A Message from Cam

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Happy Birthday and First Haircut

My birthday yesterday was awesome. I woke up to Matt who gave me one of the seasons of the Cosby Show (which I LOVE) on dvd. He had also set up a scavenger hunt around our apartment for me to find a bunch of smaller gifts, mostly my favorite treats. He spent the night before writing short little poems with the clues, and they were so funny!

"I guess you could say this is where in our home we keep the nuts (I found corn nuts under Cam's crib). I commend you because that took a lot of guts. Be careful with the next gift or you'll get lots of cuts (under the knife block)."

It was a fun way to start the morning. He then went off to school while I got Cam and myself ready, and then he came home to take me to breakfast!

After that I went down to my Mom's, who took me shopping pretty much all day. It was so fun to spend the day with her, and I got some awesome clothes and delicious lunch. I finished off with dinner over at my parents and then headed home to relax and watch a movie. Thanks to everybody, especially Matt and my mother dear, for making it such a special day!

On another note, everybody LOVES Cameron's hair. Since the day he was born, people have always talked about his hair wherever we go. It is full, beautifully blond, soft and just perfect. The nurses at our doctor's office say he looks like a hair model. Anyway, as sad as it makes me, we knew the day would come that he would require a haircut. He was starting to look kind of raggedy, so my Mom was nice enough to give him a quick buzz. He was so good the whole time and he looks so cute (at least I think so). He almost looks like a different baby with his hair shorter, but never fear folks...it will grow back!

Happy Father's Day

Happy belated Fathers Day to all you Dads out there, especially Matt, my Dad, and Matt's Dad. I am blessed with a lot of really wonderful men in my life who are all spectacular fathers. Thanks for all you do!

For Matt's Father's day, I was unfortunately sick, so it wasn't all that wonderful for Matt. But...to make up for it I took him on a date on Saturday to a murder mystery dinner theater and boy...it was funny! Matt ended up being the Captain of the ship the play took place on. All night, he was referred to as "Captain Matt". The woman who recruited him as the captain was an actress, playing the part of the ship's activity coordinator who is kind of obsessed with Captain Matt. She played her part so well, and it was so fun to watch Matt blush and get embarrassed. She even sang a whole song to the tune of "Jesse's Girl", but sang "I wish I was the captain's girl". Good times. Thanks Andy and Brittany for joining us. We had a great time!

Captain Matt let me wear his hat...just for a minute...
Julie, the obsessed employee. This is the look she gave Matt all night long.
Scandalous!

Sick

A couple weeks ago, Cameron started to get really fussy. We have learned from experience, that Cameron is a very particular child, and he will be sure to let you know if he isn't happy, so we were kind of used to fussiness. This was worse than normal, but we weren't sure what to do.
We finally got him in to the doctor and it turns out he had an ear infection. Poor kid! They put him on amoxicillin and it cleared up really quickly and my Cam was back to normal, until Friday...

Last Friday I started to notice some weird little red spots on his face. They were faint at first, so I thought it might be a heat rash because we were outside. Through the day, they got worse and worse and worse...the pictures don't even do justice. Well...turns out he is allergic to penicillin, but the reaction didn't show up until a week after he started the meds...weird. Anyway, he is now on benedryl and the rash is gone and he is just dandy again.

Although it was no fun to see him sick, I will admit that I relished the chance to cuddle with him a little bit, because he is NOT a cuddly boy and never has been. It was secretly kind of nice...does that make me a bad mom?


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Bye Bye Browns

We had a little birthday party for my nephew/Father's Day for Dad/going away party for my sister and her family. It was kind of a rough weekend. Cam had had a really bad week being sick (I'll explain in the next post) and I was pretty sick by the time Saturday night rolled around, on top of being super sad. I'm pretty close to my sister and her kids and I am going to miss her so much. Hopefully when the 4 years are up, Aaron will get a job back here in Utah...

Cam got a ride on Brett's bike with Grandpa...The kids got their last giggles, wiggles, and wrestles out of each other...

