Dude, I'm hungry!

Cameron has not eaten during the night for nearly two months. About two weeks ago he started waking up and was STARVING. He was also drinking 8 oz every three hours at daycare. It was clearly time for some food! Cameron is now eating rice cereal at dinner time and is once again, sleeping through the night.

He very quickly learned to like his cereal and gets excited when I pull out his bowl and spoon!

Another cute picture

Yea, I'm cute and I know it.

I've Graduated!

To the exersaucer!

Just a cute picture

Can anyone come up with a good title for this one?

Long time no blogging

Life has been busy busy busy at the Lee Ranch - hence, no time for blogging. I have started another MBA class, this time a tough statistics class. I have had to devote nearly all of the kid's sleeping hours to homework. BOO.

Cameron is four months and two days old. He had his well baby visit and vaccines today. We learned something unexpected - Cameron is short and fat.

Which is a bit confusing to me because he has always seemed tall to me. At his 2 month visit he was somewhere in the 70th percentile for his height. Now, he is in the 30th percentile, but he seems bigger. At this point, we think the measurement at his two month appointment was wrong and he has always been short. We will check again in two months to be sure.

I've been noticing the chunk multiplying on Cam's thighs lately. He finally has those roly poly baby chunkers. So cute. He is up to a whopping 15 lbs 14 oz! That's almost a 4 pound gain since his two month visit!

Cameron is rolling over from belly to back. He is nearly rolling from back to belly. This kid just wants to GO! He doesn't not want to be motionless at all. His arms and legs are constantly moving. Although he is a very mellow baby, I think I will have a hard time keeping up with him once he becomes mobile! Whenever he is in his bouncer or sitting slightly elevated, he tries to sit up. If I am playing with him on the floor or with him on my lap, he wants me to hold him so he is sitting up. The days of sitting unassisted are rapidly approaching!

I hope to post more updates about new toys (for me, not the kids!), funny things the kids say, and milestones in the next few days. I will also add pictures, I promise!

Oh yea - and I want to give a quick shout out to my dear friends Angie and Jodi. I had hoped to blog about this, but life got in the way. Last week Jodi donated a kidney to Angie and both are doing well! We have prayed and prayed for the day when Angie would get a new kidney and it finally came! We now continue to pray for a speedy recovery for both Angie and Jodi and we pray that Angie's body continues to accept the new kidney.

Toodaloo for now - more posts coming soon!

Down for the count

When you have kids in daycare, illness is an endless circle.

On March 12, Madison and I each came down with a cold. On March 14, Madison was diagnosed with a bladder infection. The cold lasted for about four days - the bladder infection cleared up quickly with meds. We all felt well for about 3 days and then on March 20, we started with the colds again. Madison and I both had it - it included a terrible cough that keeps you up at night and lots of congestion. Add to that lots of aches and pains!

I visited the doctor for the cold because my cough was so bad - but my lungs were clear. Before I was even feeling better - Cameron came down with it over the weekend. He started with this adorable little cough that on three occasions caused him to have trouble breathing. SCARY. It only lasted a day and then seemed to clear up for him.

Meanwhile - I'm still feeling crummy, in fact, I'm feeling worse.

Then at 4am this morning I could hear Madison coughing. Then she was screaming for me. She had thrown up on the carpet. It wasn't much and I thought she had just coughed so hard that she made herself throw up. I cleaned the carpet and went back to bed still planning to send her to daycare. While I was getting ready for work a few hours later, she threw up again.

So, Mike stayed home with her today.

By 9:30 am, Mike was throwing up too.

By noon I was headed back to Express Care because I was certain my cold was now a sinus infection. It was and I finally have drugs to hopefully clear it up.

I got home from work at 5pm. Cameron was fussy and had a low grade fever. Hmmm...I was concerned enough to keep the thermometer handy.

While I was changing clothes Madison showed me a little red bump on her tummy. It looked like a bug bite. I was slightly concerned and said we would watch it, meaning to check it out again in 10-15 minutes. Five minutes later Mike asks me to look at Madison's hands. They were covered in HIVES! I took off her clothes and we watched the hives spread up her arms, across her trunk and down her legs in a matter of minutes.

