Dexter was born on Wednesday, we went home on Friday evening, and then on Saturday had an in-home visit from a nurse, who did drew some blood from Dex to check his bilirubin count. We got a call later that day from the doctor: Dex's bilirubin was high and we had to get him back to the hospital for jaundice treatment.

Dex was home for less than a day.   more »

We had Dex's two week appointment today, and he's getting B.I.G.

To recap, his birth weight was 8lb 3oz
Leaving hospital three days later: 7lbs 7oz
One week old: 7lbs 15oz
Now, 1 day shy of 2 weeks after birth: 8lb 11oz!

The average baby gains between 0.5 and 1.0oz, and Dex has been gaining 2oz a day!!  Dex is going to be humungo, even bigger than Cameron!  If you don't remember just how fat Cameron was, here's a refresher:

Cam at 3 months. No he's not wearing a sumo suit

I'm thinking maybe we should sell Sara's milk - that stuff is potent!

I just whipped together a quick video of Cam's reaction to seeing his train set, plus a few clips from his birthday party.  Enjoy!

Finally got around to posting pics of Cam from right before Dexter was born, including Cam's 2nd birthday.  Dexter was predicted to arrive right near Cam's birthday; we didn't want to have to rush to the hospital in the middle of Cam's birthday party so we had Cam's party a week early, on September 13 (Cam's bday is September 19).

Choo choo!

Sara and I decided to splurge on a gift for Cam's 2nd birthday - we bought him a toy train set table.  We actually played with this train table last Christmas when we stayed with Winston and Margaret, and we liked it so much that we decided to get it for Cam.  It was a huge beast of a box, barely fitting into the backseat of the Lexus.  I really should have used the Rogue to pick up the toy but I bought the train set from a Toys'r'us near my work and I use the Lexus to commute.  Anyways, we wanted to surprise Cam with the train set so we left the box in the car until Cam went to sleep.  Then I lugged it into the house, and two and a half hours later, the train set was fully assembled.  It was soooo much bigger than I remember, and we don't have the proper space for it.  We had to stick it against a wall so unfortunately there's a side of the train table that Cam can't really reach and trains sometimes get stuck there.

The next morning, when Cam climbed to the top of the stairs and saw the train table, he yelled "Choo choo!" and ran over to play with it.  At one point he was jumping up and down with excitement and said "Awesome!"  We made sure to give Cam a full day of the train set on his own, then the next day was his birthday party and it was a big hit with all the kids.

Cam blew out the candles on his own

Cam had a great time at his party, running laps around the house with the other kids and batting balloons all over the place.  He loved his Cars-themed cake, and when we brought it out all lit up, I leaned in to help blow out the candles but Cam didn't need me at all - he blew out the candles all on his own!  That kid constantly amazes me with what he does and says.

The train set was expensive, but we figured the cost will be amortized over the multiple kids that we will have.  :)  Cam has shown no signs of losing interest in the train set, which is good.  If anything, Sara and I have lost the novelty of playing with it and we don't spend as much time playing with Cam on the train table as we should, considering we've have it for less than a month.  I suppose having a new baby had something to do with that... :)

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We're starting up potty training for Cam.  The first couple days went well, as Cam did not fight sitting on the toilet.  In fact, when I was putting Cam to sleep, he would suddenly grab his butt and ask to go to the toilet!  That was just the first couple days, however.  He's fought it since then, and now I've fallen off the wagon in trying to potty train him.  In truth, I have no idea what to do, other than to encourage him to sit there.  Sara ordered a free potty training DVD and we've watched the first few minutes of it - just enough for me to know to use stickers as bribes-er, I mean rewards for using the potty.  I need to watch the rest of the DVD to really learn the science of getting Cam fully potty trained.

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That's it for now.  I've got one more set of pre-Dexter photos I want to post - our vacation to Scottsdale from May.  That's pretty much ancient history when it comes to the kids, but there are some great pics in there that I want to post... hopefully I'll be able to post that some time soon.