Campbell- 2 months

Campbell turned 2 months on July 29th if you are counting by weeks but if you go by months, it would be August 3rd.  Mostly this post will be pictures because I feel like I haven’t had a chance to post many pictures of Campbell.  He is such a precious baby but is high maintenance…more than Trigger.  I had been told by so many people that the second child would be laid back but that is so not true in our case.  BOTH are high maintenance.  What are the chances?  Haha!

Campbell went to see Dr. Slusher on August 4th.  He got shots while we were there.  I am so thankful that our insurance covers shots because I do NOT want to go sit at Shots for Tots on a Saturday morning if I can help it!  Campbell looked great.  She did tell us what I already knew…that Campbell has a hernia…just like Trigger.

He weighed 10lbs 13oz and was 22.5 inches long.  His head circumference was 14.8 inches.

Campbell has many funny faces.

And he’s already learned how to curl his bottom lip when he’s sad.

Campbell is still feeding every 3 hours during the day.  I am still breastfeeding him.  However, I still have too much milk ;) and have to pump in the morning and evenings…and I’m still getting around 28-34 ounces in addition to feeding Campbell!  During the day, he LOVES to be held all the time but he’s slowly getting better.  At night time, Campbell has a hard time settling down.  He gets really fussy after his 7/8ish feeding and doesn’t usually settle down until 11ish which almost does me in.  However, once he settles down, he sleeps until between 4-6.  So he goes from 7/8ish-4/5/6ish which is WAY better than Trigger.  With Trigger, we were still waking him every three hours to feed him so that he would gain weight!

Campbell is so sweet and we love having him in our family.  And believe it or not, Trigger still loves him too!!

July 29, 2010

July 29th was a very special day at our house.  Trigger turned TWO years old and Campbell turned TWO months.

Before we start with the celebration, here Trigger’s last picture as a ONE year old!

Trigger’s party was coming up and I wanted to practice on his cake so I decided to practice Wednesday night.  These couple of weeks were pretty crazy because we had Trigger’s birthday and then we left for Houston the next day.  I didn’t want Trigger’s birthday to be neglected because of packing and wanted it to still be a special day for him.  When he woke up, I cooked pancakes for Trigger.  He calls them “cake-cakes” and I LOVE It!!!! 

Then, we let him open some of his presents.

A little fridge phonics…gotta start working on that letter recognition..HAHA!

Opening the next one…

His first remote control RED race car!

Below: “o-pen…o-pen!”

We played all morning.  Then, we went to have lunch at Johnny’s Pizza with Matt.

Then, after supper Trigger got to blow out his candles in his red truck cake that I had made the night before.  Here are some pictures of me making it…please remember that it was REALLY, REALLY late Wednesday night when I was making this so it is NOT perfect…and I knew it was just a practice cake so I didn’t worry about the end result as much.

First, I baked (using white cake mix) several cakes.  I cut one to make it the cab of the truck.  I used the other for the body.  I put the parts together with icing.

I used a WHOLE jar of Wilton red food coloring to make the red icing. 

Then, I started icing the truck.  It was quite difficult and I was quite tired and really was loosing any sort of care that I did have hours earlier when I thought this was a GRAND idea! Oreos for wheels…I just used what I had in our pantry.

 

And here is Trigger with his cake.  He immediately knew that it was a RED truck!  Yay!! and he had to get a little lick!

Waiting patiently while we sang to him..

And BLOW..

Lick the candles…

AND…DIG IN…

And for the record, I guess he just remembered doing this from last year because he does NOT usually eat his food like a dog! :) However, I let him eat away…it was his birthday..his cake…and he’s only two…so I let him enjoy his moment!  I’m just glad he’s not allergic to red dye! :) Oh and we did strip him down because he had already LOVINGLY wiped his hands down the side of this precious outfit that was only worn this ONE time.  HOWEVER, on a side note, if you don’t have a steam washer and you have children, you MUST, MUST, MUST purchase them.  He got red icing all down the front of this outfit…steam cycle..ALL GONE!  He got into a red ink pad of mine…got it ALL over the front of a white children shop outfit…steam cycle…ALL GONE!!!  We have used that steam cycle and it has been worth EVERY penny! Back to the celebration!

Really?  Why bother with a fork at this point?

Afterwards, we got him sort of cleaned up and let him open some more presents. You will notice that his skin is a little dyed and there is red coming out his nose and mouth…YUCK!

Vehicle Bathtub toys…

I found this cool red race car box.  I filled it with little things that I knew Trigger would love! Buzz, Woody, cars, etc.

  Red Truck with a trailer…he was really excited about this one!

I can’t believe my sweet boy is TWO YEARS OLD!  It’s so hard to believe that time has gone by that fast. 

Trigger will start Mother’s Day Out at Temple this fall and I’m going to have such a hard time letting go of  him.  I have been in control of his life for two years.  He’s very sheltered…only stayed with me, Matt, our parents, or Aunt/Uncle (and that’s only been a few times). I hope and pray he has a teacher that will love him for who he is and will embrace his independence and not be irritated by it! :)

We just went to see Dr. Slusher this past Wednesday.  He had to get his shots.  She said he looked great.

Here are a few facts that I want to remember:

- You weigh 30lbs and are 34.5 inches tall

- You drink 20-24 ounces of 2% milk (we just changed from whole milk a few weeks ago and you never skipped a beat).  The rest of the time he gets water.  We still haven’t given him juice and don’t plan to….just no need for him to get the extra sugar if we can help it. 

