Cameron Cooper, aka: The Octopus

Cameron really is part octopus. If she's playing on the floor surrounded by toys and you pick her up to kiss her, it really seems like she has eight arms. Its amazing. Within about 2 seconds she has gouged your eye, grabbed your hair (not mine obviously) and yanked on your ear. If you dont have toys in her hands in seconds, it could be fatal. She's very cute, but deadly. Just ask Bob the cat. You'll notice in one of these pics she almost has his tail. Well, she did get it and swung him around fourteen times over her head before launching him through the screen and down the street. Luckily he's a cat so he landed on his feet and was back hoping to be pet within minutes. Needy $^%$@@!

She's not crawling yet, but she manages to get all around the room by flopping over, then sitting up, then rolling over and then getting on all fours. Its the weirdest routine but before you know it she's tucked away behind the sofa where you can't see her, but all you can hear is the rattle, clunk, smash of toys.

At Nick and Shannons party last night (for Shannon's Mom who turned 60), Cameron sat on her blanket on the lawn for about 4 hours without so much as a fart. She's super baby. As long as she has toys to chew on (and not grass) she's happy as Larry.

She seems to be trying to stand up though. As soon as she's near these two little foot stools we have, she grabs on and tries to haul herself up. I bet she walks before she crawls. Especially since she uses that weird commando style of roll, drop, kneel and flop that works for her now.