Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Wait. It's not Christmas time yet. Why are we already singing about snow??? Because we had our first real snow here last week--on October 26th, not even Halloween yet. Crazy! You would think I was preparing for a blizzard leading up to last Wednesday. Seriously, my Colorado friends will probably think I've lost it. The forecast for snow was set days before it actually came and I started getting things in order Monday while the babies were at school. I did a major grocery trip--making sure we had enough milks**THE most IMPORTANT thing to never run out of with these milk-loving babies...specifically milk-girl Cam**, waters, juice, breads, turkey, pastas, alcohol, cookies, all my ingredients for banana breads (we're addicted to that lately), alcohol--(oh wait, already said that one). I also filled up with gas, got cash from the ATM, etc. Not only am I from Texas, but I'm from Houston, so that should explain my freakish ways with this first snow. What happens when there really is a blizzard? We'll be prepared, that's for sure...

Tuesday night I bundled the babies up in warm jammies (after we had a good bath--see post before this, that's the bath those pictures came from), cranked up their humidifiers and checked the scene one last time at bedtime when I took out the trash. It definitely felt thicker than just rain at that point, and it was super cold. By the time Matt got home later that night it was all out SNOW--it didn't wait until after midnight like was forecasted. Here are pictures I took with my phone that day. I've got more on my real camera. If any of those are "better", I'll post them on here once I ever upload them...

Here is what I woke up to at 6:00am Wednesday morning taken from my bedroom window. (Please disregard the reflection of our bedroom lamps, I'm definitely NOT a photographer!)

We continued to have a dark, snowy morning. I had some hot chocolate and the babies enjoyed their milk and WARM banana bread. I was relieved we didn't have anywhere we needed to be that morning and we could just hole up snow-bound in the house.

We had fun staying in our jammies and getting good playtime with all our toys. We have ZERO snow gear. That includes the babies AND us. This explains why there are no babies-playing-in-the-snow pictures here. I learned the hard way early that morning that my tennis shoes aren't going to cut it when it snows even a hint like this. I walked out early to add some more trash outside to the bins before the trucks came and as I sunk into the snow with each step leading to the curb, my feet got cold and wetter with each deep footprint made. Among other winter gear, we need waterproof/snow boots in this family!

While the three of us enjoyed being warm playing inside, Mario was desperate to go OUTSIDE to play. After some very brief hesitation, he braved up and headed straight into the snow to take care of his morning duties. Quickly he got a feel for things and wanted to keep going out the rest of the day.

He ate the snow...

...and trudged around walking the whole yard sniffing pretty much every square inch of the snow

As the snow CONTINUED through the day...

...Mario's fun outside continued even more. I think this is right before he took off for some all-out running laps around the backyard in the snow. There would be times I'd looked out and see him basically "galloping" about, running his way all around the snowy backyard that ended up coming up almost to the top of his legs.

This was actually one of his cleaner moments when he'd decide to come inside for a little bit. Usually he looked all white and I would have to threaten him with a towel until he'd shake off a ton of snow--even then he'd still run in leaving tracks of snow all over the floor. The babies would then pick up clumps of it and eat it.

It was a SNOW DAY indeed!

By the next afternoon, it started melting. We still have small traces and patches of snow here and there, but it's pretty much all gone now. It will all melt away just in time for what is forecasted to be our next snow maybe Wednesday and then maybe again Saturday.?? Shouldn't be like this one (I hope!), but we'll be prepared nonetheless.

Splish Splash

Here's our bath time fun. The fun is before the dreaded washing and rinsing, of course. Then it's pretty much torture during the actual start of washing, slathering up with lotion, all the way through getting our jammies or clothes on. But the first part of bath time still is a BLAST!

They both love to splash...

Balls and Light Switches

Cole has been saying his first real word non-stop for about a week and a half now. "BALL"! He said it for the first time when we were reading a KU Jayhawk book. He pointed at a picture of a basketball on one page, and said "ball, ball". What a proud Jayhawk moment, even. And he'll spot a ball anywhere. When we signed up at our YMCA he all of a sudden started saying "Ball, Ball, Ball", pointing excitedly at something up in the distance. We finally figured out it was a random brochure up a bit on the counter that had a picture of a boy dribbling a basketball on the front. Yep, there's a ball Cole. And if something has a circle pattern on it, he points at every circle he can and says "ball". Close enough. The best is spotting actual balls in books, during Mickey Mouse, and this commercial they play on Sprout all the time it seems for this ball popper toy. He carries around these little plastic balls and much to Mario's excitement, tosses them across the room to then go and retrieve. Mario has taught him how to play ball well.

