Cameron at 16 months

Cam seems to be growing so quickly these days I can barely keep up. He is getting taller and taller, but has stayed pretty thin. He is a tiny guy. He is taking one nap a day now and learning lots of new things everyday. He is a major daddy's boy. He still has quite the temper and seems to be experiencing his "terrible twos" just a little early! He loves bananas, grapes, eggs, pancakes, peaches, ice cream, pizza, peanut butter and jelly, and just about anything sweet. He gives kisses, waves hi and bye, beeps his and other peoples noses, gets into absolutely EVERYTHING, dances, claps, etc etc. He is such a joy in our home and makes us laugh everyday...and sometimes cry. Just kidding. Ok, not kidding.

He can say:

duck, doggy, daddy, mama, please, all done, fish, no, uh-oh, stinky, baby, thank you and a few other words I can't think of at the moment!

We love you Cameron!

Anyone think he looks like a cat burglar? I do!Cam pulled all the toilet paper off of a brand new roll while I wasn't watching for a couple minutes!
Playing at Ikea
Told you he was growing up fast...

First fat lip...
Playing in the snow

Grandma and Grandpa Goodrich

My Dad's parents are getting pretty old. They are both in their nineties and in June will celebrate 70 years of marriage. 70!!!! That's insane!

Anyway, neither of them are doing very well. My Grandpa seems to have had a quick onset of Alzheimers and is deteriorating quickly. Grandma has good moments and bad moments with the same type of problem, and physically both are in poor health. My siblings and I thought it would be nice to make a quick trip out to visit in case it may be the last time we see them.

Since my Grandpa tends to be overwhelmed by too many people, and can't remember a lot of people these days, we left all the kids and spouses home. My brothers and I had a lot of fun spending the day together driving out to Tridell, talking about good memories and just being goofy.

Grandpa was having a good day when we got there, and was hilarious. He remembered us (or at least said he did) but had difficulties with following the flow of the conversation. He would say the strangest things at the strangest times. My Grandma told him not to stand up because he wasn't wearing any pants. He looked at her with doubt all over his face and said, "I'm not wearing any pants??? Now that's a new angle!" Before we left for the day I played the piano and we sang a little bit, because both of my Grandparents have always loved music. It was a really special opportunity to spend the day with them. I love them both so much and have so many wonderful memories with them. I only hope and pray that they can be comfortable and just be together for their last days on earth.

Happy New Year!

We have a tradition of having a little party with my family on New Years Eve, complete with lots of treats, games and fun together. This year was no exception. We had a great time at my brother's house. New Years with young kids isn't quite like it used to be though...

We were all so tired long before midnight that we ended up just watching Despicable Me, which was hilarious, saying a quick "happy new year" and heading for home right after. Still...we had a good time.

Cam reading National Geographic with Daddy and Grandpa
Playing with grandma
Poor grandma...
My white elephant win for the night!

The Sensational Six

Right after Christmas we were able to get the sen 6 together...all of us! We haven't all been together for quite awhile, so it was lots of fun. We had dinner, white elephant gifts, games, and lots of catching up with each other. We are so thankful for our awesome friends!

Ryan, Nikki and Ella, Andy and Brittany, Jae, Bryan and Katie, Matt and me, James and Allison.

This year we all agreed that our while elephant gifts were collectively...kind of....lame. Matt and I, however, had the hit of the night. We wanted to give a picture of all of us together, but thought it would be funny if we covered the real picture with something a little more funny. This is what we came up with. We were all laughing so hard, I was literally crying. Jae and James actually arm wrestled over this handsome picture of Matt, and I am told that the picture is now actually sitting on the mantle at Jae's parents' home. Too funny....

Christmas Eve and Christmas

Behind again....grrrr.

This pregnancy is getting tougher as we go along, which makes it harder each day to get anything worthwhile done. Not that it wasn't expected, but still, some days are pretty hard. I've been in physical therapy which helps to a degree and Cameron has learned how to entertain himself a little more while I'm laid up on the couch. Three more months...yay!

Anyway, we had a nice Christmas season. We spent Christmas Eve at my parents doing the nativity, singing around the piano, appetizer dinner and lots of fun.

