Cameron Cutes - Tattoo Boy

One weekend morning, Tim, Aaron and I were still snoozing and the big kids were playing downstairs.  Cameron came up and asked if he and Leah could put on tattoos.  I said that was fine as long as he could do it all by himself.  He said he could and ran back downstairs.  I could hear him talking to Leah, figuring out who was going to put on each of the tattoos.  I went back to sleep without even thinking about it.

And then when we came downstairs, this is what we found:

He was very proud of himself right up until when we told him that tattoos on the forehead weren't the best idea.  Then he got upset and didn't want us to take a picture, but of course we had to record it!!

What a silly, cute boy!

Cam Cute and Leah Lovely - Anatomy Lessons

Two funny stories from Cameron and Leah:

I was sitting on the couch feeding Aaron when Cameron came over to me asking for help putting stickers on something.  I dropped one of the stickers and couldn't find it, so I asked him to look for it.  He found it below Aaron, on my lap.
Cameron: Look Mama, I found the sticker.  It was on your penis. 
Mama: I don't have a penis, I'm a girl!
Cameron: Oh sorry.  It was on your .... (searching for the word) ... it was on your... your slot.
Mama: (trying to contain laughter) My what?
Cameron: (embarrassed) MAMA!!  Don't laugh!!  I said slot.  I don't know what it is called.

Just so everyone knows, we did have a discussion about the proper terminology afterwards!
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We were eating dinner when Leah leaned over to me.
Leah: Mama, where is my chest?
Mama: (pointing to Leah's chest) It's right here.
Leah: (looks back and forth between her chest and my chest)  Oh.  Where are my bumps?

Oh what funny kiddos!!

Cam Cutes: 80s Boy!

On Wednesday, Cam stayed home from school recovering from being sick. Here is a picture and a quick post from Nana:

Here is a picture of Cameron in his retro chic outfit that used to be worn by Uncle Matt and possibly Uncle Paul. He is standing next to a picture he made on one of Nana's antique toys -- a Lite Brite -- that was used by his Mama and uncles.

Cam Cutes: Two Funny and One Serious

Cam has been saying really cute things lately. The way he thinks about things and puts them together always keeps us amused and/or on our toes. Here are a few stories...
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In the bathtub a few weeks ago, Cameron was playing with three rubber duckies. He was pushing them around the tub in a line.
Cam: Oh no Mama, the duckies are lost!
Mama: Okay, we will help them find their way home.
Cam: Don't worry, they have a GPS!
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A few nights ago, Cameron woke up around 11:30 PM and came into our room. He woke me up and told me that he was afraid of the monsters in his room. I took him back into his room and put him into bed. He kept saying he was afraid of the monsters. I told him not to worry because monsters were not real. He sighed and said, "I know Mama, but you tell the monsters that!"
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Cameron was sitting on the potty going poop and he called out, "Mama, come in here, I need to talk to you." I went in there to see what was going on and he looked up at me with very serious eyes and said, "Mama, are you going to die?" I sank down to his level (yes, his level sitting on the potty) and had a very involved discussion with my sweet boy. I think I answered all of his questions to his satisfaction, but yikes, it made me think about how smart he is getting and how difficult questions like this are going to quickly become the norm.

Cam Cutes: Boots and Toots

When we got home from daycare the other day, I was putting away the bags and getting Leah out of her car seat. While I was in the middle of all this, Cameron asked me, “Mama, what letters are in ‘boots’?”. Absentmindedly, I spelled it for him, but wasn’t paying attention to what he was doing while I spelled. As I was putting stuff away, he came over and brought me a little whiteboard that we have, that I use to write notes for Tim in the mornings. On it was written, in very shaky handprint, b o o t s. He said, “Mama, I wrote a note for Daddy. He forgot to put my boots on today so I wrote this note to help him remember tomorrow morning.” Needless to say, I was impressed! I didn’t even know that he knew how to write all of those letters, nor that he understood to write them in order. Smart little monkey! :)

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I put Cameron to bed last night because Tim was busy downstairs getting stuff ready for a potluck lunch his team was having today. I told Cam that Daddy would be up after he was done cooking. Here is our conversation:
Cameron: Tell Daddy to be careful. The coldy is going to make him gassy.
Mama: The what?
Cameron: The coldy. The coldy he is cooking, it will make him gassy.
Mama: Ohhhhh, you mean the chili he is cooking.
Cameron: Yes, the chili, it will make him gassy. (long pause) Mama, what is gassy?
Mama: Gassy means you have to toot a lot.
Cameron: (laughing) Haha, Daddy is going to toot!