Here Cole is saying "ball, ball, ..." pointing at this spinner thing full of little balls on this toy.

Camryn still isn't saying a clear word yet, but the girl will get going and babble non-stop. She's got a lot to say. She'll say things in the form of a question, "Gah, gah ,gah???". She'll say things very excited, "Jah Jah JAH JAH!!!" and she even will tell secrets (or something super big and important that requires a soft, secretive tone) "bah, BAH, bah bah...". She likes to "read" too. We often find her sitting or crouched in a squatting position very seriously flipping through pages of all her hundreds of books. Sometimes that's when we'll hear her do her soft, secretive talking to the book "tzsh, TZSH, tzsh"... She also started taking steps a couple weeks ago. She slowly but surely will walk across an entire room. She gets really excited when she does it.

Cole maneuvers his walker toy around one-handed (usually holding a ball in the other hand) and really he doesn't even need it. He's pretty much walking everywhere now. He'll go through spells where he crab crawls, but then you'll notice him stop and like remember--oh yeah, I can walk. Cam is more into hers now. She squeals with excitement as she walks with it all over the house now. She's not quite ready to one-hand it yet, but I bet she'll get to that point soon.

The best thing Cam has mastered just this weekend is pushing on and off the light switches. The light switches in our house are kind of weird. They're all really low--they hit short 5'1 me right at my hip. Supposedly this house (like many others in this section of our neighborhood) started out being built handicapped accessible. But then as they kept building they scratched that idea I guess, because the light switches are the only things handicapped-friendly in here. Well, they're wheelchair-friendly AND 1-year old friendly. The babies can now reach them and Cam has totally figured out how the whole turning-on-and-off-the-lights thing works.

And just a closing picture. Doesn't she fill out and wear her "skinny leggings" well?! Seriously, the tag on these leggings said they are "skinny" fit!

Grandpa and Grandma Jackie came!

This past weekend, right after the excitement of Mimi, the fun continued when Grandpa and Grandma Jackie came to visit. Everything started off great and then both of them got horrible, stomach-bug sick. Luckily they got well the day before they had to get back on a plane again. I felt so bad for them. Even more reason I want to FUMIGATE this house!! One of the same nights they were both sick, Cam decided to get a fever too and it continued to the next day--picture day at school. She visited the doctor instead while Cole took great school pictures. Her's was just viral, thank goodness, no stomach stuff this time. I don't think I could've handled that again just yet--still too soon from the last horrible round we had of the awful stomach stuff. I'm still holding my breath hoping we don't get any of those bugs.

The first night Grandpa and Grandma were here we got to go OUT, to an ADULT dinner! We found a fantastic babysitter--so grateful we have someone to call now. The two times Cam has been around her she has taken to her instantly. Those who know Cam know that's kind of a rare thing--she needs some serious warm-up time usually. So yay! We went to Elway's to celebrate the Dreher love of the Broncos, etc. I like to celebrate his yummy food and wine, which we all very much did. The next day it was quite warm (unlike the snowy Saturday before) so we went to downtown Golden (seems to be a favorite place of ours?!) then grilled out at home that night. Just a few hours later everything turned for the worse--Dad and Jackie's stomach bug set in and for the next 48 hours I think they were pretty miserable. I felt miserable for them. :( :(

