We had broccoli for dinner today.  Usually we have to cut it into smaller pieces for Cam and sometimes we have to 'hide' it by mixing it into his rice or whatever else is on the plate, but today he was grabbing them on his own and eating them whole.  At one point, he popped an entire piece into his mouth, chewed it all, swallowed it, looked at me, and said "Booyah."

There have been many awesome moments with Cam, that may have been the most awesomest moment to date.

I'll be right here waiting for someone to play with me

Dex is a very laid back, low maintenance baby.  He'll sit on his bouncer without a peep while we are doing some chores or keeping Cam occupied.  Ten to fifteen minutes later we'll go to check in on Dex and he'll light up with smile and start kicking his legs and waving his arms excitedly.  Poor little guy, he was just waiting for someone to attention to him.  No complaints, though, just sitting there waiting patiently.

He is a laid back baby, but when he gets upset he'll let you know with a mega put where his lower lip engulfs his upper lip and his eyes portray such a pained look.  I find it quite endearing.  :)  He pouts for a few seconds then resumes his laid back self.  But if Dex transitions from being merely upset to actual anger, watch out - when he gets mad, he gets really mad.  He follows the mega pout by unleashing an ear-drum shattering cry.  It's actually difficult to hold him when he's crying since he's close to your ears and it's just plain painful on the ears; I now understand where the term 'ear piercing' came from.  Luckily he doesn't cry all that often so it's not something we have to deal with too often.

Dex is also quite a chatterbox, he'll happily babble away in his baby talk with you when you play with him.  He says lots of different things as he's capable of several different sounds and syllables, but not just sounds - he's also physically expressive.  There are head bobs and shoulder shrugs and chin dips and making "O" shapes with his mouth and jutting his head out... it's a lot of fun to have a conversation with him.

We've also discovered that he's ticklish.  When you tickle his neck, he'll shrug his shoulder into his neck and his face gets all scrunchy and his tongue sticks out.  I love seeing Dex's toothless grin and the way his little tongue sticks out just a bit.  He's recently started to laugh, too.  It's not the long uncontrollable laugh that Cam had at this age, instead it's a quick burst of joy.  :)

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A couple night's back, Dex slept from 11pm through til 9am without waking up.  We were completely shocked and utterly amazed - was Dex about to turn into one of those mythical babies that sleep through the entire night from an early age??

It turns out that that was just a one time occurrence.  Dex does wake up in the middle of the night to feed, but he only wakes up once.  Sara's very happy that he sleeps for at least five hours at night - it's soooooooo much easier than the painful ordeal that we went through with Cam waking up every hour to eat.  I'm even happier about it since I'm not much help at night; Cam is still not sleeping through the night and needs somebody to sleep with him so I'm down in Cam's room while Sara's on her own with Dex at night.

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I'm still behind with posting pictures, but I've been able to post November pics, through Dexter's 10th week of life.  Enjoy!

New Year's Eve was an extremely low-key event for us.  We were trying to get Dex used to a bottle in preparation for going to daycare so we decided to stay at home to make it easier to stick with the program.  We let Cam stay up all the way til midnight... EST.  We watched the ball drop in New York at 9pm and then we all went to sleep shortly after.

Earlier in the day, Sara said to Cameron "it's New Year's Eve Cameron, what should we do to make it special?"  It was a rhetorical question, but Cam spent a few seconds thinking about it and replied "Um, how bout cake?" to which Sara said "that's a good idea Cameron!" and it was indeed a good idea, something we would not have thought of.

Cam was obviously pleased with himself - he spent the next few minutes saying "good idea Cameron"  :)

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Cam loves the zoo, during the Christmas break we talked about the zoo often and Cam got all excited to visit the zoo.  We finally ended up going but on our way there it started to drizzle and by the time we got to the zoo it was completely raining.  We didn't want to walk around in the rain so we said to Cam "it's raining Cameron, we can't go to the zoo" to which he replied "use umbrella!"  Can't really counter with anything so Sara and I were quiet.  A few seconds later Cam follows up with "use hat!"  More undeniable logic from our two year old.  Seriously, this kid, he's gotta stop having such good responses.

We couldn't really counter with anything but didn't want to walk in the rain, so went with Diversion Tactic #1: "Cam, let's go home and watch a movie!" and he excitedly replied "okay!"  It never fails.  :)