Enough about that, I am here to write Camden's 6 month update.
Camden officially turned 6 months old on Saturday the 17th of January and this past month even though tough and emotional at times, it has been fun and full of improvements!
It is crazy to think how 6 months have just flown by and it is even more crazy to think he has been in our life for this long! I tried to remember what it felt like being pregnant and my memory has already failed me. I feel grateful to have gotten the opportunity to watch him grow from a newborn baby to a 6 month old little boy and I am hoping that in the next few months leading up to his first birthday I don't miss out on too many firsts. I am holding thumbs that he holds out until the evenings when I return from work or the weekends when I get QT with my boys to crawl or cut his first tooth!
Returning to work just before his 6 month birthday was tough but I have adapted and accepted that as much as we would like for me to stay home we just cannot afford for me to be a stay at home mommy just yet and well as much as I love Camden, I kind of enjoy what I do for a living and I won't apologise for that...he is in good hands during the day. I miss him loads and his absolute excitement and massive grin, sometimes followed by a shriek when I get home totally makes up for the day that I have been away from him.
Camden has really become such a happy baby and that has made life a lot easier for us, well as easy as can be while we navigate through the teething phase and the nights when he wakes up 2-3 times for no real reason - that can be tough on a mommy who gets up at 4:30am to be at the gym by 5am and then have to try concentrate for a full days work or for a daddy who has to wake up to feed him his morning feed while mommy is at gym! That cute smile with his cocked head though, makes the exhausted mornings all worth while.
I love watching Camden grow day by day and make his transition into a little boy, just today Wayne said, " He looks more like a little person"...lol,not sure what he looked like before but I get what he was trying to say. Each day he wakes up I think he looks bigger than the day before. He has already developed the temper of a toddler at the mere age of 6 months old. I just love his laugh, he has the cutest smile that just melts your heart, I am pretty sure he is going to use that on plenty of girls in his lifetime, he already does and to top it off he now has this cute little thing that he does, if he looks at you or you talk to him, he cocks his head to the side and smiles his skew little smile...I am afraid to think he might have picked the head movement up from our dog, Marley hahaha.
After 6 months I have realised that I could simply have asked people to purchase Camden a simple Bonaqua water bottle, a TV remote and his own mobile phone because those are the "toys" that fascinate him the most. He has his own bottles but he want mine and I must let him drink out of it, we have even given him his own remote but he still wants the one out of Wayne's hand, switches the TV on and sits back and relaxes to watch whatever channel he has managed to put the TV on. It amazes me, all the toys in the world but he wants the simple things or our things...that'll do mom and dad, that'll do.
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Happy 6 months to mommy and daddy's little champ, we love you!
How Big?: His check up has been scheduled for the 28th of January only so I unfortunately have no accurate weight and height measurements but I have weighed him and according to our scale he is around 9.3kg give or take 200g. Camden is quite a big boy. At the last casting I took him to he was towering over the 9 month old babies, I had mothers asking how old he was and looking at me in shock when I mentioned he would be 6 months in a week or so.
Clothing Size: Nothing much has changed in this department, he is however wearing some 12 to 18 month clothing and his pants still hang on him, they just seem shorter. I have had all his leggings taken in so they can fit around his waist.
Eating: We definitely have no issues here. He is still on roughly 80ml of fruit in the morning, 80ml veg in the afternoon and porridge in the evening with 4 bottles in-between. Camden isn't really a fussy eater, he loves his food...just don't give him pureed roasted veg, this is definitely not his favourite LOL!
I have given him some more textured food, like mashed up avo and banana to teach him how to chew instead of just swallow. It takes a bit of getting used to it but he sure loveeessss AVO - mothers child for sure.
Sleep: Very up and down this month. One night he will sleep from 7pm to 6am and then the next he wakes up every hour on the hour. when it comes to sleep, this child has zero set routine. It is very strange, we have a few great days and then the wheels come off and we have no idea why. For now we are blaming everything on those swollen gums of his.
Movement: Still not crawling and I am not sure what to call it really, scooting? He does this thing where he rocks on all fours, puts one leg forward and then the next...he isn't sure how to move his arms forward so instead he launches himself like a rocket towards the object he is after and most of the times face plants the object spot on. Another move he has is when he is on all fours he scoots both legs forward at the same time and this seems to get him where he wants to be, who knows what is going through his little mind when he face plants poor Sophie or the floor when he misses the object. He also straightens his back legs while on all fours and then moves his legs forward but that almost always ends up in his legs crossing over and him getting stuck. He flips himself over with ease and rolls or scoots to wherever he wants to be. I can no longer leave him on our bed unattended for even 5 seconds. I turned my back the other day and he was airborne almost off the bed onto the floor, I caught him just in time.
Loving his walking ring and he is all over the house grabbing stuff off tables or poor Marley's tail and opening drawers and mostly trying to touch stuff that doesn't belong to him. If you see him coming, run or cover your ankles. It is like a bad game of bumper cars where Camden is always the winner.
Milestones:
Sitting totally on his own while playing with his toys, no falling over unless it is to fling himself back in a temper tantrum fit if a toy he is playing with is not cooperating with him.
Walking like a champ in his walking ring, forwards and not just sideways like a crab.
Grabbing at everything in sight, especially Wayne's face. We are yet to understand what is so fascinating about his daddy's face.
So inquisitive, if he hears a noise he must investigate.
He put his arms out to go from his gran to his grandpa the other day and that made my dads year lol...my dad has been trying to get him to do that since the day he was born and even though we kept telling him, " he is too young", he carried on doing it - YAY for Oupie getting it right eventually.
We have reached a massive milestone - this child loves water! We can now refer to him as a water baby. He absolutely loves his baths and the pool.No matter how cold that pool water is, he wants to be in it. From a child who screamed blue murder if you bathed him the first few weeks of his life.
Sitting in his high chair and trying to feed himself. He wants to hold his own spoon and when you say open then he puts his own spoon in his mouth - half the time too far down his throat so he starts to gag
Some firsts for Camden...
His First Christmas
His first family holiday to JHB to visit his daddy's family.
First time on a plane
First time in his own blow up pool
Excitement this month: Our family holiday to JHB. It was so nice to get away as a family and to meet some of Wayne's family and friends that I had not met yet. We set our official wedding date!
Six months post-partum: Eating plan is on track, training is on track. In the full swing of things being back at work full time. Finally some weight seems to be shifting. My new coach and I have set some goals and I am SO keen to reach them.
Yes I am not where I was hoping to be at 6 months post partum but unfortunately my hormones have not allowed me the opportunity to lose the weight I gained and fit back into my skinnies but I won't give up hope, I will get there.
Yes I am not where I was hoping to be at 6 months post partum but unfortunately my hormones have not allowed me the opportunity to lose the weight I gained and fit back into my skinnies but I won't give up hope, I will get there.
Emotionally I am good, struggling with my lack of patience but this is something I need to manage on a daily basis.
Physically I am feeling better, my knees still ache but it is ok. I am choosing to focus on what is good in 2015.
