Updated Belly Picture

Just like my pregnancy with Cameron I am going to take a "belly picture" about every 4 weeks. So here is my latest one. I am just about 15 weeks along (will be tomorrow).

Visiting Santa... An Interesting Experience

I took Cameron to see Santa this morning and he was not in the mood for a smile. I have been talking about it with his for the past few weeks and he seemed excited to see Santa. But as soon as he sat on his lap and noticed I wasnt there he started screaming. So, this is the best we could get. I supposed every kid has a picture with Santa like this. At least his outfit is cute!

Cute/Funny Moments

Cameron has been doing such silly things lately that just crack me up! Here are a few I caught on camera...

Reading the newspaper ads. Each week Bret and I sit on the couch with the ads between us and check them out. Lately Cameron has started in on it too. He picks out an ad he wants, usually Big 5 and he reads it and points to the pictures. So funny!

A few weeks ago my brother spent the night so he could watch Cameron for me while I got an ultrasound. When we came downstairs Cameron started putting the blocks on Christopher and this is what it turned out to be, he was covered in a mound of blocks. The funny part is that he put them on him one by one and then took the back off one by one.

Lately Cameron has really enjoyed watching cartoons in the mornings and then at night when before he goes to bed. Every now and then he sits on the couch and pulls his blanket up and wraps himself up in it. I just think its cute!

This blow up ducky was used in the bath before when he was between and infant bath and being able to sit in the bath on his own. But now he thinks its the best toy ever! The other day he put it up on the couch, climbed up into it and started chatting on the phone as if he were having a complete conversation with someone on the other line. Such a funny boy.

Chocolate Thief

The other day while I was baking Cameron got ahold of my baking chocolate squares and ran off with them. I found him sitting in his ducky chowing down! He was really proud of himself. I let him munch for a minute and then decided he had had enough for the night and he was not happy to let it go.

Yum, Yum!

Messy chocolate face!

Lighting Our House

Cameron had so much fun helping Bret put up the lights last week. He is always such a good helper and loves doing whatever we are doing.

Christmas Tree

The day after Thanksgiving we set up our Christmas decorations. This is my very favorite thing to do! I love having all my decorations up. This year was really fun because Cameron got to help.

Since Daddy wont allow a real tree (he hates the smell, who hates the smell of a Christmas tree?) we have a fake one. So you have to put it all together and seperate all the branches. Cameron is helping Bret do this and he was having a blast!
Helping put the ornaments on the tree. This turned out to be more work than fun, we had to keep Cameron from destroying the ornaments on their way to the tree.

The finished product!

Now we have to keep him away from the tree. He is obsessed with taking the ornaments off and taking them apart or playing with them. Lets just say we have spent a lot of time in time out trying to teach him not to play with the tree.

He is in love with turning the tree on. He comes down every morning when he wakes up and says "on, on!" He loves the tree despite all our troubles with keeping him away from it.

Thanksgiving

My in laws hosted Thanksgiving this year and it was a big turnout. There were about 40 of us there! We had lots of yummy food and it was fun to hang out with family for a day.

Bret, Dad, Christopher and Mom

Cameron and Brody discovered the organ... The ultimate button machine. They loved it!

The kids had a lot of fun playing together. Cameron and Brody played for a long time at the little arcade toy. Brody had a ball someone made him out of aluminum foil and he was obsessed with it. Cameron had the two other balls and they played for quite some time throwing the balls in it. They are so cute together.

Christopher, Dad, Mom, Cameron, Me and Bret. My immediate family.

Our Helper

Cameron loves to help us with whatever we are doing. However, most the time it turns out more of a hinderance than a help. But its fun anyway! The other night he stole the vaccuum from me and started doing it himself, it was so funny! He refused to give it back to me so he finished that room, with my help of course.
Then Bret was putting some cabinet locks on our cupboards and Cameron loves Brets drill, so he jumped in to help. Each time a screw was put in Bret would let him hold down the trigger and screw it in. He was in heaven. He is going to be such a handy man when he grows up.

