I Think He Looks Better in Orange

My sister sent Camden this outfit before he was born and FINALLY he is able to wear it! I am certain that he will only wear it on the weekends, since Shane is the one to dress him during the week!! Personally, I think he looks good in burnt orange - better than say that crimson red color.

Hook Em' Horns

Things I Love

I thought I would take today to list some of the things that Camden does that I absolutely LOVE!

I LOVE when he:
- rubs the top of his head when he is tired
- lays in his bed in the morning just talking to himself
- plays games with his daddy


- smiles
- laughs
- flares his toes in different directions


- kicks and plays on his changing table
- grabs or touches my face when I am holding him like a baby
- holds my finger while he is falling asleep
- sits in his Bumbo and watches me cook


- gets excited about being put in his swaddle to go to bed
- gives me looks that make him absolutely irresistible

Softball

Shane has been playing on our church softball team for several months now, and when the games are early (at 6:15 pm vs. 7:15, 8:15 or 9:15 pm) Camden and I go and watch his daddy play ball. Tonight was their last night, so I took a few pictures to capture our last time at the softball fields in Tuscaloosa!

Shane playing short-stop

The fans - notice all the strollers on the front row!

Sarah and Noah Catherine - we are going to miss them sooooo much!!

Here, There, and Everywhere

After consulting the pediatrician, I decided we would try cereal today. It is not that we need it at night to help Camden sleep longer, since he already sleeps about 12 hours a night, but I was hoping that maybe it would help his caloric intake. So after his morning bottle, I sat him in his Boppy and gave it a whirl. It was very interesting and funny to see his reaction to this foreign substance. He gagged a few times at the beginning, which I can't blame him because the smell alone is not nice. We got cereal here, there and everywhere, but luckily since he has no hair, he was easy to clean up! All in all, I think he did pretty good for his first time.

We're going to do what???

Wide-eyed after his first bite

Apparently his mouth is not an easy target.

Camden thought it was funny to have cereal EVERYWHERE!

I think this look about says it all!

Pizza and Peanut M&Ms

As you well know, I have been dairy free since the beginning of March and egg free since the beginning of April. For the past few weeks I have been working to wean myself from breast feeding. I really had no actual stop date, but figured it would be sometime this weekend. Well, on the way home today, it just hit me that we were going to order a pepperoni pizza for supper! And, we did. It was so very nice to have cheese after three months without it and for dessert, was another one of my favorites, peanut M&Ms. This weekend I plan on partaking in a few of my other favorite things that I have been without - namely ICE CREAM!!! Let's hope that my stomach remembers all these wonderful things and does not get upset when I reintroduce them. Dairy, it is soooooo good to see you!!!

A Year Ago Today

A year ago today we found out that I was pregnant. I remember the wave of emotions that I felt on that day, but most of all I remember how excited I was that we were going to have a baby. We knew then that our lives would be changed forever, but honestly I do not think we realized just how amazing it would truly be. Today Camden is 17 weeks old and I love him more today than I did yesterday, or the day before. It amazes me how much love one person can have for another. I am so blessed to be his mother.

I think his bib says it all!

Turned Around

As I do every morning, I went into Camden's room to watch him sleep before I headed off to work yesterday. As I got close to his crib and looked at where his head normally is, I instead saw the bottom half of his body. It looked as if I almost laid him down in his crib in that direction. Today, I again went to check in on him and again, found him turned around. I guess with his new 'Swaddle Me' sleep sac, he is a bit more mobile!

Bless!!

He has been working himself in that direction (taken last week)