Pancakes for Dinner

We decided to have blueberry pancakes for dinner tonight. Mark calls it "Brinner", you know, breakfast for dinner. He thinks he's so funny! :) But ooo were they good! I swear, Cam has never been so excited about a meal in his life! He made a mess and loved it. Straight to the bath after this picture. We should have dinners like that more often!

Day 14

No Pic Cause I'm Sick

Today I didn't even look at my camera. It sat in the bag next to my couch all day long, while I laid on the couch, asleep, almost all day. I had a stomach bug, or something like that. I felt hungover, spinning and puking. It was not a good morning. And no, I'm not pregnant :) I'm using my "No pic cause I'm sick" card today. So I decided to use a picture from yesterday to fill in. Isn't he cute? That's a little tiny toddler chair and he looks like such a big boy sitting in it! His feet are very far from reaching the ground, but of course, I didn't catch that in the picture. Oo I just love him so much! Okay, back to resting.

Day 13

Gramie and Papa's House

Today, like every other Tuesday, Cameron is lucky enough to get to spend the afternoon with his Grammie (my mom) while I go to work. Usually she comes to our house and watches Cam here, but this week she opted to take Cam over to her house. She has a new kitty, so of course Cam would want to play with her!

After work, Mark and I head over there to pick him up and have so take out pizza with my parents and little brother, Kevin. We try really hard to be prepared, we really do. But there is always something that we forget. Tonight we forgot the sippy cup. And of course, tonight is the night that he just NEEDED some water with his dinner. So we decided to try the straw. He has used a straw before, but we were out at a restaurant so the water was ice cold and it kind of scared him. Tonight, though, the straw was a success. He got his water, and learned something new in the process.

Day 12

(Don't know why the light green walls came out as gray. Suggestions?)

I've got nothin' :)

Bath time tonight. Not a good pic. It was a long day! A fun-with-Cammy-but-long day! Now its my turn to relax!

Day Eleven

Bye, Bye Uncle PJ!

One of my younger brothers, PJ, shipped out today. He goes to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and spends a semester at sea every year. Today was a chillingly cold day, down near 10 degrees when he left. My mother, Cameron and I drove to Cape Cod to see him off. I bundled Cameron up like he was going skiing - thermal pajamas, sweatshirt, pants, winter coat, hat and mittens and then stuffed in his new toddler sized Bundle Me. He could hardly move and didn't even make a peep. I think he was mad at me!

Anyway, we saw PJ off. I hope he has a nice, safe, WARM trip and has fun while doing so!! Cam will miss his Uncle while he's gone. I hope he remembers him when he gets back!

Day Ten

Saturday night fun!

Its amazing to see how much a twenty-somethings Saturday nights change after having a baby. Our best friends had a baby a month after we had Cameron. We spent most of our weekend nights with them, and although we weren't all heavy partiers before the babies, we did have fun! We could make last minute plans and go out to dinner. We could go into the city to have drinks and stay out late. If we were bored, we still had the freedom to say, "lets have pizza on the beach" and be out the door 2 minutes later.

It doesn't happen that way anymore! Now we have to plan things and pack things and prepare. For the most part we stay put, either at our house or at their house. Our Saturday "nights" usually start around 5 and end around 8:30, just in time for the babies to go to bed. Tonight wasn't much different. We went to Steph and Justin's house where they made us dinner and then we spent the rest of the night letting Cameron and Ashlyn play together. Cameron even got to spend some alone time with his "Auntie" after Ashlyn went to bed.

Now I will be the first to admit that our Saturday nights aren't the same kind of fun that they used to be. They are a whole different fun, a better fun. We talk more, we play more and we laugh more. Nothing can compare to the fun that we are having now. The babies have changed our Saturday nights for sure, but I wouldn't take the old ones back for anything. Sleeping in Sunday mornings? Now, I wouldn't mind taking that back! :)

Day Nine

Walking

He's been playing with this walking thing for a few months. First, he started out by pulling himself up and cruising along the furniture. Then we got him some push toys and he started flying around the house. Since mastering both of those tasks, it has now come time to walk. On. His. Own. Granted he looks like a little Frankenstein while he does it, but he is walking, nonetheless. And he's doing it a lot! He doesn't even have to be prompted anymore. Its amazing! I'm so proud of him, but so so so sad, too! I LOVE watching him crawl. It has to be the cutest thing he has done yet! And I'll be pretty sad to see that stop. But man, is he adorable when he walks around! He sucks his little belly in and always has a big, proud smile on his face. And when he reaches his destination, he always looks back, laughing, to make sure someone was watching him. Priceless, really. I would say he's 75 % there now. Maybe we'll have a full time walker by his birthday in 14 days. It could happen!!

Day Eight