But I think this picture about sums up how Cameron and I felt about the evening.

We'll miss you Browns!

9 months!

My baby is 9 months old. Actually now he is almost 9 1/2. I cannot believe how fast the time goes. He is a little over 19 lbs and seems so big to me! He is getting such a fun little personality and it is so much fun watching him explore new things, and see how excited he is when he succeeds. He loves to pull himself up (or at least try) on everything and in the past couple days, he has started crawling a lot. I absolutely love being home with this little guy everyday. We have so much fun and he is a sweet, good little boy. Being a Mom is the best!

Hmmm...sorry, I can't make this picture turn for some reason. Cam is such a silly boy and loves playing with his tongue right now.
Matt and I like to look at Cameron about a million times a night between the two of us (just kidding...) just to see how sweet/funny/angelic he looks sleeping. Matt loves to document.

Cam is pulling himself up and standing on everything! Please ignore the weird pj's...
He LOVES bath time, although it is becoming quite a work out for Mom and/or Dad. He is all over the place and super slippery, so he has had his fair share of bathtime tumbles and tears. This picture is right after he stuck his head under the running water, which apparently didn't bother him at all!


We always find him getting into everything, in this case, he somehow found his way into his closet. Several times a day I find him chewing on a foreign object and have to remove it. Usually it is paper, pieces of carpet or leaves...nothing too harmful...right?

All the videos below are long because I don't know how to edit. Guess I should learn, eh? The first one is of him crawling and there is a big break in the middle because it took awhile to get him to crawl to me.

Matt always wonders how Cam eventually gets himself to sleep, because when we put him down we hear sometimes up to a couple hours of jabbering, squealing, banging object, etc. So, Matt set up a time lapse video to see what happens, just for fun.

The last one is of Cam laughing. The really good belly laugh we love is at the very beginning. The rest...well...again, I didn't know how to edit. Enjoy!

Family Fun Day!

Growing up, my stake at church had an annual Family Fun Day in June, complete with snow cones, popcorn, games, a waterslide, lunch, etc etc. I decided to take Cam this year because Matt was busy studying. We met up with my parents and had a grand ole time!
Cameron particularly enjoyed the ice cream...
and pulling Grandma's hair. Not sure she loved that one as much.

Family Vacation!!

My sister and her husband just moved to Houston for his residency. I'm sad. Really sad. Just for the record.

Anyway, we wanted to have one last family vacation with everybody (at least for the next 4 years) and my Mom's neighbor was kind enough to let us use her family's cabin near Bryce Canyon. We spent the weekend riding 4 wheelers, playing in the water, playing games, eating, hiking and just enjoying each other. It was a blast!

Enjoying a break at Subway during the long drive.
Four wheeling!
Justin doing a little fishing with the kiddos.
Grammy and some of the kids.

The cheering section at the water slide.
Do you see how long this water slide is? I was terrified to go down it, but with quite a bit of persuading, I did it and it was so much fun! Good thing you can't zoom in too closely to this picture, because I was still scared...
The water at the bottom was freezing! Luckily, Zoe came to rescue me.
Starting out on our hike through Bryce Canyon. It was a hard hike with all the switchbacks, but absolutely beautiful.

Me, Chelle, Brett.
Daddy-o and me.
Near the end...we were exhausted!
All my family behind me are on a higher switchback--it was steep!
This is how Cam felt at the end. "Can't this water come out any faster?!?!"
By the end of the vacation, our windshield was so dirty and with the sun shining through, we couldn't really see, so Matt had to drive like this for a little ways. What a goof...

Stank Face

Cameron went through a funny phase of wrinkling his nose and breathing in and out. He also went through a funny face of saying "ba-ba" all day long while wagging his mouth dramatically. As I post this (really late) I will add that he doesn't really do either anymore...bummer. Anyway, we think he's pretty dang cute.

Congratulations Jameson

Jameson graduated from high school on June 2nd. We are so proud of him! He is now on to bigger and better things at the U of U. Way to go Jame! We love you!