Things were looking up Monday (again, just in time for Cam to get fevers and feel miserably sick) and we were so lucky to have a big stash of chicken and noodles made. Unfortunately neither of the babies were able to enjoy one of their most favorite meals that evening. Cam's throat was too sore and Cole was having broccoli/tummy issues. Apparently he chowed down on fish sticks and broccoli for lunch at school that day. He was having LOUD, grown-man sounding gas the whole evening into the next morning. His diapers were beyond disgusting, to say the least! Noted: Need to back off the broccoli for Cole and maybe re-introduce that a bit later! The next morning we were lucky enough to help Cam's morning (and last time for it so far) fever with advil and we got to go to the Egg and I for breakfast before Grandpa and Grandma went back home. We properly made a mess as usual there and had a low-key day the rest of the day to get everyone well so we could make it through the rest of the week a little happier. Shocker that both babies were able to make it to school Thursday! I guess we accomplished our weekly pediatrician visit Monday with Cam instead of our normal Friday appointment. The weather has been great the past couple days. School told us that they both happily skipped afternoon nap to play outside for almost an hour! They do love to be outside. We're so lucky with this 70 degree weather that they can be out a lot these days. Once we got home, though, we were ALL feeling the effects of no afternoon nap. No more than an hour after they got home from school, they were in bed sleeping. They cried and clung to me the minute we got home and nothing was making them happy. Plus, they never took their hands away from rubbing their eyes. Jammies, bottles, and early bedtime was the solution there! It actually turned out to be not so bad (once I got rid of the headache I'm sure brought on by 30 minutes of two 1 year-old screaming cries!)--Matt and I got to eat (a late) dinner and catch up on some Parks & Rec and Modern Family. We haven't watched either of those two favorite shows of ours since the season started.

This afternoon, they've officially started construction on the basement. Although we both want to just finish the ENTIRE basement, we've decided to just get the bedroom/bathroom and stairs done for now. We hope to finish the entire basement (including a wet bar) next spring/summer. Work started today and they're estimating to be done the first week of December. Perfect timing for when everyone starts visiting a couple weeks later!

So there's kind of a low-down of our days lately. In the meantime we'll be living amongst A LOT of noise and chaos while the basement is being done...

Here is the very delicious wine we got to have. Rare to find one of these bottles from what we were told. We savored every last drop!

And here's my s'mores dessert I ordered, turns out enough to feed half the restaurant.

Group pic

Things got pretty quiet around the corner in the other room a couple days ago. Two monkeys were waiting for me to turn the corner and find them hanging out under the table.

The babies have art time at school. They made invitations for their Fall Festival Halloween party we'll be going to next week.

Here's what their "art" looks like. Glad they can have fun being messy at school instead of here...well for maybe a little while longer at least.

We like lazy mornings when we're not going anywhere so we can enjoy our milk watching Mickey Mouse

Since they didn't get to enjoy their favorite chicken and noodles earlier in the week, they made up for it today at lunch. They both had seconds of the yummy chicken and noodles. They're now enjoying some milk and Nilla wafers for their snack right now. I may or may not eat half of the box of Nilla wafers myself for my snack this afternoon!...

Weekend with Mimi!

We were so excited that our Mimi weekend finally came! We got through our Pediatrician appointment, rested up Friday with our colds and then headed out that night to the airport. We went inside and waited right where everyone comes off the tram up to baggage claim. Cole was so excited looking for Mimi. Cam found the waiting area to be a great place to prop up and rest her feet. I think it took all of maybe 10 seconds before they warmed up to Mimi and continue on with things with her as if no time away from her had passed. That made me so happy. They were on such a high when we got home that they stayed up waaaaay late playing and being excited, that it was hard for them to go to bed.

We knew it was supposed to get cold over the weekend--we weren't prepared really for the SNOW, though! The snow steadily came down for a good 2 hours or so Saturday morning. It was never cold enough for anything to stick, but you could definitely see the now white mountains and watch as the snow kept falling in thicker and thicker flakes. Mario loved being out in it. Here he's actually pawing at me begging to go back out and run around in it all some more. He got to.
Later that day, when the snow turned to yucky rain, we went out to Flat Irons Mall. We love this mall! Mimi had great success at Christopher & Banks and we had immense success with the Pottery Barns--First, we found on super-duper clearance a kid outdoor table, bench and umbrella at Pottery Barn Kids. Matt said it felt like we had just shopped at Kohl's with the unbelievable deal we got on it. Then, we went to the adult Pottery Barn and got our dining room furniture! It's set to come in more around the beginning of November. Can't wait to get everything settled with it. We loved wearing our hats from Aunt Shannon Saturday. It was so cold, they were perfect. Cam continued to wear hers inside around the mall. It's like she knew she looked cute in it or something?! Whenever we tried to take it off, she started crying and grabbing to put it back on.
Never coming away empty-handed from the Disney store, we got our Halloween costumes along with some other stuff we just had to have. The babies are going to be Mickey and Minnie this year. The only catch is that Cam's Minnie ears are pretty big on her. I've got to get creative and figure out a way she can wear them...Mimi also got them Mickey and Minnie cell phones. They are currently one of our favorite toys--they were great to play with while out eating too...

