months today! Charles and I feel so blessed everyday to have this little man in our lives. We keep asking ourselves where has the time gone. As time goes by each of us are feeling more and more confident in our parenting of Cameron. Charles is really starting to have fun with Cameron as he is developing quite the personality and is much more interactive.

6 Month Milestones

• Turns toward sounds and voices (I think he even knows his name now. He definatly knows mommy and daddys voices)
• Imitates sounds
• Rolls over in both directions
• Sits without support for periods of time
• Mouths objects
• Passes objects from hand to hand
• Eats solid foods, no teeth yet
• Lunges forward
• Jabbers
• Drags objects toward himself

Cameron's Silly Face

Nanni got him the Johnny Jumper and he LOVES it!

Cameron's second ferry ride to Bremeron to see Zizi's puppet museum

 

Caught the boys sleeping

Messy face. He loves food! He's eating squash

Visiting the Teddy Bear suite at the Fairmont Hotel

Gingerbread houses at the Sheraton in Seattle. This was Alice and Wonderland

Beauty and the Beast gingerbread house

5 Months

 

Here are some of the things Cameron is able to do along with favorites:

• Plays with his hands & feet
• Smiles, laughs and coos when being talked to
• Is able to stand steadily when being held
• Grasps toys and reaches out for objects
• Turns toward new sounds
• Can roll over both ways (he did this last weekend with his friend Frankie!)
• Squeals, gurgles, coos, blows bubbles. He is also starting to imitate sounds and the volumes of his sounds are getting much louder.
• Drools all the time
• Is eating solids. So far he has tried baby oatmeal, sweet potatoes, green beans and avocados. He is not too fond of green beans yet but in time he will since this is my favorite.
• Can sit momentarily on his own
• Give’s hugs and kisses
• Is showing more interest in Riley
• Can hold his own bottle
• Likes playing peak-a-boo
• Love’s bath time

Charles and I are continuing to have so much fun watching Cameron grow. We cannot believe how quickly it goes by and each day it seems he has discovered something new.

 

20 Weeks (4 1/2 months)

I thought about this yesterday that if I was pregnant I would be half way through by now! Charles and I were just talking about how we found out that we were having Cameron around this time last year right after our Mexico trip in September 2011. It is mind blowing how much Cameron has grown in the past 60 weeks from time of conception until now.

Cameron is growing like crazy and changing every week. He is now enjoying his excersaucer and can figure out how to reach out for the toys. He is talking much more and is soooo close to rolling over from his back to his stomach. I think it will be any day. He also is drooling more and more as well as chewing on anything he can get his hands on (no teeth yet though).

For the last week and a half he has started sleeping 8 hours straight so this has made my life much easier. I only have to wake up once at night around 3 or 4am and he will sleep after I feed him until about 6:45am!!! In total he is sleeping 11-12 hours each night.

In early September we joined a West Seattle PEP’s group which is a way to meet other family’s who live in the neighborhood with children the same age. We meet every Tuesday for 12 weeks from 6:15-8:15pm and we rotate going to someone’s house in the group. So far we have had three meetings and we talk about various subjects. We have talked about sleeping, eating, our birth stories and a few other topics that came up. I am looking forward to building relationships with other families in our area.

At Cameron’s 4 month check up the doctor told us we could start trying rice or oatmeal cereal. So we started that about two weeks ago. He hasn’t quite figured it out but he loves it! He has been more constipated with the cereal even though we are offering it to him just a few times a week, only about a tablespoon at a time. He used to be a 1-2 times a day pooper and now he poops once a day or sometimes skips a day. I have also made more baby food. My freezer is full of plums, applesauce, sweet potatoes, zucchini, green beans and squash. Hopefully when we do start introducing more solids he likes them all.

For those of you wondering, yes Cameron has a Halloween costume and is going to be a dinosaur. We are going to the pumpkin patch next weekend to take pictures. So I will post those soon.