We had a great family filled Memorial Day weekend!
On Saturday, Ryan's family came over for a BBQ (Auntie DeAnn, cousin Amelia, Auntie Amber, Uncle Andy and Papa Dave Manke). We had fun grilling and hanging out outside, even though it wasn't super sunny. Auntie DeAnn brought bubbles and sidewalk chalk, and the other top hits for the kiddos were wagon rides and the Cozy Coupe! It's fun to watch Cameron and Amelia interact and play with each other, seeing as they are so close in age (3 days apart!).
Cameron was so pooped from Saturdays events, he slept in until 9am Sunday morning - whoo hooo!! Late Sunday morning, Cameron and I met Auntie Amber, Auntie DeAnn and cousin Amelia at Sea Life at the Mall of America. Cameron wasn't digging the fishes and Sea Life experience - he was having quite the cranky day! His top two molars have finally cut through and his bottom two are still big bumps on his gums - poor guy! I can't imagine the pain he's in but the crabbiness gets old pretty quickly (especially in public!). After walking through the exhibit, we walked around the mall and ate lunch, which at that point, Cameron was more than ready to hit the road - the case of the crabbies never disappeared during that excursion!
Sunday evening, we met my family at Bunker Hills Golf Club for dinner. My cousin Dan flew in from MI for the weekend, so my Uncle Tim and Aunt Cindy invited everyone to the course for dinner so we could see him. Papa Steve and Nana Anita were there, as well as Uncle Patrick and Auntie Jill (who's due with Cameron's girl cousin in less than two weeks!!), along with a few of Tim and Cindy's other friends. It was good to hang out and surprisingly, Cameron was full of energy despite only having taken a 15 minute nap all day (in the car on the way home from Sea Life) and not having an appetite, so not having much food in his tummy! We were back in a private room with a door, so we shut the door and let Cameron run in circles around the table. And pretty much everyone took a turn running up and down the hallway with him when he'd get tired of doing circles around the table. We left about 8:15ish and he was up until 9:30. Needless to say, he slept until 9 this morning again :-)
Today was a relaxing family day for us: running errands and flower shopping and planting. This evening, Ryan and Cameron are up in Pease watching cousin Dade's baseball game and visiting with Grandma Chris and Papa Dave Z. who are in town from ND. More quality family time - we wouldn't have it any other way!
Other Cameron highlights:
* After having two play dates at an in-home daycare last week, we have decided to move Cameron from New Horizons Academy to Ms. Bridget's in-home daycare. Ms. Bridget came as a referral to us with high recommendations and we are excited for the new friends Cameron will make. Putting in our two weeks notice at NH last Friday was really hard for me - his teachers were excellent and he has made some good friends there, but at this time, we feel this is the right thing to do for our Cameron-Man.
* Cameron is getting really good with his animal sounds! He knows what the cow, horse, sheep, puppy, and monkey say. He also learned the "O" to "E I E I O" when singing Old McDonald, so you can guess what song we sing a lot... He used to only know "E I E I" and now that he knows "O", he tends to hold that note a little longer than necessary. Oh well, it's super cute!
* Mr. Independent LOVES to wash his own hands and brush his own teeth. We keep a stool in the bathroom and he moves it over to the sink when we wash hands and at night when we brush his teeth. To make sure his teeth actually get somewhat clean, Ryan or I get to brush his teeth through the first two rinses and then he goes to town.
* Other new words: owie (and he's slowly correlating it to pain if something happens to him), baby, yummy, and puppy. He has also started calling us mommy and daddy on more of a regular basis instead of mama and dada.
He's 17 months this week - yikes!! Where has the time gone!!
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