New Zebra

Cameron got a new Zebra bouncy toy this weekend. My friend Elissa has one and Cameron got to try it out a few weeks ago. So, when I found it at the resale store, I picked one up and she has been happily riding ever since. Here's a pic of it and of the only smile I can get on camera any more.

Vacation Pics

Our Kauai vacation was great despite the downpour of rain that came on Sunday before we left. It rained 7.8" in one day! By comparison, the most that came in any other day was around 2", and mostly was at night/early morning, which is pretty normal I guess.

We had a lot of fun and missed Cameron a lot. She really didn't seem too excited to see us when we came home though. She must have had too much fun with her grandmas while we were gone! We really appreciate all the help everyone gave us while we were gone. Brian's mom had Cameron the first 3 days and my mom had her the last 4 (with a little help from my grandma too!) They both along with my friend Nicole, took turns feeding and taking care of the dogs and both my mom and Brian's mom helped me make rental deliveries and pick-ups too. I think it was poor planning on my part that we happened to be gone over the Superbowl weekend though. I finally gave up trying to coordinate early deliveries and finding people to make them for me and had to give some referrals to another company. They've given me some on my side of town too, so I hope it continues to go both ways.

Here's a few pics to enjoy. I'll have to tell you each the stories about how my friend Lindsey and I got dumped out of our kayak in the river and hiking the muddiest hike ever!

15 month check up

Cameron had her 15 month check up last Friday. Unbeknown to me, she had ear infections in both ears, poor thing! The only sign I got from her was that same morning, she woke up earlier than normal and just wanted to sit on my lap. She is not a cuddler at all so I should have known right then that something was wrong! After the check up and other shots she had a good long nap and has seemed fine ever since. Of course she is on antibiotics, but I am amazed at how she doesn't seem affected at all.

Her stats were:
Height 32 1/4" (98%)
Weight 22.9 lbs (50%)

We are preparing for our first vacation without her too! We will miss her a lot but she will be staying with a few of her grandmas for the week so we aren't going to be worried. We're renting a house on Kauai with some friends so we are looking forward to it. It will be our second time there so hopefully we can relax a little more and not spend all our time driving around to see everything.

This is from our last trip, but is the view from where we will be staying. The second is a cool lava pool near the ocean that we can hike to from our house.

New boots and pigtails!

Cameron finally let me put pigtails in her hair today for the first time. Well, it's the first time that I won the battle anyway. The key was to let her brush her teeth while I did her hair. She LOVES to brush her teeth. I think she just likes to suck the bubble gum toothpaste out of the toothbrush mostly. She still hated the hair brushing but it was worth it for the toothpaste I guess.

The other pics are us and of her new boots. I think between Lauren and I, Cameron got a total of 5 pairs of new shoes this weekend. She's outdoing her mommy in shoe purchases and we can't have that now, can we!? I'll have to remind Brian that I just got rid of a bunch of shoes, so I'm allowed to buy new ones now! Oh, in that last one, she just jacked Molly's bone from her too. That's a ritual the two of them have. Cameron steals it and throws it down, then Molly retrieves it and tries to gnaw on it before it gets stolen again.

Love my dogs!

Cameron loves her doggies...

Christmas Photos

We had a great time watching Cameron open her presents this year. She was pretty into it but moved on to something else once she realized that everything had to be taken out of boxes before she could play with her new toys. She has some pretty fun new things to play with including a kitchen set, a rocking horse (that she is afraid of!), and a keyboard with a microphone.

This is us on Christmas Eve



















And a few of Cameron

Christmas 2007

A few Christmas photos of Cameron. It was more entertaining to play peek a boo with her dress so most of the photos are kind of silly. She noticed the lights on all the houses a few days ago and always wants to go outside when we get home to look at them. Her eyes get so wide and bright when she sees them and she points and says "looooo". I don't know if that's "look" or "lights" but she's awfully excited.

The last one is from our friend Nicole and Brett's Christmas party last weekend.

Sold!

I didn't want to post anything until it was official, but we just signed the closing papers today on the sale of our spec house. Finally! All in all, it was a good experience, except for the 6 months that it took to sell it.

I will have to get Cameron's Christmas photos posted here soon and if I can get on the ball, I'll go buy some stamps for our cards too. They are all ready to go, but they've been riding around stampless in my car for about a week now.

14 months

Cameron is 14 months old today, and it's also her Grandma Annie's birthday too (and her Grandma Cindy's was on the 3rd and her Aunt Renee's was on the 4th)! Here's some pics of Cameron posing and being silly while daddy was trying to take her picture. Yogurt is her favorite food and she always pulls the tub out of the refrigerator any chance she gets, even though I think there's macaroni and cheese in this one!

Getting ready for Christmas

Hope everyone is preparing for Christmas! We are trying to get our lights up on the house today, as long as it's not raining. We did manage to get the tree up on Friday but it has no ornaments on the lower three feet of it's branches!