Scary Santa!

Cam meet Santa for the first time the other day at Dan's work Christmas party...to say the least, he was not into it! It was also 15 mins past his naptime and he was pretty "partied" out by the time the Jolly Ol' Fellow arrived. His onesie he's wearing even says "Santa is my Homeboy". Oh well, maybe next year he will be more into St. Nick :).

The finished product!

After we got the tree home and finally found a store that still had decent tree stands we put it up and decorated it. It was so fun to have our first real Christmas tree! I love how it makes the house smell like pine and new to both Dan and I...our tree is a Scotch Pine and has real pine cones on it! Cam and the kitties love it, espacially the ornaments! I love Christmas!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

Hey, are we almost done? I'm freezin'!

Timber!!


What cha doin' Daddy? Can I help?

A couple weekends ago we went to a place where you can cut your own Christmas tree. It was really fun and got us into the Christmas spirit, but it was only 15 degrees that day so we were pretty chilly! Cam loved running through all the trees and helping Daddy cut ours down. Then he espacially liked riding the tree back to the car!

Hey Cam, where have those smiles been hiding?

I love this one, you can see his slight dimples :)
My little loves :)

The new "do" and look at that cute little profile :)

He melts my heart when he looks at me like that.

There's my happy baby!

So of course, now that we are home I got the camera out today and the stinker was all smiles! So I'm posting these pictures to prove that yes, my child is happy and smiles! I also cut Cam's hair for the first real time the other day...it was sad to cut of his flowing locks in the back, but his hair was past his shoulders when it was wet and very mullet-like. So he let me go after him in the tub the other night. Dan was upset, he liked it long. But the poor kid, he kept being called a girl with it long! And our neighbor said he was begining to resemble Joe Dirt. That pretty much did it for me. He looks more like my little boy now and it can grow back although, I like the new-do :).

Ice Skating with Cam

Another fun thing we did while we were home was take Cam skating on his new double runners (skates for little tykes that buckle over their shoes and have two blades on the bottom so they can get better balance). Cam hadn't been out on the ice since he was 7 months old and I don't think he remembered it. But he had fun holding onto the skate bar and having Daddy puch him all over. He loved watching the other kids and Dan even said he was barely holing onto him at some points and Cam was able to keep himself up. He'll definatly need more ice time before we let him loose, but so far so good with the hockey training! He can say he began skating at 15 months! And mommy didn't fall once on her skates either...I was worried my expanding tummy would throw off my balance. :)

Thanksgiving with the Fam

Cam showing off his "football" skills to Uncle Mac and Tom

Cam with Great Aunt Kelly and Uncle Glen

Cam with Aunt Sarah

So although I had the camera with me everywhere, I neglected as usual to take pictures! I got a couple in at our Thanksgiving with Dan's mom's side of the family. Over-all our trip home was great, it was the best to be able to see all our family. I was esacially grateful to Dan's mom and my mom for havng a baby shower for me while I was there. I still get so excited looking at all the cute little girl clothes and I can't wait to have my little princess to put in them! Cam was a trooper while we were there even though he was getting 2 molars and had a fever the first few days then got a really bad cough and had trouble sleeping the last few nights. He loved spending time with all the different people and going to so many fun places. The worst part was the drive back. What was suppost to take 7-8 hours ended up being 10.5 almost 11 and Cam was a mess for most of it. Dan and I pretty much decided after the 15th tantrum and screaming and crying coming from the back seat that it's going to be a long while before we drive again, if ever. We love our family, but putting Cam through that and espacially when we will have two back there, it's too hard on all of us. Oh and if you're wondering why I didn't take more pictures...look at Cam with Sarah...that's what he did everytime we got the camera out. No matter what he was doing or how cute he had been, he scowled and made a stinker face! We didn't get one single picture of him smiling the whole time! What a punk!

Cam's Love

While we were home we went to visit my Grandmother in the nursing home and when we arrived, Cam went nuts! He totally loves anything to do with construction, cars, trucks, planes, etc. and when we pulled in, there was a bulldozer/snowplow at the end of the parking lot. Cam couldn't wait to go check it out! :)