Cam Cutes: Christmas Gift Giving

We interrupt these regularly scheduled picture-filled Christmas posts for a Cam Cute, before I forgot to post about it!

For Christmas this year, we asked Cameron if he wanted to get his own presents for Mama and Daddy. He said yes and said he thought that we would like Buzz Lightyear. We explained to him that when buying a gift for someone, you think about what they would want or what they would like. He pondered on that one and went on his way.

A couple weeks later, he went up to Tim and told him that he knew what he wanted to get for Mama. He said that he wanted to get Mama an umbrella, because mine was broken. Tim actually didn't know what Cam was talking about because he didn't know that my umbrella was broken, but Cameron remembered from summer and fall that whenever it rained when I was picking them up from school, I had to hunch under my umbrella because the lock to hold it open was broken. He remembered back those months and came up with a great idea of something that I really needed and wanted. After much deliberation he picked one out for me, and it is perfect!

About that same time, he also told me that he knew what he wanted to get for Daddy. He said "I have comfy pajamas, Leah has comfy pajamas and Mama has comfy pajamas, but Daddy doesn't." Tim does have PJ pants, but none are the fleece/flannel kind that Cameron defines as "comfy". So he asked to get comfy pants for Daddy. He picked out some nice, soft plaid flannel pants that are really nice and that Tim loves.

We were blown away but how thoughtful he was, taking his time to think about what we would want and then, out of the blue without prompting, telling both Tim and I when he knew what he wanted to buy. He helped us both pick out the gifts for the other parent, thinking about what colors and styles we would like. We are so proud of our sweet little monkey!

Cam Cute: Poems

Cameron's class was learning about poems a few weeks ago. One of the poems they read was "Three Little Kittens Lost Their Mittens". The teacher told us that after reading the poem, she asked the class if anyone had kittens or any other pets. Cameron raised his hand and said "I don't have a pet, I have a Leah!!!"
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Cameron likes to hear poems at night. Mama usually recites a Robert Frost poem or something of similar length. Daddy usually recites "Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning." The other night, Cameron asked Daddy to tell him a poem. After Daddy said his usual poem, Cameron looked at him and said condescendingly "Daddy, that's the only poem you know!" Poor Daddy was forced to admit that yes, that is the only poem that he knows!

Cam Cutes: Misc Stories

Last week at swimming class, one of the games that they played used various “light” commands to have the kids do different things. If the teacher said “Green Light” and they had to hold onto the side and kick their legs, when she said “Blue Light” that meant blow bubbles, and “Purple Light” meant get your face or hair wet. Cameron was fine with the explanation when she told them what Green Light meant, but immediately spoke up when she started talking about Blue Light. He piped up, “Silly, there are no blue lights on a traffic light!” The teacher told him this was just pretend, to which he replied, “You’re silly!” But he accepted the explanation and went on with the game!
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I keep meaning to write these down, for the Cam-tionary (see original Camtionary post here).
Buttyear – what Cameron calls Buzz Lightyear. The first time he said it, Tim and I nearly fell off the couch laughing.
Bee Ferder – what Cameron calls a bird feeder.
My hockey – what Cameron calls a hockey stick. No matter how many times we tell him it is a “hockey STICK”, he still calls it just a “hockey”.
Game phone – Cameron’s name for Tim’s iPod Touch. It isn’t a phone, but it does have games on it, and apparently Cam thinks it looks like a phone.
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Last night we were out to dinner and it was taking quite a while. They had a large group come in right before us and that caused the kitchen to be quite backed up. Our drinks, bread and salad came out quickly but then it was a very long wait for the food. At one point the waitress came over to see how we were doing and to apologize for the delay and before she could say anything, Cameron said “Excuse me, you forgot to bring me my dinner.” Needless to say I was a bit embarrassed, but the waitress thought it was cute.
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This morning, Tim was half-sleeping and heard a bunch of banging. I leave first thing in the morning before anyone else is up, so Tim didn’t know what it was and got up to see what was going on. He found Cameron walking out of the guest bedroom with his potty seat, steps (to get onto the potty), two blankets, his Pooh bear, and his sippy. Cam was barely able to hold it all, and was banging into walls and doors trying to drag all of his stuff into our room!

