Cam Cutes: Sunday Stories

On Sunday Tim had to work all day, so Cam and I were on our own for the day. Cameron was especially cute (except for the three hours I struggled to get him to take a nap, then stay down for a longer nap, then rest quietly instead of run around in his crib) so there were lots of sweet stories from the day.

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Our house is currently a mess because we are trying to get everything packed up. Cameron's toys are in a couple of baskets in the corner of our living room. On Sunday he arranged them in a semi-circular shape around one of the corners, and then got into the corner. He looked up at me and said "Me in me clubhouse" and then proceeded to play quietly in there for an hour or two. He talked to himself the whole time, creating elaborate scenarios with his cars, animals and the baskets.

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At one point he got out of his clubhouse and brought me his Little People ark (Noah's ark) full of his cars. "Mama, look", he said, "Wow, lots of cars!!" He then proceeded to sort them all out onto my lap. Since he is obviously my child, he took the cars out of the ark in color order and got upset if he missed one of a certain color. I was glad to see my peculiarities were passed on to the next generation! :-P

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Nana and Poppa are in Germany for two weeks, so we went over to do some stuff at their house. The whole car ride over there, I was telling Cam that Nana and Poppa would not be at the house, that it would just be us there. He nodded and seemed to understand, but the minute we got in the house he called out for Nana and Poppa. I told him again that they weren't there. He nodded again, but then went wondering around the whole house looking for Nana and Poppa and calling out their names. I let him wonder while I took care of everything. Occasionally I heard him singing "Hap Birday to Nana"... I guess maybe he thought that singing to her would bring her out of hiding?

While I was watering a plant in the dining room, he came up to me and said, "No Poppa here. Poppa in air." Confused, I said, "Where is Poppa?". He looked at me like I was slow, then clarified, "Poppa in airplane, in air." Well yes, that was right... the last Cam knew, Poppa was going in an airplane. I was impressed that Cam remembered because they had left a little more than a week before. Cam spent the rest of the time we were there repeating to me "Nana, Poppa in air".

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After Nana and Poppa's house, we had a bunch of errands to run. First we went to AC Moore, where Cameron was very good. He rode in the cart and was a good boy the whole time. At the checkout he got a sticker from the cashier, and was quite delighted. Next we went to Walmart, where he was pretty good but getting antsy. We didn't end up getting anything there. Our final stop was to Wegmans, where Cam was definitely done with running errands. He wasn't bad but had to be constantly entertained in order to not go crazy. We talked as we shopped around the whole store, and several times I had to tell him to "Be good!". When we got up to the cashier, he said to her "Me good, me have sticker?" I started to explain that not every cashier had stickers, but the cashier pulled one out for him, so he was very happy("One, two stickers! Me have one, two stickers!") and was good for the rest of the trip home.