In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, we got to make Cat in the Hat hats at story time (and we heard a story). I love how Dylan gets enthused by events and themes like this. We had to check out a Seuss book and we’re back to reading “The Lorax” nearly nightly…and, of course, I had to take his picture in his cute little hat…!
Back Log: At this time, three(!!!) years ago, Dylan was crawling around listening to Mothersong. My, how time is flying.
Just a shot of little Cameron’s (so far still) toothless smile. We’re pretty happy she likes this thing. She can spend a lot of time in it. We’re able to do a little cooking here and there, a little cleaning, a little this, a little that. It’s nice. And, Cameron gets a little “extracise” (as Dylan would say!).
In between rain and sickness, we had another opportunity to hit the beach in the morning. Here’s Cameron happily riding in the double-stroller. Dylan and Cameron sit back to back, but she can hear him talking and often tries to twist around to see him. He chats away in her direction. Once we’re at the beach, though, he usually abandons her for his snack (we get a little something from the café there) and people-watching. He notes everything from the volleyball players to the dog-walkers and the folks on the sailboats…! Cameron’s big ol’ eyes just try to track every bird that comes near that is hoping to get a crumb from our snacks. We usually stay for about an hour and it usually feels like too short a time (and that probably means we’ve stayed just the right amount of time).
I made a little administrative error and forgot to transfer the domain name for this site in time, so it was down for about a week–I just changed hosts and I was hoping the transition would be seamless. Oh, well! In any event, a lot has happened. This picture is from “way back when….” The kids had just woken up (see Dylan’s lovely bed-head??) and, as usual, they were happy to hang out with each other.
These days, Cameron is usually the first one awake. She then starts swatting people in the heads (Dylan and I are the closest targets!) and attempts to make morning conversation. She’s very loud and chatty.
Luckily, Dylan loves her to pieces and, despite being totally groggy, he usually starts giggling at her and reaches out to take her hand.
Then, we make our way downstairs for breakfast, etc. Sometimes, we sit for a story before eating; other times, the kids just play and coo at each other….
Last week, Cameron started bananas, but owing to the potential tummy virus, we gave her a couple of days break. Then, we decided to hold off for another day (Sunday) when we took the kids to see Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo show–we didn’t want poor Cameron (or us, for that matter!) to be puke-covered while out and about!! But, today, we resumed the food trial.
Overall volume of food is still pretty darn low. Today, I tried giving her just a few spoonfuls. The jury is still out on whether she likes it!!
Regardless of the actual taste experience, Cameron clearly enjoys having her own food “gear!” In fact, one of the reasons we decided to try bananas again this morning was because she was looking a little put-out while Dylan, Tom and I were enjoying our own breakfasts of solids!! As you can see, she perked up as soon as she had her own little set-up. Such a sweet girl…!
Here’s Cameron, “tethered” to her mat by a long, long string of drool (click on the picture to see a larger picture)! She’s gotten so good at pushing her entire body up off the ground. She’s also added scooting backwards as a strategy for getting at whatever it is she wants! We’re in no hurry to have her crawl, for certain; we are just impressed by her brute strength!
It was such a beautiful day, I spontaneously decided to take the kids to the beach. I figured we had to seize the day since it won’t be long before I’m back to full-time and I will no longer be able to spend mornings with the kids.
Cameron loved being outside and watching the dirty birds tweet and fly around. It was also the first time I put her in the stroller for a ride instead of just carrying her in the Ergo! She seemed to enjoy the ride there, but once the stroller stopped, she wanted o-u-t! And, pronto!
We happened to see some mommies we met long, long ago when Dylan was just months old! Dylan loved playing with Emily and Jonah who both just celebrated their 4th birthdays this past weekend. He didn’t want to leave, but being the nice fella he is, he didn’t give me hard time about it!
As always, more pictures can be seen on flickr.
Cameron started off strong with the solids. She seemed to really like the rice cereal…and she especially likes handling her own little cup even if she can’t get anything out of it yet!
This picture was taken on Day 4 of rice cereal. She looks happy, but later that evening, she puked up a storm. And then the next night, several hours after eating banana for the first time, she puked again! It seemed strange that she’d be allergic to foods as innocuous as rice cereal and banana, so we called the doc. We were told that it was probably a tummy virus, so rather than agitate her poor little digestive system, we opted to give her a break! We will try resuming solids tomorrow….
So, with the solids thing…we’ve also done away with the high chair figuring these cute little portable boosters with trays would work just fine. When Dylan was young, we kept one at home and kept the other one in the car. Not sure if we’ll be able to do that again with Cameron since, as you can see, Dylan wants to be in one too now, despite the fact that his legs are really far too long for the tray to fit comfortably on top (he can’t bend his legs!) and he really began to despise the thing quite a while ago!
We don’t normally feed Cameron on the floor like this, by the way. Dylan wanted to sit right.next.to.Cameron and this was the easiest and most agreeable way to do it!! They both enjoyed dining together…!
Just like Tom, Dylan loves wearing shades. He pretty much harassed me until I took his picture!! He knows he looks good…! 
I’m in catch-up mode once again! Undoubtedly this post will be all disjointed and random, starting off with this cute little picture of Dylan with the Lion face painting he came home with last week (2/8/2010, to be exact!). He was obviously so proud of it! It was so cute, we couldn’t just go straight home, so we went shopping for groceries first instead. Dylan was a total maniac with his cart and he was very decisive about what we needed to get; he almost always decides we need bread and tofu and just pursues them independently of me. It helps that they’re within his reach. Beware, other shoppers!
This is what Dylan’s face actually looked like before he got his face-painting. And, see how happy Cameron is to be sitting right next to her big brother?? He’s quite a “role model,” meaning she’s learning how to chatter a mile a minute and scream loudly when she feels we haven’t heard her demands. Overall, though, I think we’re lucky we have two relatively happy campers….
And, of course, Cameron hit her 6-month marker! And, she’s still alive! She’s sitting up like a champ, gabbing on and on, rolling herself to wherever she wants to go, and grabbing at everything we put into our mouths! We started her on rice cereal on Valentines Day — just one tablespoon mixed with some breast milk. She seemed to like it well enough….
So, after we all had red velvet pancakes with maple-sour cream syrup, she enjoyed her cereal. Dylan even helped feed her! As you can see, she enjoyed her spoon the best….
We had a nice Valentines Day celebration with just the four of us. The day before, Lola, Auntie Christina and Uncle Dre watched the kids while Tom and I watched Avatar in 3-D! So, Vday itself was a family day. Tom made a yummy carrot-ginger soup, veggies crepes with a red bell pepper coulis and I quickly prepped some chocolate-coconut-almond fondue (we dipped fruit). Tom and Dylan also made a lot of faces.
I think we all enjoyed the long weekend — Dylan loved all of the Vday treats. He liked the fondue, but who doesn’t like a little chocolate???
To end our weekend, we stayed home trying to recover from various ailments–luckily, the kids are all better; it’s Tom and I that need more recovery time! Heather, Assaf and Taliana came over with a yummy hot and sour soup to speed our recovery, and I made a vegan pancit (Filipino noodle dish) that came out ok.
There’s been a lot that’s been going on lately, but maybe the next post, I’ll really catch up…!
