4 Weeks Have Passed

Well it is amazing at how fast our little boy is growing up. Here are a few highlights from the passed four weeks.

Just Chillin'

We got to go Trick-or-Treating as the Flintstones.

Andy, Amanda, and Evelyn helped us complete the look.

Cameron and his mom (notice how he seems to be eyeing the food).

This is his cousin Evelyn. She was crazy about him! She wanted to feed him one night, and kept asking, "Can I feed the baby cousin?" I looked at her and said, "You need boobies to feed the baby." She fired right back with, "I have boobies.", and she proceeded to show us that she could feed her baby doll. It was hilarious!

Hanging out with Grampy

Grammy and Grampy

Grandma and Grandpa

I love how Cameron's eyes are crossed in this picture.

Evelyn took good care of him. In this picture she is making sure that he wasn't lonely. She put her baby dolls next to him and took extra care to make sure everyone had a blanky. Then she would point at each one and say, "Baby doll. Baby cousin. Baby doll. Baby doll. Baby doll. Baby cousin. Baby cousin. Baby doll. Baby doll.", over and over.

She really did try very hard to make sure he was ok and was happy.

I have been trying to take a picture once everyday to put into a time lapse video. These are just a few of the pictures that show how much he has already changed.

Halloween. He was Bam Bam.

His poor little face is broken out right now with baby acne.

Welcome to the World!!!

He is finally here!!! Cameron D. Smith made his grand debut on Oct 13, 2009, at 7:45 pm. He weighed in at 8 lb 4.5 oz and was 21 inches long. He has a head FULL of hair (as you can see from the pictures), which won over many of the nurses.

The bellow the night of the 12th

Before drugs.

After drugs. "Just say yeessss"

Here are the Newborn Intensive Care guys cleaning his lungs of any Meconium poisoning. The hoses made his sinuses swell up and he was having a hard time breathing so we stayed in the hospital an extra night just to be safe.

Meeting Mom for the first time.

He looks just like his Dad

Absolute cuteness!!!

First family photo.

No I am not choking him. Every time I burp him he falls asleep with his chin resting in my hand. It is so cute the way he just goes completely limp.

Cameron has fun hair to style. He almost needs a haircut.

The following pictures are Quin's baby pictures. Quite an uncanny resemblance.

9 lb 7 oz and 23 inches long (also 4 days late). Just a bit meatier than Cameron.

Those are some rocking chops. When will the hair styles of the 70's make their triumphant return?

Baby Watch 2009

Well, today (Oct 9) is the official due date, and no immenent signs of baby (minus the gianormous belly). So here we calmly sit during Baby Watch 2009 waiting for him to make his grand entrance. Here are some photos of the belly.

My robe makes Natalie look huge. Almost as if she is wearing a fat suit.

Ball?

I decided to take several pictures of Natalie turning around 360°, in order to get the full effect of the pregnancy. We often get a surprised "Whoa! You don't even look pregnant from behind. But you ARE!" when we go shopping. So this video is to show how far out this kid is jutting.

Bear, 1997-2009

I just learned that my sister had to put her little pomeranian, Bear, down today. Bear Bear (as we called her) always made it more interesting to go to Yellowstone. We would leave her in the car and she would whine and bark and Emily would randomly yell out "Bear!" while we were walking through the parking lot. It was great to watch people's heads whip around trying to figure out why and who was yelling 'Bear' and if they needed to run or not. It was also alot of fun to watch the 10 lb dog growl at the bison like she was going to bring one down by herself. Bear is survived by Emily, Bryon, Trigger and Layla.

Belly Bustin'

So it is a good thing that we are not growing the baby in the garden because he wouldn't be doing very well (see previous blog). Fortunately he is growing in Natalie and doing very well.

Friday August 21, 2009

(We're not sure of the dates of the other pictures, just that there are after June 8th)

He is due October 9th and we still don't have a name for him. Any suggestions? We have been calling him Stitch (as from Lilo and Stitch, the movie)

He is healthy and strong, but he likes hanging out up under my ribs. I am doing really good except I still have my back problems and spend 2/3 of the day having to lay down. I also get winded really easy from somebody pressing on my ribs. I have put on 16 inches around and my belly button is totally sticking out. I even bump it on things.

Unfortunately, he is breach and not showing any inclination to move to where he is supposed to be. Great he is already showing how stubborn he is.

We're really excited, scared to death, and still a little in denial.
Woohoo! Get in and hang on for the ride of our lives!

Square Foot Garden Part Deux

So we figured that we needed to do an update on our Square Foot Garden.

After about a month or so the garden was looking very good and healthy. The snails really seemed to like it and wouldn't stay out of it. So I had to purchase some snail killer which really slowed them down.

In this picture you can see that everything has sprouted and is doing well. You can barely see the 8 (of 18) spinach plants that the snails or grasshoppers have not completely clipped off yet. The lettuce never sprouted.

The bell pepper (front left) is looking healthy and strong. A little after this photo was taken, the top half of it got nearly cut off by some stupid bug that just chewed half way through the stem. It even had 2 tiny little peppers starting to form.



BEHOLD!!! The FRUIT of our labors. This was the first harvest from the garden.





Shortly after we got our first crop (yes the single cherry tomato) the Bakersfield summer decided to arrive. And arrive it did with 108-112 °F temperatures for more than a week straight. It pretty much finished off the peas. The tomatoes were doing ok and had a few more tomatoes on them. The pumpkin and zucchini both looked sick, and the carrots never got more than an inch tall, but the corn seemed to like it. It would put on as much as an inch or more of growth a day. The weather cooled down (100-105 °F) and things looked like they may still have a chance. The zucchini was looking good finally. Then we left to Utah for a baby shower and the temps jumped back up.


The peas all died. The zucchini killed over. The pumpkin gave up the ghost. The bell pepper never came out of its coma. The poblano pepper produced 1 tiny little pepper the size of a silver dollar (if that). The corn has some tiny miniature ears on it (about the size of those little salad sized ones). The cucumbers keep making little cucumber buds that then shrivel up. The cantaloupe is about the same (the ants seem to like farming aphids on it though). All in all we collected about a dozen cherry tomatoes, 4 Park Whopper tomatoes, and 4 snap peas; but boy howdy were they tasty (which they should be at close to $10 a piece). So as you can see from the photo, we can't be held down, and are re-planting peas and zucchini to see if fall gardening works better. We will triumph over nature!!!