Cam Cutes: Two Videos

Has it really been two weeks since we last posted? Oops... sorry about that! Things have been a bit crazy around here.

We actually just have two cute videos to post. First, here is Cameron dancing at the Oktoberfest. Make sure to keep watching because his little Fraulein Abby joins him at the end - so cute!


Cameron has been taking swimming lessons since he was six months old. In this past session, he has started to swim on his own with the help of a bubble. He is doing such a great job and is so proud of himself for swimming on his own!

Cam Cutes: Poetry

For a long time now, we have been telling poems to Cameron at night. Cam has recently started reciting the poems along with us, or for us.

Tim has one that is "his poem", and I have two. Tim's poem is more of a saying:
Red sky at night, sailors delight
Red sky in morning, sailors take warning

Cameron's version is:
Red sky at night, sailors delight
Red sky at night, sailors to light
Red sky at night, sailors delight
Red sky at night, sailors to light

I have been working on the second part with him, but he doesn't ever remember it. We are working on it though!

As for Mama's poems, the main one that we say is Robert Frost's "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening". Grandma taught me this poem when I was little so it seems appropriate to pass it along to my boy. The last stanza goes like this:
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
And I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Cameron likes to repeat this stanza with me, usually just the last few words of each line. The other night we were saying the poem together, and Cam was repeating it with me. He got it all right until the last lines. He said: "And miles to go before I go to bed"!! Not sure if Robert Frost would like that interpretation of it since it doesn't exactly go with the rhyming scheme, but I thought it was very cute!

Cam Cute: Comments about Mama

Setting: Mama was putting Cam to bed tonight and was able to easily lean over his bed rail and give him a kiss and hug.

Mama: Cam, see how easy it is for me to lean over to kiss you now that the baby isn't in my belly?
Cam: Yea Mama, you do lots of things now.
Mama: Yes, I can do a lot of things now.
Cam: Like bend over to pick things up.
Mama: Yes, it was hard for me to do that before!
Cam: And get your own tissues.
Mama: Yes, I can do that too now. And thank you for being my good helper when I had the baby in my belly.
Cam: Yes, I was good helper.

The things that he comes up with - what a cutie!

Cam Cutes - Three Random Stories

Three random Cameron Cutes....

One of Cam's favorite phrases (which he probably got from a TV show) is "We make a great team!" It is very cute to hear when he comes up with it - I got a "We make a great team!" when we finished making muffins for breakfast one weekend. Today we planted a bunch of vegetable seeds and when we were done, Cam said "We made a great team!" and gave us all high fives. What a sweet boy. :)
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We have a good size front porch now, and the sun sets on the front of the house. We put our Adirondack chairs up there and like to sit up there at the end of the day and watch the sun go down. Sometimes Cam goes up there all on his own while Tim and I work around the yard or in the garage. The other day, Cameron asked me for a bowl of grapes to eat while he watched the sun go down.
Why are you taking pictures of me? I am just trying to enjoy my grapes in peace!
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Cameron has some toys that "watch him sleep" at night - that means that they sit up on the headboard of his bed while he sleeps. For the most part, they actually do just sit there and "watch" him, and he doesn't really play with them. At nap time yesterday, the toys came down and he spent a good part of nap time playing with the toys rather than napping (which, subsequently got them taken away from him - but that is a different story). He has a bunch of little glow in the dark lizards (from Auntie Cathy) that sit on his headboard, and usually at least one or two trains (of the Thomas the Tank Engine variety).

Apparently, as he told both Tim and I at separate times, they are not actually lizards and trains. The lizards are skaters (aka hockey players) and the trains are zambonis. The skaters take their turn playing hockey and skating around the rink (Cam's pillow) and then when it is intermission, they go back to the bench (Cam's headboard) and wait for the zamboni to clean the ice off. It is quite an elaborate game, complete with some skaters going to the penalty box (another part of his headboard) when they are bad, and other skaters taking turns sitting on the bench when it isn't their turn. I watched Cameron play this game during nap time, over the video monitor that we have, and was just amazed at his imagination. He played for almost a half hour before I went in there and made him put the toys away and go to sleep! This morning, he was telling Tim all about his skaters and zambonis. Our boy sure loves hockey!