Cam testing out his new Mr. Potato Head glasses.
Reading a Christmas story with Grandma

Christmas morning we spent at our house. Cameron had a lot of fun opening a few presents, and mostly just playing all morning.



Our Christmas tree is so small you can't really see it behind us...hee hee.
Cam on our way to Matt's parents. Crazy hair!
Taking a break from opening presents to play.
And play some more...
Grandma helping Cameron with his stocking.
Finally we make a quick stop back over to my parents.
Merry Christmas!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Christmas. It is by far my favorite time of year! Cam and I enjoyed staying home one day this week, in our pj's all day, and decorating out apartment.

Cam liked sitting under the tree and looking at the lights.
He nabbed one of the candy canes I was decorating with and started eating it. I didn't have a problem with it, but....
for some reason he felt the need to sneak it underneath the table to eat it there. I later found a hugely sticky mess left behind!
Our completed tree (notice the lack of ornaments on the bottom). Cam has actually gotten really good at not grabbing the ornaments he can reach. Sometimes he tries, but then turns to look at me and tells me, "no, no!"
Enjoying a family movie night by our tree!
Cam got bored with the movie, and spent the rest of the evening sitting backwards in his rocking chair, munching on lettuce. Hmmm....

Happy Thanksgiving, and a picture overload

This year for Thanksgiving we made the 12 hour car ride to California to spend the holidays with Matt's extended family. We were a little nervous, but Cameron was an angel all the way there, and we were able to go all the way there in one day. We wanted to get out of town before the supposed "blizzard of the century" (which didn't happen) so we ended up having some extra time in Cali for just our family, and it was such a nice vacation!

Taking a break at McDonalds. Each stop we made was a little lengthy because we figured Cameron needed time to run and play a little. He's playing on the jungle gym here.
All tuckered out! Everything was good until about the last couple hours, when Cam started screaming and we couldn't get him to calm down. Then we had a little accident (everybody was fine) and had to do the police report, yadda yadda...but eventually we made it!
Matt is going to kill me for posting this, but...I just couldn't resist. When we got there, he realized he had forgotten his pj's. Luckily I had an extra pair, which he wore all week. Ha!
On Wednesday morning after visiting with Matt's Nana and Uncle Scott, we headed to the Scripps Aquarium. Matt and I thought it was cool, but Cam quickly got bored.
He did however, like the sharks!
That night we had dinner at Scott and Sonya's. Cam found his own favorite little place, under the bar stool, and spent a lot of the night there.
On Thanksgiving day we headed to Point Loma (overlooking the ocean) and went to see some tide pools. Cam thought it was awesome, and so did we.


Later that day we went to Seaport Village. Cam has a bird on his arm, if you can't tell. He thought they were fun to watch, but was a little wary of them being on him. I have no pictures of Thanksgiving dinner because Cam threw a huge fit and we had to head out early...
This chair has been in Matt's family for a long time now and his sweet Nana gave it to us to take home. Cam LOVES it!
This is at a cute little Chinese restaurant on Coronado Island.
Cameron's first time at the beach. He LOVED it, but a little too much. He wanted to run in the water and get totally soaked. It was November and kind of cold, so we had to stop him eventually and he threw another HUGE fit! We took him up to the sand instead and he was so mad that he did a face plant right in the sad, which upset him even more!
Loving the water...before the meltdown.



After he calmed down he burrowed around in the sand like a bulldozer. He was so filthy and had sand everywhere! Guess we'll try the whole beach thing when he's a little older next time.
The day after Thanksgiving we had left overs so that Matt and I could actually enjoy some of the Thanksgiving meal!
Matt's dad, cousin Yessenia, and aunt Sonya.
Matt's Nana and Mom.
Cameron hanging out at Scott and Sonya's.
So, that blizzard did hit...eventually and it happened to be when we were driving home. We left California on Saturday afternoon, made it to Vegas for the night, and started driving again on Sunday. The snow and roads were so bad we had to pull off in Fillmore in a nasty motel for the night. This is Cam at a little diner we went to...happy to be free of the car seat. He didn't tolerate the ride home nearly as well as he did the ride there. We were out of Fillmore as early as we could go on Monday morning, and finally got home later that day. After 3 days of driving home, we were already ready for a nap!