Baby Makes

A frequent activity after dinner is for Dada to pull out the guitar so Cameron can dance…

(he’s dancing with Dexter, btw:)

The whole family went in to the cardio clinic today to have a consult with our cardiologist. All results are good after Cameron’s heart test two weeks ago. He still has a murmur, but its small, and it doesn’t concern the doc; she calls it an Innocent Murmur. Cameron was in good spirits and very pleased with the toy I bought him in a brief fit of the spendies.

While in the waiting room, Jackson took his first steps. Three.

Afterwards, we all went out for half price appies!

Cameron is sousse-free.

Cameron walked ALL THE WAY HOME from Tammy’s today. Brilliant!

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Two weeks ago Tammy warned us that Allison had been sent home from daycare one day with a tummy bug. We didn’t think too much of it because most of us in this family don’t get tummy bugs. How differently I think of our stomachs now, having seen the inside of everybody’s, including my own. In the time span of 12 days, three of us were down. We are now back up, but now the last of the mighty have fallen:

Jackson fell asleep in a Babymakes pouch, something he rarely does, because he felt so crappy:

Jackson conked onto Dad while sitting on the couch watching the Olympics – I think Arras said they were there not 2 minutes before he felt Jax fall into him:

After waking up from a nap, Jackson promptly fell BACK to sleep on Dada – note the deep soother-free slumber. This boy is DOWN:

Poor little sweetie. He’s much better now – he slept fairly well through the night and is in much better spirits today. Let’s hope the flu big is gone. Gone FOREVER.

Just a quick update to say that Cameron went to his cardio follow-up exam yesterday. Some of you may recall the fine adventure two plus years ago when Cameron was diagnosed with a small hole in his heart. His follow-up was today with an ECG and ultrasound which went VERY well. Cameron chose to bring Dexter for some additional cuddling, and  I believe Arras chose gf arrowroot cookies as the temptation in the ECG challenge. We didn’t get any information from this event; we have to go back in a few weeks for a consultation with the heart doctor.  Cameron was dropped off at Tammy’s just after 10am and Arras came home to announce that all went well and Cameron weighs a good 35 pounds, the weight limit in all my baby carriers except the backpack.  We are looking for size 4 clothes now for Cameron, so if anyone has hand-me-downs, hand ‘em down.

Master Jackson is a strapping 25 pounds, and wearing a loose 18 months in apparel. His hair is curly right after a bath but by the next morning is only bushy at the sides and flat on top which prompts us to call him “crazy old man”.  He has four teeth, another cutting through on the bottom, and has taken to standing unassisted  until he feels wobbly, then lowering himself gently to the floor, reminding me of ballet dancers I have seen fold themselves into sit in one smooth move. He’s like peanut butter, that one.

Happy belated valentine’s day. Our hearts are doing well over here. Hope yours are well where ever you are.

Photos by Alan Dean Photography.