Cam Cutes: Getting Ready for Baby

One weekend morning, we are all laying together in our bed, not wanting to get up quite yet. Cameron is squirming around and ends up kicking me in the stomach. He is admonished immediately - we tell him that the baby is in there and he cannot kick her or Mama. His response? "Baby kicks Mama, so me kick Baby." Apparently he was just sticking up for his Mama!
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Discussing rooms in our new house...
Mama: The baby will sleep in this room.
Cam: No, the baby not sleep here.
Mama: Well then, where will the baby sleep?
Cam: At Nana and Poppa's house!

(In all fairness, we had just moved into the house and the last place that Cameron had seen the crib was set up at Nana and Poppa's house. So he may have just meant that: that the crib was at Nana's and babies sleep in cribs, therefore the baby will sleep at Nana's. Maybe?)
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Cameron and Daddy are downstairs in the basement, working on cleaning up. Daddy is using the shop vac. Cam comes running up to him, tugs on his arm and says, "Daddy, be quiet, the baby is sleeping!!" He gets very agitated when Daddy doesn't listen, and continues to insist that Daddy stop because upstairs the baby in Mama's belly is sleeping!
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Cameron randomly likes to pull up my shirt and talk or sing to my belly. It is adorable, other than the couple of times he has done it when we are out at a store! He likes to tell the baby about what he did that day ("I play outside on big playground") or something that we are doing ("We watching hockey - white team score!") or sing to her (endless renditions of Twinkle, Twinkle). It is so sweet and touching because he often just does it on his own with no prompting from anyone.
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Lately, Cam has been telling us that he has a baby in his belly too. His baby is also a girl. She does not have a name, except for "Baby". Sometimes she is sleeping and we have to be quiet so we don't wake her. Other times, she wants to play with Mama's baby so we press our bellies together. Other times, he can't do something because of the baby - "I not eat that carrot because of my baby." Daddy has explained to him multiple times that boys can't have babies in their tummies, but it doesn't phase him. Cam's "baby" comes and goes as it pleases.

Cam Cute: Hockey Boy

Setting: 7:45am, Saturday morning, in the Ottawa hotel room.

Mama: Cam, do you want to watch cartoons?

Cameron: No, Mama, watch hockey!

Mama: You want to watch hockey instead of cartoons?

Cameron (performs toddler equivalent of eye roll): Yes, Mama.

We proceed to watch hockey for another hour, until Tim wakes up. Thank goodness for Canada, who has hockey on multiple channels at all times of the day!! We watched hockey in the morning, noon and night (whenever we were in the hotel room, it was on). At one point, we couldn't find a station in English playing a hockey game, so we watched recaps from a game on a French station. Cam didn't seem to mind one bit.

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Setting: Dinner table, Monday night. Cameron refuses to eat his hamburger.

Mama: Cameron, did you know that if you eat your hamburger, it will make you stronger? A big strong hockey player.

Cameron: Meat make me strong for hockey?

Mama: Yes, it will make you strong. Drinking milk will make you strong too.

Cameron: Oooohhhhhh, okay.

Cameron proceeds to devour most of hamburger and two glasses of milk, stopping occasionally to do muscle poses with his arms and tell us "Me get strong!" Whatever works, right?

Cam Cute: Phone Conversation

Cam and Mama are lying on the couch together, eating a snack, when Nana calls. Mama puts the phone on speakerphone.

Nana (on phone): Hi Cameron, what are you doing?

Cameron: Eating crackers.

Nana: Oh yum.

Cameron: And snuggling with Mama.

Nana: Oh nice! Do you like snuggling with Mama?

Cameron: Yes.

Cameron: Every day.

Nana: Awww, you like snuggling with Mama every day?

Cameron: Yes.

Cameron snuggles in closer to Mama, simultaneously melting her heart and securing himself another handful of crackers.

Cam Cutes: Airplane Edition

We are currently in Florida visiting Omi and Opa. It is warm, sunny and wonderful here. And it sounds like the weather back home is horrible and snowy, which makes the weather here extra great! We got here around noon today, and spent the afternoon at the pool and at the beach. Cameron loves the sand (which he keeps calling "snow") and loves swimming in the pool.

