Wow…again, sorry. Between work and the holidays, this hasn’t been easy. We are snowed in right now (really mostly ice at this point) and I’m working from home while Michael is watching Campbell, so I figured I would take a few minutes while I have them to update everyone and post some walking videos. I have some better ones from recent activity, but I’ll have to download them sometime this week.
Thanksgiving:
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Poppy and Leenie!! Campbell tried some turkey and mashed potatoes. For whatever reason, she just does not like white potatoes. She used to dig sweet potatoes, but now I’m lucky if I can get her to eat any veggies at all. Campbell wasn’t walking at this time, but she was showing off a step or two during this time.
December:
Michael went to visit his family at the beginning of December because his father was having surgery, so Cam and I hung out at home together for about 5 days. We had a wonderful time and really got into the swing of things…a pattern you might say. Hats off to all the single parents out there…I’m really not sure how they do it!! During this time, Cam really started taking more and more steps. I think she was up to 5 or 6 at a time. Once daddy came home, on Thursday, December 9th…Cam decided it was time to walk and just took off down the hallway. We have some video I’ll post (I apologize in advance that she is carrying a tampon…she also likes to get into mommy’s purse.)
She has also started talking, ALOT!! Not that we can understand much of the conversation, but she is quite animated and tells us some grand tales! She is saying “hi” and “bye” now. She will also wave. You can tell that she is understanding what you say alot more than she used to and is trying to repeat words. Now when she is hungry, she opens and closes her mouth like a little bird.
Christmas:
We had Michael’s parents down for Christmas and they had a wonderful time with Cam, and she thoroughly enjoyed her time with them as well. I can’t say that she had any interest in opening presents, but she LOVED rearranging the presents around the tree. She would use some of the larger presents as a stool and sit on them to play with the other boxes. We left bows off of most of the presents, so when Sarah (our next door neighbor) brought over a present with a ribbon…that was the highlight of Christmas for Cam!! She carried that present all over the house and was thrilled with the ribbon. Maybe next year or the year after she will get into opening presents.
She has been a delight lately. I am really enjoying this age!!! Although, I am really not enjoying the eating portion. She will not take anything from a spoon when I offer, so for the past month we are doing finger foods and I can’t seem to get her to take veggies at all. We are doing mostly fruits and CHEESE. I think this child is going to turn into a stick of cheese.
We are also entering a very fussy phase. Not sure what is going on, but boy is she fussy!!! She isn’t sleeping well either…which means I’m not sleeping well, again. Oh well, hopefully this doesn’t last long.
Campbell went sledding with her daddy yesterday. I have video, but it isn’t downloaded yet. Poor kid has another cold, so we went out for just a few minutes, but she loved every minute of it!!
Oh you will see some pictures of Cam and I near fish…I took her to the aquarium for the first time and she LOVED it!!! Now that she is walking I think she would like it even more. She doesn’t crawl anymore…all walking. Enjoy!! I have videos uploading so I’ll post those later on.
