Happy Birthday Cameron!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the world's cutest and smartest and sweetest boy (I know those who read this may know other babies, and you probably feel as though the baby you know is the cutest and smartest and sweetest, but it is in my purvey as a mother that I can say this and truly believe it). I feel incredibly cliche when I say this year has FLOWN by, but I have learned that in this thing called parenthood it is nearly impossible to avoid cliches. Probably nothing I talk about in refrence to Cameron and his amazing feats is new in babyland (with the exception of the instance when he took off his pants using his teeth), but bear with me as I expereince all of these things and subsequently relate them.

In one short year, Cameron has:
-gained an impressive 9 pounds
-grown 9.5 inches
-cut 8.5 teeth
-learned to crawl at the rate of 2 body lengths per second, climb stairs at one stair per second, and crawl/climb (an interesting hybrid movement) over anything in his path
-taken 6 plane rides
-logged in over 35 miles of beach walking
-deposited approximately 4 pounds of crumbs in his car seat

His hobbies include:
-pulling toilet paper off the roll (at the rate of 68 squares per second)
-opening and closing doors
-splashing as much water as possible out of the bathtub
-climbing into the dishwasher
-figuring out how to make mommy make that strangled shriek
-experimenting with dentition (aka putting everything into his mouth and also biting things, like toes)
-carrying objects in his mouth (that adorable puppy look)
-smiling coyly at strangers and then outrageously flirting with them (he draws in even the most grizzled and stoic store patrons)
-reading
-dancing and bopping to music


He doesn't like:
-grass
-staying still (diaper changing has become rather problematic)
-yellow cheese
-sleeping (but has started resigning himself to it, which is nice)
-when mean mommy takes away the cell phone, camera, remote control, pen, etc.