The Day After....

What is there to do the day after Christmas. Well.....Play!!!!! Cameron played with all of her toys. She strolled the babies around the house....Back & Forth, Back & Forth, Back & Forth...

She played with Cookie monster, making him giggle, and roll over, again & again. Then gave him lots of kisses.

She taught her babies how to drink from a cup. She thought they were too old for the bottle so she shared her milk with them. Of course when they spilled the milk, she took a baby wipe and cleaned them all up.

She also cooked us dinner. We had fried cheerios and she baked a chicken for us. Of course the way you tell if a chicken is done is you squeeze it, but this one kept saying "Cock-a-doodle-doo", oh well I guess its left overs!

Merry Christmas!!

It was a good Christmas for all of us. Cameron had a great Christmas. She got a kitchen set and a baby and stroller, books, candy, and socks from Santa.
She was so busy with all the things that Santa brought it was hard for us to convince her that the wrapped presents were just as good. We literally had to pry her away to open the gifts. One of the gifts was a new baby and she immediately threw the baby from Santa out of the stroller to replace it from the one she got from Grandpa and Ma-mere.

Once she realized that opening presents were fun she really got into it. She helped Daddy open his and PJ open his. PJ and Ellie were very excited to get their gifts which included a new red ball, rawhide, chew toy, a stocking full of milk bones.

Uncle Greg and Aunt Juliet stopped by on their way out of town to drop off a gift to Cameron. She got a "Tickle me Cookie Monster" which cracked her up. She had both Cookie Monster and Elmo going at the same time. (Uh....Thanks for that!)

After all the present and while dinner finished up we took the dogs out to play with their new toys. PJ and Ellie played a little soccer and got good and tired before our guests arrived. We had the Tims and Grandma Cindy over for dinner and had lots of fun. Cameron had so much fun she forgot about taking a nap so was completely wired by the time Cookie, Chip and Mikey came to open gifts. She finally went to sleep at 11pm. Hopefully she will sleep in.

Parachutes are cool!

Cameron's class have been playing with a giant colorful parachute. Cameron helped raise it up high and then went running underneath it with her friend David. That was great fun and caused lots of giggles and screams.

Then it was time to try playing on top of the parachute. She jumped into the center and then everyone shook the parachute and she tried to climb over the big puffs and hills. It caused lots of rolling and tumbling.

She even had a good time shaking the parachute as the other kids took their turns running around the center and underneath. It was funny to watch her friends roll over and tumble as she shook the parachute.

Decorating in Carmel

We went to visit Grandma Cindy in Carmel and helped her decorate for Christmas. The Nutcrackers were all setup but Cameron helped put on the elves and decorate the tree.

Grandma Cindy showed her all the different decorations and Cameron put them on the tree. She chose every spot and Grandma Cindy didn't make any changes. Grandma Cindy got a new Christmas pyramid so she gave us the Hansel and Gretle pyramid from East Germany that Jeff grew up with. Cameron thought it was very fun.

After lunch we took a hike up the hill to the water tower behind Grandma Cindy's apartment. We found some golf balls which Cameron threw and chased up and down the hill. It was a fun day.

Surprise!!!

It was a surprise to all of us. I've been feeling really tired but no other signs that we had another baby on the way. During a visit to the doctor it was determined that we were almost done with the first trimester!!!


We told Cameron she would be getting a baby for her birthday and she was really excited. We're pretty sure she isn't exactly sure of what that means, but she does tell you that Mommy has a baby in her tummy, and she has been practicing taking care of a baby at school.


We will find out the sex of the baby mid-January and are hoping to schedule the birth for June 1, which will mean another June baby, (a week before Cameron, two weeks before Daddy) but the doctor's want to schedule it on the Monday rather than the weekend....