Camden at 3.5 months

Camden's now 3.5 months old. His demeanor has totally changed. He's more alert now and likes to swat at his toys while in his bouncy seat or exersaucer. He enjoys tummy time and likes to play on his back too. He's happy as long as he can see me. You'll find him most days taking his naps in his swing, usually up to two hours. He sleeps very well in his crib but only at night. If I lay him in his crib for a daytime nap, then he usually wakes after 30-45 minutes. He's takes a bottle like a champ while he's in the nursery during church service or Mom's morning out every Tuesday. I'm not sure how much he weighs now. His 4-month well baby appointment is January 12 so we'll get his stats then.

Santa Babies

This morning was very productive. Millie and Camden (along with her cousins) got to visit with Santa. Millie learned a lot about patience as the line was about 45 minutes long. As you can tell, Camden slept comfortably on Santa's lap. Afterward, we picked out a live Christmas tree for our new big living room. Then off to Chick-fil-a to celebrate our grand adventures with no spills or accidents!

This evening we started decorating the tree. With Millie's busyness (and you all know what I'm talking about), I was afraid Millie would aggravate our poor Christmas tree this season. To avoid that sort of situation we allowed her to help us hang the ornaments. It was a great intro into our expectations of not pulling at the branches or trying to eat the tree or something. She had a wonderful time and we had fun video-ing her decorating the tree. It's a really long video so I'm not going to post it, sorry.

Millie and her box

She found some fun with this box during our move this weekend. Matt cut out some windows for her and she added her pillow and blanket.

Camden's 3 month old now!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

This holiday was spent with my dad, stepmom Pat, brother, his family and our friends Josh and Megan (unfortunately, not shown here). Leigh and Pat put the dinner together (baked turkey and all the fixin's) and the guys took care of frying the turkey. The place cards were made by my niece and nephew with their hand prints and everyone's name written out. Camden's placecard was coupled with mine- all too fitting. We brought over our big swing and Cam enjoyed that most of the day. Millie played with the cat, Feona and her cousins. With all that and the parade and football on the tv, it was a great Thanksgiving. We were missing you though, Lauren and Luis.

On Friday at midnight, Pat and I waited in line outside to get into Toys R Us for their early Black Friday sale. Two and a half hours later we had successfully made it home with a new outdoor playhouse and little shopping cart. I got the playhouse for a steal so the cold and rainy weather was totally worthwhile. Pat and I laughed at ourselves the whole time too. I went back to bed for about 3 hours then up again to head to Walmart, Home Depot and Target. While I was asleep Matt and my brother trekked over to the Post Exchange for more deals- mainly for the new TV now taking up nearly half of our dining room. We're excited to install and enjoy it in our new house (see photo) this weekend.Thanksgiving weekend, Matt and Millie took a trip down to Columbia to visit my in-laws. She came back with some tap shoes, leotard and ballet slippers- too cute. Mia always hooks Millie up with new and fun stuff. She's been walking around all morning today with her slippers on.

As for today, we got the keys to our new home! We'll move in on Thursday. Hoping we can make the move all in one day. Matt got Thursday and Friday off which never happens. I'm thinking that installing our new TV was his secret motivation to get those days off. Whatever the motive, I'm just happy to have him. And, my Dad stayed behind to help with the move too.

Here's Camden and Matt- taken today. He's starting to look like his Daddy.