The next day we met up with The Hendrick's in Golden. It was a beautiful afternoon so it was fun to walk along the creek there. Cooper threw a bunch of rocks in the water and Maya posed on butterflies. We were inspired by Maya to do the same.
...Mid-picture taking dogs were spotted, so of course we have to point and get excited over them...
We had a relaxing Sunday evening. Maya and Cooper brought over one of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" movies and we all found ourselves laughing out loud to it! Matt's all about watching the other one now. We all had chili and cornbread (even the babies) and settled into another chilly evening. The next day the weather turned warmer and even more gorgeous. We had more fun with Mimi, played outside on our new kid's table, and shopped a bit more before it was time to go the airport. We were sad Monday night after Mimi had gone back home. But we're now looking forward to this Friday when Grandpa and Grandma Jackie come!!

Our Shopper Girl

Matt has been seriously itching to get furniture for the back patio so we can do some outdoor living before it turns super cold. We have an awesome backyard, so we're looking forward to spending more time out there. Matt is very particular about what he wants so this furniture decision was all him. He did a good job. We got a couch, some big chairs and table for now. Next spring I'm sure we'll add the matching dining table and chairs set to the mix too. Let it be noted that on my particular backyard furniture list are plug-in heaters though...

While there, Camryn was all about the shopping as well. She was quite the "help". And for the record, it was quite chilly outside. No coats, and no socks or shoes on this girl. The lack of coats was Momma's fault. I take no responsibility for the missing shoes and socks though. This bugaboo Houdini's herself out of socks no matter how good and tight we think we've got them on her. Her teachers have told me that after about the 3rd time of her ripping them off and tossing them across the room they quit trying to put them back on her. And the socks from last night literally are missing by the way. Maybe Restoration Hardware has a lost and found?

After she was done browsing, she started her own dance party in one of the chairs. This is one of those moments I should've got on video. I'm sure there will be more dance party moments to capture in the near future.
As mentioned on facebook, this Friday morning--like last Friday morning--started out at the Pediatrician's. Cole came home from school yesterday with a fever that continues still today. Last Friday the result was an ear infection for Camryn. Today the outcome is just a red, sore throat and a bad cold for Cole. Poor babies, Day Care is doing a number on us!

We're looking forward to a fun weekend. Mimi comes tonight and we absolutely can't wait! One thing I can wait a little longer for is cold weather. It was a chilly start this morning and the forecast shows an even colder day tomorrow. Mimi can get a big cool down before she goes back to 90 degree Texas the next week...

Colorado...Here we go, time to start settling in!...

So it's already been almost a month that we've been here in Colorado. We're slowly getting settled. Making our house a true home seems like it's going to take some time. Especially with 2 monkeys trailing around! Hopefully we can soon get some of our personal, special things up on the walls and out around the house. Even some kitchen and door rugs will help!--we're working on it.

The drive up here was a big first for all of us. One I don't care to ever repeat again. It wasn't horrible, and was actually the best way we could've done it, still--who wants to drive overnight for two nights? We left after bedtime bottles, right in time for the babies' bedtime from The Woodlands. I started out driving because it's way easier for me to stay up "late-ish" than to wake up in the middle of the night and be fresh and ready to go. Matt is weirdly good at that alternative and can additionally down super strong coffee to give him even more pep at 2am. So that was the plan. I actually drove all the way through Norman, Oklahoma. Crying my eyes out during my entire driving stretch definitely helped keep me awake, but I don't recommend that method. :( Babies and Mario--and Matt slept the whole time, though. Things were going well until we stopped to get gas shortly after in middle-of-nowhere Oklahoma. Our credit cards wouldn't go through because they suspected stolen identity behavior. Guess it's not really our "norm" to get gas at 3am in no man's land Oklahoma. We ended up finding a debit card that wasn't as quick to suspect things (they did a bit later, we discovered in a similar fashion though) so all good---Until the motorcycle brigade showed up at the gas station while finally filling up. Not kidding. Like 4 LOUD LOUD motorcycles pull up. Needless to say, we had to put Mickey Mouse Clubhouse back on the DVD player to calm the babies down and get them back to sleep again. We pulled into Nana's house in Wichita around 5am. The next day and a half we spent relaxing, spending time with Angela and her family, and letting the babies and Mario be free until the next night drive. We left Wichita around the same timing with baby bed time and drove all night Sunday night again. This drive was a little shorter thankfully, plus we gained an hour venturing into our new Mountain Time Zone. My drive time this stretch was played out by belting out lots of great tunes on my iPod. Of course Britney and Boy Bands were part of the repertoire, but Matt was particularly "fond" of my Genesis/Phil Collins greatest hits portion of my own, personal concert. And can I just say that once past Salina, most of the rest of western Kansas smells AWFUL?! I was warned, but no one can prepare for that horrible stench until actually experienced. Whoa. We pulled into our Colorado home around 3:00-4:00am or so. Having no furniture yet, Matt went in to set up the pack-n-plays and our air mattress (our bed for the next week and half or so!) while I drove around keeping the babies asleep. Not sure what it meant that I got lost within minutes just driving around the neighborhood?! I'm sure all our new neighbors wanted to call in this suspicious, loaded rental car driving around aimlessly at 4:00am. I'm crazy. Thank goodness for GPS on my phone. All went smoothly though and surprisingly enough, all 5 of us slept in late Monday morning. As mentioned before, I can't think of anyone who wants to drive all night. But with two 1 year-olds and a sweet puppy dog, it was the best option for us and we're so thankful to have arrived safe and sound after it all.

