Bumbo

Arianna loves to sit up so I pulled out the Bumbo. She loves it!


Unfortunately Cam got a little jealous and wanted to sit in it. He hated it when he was little but of course he loves it now! Cameron was so much bigger than Arianna is at the same age! Though her head is so much bigger. Actually I think her head is bigger than his is now!

Then (about 3mths old):

Now:

Merry Christmas!

Christmas was so much fun this year. We had planned on getting Cam a train table, but out of the blue Cam had asked Santa for a "red bike" and of course Santa always gets little boys and girls what they want!

Of course the train table didn't get put together until 9 on Christmas Eve. It took about 2hrs and only got partially put together. Luckily Papa saved the day and fixed it later.

Cam woke up bright and early at 5:15am. I got up, turned the tree lights on and the lights in the living room so he could see the train table. I opted to video tape his reaction so unfortunately I don't have very many pictures. He loved the table.

We had to lure him into the other room where he immediately went to his bike.

His other favorite gift was a tractor book that had a button you push that made tractor sounds. He wasn't a big fan of the potty that Santa left him!
Little Miss Arianna slept until 8. Then she got her presents.


When we were driving home I realized yet again, we did not get a family picture. I have hardly any pictures of me with the kids since I'm always the one behind the camera. So I asked Steve to take a picture of us. This is the best we could do. Cam is on his bike and being held back in the picture by his fathers foot, Arianna is in her own world, I need a month at the fat farm!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Cookies for Santa

This morning Cameron woke up bright and early at 6:15. I figured since he was up and Arianna was still sleeping we might as well make cookies for Santa. Then he could go spend some time at Nana's house! YEY!

I was going to roll out the dough and let him cut out some shapes with cookie cutters but it was way too early for that. So he had to deal with the plain 'ole round cookies. He didn't seem to mind. I had some chocolate jimmies, mini M&M's, red (well pink), green and white frosting as well as green and blue gel frosting stuff for him to decorate with. Right away he ate the M&Ms so there wasn't many left to decorate with!


Over all it was a success! No meltdowns and there wasn't much of a mess at all. He didn't eat any cookies just M&Ms and some frosting. Not bad!

Let it snow!

After being stuck in the house all day yesterday Cameron woke up bright and early this morning wanting to go play in the snow. We got him dressed and out the door he went with Daddy.

First he helped Daddy shovel the stairs.



Then daddy took him for a ride around the neighborhood on his sled!

All while Mommy took pictures from inside where it was warm!

Happy Birthday Max and Ruby!

Since we were house bound due to the snow and Cam was going stir crazy I decide to make some cupcakes or "cakecakes" as Cam called them.

He is such a great little helper around the house. He loves helping me do the laundry though he has a long way to go with folding and he's the best duster! I've never baked with him though. I thought this would be a great practice run for baking cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. When I told him we were going to make cupcakes he said "cake for Elijah, Lucy, and Ava's birthday?" I said. "ok!" Well as we were making the cupcakes he wanted to sing happy birthday. I asked him who's birthday it was? Elijah? Lucy? or Ava? He said "Max and Ruby". I said "Max and Ruby? It's not one of your friends birthdays?" "Nope, Max and Ruby." So we had to sing Happy Birthday to Max and Ruby. A few times...


He did really well helping me. He put the liners in the pan, poured the water and oil into the bowl, helped me crack the eggs. He did not like the electric mixer though. It was "too loud!" Everything seems to be too loud since his surgery.

He didn't seem to mind licking the beaters or the bowl though!


At one point when my back was turned, he decided to stick his face into the bowl. You can see here he got batter all in his hair.

Randomness

and my favorite picture of our Princess. For some reason this picture reminds me of her namesake (her Great-Nana. It seems my mother has forgotten that).

Edaville!

On Sunday we took Cam to Edaville Railroad. We went last year but he was a little young to really get the whole thing. I was so excited for this year. He was too. He could not wait to ride the train with his friends. We lucked out because the weather was perfect. It wasn't too cold at all.

We got there around 4:30 right when Carla and family was too. Since there was no line for the train and everyone else was still on their way we decided to hop on the train.

It's a good thing since Cam wouldn't go back on it when all his friends got there. He did go on a caterpillar ride with Elijah though!





We all had a great time and next year Arianna will enjoy it also!