Trip to Atascadero Zoo

We went to the zoo in Atascadero today; not sure we'll go ever again as it was pretty sad, from a habitat perspective. Those poor animals! The folks there sure are trying hard but....it was sad.

The kids, on the other hand, had lots of fun. Isley got a chance to do something more fun than wait for Cam to wake up from a nap :)

Side note: this was the longest trip Cam has taken in the new carseat and he did AWESOME. Fell asleep on the way home and didn't even wake up when we took him out of the car :)

Car seats and teeth!

The new carseat for Cam arrived today. My good friend Evelyn has asked us several times to come visit her in the Bay area (her son Garrett is 5 months older than Cam) but since Christmas, taking Cam out in the car for more than 10 minutes didn't go too well. Just *getting* him into the carseat was typically a tearful battle - not just for Cam.

So when Evelyn sugguested that Cam's carseat might be too small for him, the lightbulb went off. On our first trip up to the Bay area in more than 3 months a couple of weeks ago, we got a chance to test out Garrett's Britax Marathon and were sold. Tried to buy one locally but our only choices were pink butterflies and a black carseat: not a good color to have in a place where the summer temps can be triple digit. We ordered ours at Albee Baby and got a great price, as well as free shipping. Kevin installed into his car before I went to pick up Cam at daycare, and for the first time in a loooooong time, Cam didn't struggle when put into his car seat. We even took a little drive around the neighbourhood with Cam playing happily with his rattle, and not trying to get out of the carseat! It was amazing!!

This weekend we're going to try a trip up to Pleasanton to go visit my baby boy D'artanyn (the black horse, and not a baby as he'll be 8 in August!), as I just found out he'll be moving with his new mom and family up to Oregon in July. He's come along amazingly with Suzanne, and I can't wait to see him and introduce him to Cam. Perhaps even a riding lesson for us both :)

ps
you can see Cam's bottom teeth in his photo :)

Visit to the Bay Area

We drove up to Los Gatos/San Jose today and got to visit with a bunch of people; Juliann, Sarah and Grant and also Carla (who is still promising to teach Cam to ride in a few years!). Cam did great in the car; slept almost the entire way up to San Jose (2.25 hrs), only protesting when he had a very wet diaper - as soon as that was changed, he went right back to sleep. Our fancy-schmancy car seat cover seems to be doing the trick!!

It was so nice for Cam to finally meet some of the people we've told him about, plus he and Grant seemed to get along; they both stared at each other like they'd never seen a baby before :)

The photo was taken while we were waiting to meet Sarah at her office, just before -seconds!- a big blowout. LOL - our trips up north almost always seem to contain a blowout!! Wish he could do those at home where we're better equipted for them!

ps: note the not one, but TWO burpies :)

The first November post!

Today Cam is 8 weeks old (already, holy cow!) and unofficially 16lbs (we weighed him here at home with our scale). We have a pediatrician appointment on Thursday, so we'll share the "real" weight then! He's sleeping more and more at night (hooray!) and lots of fun during the day; cooing, smiling, laughing and, occasionally, yelling loudly to let us know he has a wet diaper or is ready for a nap. His personality is definitely starting to show; he's just as stubborn as mom and dad!

We took a trip up to San Jose yesterday to see Auntie Sherry and also for Cam to meet Leah. He did great in the car; only got upset just outside of San Jose b/c it turned out he had a blowout. Otherwise, the trip went well. We didn't get any photos of Cam with Leah b/c it was almost dark, but we'll go up again soon. Leah was definitely interested in sniffing both Cam and Kevin; I'm sure she recognizes that Cam belongs to us :) (not because we had treats).

BTW - I think the sheepskin cover we got for Cam's carseat was a good purchase; even though it got into the low-mid 80s yesterday, he didn't overheat in the carseat like he usually does.

Here is a link to Ba-Ba Seatskins in case anyone else has this problem too. The man that owns this company is super nice; he got our cover to us while in the midst of all the fires down in Southern CA! The cover was a bit expensive but totally worth it since Cam is now comfortable and not drenched in sweat every time we take him out in the car. I think shipping was free too and in CA, we got it the next day.