As of January 2017, I have restarted this blog on a new platform with a new look and a new name. All of the content on this blog has been copied to the new blog.
Our new blog is called a Lot & a Couple. www.alotandacouple.com
Cameron turns 15 months old this weekend! Next Friday I will post her 15 month photos because we didn't get them taken yet. We had multiple days in a row of cloudy, rainy weather which is unusual for where we live. It rains somewhere on the island everyday but Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam is usually in a bubble of sunshine even if it's raining ½ a mile away.
Cameron has been all about books, dolls, and music lately. This girl loves to read! She spends a lot of her play time every day looking through her books.
She is sitting on our tote of Christmas things in the photos above. She figured out to climb up there all by herself so we left it out for a couple days. She was so excited and proud of herself for getting up there on her own the first time! I'm thankful that I caught her excitement on video:
Cameron has a few baby dolls and plays with all of them but there is one that she is becoming really attached to. It's the Hasbro Baby Alive Luv N Snuggle that was a gift at her baby shower. It's a soft doll with a rattle inside. She carries this doll everywhere, stuffs it inside takes it for rides in her push and ride car, reads books with it, and gives it kisses. It's super cute to watch her!
Cameron still loves taking Dulce for walks. Dulce, on the other hand, is now more interested in lizard hunting so we have to pull her away to go on a walk.
Cameron plays the keyboard every day. She is playing with more gusto now and is using both hands and more keys. She even knows which buttons to push to get the demo music clips to play. She loves to dance and will move and shake anytime she hears music, even if it's only me singing.
Two hands apparently just aren't enough! Cameron realized this week that she can also play the piano with her feet. I predict that she will be quite the musician someday :)
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"Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons."
A crying photo this week? Yup! This is Miss I'm-pouting-because-I-want-to-climb-instead-of-laying-here-for-photos. This was tantrum crying which is the kind that stops the exact instant she gets what she wants. There were no actual tears and she stopped the instant I didn't prevent her from rolling over. We still have 14 weeks left in this photo project (only 14 weeks until she's a year old?!) and I hope that most of them will be smiles! This crying photo will add some character to the photo book I'm going to put together when the project is finished. I think I'll always look back on this one and smile :)
Once I let her roll over, she was off and climbing on everything in the room that she could. Just look at those chunky little baby legs! :)
Cameron is a week shy of being nine months old and still doesn't have any teeth! There were a few times in the past couple months when those bottom teeth were on the verge of breaking through and then they suddenly regressed. This week is also one of those times. Just like before, I can see the lines and feel the sharp edges... maybe they will finally break through this time? Time will tell. Because of this, she's been fussier than usual lately and she is even being.... cuddly! Cameron is not a cuddly baby. She does not like to be held and cuddled except when she is really tired. I am treasuring the cuddling time I'm getting with her this week :)
Cameron has made huge progress in movement again this week. She can now easily pull herself up anywhere she pleases, even on a flat wall or cabinet with nothing to grab onto. She can walk sideways holding while onto something. She can crawl forwards, backwards, and turn in a complete circle on her belly. She finally learned how to get into a sitting position on her own. While she is standing, she often bends down just to see if she can touch the floor and then stand back up. Sometimes she'll drop something just to see if she can pick it up and return to standing as well.
Cameron stood up in her crib for the first time this week... time to lower the crib mattress.
Now that she can sit, kneel, and stand next to her toy basket, Cameron now loves to pull everything out of it. I'm glad that it all stays contained in her fenced play area. When she's in the living room, she pulls everything out of Dulce's toy basket. I let her have fun with it because it's good for Dulce to practice her "put the toys away" trick afterwards :)
I have two new videos of Cameron and Dulce this week! In this first video, Cameron is gumming (no teeth yet) a thick slice of zucchini. She offers it to Dulce many times who won't take it. However once Cameron drops the zucchini, it becomes fair game for Dulce to have and she gobbles it up. We trained Dulce not to take treats out of someone's hand until they say "okay", which she is pretty good about doing. It's nice to see that training transfer to situations like this one with Cameron!
In this next video, there are two short clips. In the first, Dulce blocks Cameron from crawling onto my lap... twice! In the second, Dulce blocks Cameron from crawling into her dog bed.
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"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."
