We had Dexter's one month checkup.  He feels like a big and heavy baby, and I guessed him to be 10lbs 8oz... after weighing him, it turned out he was 11lbs 14oz!  Almost 12 lbs at one month!!!  Crazy giant baby!

That's 93%ile, from 35%ile at birth.  Another 2 percent and Dex woulda been off the charts!  For comparison's sake, Dex was half a pound heavier than Cam was at one month (maintaining the same half pound weight difference from birth).  Dex's other one month stats:
Length: 22.5 innches (70%ile, compared to 30%ile at birth)
Head circumference: 14 inches (50%ile, 30%ile at birth)

Dex is already bigger than Cam.  I was holding Dex for a lengthy period the other day, and my shoulders were aching the rest of the night.  I wonder just how big Dex is going to get...

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Dex all dressed up

For Dexter’s one month celebration, we had a small gathering of family at our home. Sara's mom cooked up a storm and we all enjoyed a delicious celebration, complete with red eggs :) The only regret is not taking a picture of all the food!

It was really nice having the 2 boys all dressed up. When we put Cam in a collared shirt, he said "Dada clothes" - that stuff'll melt his Dad's heart.  :)

Since Dex was in his Sunday-best, we took the opportunity to take some passport photos. Although we have decided not to go to Toronto for the holidays, we wanted to be prepared should we change our minds or decide to escape to a Mexican resort. Taking Dex’s picture was easier than it was for Cam, probably because Dex is older and not as giggly or perhaps it’s because we are experienced now ;)

Enjoy the pictures of Dex from two and a half to four and a half weeks.

It's been over 2 weeks since my last post - almost half of Dexter's life!  It's been very busy the last couple weeks; I'm typically up at 6:40am, get myself and Cam ready for the day, then out the door at 7:20am, drop off Cam at daycare, head to the office, back home by about 6pm, have dinner, bathe Cam at 7pm, get him in bed and asleep by 8:30-9, usually fall asleep with Cam and wake up at 9:30, then do whatever household cleanup/chores, then it's usually past 10pm by the time I get to get on the computer, and the past couple weeks that time has been devoted to doing work rather than blogging or posting photos... but anyways, enough about me.

We're in the middle of a one week vacation to South Lake Tahoe right now.  We're staying at the Marriott Timber Lodge which is a ski resort and is located in a little ski village centered around a big gondola that heads up the mountain to the ski runs.  It's not yet ski season, but past the summer tourist season, so it's pretty dead out here.  The ski village feels deserted but it's actually kinda nice - we've got the run of the place and there are no crowds anywhere.  Cam has loved climbing all over the rocks and jumping everywhere, and he yells out "Ah-bot!" (his word for 'robot') when he sees the gondola.  Sara and I were here three years ago (gosh I can't believe how young we looked before our kids) and enjoyed riding the gondola; too bad it's closed til ski season starts this time, we were looking forward to taking Sara's mom and kids up there.

Enjoying the firepits

We've had fun so far; the weather's much cooler here compared to San Francisco so we've enjoyed sitting beside some firepits at night while munching on smores.  We walked to a beach which was completely empty - it was so quiet and peaceful, I could have gone down for a long nap in the sun - which Cam did.  We've also gone on a nice hike through the woods, and we saw salmon attempting to swim upstream to spawn!  That was seriously cool.  Spawning season runs from mid September to the end of October, so we only got to see the tail end of it - the resort concierge described it perfectly: "you'll probably see more dead than live fish."

We're only halfway through our trip so far.  Tomorrow we're hiking to some waterfalls, so I'd better get to sleep and get some rest.  Enjoy the pictures!