Saturday (May 1st) we made the drive down to Sedona. Cameron was so good in the car...Olivia was the one asking how many hours we had left every five minutes. :-) We got to spend a lot of time with family. Grandma Anne, Aunt Ellen, and Uncle Barry were already there.
Cameron has started talking up a storm!! Aunt Ellen was trying to teach him to say Pennsylvania...then move to Pennsylvania. He actually made a pretty good attempt to say it. Although he has only really said it for Ellen so David doesn't believe us.
Sunday we went into Sedona. We saw the Chapel of the Holy Cross. Everyone pushed Grandma Anne's wheel chair up to the top of the hill to the chapel. We also walked around Sedona and did some shopping. It was surprisingly cold and at one point there were actually some snow flakes that fell. We couldn't quite figure that part out because it wasn't THAT cold.
We rented a house while there. There was so much cottonwood floating in the air from the neighbors trees it looked like snow. Cameron & Olivia had fun blowing it in the air all over Grandma Beth.
Monday we went to the Grand Canyon and drove the South Rim. It was a little scary how close you walked to the edge of the canyon. Cameron just wanted out of his stroller since he was so restrained in the car. He ran around and did so much walking that he eventually passed out.
This is Cameron hanging from a tree over the canyon. :-)
This video is of Cameron saying "Grand Canyon"
Tuesday mom and I took the kids to Out of Africa. It is like a zoo, but geared more towards desert animals. You ride on a bus with no windows and get to drive on a safari. They give you carrots to feed the giraffe. Everyone got to but because Cameron and I were in the back of the bus he didn't make it back to us. Poor little guy saw everyone else hang their carrots out the window and kept dangling his waiting for something to eat it.
We got to see lots of tigers. One was especially fond of Cameron. As we walked up on their cage he hunched down behind a bush to watch Cameron run up. He set his eyes and followed us all the way around the cage. At one point the tiger jumped up on top of their den to get a better view then ran full speed to the other side and got down like he was going to pounce. If that fence wasn't there Cameron would've been lunch.
Overall, it was a good day. He got really excited by the turtle that started moving after he touched it. We had a brief melt down during the tiger splash show so we had to walk until he fell asleep. Then he missed the big snake that Liv got to pet.
We took some 4 Generation pictures. Cameron wasn't too happy by the end of it.
In the car ride home from Sedona, Cameron got to eat part of Olivia's ice cream. He looked like he had a goatee.
The last couple of days Grandma Beth & Liv were in town Cameron got to stay home from daycare. They played so hard he fell asleep during lunch.
The last couple of days Grandma Beth & Liv were in town Cameron got to stay home from daycare. They played so hard he fell asleep during lunch.
The last night Grandma Beth and Olivia were here we went to Bucca di Beppo's for dinner. Cameron had a great time eating his spaghetti. Then we ordered a big dessert for the table to share.
These are videos of Cameron eating his spaghetti by the handful...when he could deal with his hands being messy (or wasn't wiping them on me).
Cameron learned to say Grandma on this trip, too. Saturday morning Grandma Beth and Liv left early in the morning. When Cameron got up he pointed at everything in the guest bedroom and said "Grandma". When we show him the pictures he is pointing and repeating the names...at least for both Grandma's and Barry. We can't get him to say Ellen or Olivia. We'll keep trying.
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