Big Brother Update

When Cameron was not playing baby, he has been a pretty big helper and a great big brother.

He has also taken up photography. Or at least likes playing with our camera. Let me tell you we've got quite a selection of photos of the carpet, Cameron's feet, fuzzy pictures of each of us, and every other random thing around this house. Here is a selection of his most recent work.

During the couple of weeks Grandma Beth was here, he got spoiled by going to the park just about every night! Now he thinks that trend should continue. He waits until the sun goes down and says "It's so nice outside and the slides are not hot anymore. I want to go to the park. I've been a good boy!"

Grandma Beth also started another thing...making reindeer talk. Now all you hear is "Mom, hold reindeer. Reindeer wants to talk." This turns into the most lengthy conversation and once it's started it never ends!

We are also building lots of "sand castles" with his soft blocks. We need to take him to an actual beach so he can build a real one.

On Melia's first doctor's appointment visit after coming home, Cameron locked himself in the bathroom literally minutes before we were supposed to walk out the door. Now we saw this coming at some point because he has been locking the doors. However, typically he was locking them when one of us was in the room with him...and he's been able to unlock them himself. Well this time he couldn't unlock it. David was working with the key trying to unlock it (not much luck) and Cameron was crying on the other side. I finally got him to figure out how to turn the lock and get out. Now every time he goes into the bathroom he says he won't lock the door. Grandma Beth thought it would be a good idea to put duct tape on the lock so he couldn't turn it. So he then was telling the story later that he locked himself in the room and was crying and Grandma Beth put duct tape on him. I swear with his versions of some of the things that happen we will all end up in jail!

He is obsessed by Bush's Baked Beans! He has never had them so I guess this is a sign that he's watched too much tv. Every time he sees baked beans...they are Bush's Baked Beans "with spices".

More funny Cameron sayings:

• I asked him if he wanted to go outside in the yard and have a picnic. His response "that sounds like a plant".



• We were eating dinner and he hadn't touched his green beans. I asked him to try them. He barely got one in his mouth, spit it out and said (with a complete straight face) "I'm not a fan of those, mom". Now everything is "I'm not a fan" because we laughed so hard at him.



• So he is still doing great with the potty all day! No regressions (at least yet). Well he likes to go in by himself and every once and a while you hear him talking to himself. His latest statement of choice is "I'm a peeing fool".



• The other day out of the blue he started telling me there was another house with a yellow potty. Someone was going to flush Melia. As soon as he said it, he got all sad (almost crying) and said "That's my sister, mom. I love her. I really worry about her, mom." No clue where it came from, but he was really concerned and couldn't help but laugh.

Some videos of him playing tee ball in the yard. He is doing pretty good with hitting, catching & throwing. Thinking we may have a baseball player on our hands.






We took Cameron bowling for the first time. He was a "big fan". Halfway through they started cosmic bowling. He was able to bowl all by himself. They had little stands that helped him roll the ball and of course he got the bumpers to help out. Actually beat David in one of the games! He lost interest halfway through the last game because he dropped the ball while trying to put it up on the stand to bowl and decided he didn't like it anymore. Got some videos, but I missed the best one. He actually had a victory dance he did after a couple of his turns.








Then a picture of Cameron and Melia watching cartoons.