Another Ultrasound Picture (12wks)

This is a profile picture. I love how you can she his/her little nose, so adorable! The legs are hard to see but they are half way there, just the thighs and the rest of the leg is out of the picture. This picture is a little weird. This is as if you were looking baby in the face, you can see its skelatel structures in its face and then the other thing is its belly. A little alien but still cute!

Today was my scan to check my cervix length since I had a short cervix with Cameron at the end of my pregnancy. This time they are going to monitor its length via ultrasound a few times throughout my pregnancy. Today was my first, then again at my 20wk scan and again at 28wks. I am always so amazed at how much the baby has grown! I just saw it a week ago in my doc office and its has grown so much since then! Its 2.5 in long crown to rump, still tiny but it was a wiggler. The tech was having a hard time getting a heart rate number because it was moving so much she couldnt get the mouse over his/her heart. Finally she was able to get it and its heart rate was 170 bpm. Then a few times he/she streched out its legs and pushed off the side of my uterus. It did a few little flips too. Amazing. But everything looks good thus far, like I said they will check again at my 20wk scan. The baby is measuring a little bigger than my due date, according to my measurments I would be due the 6th instead of the 10th. But since its pretty close my due date will stay the same.

The Sunday Sacrament Spectacle

Im sure every parent feels like this is them. But I swear Im it every week! Cameron is a handful during Sacrament Meeting, he is impossible to keep quiet or calm or contained! We cant give him toys because he throws them across the chapel, its true, he chucks them quite far for someone his age. Even his binky, which is our only means of keeping him quiet, often ends up a few pews ahead of us. Yesterday we didnt make it 5 minutes. He was wiggling all over the place and trying to run down the pew on the seat to the people on the other end. Then he lost his sippy cup under the pew in front of us, so he was trying to crawl under to get it, but he kept pushing it further away, so we let him crawl all the way under to get it. Then he thought it was funny and wouldnt come back, we should have known. Then he crawled on the seat in front of us and stood up laughing. Im sure half the chapel was watching us wondering why we couldnt keep our child quiet. I know there has to be a light at the end of the tunnell, but where is it? Hopefully it will come in the next 6 months otherwise I dont know what we will do when there is a baby and a wild boy!!

11 Week Ultrasound

(Its head on on the left, then its body and you can kinda see its little legs on the right)

Today was my doctors appointment and as always my doctor gave me an ultrasound. I just have to say I love this doctor. He is a different one then I had with Cameron, but he is 100 times better! He has an ultrasound machine in his office so he just has a little peek at each appointment. I couldnt believe how much the baby had grown! He snuck a scan in at Camerons appointment two weeks ago and my baby looked like a little bean. But now it looks like a baby! It was wiggling all over the place and moving its arms and legs like crazy. This is the best picture we could get cause it was so wiggly! We could see its little tiny feet kicking and it kept arching its back. I get to have another ultrasound next week or the week after to check my cervix length since I had problems with that when I was pregnant with Cameron. But this time I am going to the Medical Imaging place so it will be a better picture Im sure. I will post it when I get it! I am getting so excited for this little baby. Too bad I still have a LONG time to be pregnant before I get to meet it!

18 Months, already?!

On the 4th Cameron turned 18 months old. I cant beleive how fast the past 6 months have flown by! He is growing into such a little boy and not so much a baby anymore. He had his check up a few weeks ago and he is between 26 and 27lbs, he wiggled so much it was hard to get an accurate number. And he is 33" long. I love my doctor, he snuck in a quick peek for me at Camerons appointment and gave me a quick ultrasound too:) He is really talking a lot more now, Im sure Im still one of the few people who can understand most of what he says but he is really learning fast. He has a bit of a new obsession with dinosaurs and animals. But still in love with balls and cars as always! I am always surprised at how much he understands, he is getting very smart. But let me be the first to tell you he is quite the handful! He has so much energy and I swear he is hiding a few more arms somewhere. I cant beleive that we are now on the 6 month countdown to his 2nd birthday!