- You LOVE, LOVE fruit and cheese. 

- You LOVE red trucks…but have now branched out to liking all trucks and cars AND of course TRACTORS 

- You also love to hammer everything…we had to take away your hammer for awhile to save our furniture!

- You still sleep with a pacifier but do not have it unless you are in your crib.  You also HAVE to have your “B” (red blanket) to sleep.

- You are still sleeping in your crib.  As active as you are, I am soooooo surprised that you haven’t climbed out.

- You are an awesome sleeper.  We give you a bath around 7, read you a few books and put you to bed at about 7:20 wide awake and you just go right to sleep.  AWESOME!!!!

- You LOVE icee’s and ice cream but of course we have to limit the amount you get…you would eat them all the time if we’d let you!  I don’t blame you though…i would too!

- You still LOVE outside.  It has been so hot that we haven’t been able to go out much. 

- You love to go for a ride on Daddy’s four wheeler when he gets home from work.

- You are still in speech once a week but have improved leaps and bounds since you started last November.  In fact, you are like a little parrot now, repeating EVERYTHING we say.

- You love to help and are so independent. You will say “I got it” “I do it” “Trigger do it” “I help”.

- You make us laugh all the time.  and make me want to cry with frustration sometimes! ;) 

- When I tell you to go to the corner, you know exactly where to go…the corner by the laundry room.  You go there quite often.

- We are working on colors but still do not have recognition mastered…such a boy…no time for all that learning business!

- Trigger can count to ten but usually leaves out one number.  He also can tell you how old he is.

- He has a love for TV and movies now…Toy Story (“Woody”) and Cars are his favorites.

I think that’s about it for right now.  I love that little boy so much.  He is SOOOO full of life and doesn’t ever miss a beat.  I am so thankful that I am his momma!!!!

Okay…I’m hearing some crashing in the den.  Let me GUESS who is making all that noise…could it be my “full of life” little boy.  Better go see what he is into!

Houston Trip- The First Pitch- Part Two

Saturday, we started out by eating breakfast together downstairs at the hotel.  The chef, Oscar, is at the buffet to make omlets and AWESOME waffles.  Here is a picture of me, Trigger, and Sydney. 

After breakfast, our family (me, matt, trigger, and campbell) headed to the Aquarium while the rest of the crew went to the Galleria.  However, before we left for the aquarium, my dad was told that our car had a flat.  One of the vallet guys took it to be fixed.  We had a 3 inch nail in our tire…I seriously have never seen such a big nail and now that I’m thinking about it, I’m wondering what someone could possibly do with a nail that huge!?! 

Trigger was a little on the cranky side…truth be told, he really was pretty cranky the whole trip.  Anyway, we finally got to go to the aquarium.  Trigger liked it.  I had Campbell in the Moby wrap again which was great but HOT.  I was really wishing we had our stroller.

Trigger got to touch the stingrays and some kind of crab.

And like all good aquariums, they had a white tiger……hmmmmm!?!

And one last picture of me and the boys at the aquarium….waiting on valet guy to get our car.  Did I mentioned that it was like standing on the sun HOT outside?!?

When we got back to the hotel (which was only a few blocks away), we had a little bite to eat at the cafe.  It was good food but HORRIBLE dealing with Trigger.  And when I say HORRIBLE, I mean H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.  He was tired and he was cranky and he was NOT cooperating! It was quite embarrassing.  I ended up taking him upstairs and he went down for a nap.  While Trigger was down, I went downstairs to meet the other girls (Liz, Deanna, Vanna, Karen, and Chelse) for a little cooking lesson.  My dad arranged for the chef (Oscar) of the hotel to teach us how to cook some of his specialties.  It really was sooooo fun!!!! 

We even got to wear aprons.

And afterwards, they set up a buffet and the guys came down and we got to eat all the food.

And here we are with Chef Oscar.

Oh and I LOVED the bananas foster…YUM..YUM!!!

Afterwards, we hurried up to change clothes and head across the street to the game.

Once again Trigger was tired.  He entertained himself with annoying the daylights out of Uncle Seth.  Sorry, Seth!

And, Campbell slept!

Me and Deanna

My sweet parents

My WILD man

And, my sweet little family!

Trigger had had enough.  He did make it for about 7 innings!!Since Matt had gone to eat at Vic and Anthonys on Friday night, I went this night.  They put us upstairs in a private room.  We had an awesome time!!  The funny part is that i ordered mac and cheese at this VERY nice steakhouse.  But, it was the BEST mac and cheese!!!

Sunday morning we got up early, got ready, ate breakfast downstairs again, took a family pic (below), and left.

Shortly after we left, we were on the road and my dad’s car was in front, then Seth, and us in the back.  My dad swirved and missed an 18 wheeler tire, seth hit it with his tire and it went under our car.  Almost immediately I started hearing a funny noise.  Well, after matt hung out the window while going 75 down the interstate, he decided we needed to stop.  Apparently the tire ripped off part of my bumper…YAY…and then part of the bumper was bent and hitting my tire which was creating the noise we were hearing.  Matt had to use a bungie cord (that we had wrapped around the pvc pipes…thank goodness we brought those pipes) to hold the rest of the bump from rubbing the tire.  This reminds me that I need to call and take my car in to be fixed!!

The trip was unforgettable! bc it was a special time for my dad AND bc traveling with TWO very young children is interesting!!!! Can’t wait until next year.