Campbell's Blog

He was a fast walker, and the talking would come later. Campbell has been making a lot of changes in the last month or so and part of that has been picking up a lot of signs, animal sounds, and also starting to talk most of the common words he hears every day. He mumbles [...]

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Campbell might not be as far along as Mara yet in terms of words or signing, but he is beginning to get there. The only things he says at this point are dada, mama, and he just started to say uh-oh and Mara. This last week though he made the connection between a sound he [...]

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Lisa was determined to have the little man walk before his first birthday. With her regiment of calisthenics, core exercise, and proper dieting, Campbell has shown lots of progress. This past week he had demonstrated a step or two with enough stick and carrot prompting. Like holding out his favorite book or stuffed animal. This [...]

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In the last month or so, Campbell has been making a lot of progress with his physical skills. We already showed his attempts at waving. He has also been clapping up a storm, which Lisa taught him recently. And of course, since he started to crawl he has been pulling up on things all over [...]

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Not to be left with crawling as his latest skill, Campbell is making a run at as many physical skills as he can. The latest this week was his wave. We have only been working with him a couple of weeks on this one, so I am a little surprised at how fast he has [...]

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It was an exciting morning here yesterday. Campbell has been making some steady progress on his movement and crawling, but we can officially say that yesterday was the day where he was crawling. It was like something clicked for him to make some repeated movements as opposed to taking a “step” or two and then [...]

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This fall has been come and go with the cold weather. Last week there were a couple of good days where it got up into the high 50′s / low 60′s. Lisa was able to get the kids out to the playground for a little fun time. She got them on the swings together! This [...]

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This video is a little bit old, as it was taken about four weeks ago. Campbell is just starting to eat food with his hands, and of course we are starting with the standard puffs. At the point of this video he has only been at it a week or so. In the beginning when [...]

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What is different to me in raising the second child, is that you aren’t fully occupied with just finding things for them to do in isolation and one on one satisfying their time. Instead, he can just sit and have a small thing to play with, and mostly be occupied with observing his sister and [...]

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As happened with Mara, Campbell is getting older and a little bored with his existing sitting activities. Even though he could possibly outgrow this item very soon, Mom went out and got the little one a Jumperoo upon recommendation from Aunt Jen. It would be an understatement to say that he loves it! When you [...]

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