Our furniture arrived Tuesday and Anne and Grammy arrived Wednesday. Boy was their help welcomed! On a separate note, I seriously wonder about the lack of brain activity going on with the people who packed our house up? I've never seen such a horrible job of packing. Nothing was labeled correctly and I've never seen so much wasted paper in my life. I consider myself a very "light green" person when it comes to the environment, but I was horrified by the amount of trees it supposedly took to pack our house. To give an example, one large box contained easily hundreds of sheets of packing paper all for 3 hand towels. Not kidding. And I think that box (along with about 20 others) was one of many simply labeled "lamp". We only have 3 lamps. And we're still finding boxes carelessly labeled "lamps". Thanks to our idiot packers our garage is full of wasted boxes and an absurd amount of paper that we take in loads to the local recycle area when we can. It's going to be a while until their despicable job of packing is cleaned up. And our unpacking has taken quadruple longer than it should since it takes forever to go through one box--because we have to sift through and deal with 1,000 sheets of packing paper in every box for a total of 2 items. People doing a poor, careless job frustrates me so much. Okay, there's my rant.

The frustrations of unpacking aside, other things have gone well. We've gone to a couple of our MOPS meetings and I feel so blessed that Tami has encouraged me to be a part of a group of such genuinely sweet ladies. The babies do well during their MOPS time too.

School (Kinder Care) has been great too. Well, aside from two sicknesses in one week, but unfortunately I think that was inevitably our fate, all things considered. I've been told multiple times that kids get slammed with sicknesses at first from day care, but then they end up being super tough in the long run and our sick days will shrink to a minimum. I'm holding out for that--but I'm looking for a little more immediate encouragement to get me through these initial sick times. The first thing we all got was an awful stomach bug. Both Cam and Cole got it at the same time over the weekend after just our first week of day care. (They go two days a week.) Our weekend was full of constant throw up Saturday-Sunday from the two of them, poor babies. It broke my heart. We were so sad that we had to miss Cooper's birthday party in Ft. Collins that weekend too, we had really been looking forward to it and know we would've had so much fun. :( The babies made a turn for the better Sunday night and all was looking on the up and up. Then I started throwing up early Monday morning. Oh. My. It was awful. I can't remember when I've felt that sick. I'm so thankful Jennifer came the next day with an actual shot of phenergan for me. I was wiped out for the next two days. It sounds so pathetic but I couldn't even walk from one room to the other without having to stagger there and catch my breath--after like 8 steps! Pathetic. After two days I started eating again--Goldfish. I've worked my way back to normal now, but I can't remember when I've felt so miserable. Not wanting to be left out, I guess, Matt got it too Tuesday night. With his iron stomach though he was only out 1 day and was chowing down on dinner later that same night. That horrible bug slammed the parents almost worse than the actual babies! Once we got toward the end of the week, we were so relieved to have the babies go back to school Thursday and I was set to finally get my long-awaited infusion that day. It wasn't meant to be. We didn't even make it to lunch before I got a call saying Camryn had a fever and needed to be picked up. (I actually have my infusion tomorrow, so crossing my fingers all stays well at least until tomorrow evening so I can get some meds in me!) Very fortunately we were able to get into our new pediatrician the next morning where we learned Cam had an ear infection. At least it's something that can be treated--oh, sweet amoxicillin, how we love you. Cole managed to avoid the ear infection so far...but this is actually the first ear infection any of my preemie babies have ever had so far. I'm proud of them for that :) Let's just hope these ear infections don't become a common occurrence, though...