This is the first time Cam has been on a plane since he has been old enough to understand what is going on. He has really been looking forward to the flight, and was a good boy on both flights. He really liked "driving fast" (aka taking off) and just liked flying in general. Here are a couple cute stories from the airplane.
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When we were taking off on the first flight, just as we took off there was that funny feeling you get in your stomach on takeoff. Cameron looked at Tim with a bit of trepidation and said, "I'm falling!". Tim told him we were just taking off, and he said "Oh" and didn't have any more problems with it.
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Cam was VERY impressed with the potty on the plane. We walked into the bathroom to change his diaper and he said in a hushed, awed voice, "Airplane have potty??" I told him that most airplanes have potties, and he said, "Wow, I like it!"
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Since we left so early, Cameron just had his pajamas on. We changed him into a t-shirt and pants on the second flight. When Tim pulled Cam's t-shirt on, Cam looked confused and told Tim, "Something wrong with shirt - my arms are nakie!". Of course, he just meant he had a short sleeved shirt on, but I guess you know it has been a long winter when he forgets that short sleeve shirts exist!!
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Cam finally fell asleep about 20 minutes before we landed in Sarasota. Right as we touched down, he woke up, opened his eyes, and said "Whoa!!".... then went right back to sleep and slept until we got the gate.

At first, Cam didn't want his picture taken.
Then, he decided to be at least a little cooperative and uncovered his face.

Cam Cutes: Crib -> Big Boy Bed

When we moved into the new house, we also moved Cam into a new bed. We figured it was a good time for him to be making the transition to a big boy bed, so we spent a few months hyping it up and letting him go with us to pick out his new bed. He was very excited to move into the new house and start sleeping in his BIG BOY BED.

Cam's last night in his crib (January 1st) - of course I had to document the occasion

Here are a couple of pictures of Cam sleeping in his new bed. They are dark, but you can see that Cam still hasn't quite mastered the art of sleeping with his head on his pillow, under the covers. He is getting better, but every couple nights or nap times, we peek in to see him completely turned around with his head at the foot of the bed.

The first photo was his first night in his big boy bed. Notice the pink blanket acting as his temporary window covering. Not very manly for a Big Boy Room!!
This picture is about a week later, when we bought and hung up his permanent room darkening shades.

He does love his new bed, especially the drawers at the foot where he can store his books and treasures, and the shelves at the head of the bed, where he puts his Pooh bears, sippys and books. We have been lucky that it has been a pretty easy transition so far!

Cam Cutes: Cameron the future baker

Last week, I had a pot luck day at work. I decided to make darby pie, and Cameron decided he wanted to help me. He actually did a really good job, adding the ingredients one at a time and stirring everything up. I was impressed with him, he was a really good helper!

Vanilla goes in
The add the chocolate chips
And then dump in some walnuts
Stir it all up...
And check out what a good job I did!

Cam Cutes: Random Stuff

Cameron has been especially cute lately (and also, especially trying... but the terrible twos are for another post!) so I want to record a couple stories and photos.
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First, a photo from Cameron's birthday. This was a couple hours after he actually turned two, but Mama had to have a picture with him on his big day!
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Cameron "helped" Poppa open a bottle of wine and got the cork as his prize. He spent the entire night playing with the cork. When he was in the bath, he spent a ton of time trying to make the cork sink. He thought it was hilarious that it kept popping back to the surface. Tim was giving him that particular bath, so when I came up to get him into pajamas, I asked him what he was playing with.
Mama: What is that you have, Cam?
Cam: A porcupine, Mama!
Mama: What? No, silly boy, it is a cork!
Cam: It's a cork-u-pine!!
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One day Cam was a bit tired out, so he wanted to relax and watch some TV. He got on the couch and asked for two pillows and a blanket, just like Nana uses. He snuggled in, chewed his hand and relaxed for a few minutes. Luckily, I got a picture of the cuteness!
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We have been spending a ton of time at various home improvement stores, trying to get everything that we need for the new house. Cam comes along for most of the trips, so now he is very familiar with the stores, where to go, who to ask for stickers, and can do various gymnastics in, around and on top of the carts. Every time that he gets in the car these days, he asks "We go to Home Depot?". Sometimes we spend an hour or two there, and he is so good, so patient. He keeps himself busy on and around the cart, playing with toys out of my purse, pushing the cart down the aisle and charming the people who work there. He is such a good boy!

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.