nine months

It only took nine months (seriously NINE months, WTF?) for Cameron to figure out that his crib is an alright place to chill at night by himself. I know that I'm going to pay dearly for broadcasting this to the Internet but my son? He's "sleeping through the night." FINALLY. My definition of "sleeping through the night" involves him going to bed around 7:30PM and awakening somewhere beteween 3AM and 5AM to chug a bottle before going back to sleep. But when the old version of "sleeping through the night" involved me getting up every two hours to Pick Up, Put Down or rub his back or feed him, I'm totally willing to jump on this small development as the best thing that ever happened to me. I feel like a HUMAN. I even smile once in a while, IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT.
 
He switched entirely to formula this month and there is a part of me that can't help but STILL wonder if it was something that I was eating that was giving him a sick belly and keeping him awake at night. He's been a much happier baby since. But then I think about how he started eating more solid foods this month too and about how we moved and his new room is darker and cooler and then I drive myself crazy wondering what really helped him to figure it out. The is the WORST part about babies. You NEVER EVER know if it was the formula or the solids or the temperature or the pure simplicity of time passing by that made things better.

Speaking of solid foods, he eats like a linebacker. He employs the Scoop and Shove method to eating, grabbing as much in his chubby little hands as is humanly possible and then trying to stuff it all in his mouth at once. Such a BOY. I keep trying to tell him that he's making a huge mess and wasting most of his food by plastering it to his bib but he doesn't care. Renee would carefully pick up each piece of food and put it in her mouth so this is quite a change in style. I have to make sure his food is cut up in to small enough pieces that he can swallow without having to chew. I can just see him when he's fifteen, sitting down at the dining room to take down an entire box of cereal in about three minutes flat.

He loves wires, straps or anything that looks like a string. He busts his little booty as fast as he can over to the wires when I leave the room. When I say "HEY Cameron, what are you doing?" he loooks up and giggles, recognizing his name and knowing that he isn't supposed to be doing what he's doing.

He can walk between the ottomans in the living room and pushes his little push toy around all day every day. He's even mastered the stairs. HOLD ME. He's going to be chasing after his sister on foot instead of on knee very soon here before we know it. Which, WHOA, WHAT? Wasn't he JUST BORN?

Speaking of his sister, he WORSHIPS her. He smiles this huge two teeth grin every single time he so much as catches of a glimpse of her. If she's playing with the train set, he wants to play with the train set. If she's eating blueberries, he wants blueberries RIGHT NOW. He follows her around already mimicking her, smiling at her, learning all of her dirty rotten tricks. I'm thinking it's going to be at least twenty years before she sees the benefits of having him around so he'll get lots of practice in the meantime with being bossed around by girls that don't want him around.

He's a busy boy, refusing to sit still for any reason other than to eat a bottle. He's not a cuddler at all, he slams his bottle and then starts groaning and whining for me to put him in his bed already. He hates books but loves to play Patty Cake. He still has the greatest laugh in the history of great laughs, giggling from the bottom of his soul at the smallest of things.
 

I just can't believe how big he's gotten and I can not fathom how quiet and relaxing life was before he came into our lives. I can't believe how much I can love a little chubby baby and I can't believe that I was part of creating such an adorable little creature. Most of all I can't believe how lucky I am that I get to call him my son.

Comments

[Becks]

holy CRAP! Is he cute or what?!!! Love the black and white!!!!! Great post bean

[kim]

awww i LOVE to see that shirt!! reminds me of those days. :) great pictures, he is so sweet.

thanks again for having us over and for all of the sweet stuff!

[The Mommy]

GREAT news on sleeping through the night! He's a cutie! And our second child was walking by 10 1/2 months I'm sure just so he could chase after his brother! Now our third, well, that was another story...

I just love reading about how he's doing. It reminds me of what's coming up!

[Nicole]

WOOHOO Cameron! He is so handsome and looks so happy. I cannot believe it has been 9 months - and he's not even my kid! And I hope Renee comes around sometime before 20 years from now - brothers are pretty cool!