All in all, school has been a great thing. Everyone there is so great and the babies seem to be adjusting. From what we hear, they play well and eat well there. They're all about table food now and they've gotten to try things they wouldn't normally have here with us. One big favorite is beefy mac & cheese. Chili and cornbread is another favorite, along with rice crispy treats (shocker-yeah, right?!) and our new favorite snack, graham crackers. Whenever I drop them off it is a tear fest, which I know is normal, and the teachers have called to tell me afterwards that they both stop crying and move on to playing within 1 minute of me gone. Matt doesn't get the tears as much so the drop offs are more smooth when he's the dropper-off meanie!

I had fun with Tami and friends this past weekend celebrating her birthday. Matt and I have also had fun exploring our new hometown. We are in love with Golden and the cute, fun downtown area. We also love Old Town Arvada. We feel so happy with our decision on where we live. We've also had to go on a bit of a shopping spree. So I guess it's not as common to wear flip flops everywhere here? I thought anything and everything could be done in flip flops? I had to branch out beyond those and all my flats--and like the babies, I'm having to get used to wearing socks too. Starting tomorrow we're getting a cold front--a true cold front! Like 50 degree weather. Good thing I now have some pants recently added to my closet. Guess flip flops, shorts and cropped pants won't cut it anymore?...

We're so excited that Mimi comes this Friday, and shortly after she leaves after a long weekend Grandpa and Grandma Jackie come to visit! I miss my family so much, I'm so looking forward to everyone's visits.

Here we are right before we headed to the babies' first day of school We're standing in the driveway of our house. Pretty area where we get to live, right? Guess this pic is kind of small and you can't really tell--but it is! (Coming from flat Houston, that is)

School was ready for them! So sweet...

While Anne was here she introduced C&C to pickles much to my dismay. I hate the word pickle. I'm getting sick to my stomach typing all this out right now even. I despise them so much, their grossness--I can't even put into words. Anyway, I was horrified that the babies loved that disgusting piece of food so much.

This is Cam, further grossing me out to the ultimate, giving me a close-up with pickle juice coming out of her mouth.

While in Old Town Arvada we tried out a most fantastic place called Scrumptious. As mentioned before, these babies are kind of ice cream fiends. They LOVE ice cream. Here is Cam more than ready for a bite of Grammy's--and Cole moaning for more. We've created true ice cream monsters.

We loved having Grammy and Anne here. It's so special having bedtime bottle and settling in for the night with Grammy.

Our new mall-Flatirons Mall--is AWESOME! For example, all connected in the mall: Container Store, Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom's, and too many more to list. Thinking it's probably a good thing for the babies to have at least one pair of shoes that fit them for the cooler weather coming, they each got some new shoes while there. They love them and are so proud of them. Too bad they won't actually wear them, though. Once on (no matter how expertly we think we've got them on), they each find ways instantly to get their shoes and socks off. The babysitters at MOPS stop trying to put their socks back on them after about the 3rd time or so they get them off and toss them across the room. We've got to work on the whole shoes/socks thing.

At the awesome play area at Flatirons Mall

Cole is ready to play with the big kids

We absolutely love our chairs from Mimi (notice Cam's signature smile over hers)!

Mario is settling in well too. We haven't seen any squirrels but we see numerous cotton-tailed bunnies. They are Mario's new obsession now on our daily walks. Unfortunately we've already spotted 2 coyotes (only late late at night so far, thank goodness) pretty much right behind our house near the park. We are on the ultimate alert for our sweet Mario. No coyote is going to get near him!

And sweet Cam, loving her chair, loving not taking naps regularly lately, etc. Good thing she knows she's cute and gets away with most anything these days--especially with her Daddy. She could catapult herself to stand on the coffee table to dance and get smiled at rather than in trouble for it. Oh wait, she does do that. And all her Daddy does is smile at her for it. Yikers, we're in trouble with this one.

Updates more regularly, promise!!