I called the nurse line and they recommended an oatmeal bath and benadryl. They said no need to come in unless she had trouble breathing - and they said if that happened to just call an ambulance. THANKFULLY, that didn't happen! After a dose of benadryl and an oatmeal bath, the hives were looking better.

This Thursday will mark three full weeks that we have been battling illnesses. I hope this is the end. I really really want to get off this ride!

Also - if you're wondering about the "praying for Stellan" button on the sidebar, I'll give you a brief background. Stellan is the 5 month old son of a woman from Minneapolis. She is a blogger and an amazing photographer. While Stellan was in the womb, his heart went into SVT, its a rapid heartbeat originating from the wrong part of the heart. The University Dr's told her that her son would not be carried to term and would die. She and her husband decided to accept whatever was God's will and prayed for the best. Stellan was miraculously carried to term and born healthy. However, last Sunday his heart went into SVT again - and has been in SVT almost continuously ever since. He is in Children's Hospital and the Dr's are frantically trying to find the right combination of Meds to get his heart back to a normal sinus rhythm before it is too damaged. They are running out of time and having little success. So - please pray for little Stellan. After reading this - I realize our little cycle of late winter illness is nothing compared to this. Give me a few colds and vomit any day!

My Little Treasure Troll

About a week ago I asked a friend how to control Cam’s hair and make it lie flat. She laughed and said troll babies are cute and to just leave the hair alone. She’s right. The more I look at him, the more I think he looks like a little Treasure Troll. So that’s what I call him.

Cameron was three months old two Sunday's ago. It’s hard to believe it has been three months already, at the same time, I can’t remember life without him!

Weight: 12 pounds and some odd-ounces.

Length: 22 inches
Size: 3-6 months. We’ve been transitioning out of 0-3 month clothes into the 3-6 month stuff for a few weeks now.

Diapers: Size 2. We’re still using up some old size 1 – but it really is time for the larger ones!

Cameron is a very mellow baby. If he is awake, he is happy just sitting in a bouncer, listening to music, and playing with toys that are attached. He manipulates his Nuk a lot, but hasn’t figured out how to put it in his mouth just yet.

He coos like crazy and often talks to his friends that hang over the changing table. He has also developed this high pitched scream that he does when he is happy. Its the cutest thing! He likes to sleep – A LOT. He is usually only awake for short bursts of time in the morning and the early evening. Otherwise he sleeps, waking only to eat.

He is no longer eating at night; we stopped feeding him after his two month well baby appointment. He does wake once or twice a night for his Nuk. Until recently, he would wake up for the Nuk and not go back to sleep until I moved him from his cradle to his bouncer. He has, however, spent the whole night in his cradle for the past two weeks or so.

Hmmm....should have rotated that before uploading. oh well.

Cameron is a little snuggler. He often cuddles right into my neck after being fed or when we’re just hanging out. I love it and could sit like that all night!

He is getting those adorable little chunkers on his thighs – you know the ones that you can only see when you take off his diaper? So cute.

His hair is getting much lighter as I suspected it would. The roots are turning very blonde.

Cameron adores his big sister. Whenever she talks to him or kisses him, he gets a big smile on his face and shakes his arms and legs. He also seems to really like his Grandpa Lee, as he babbled like crazy for Grandpa over the weekend.

Cam is starting to enjoy baths more. He doesn’t get all excited and splash like Madison did, but he no longer cries when we give him a bath. He just lies in the water and relaxes like he is on a sandy beach.

Cameron HATES his tummy time. I thought he would never learn to roll over because he can’t get through two minutes of tummy time without screaming. However, last Wednesday he successfully rolled from his tummy to his back. We are still trying to get it on video!

We just had his three month pictures taken and they are so cute! I can’t wait for the order to come in so I can get them up on my wall.

This picture is for Uncle Tyler. Are REAL hunters supposed to scream and cry when they put on their hunting gear?