Cameron's Oklahoma adventure pt. I

First let me start this post off by saying, I am happy that Cameron is getting to spend time with his Grandparents! I feel like it is being misunderstood, if I didn't trust that he'd be okay I would have never left him. If I didn't think he was in anything less than amazing hands, I wouldn't have left him! These tears, and missing him-ness is purely and only about me! I have never spent any time away from him and I was already emotional from the memorial that we attended. Cameron is my insanity and what keeps me sane... He will literally drive me up a wall when he is being hyper, but he can also make me feel like a million bucks when he smiles at me and says "luh you mom". I have always wanted to be a mother and Cameron filled a void in my heart that I have always felt. Along with Nick, he gave me purpose. Being his mommy, well honestly, I can't explain it. People will let you down, it's just apart of life but my son gave me my "my give a damn's busted" attitude because MY little family is all I need to keep my cup running over. It's funny, we need our children as much as they need us. Having a child is the most selfish act two people in love can make, but becomes selfless the moment they're born, because from that moment on everything is about them. Anyways, I have gotten to talk to my sweet little munchkin a lot the past couple days. We skyped during the football game and it made me tear up when he got so excited to see us!! Then when someone moved him out of the way while he was talking to us he started to cry because he wasn't done. THAT'S when I cried! My baby misses us but is having so much fun!
One good thing I know that will come out of this is his speech. I joke around that I am Cameron's translator. Don't get me wrong, he is really starting to talk well, it's just I can pick up on it a lot easier than anyone else. So now that he is only around his Grandparents I am sure he is having to pronunciate better. I could already tell when we talked on the phone earlier today!!! So yay to that!
When we were at Walmart today I got him a little adult Simba doll. Leah got the Lion King for him and appareantly it has become a fast favorite. So I fugred it'd make for a great little present to give him when I see him! Hard to compete with these spoiling Gradnparents, but I can't come empty handed! LOL! Well I put it in the cart and little miss fell in love with it, so now I have to get one for her since she already thinks this is her new toy! lol I love how intitled my kids are, Cameron automatically grabs things these days and just says thank you, assuming you'll say yes! Gotta love em!

Here are some pictures of Cameron's adventures in Oklahoma!

Nick's mom took Cameron to the store while we loaded up the car so that he wasn't there when we drove off. I was worried that he'd get upset if he saw everyone but him leave. While they were at the store Cameron worked his charm and managed to get two cars instead of one, by saying "Thank you Grandma, Oh thank you!!" When she asked which he prefered! Goober!

Cameron went to see PawPaw @ work... Safety first!

Watching the Lion King :)

Camo the pirate!

Camo has warmed up to Stella, and now thinks she is pretty cool!

What a month... or two...

I honestly don't know where to start! Being a mommy of two, keeper of my husbands everything and photog is A LOT more than I thought it'd be. Of course I absolutely love every minute of it... Well... I do wish my husband could keep better track of his things, so almost all of it! lol. We have been so fortunate to have family visit and us be able to visit family as often as we do but it just never feel like enough time. Hopefully we get moved a lot closer to home soon!
We made a last minute trip to TN to watch the vikings play against the Titans and that was a lot of fun. Cameron and Nick are really in their element when it comes to sports and Gracie and I just enoyed being out of the house! We also visited the CMHF and that was really neat. I was born outside of Nashville so it was really cool to go back! Unfortunately, the A/C went out completely on the way home making the last 3 hrs pretty miserable. Luckily it happend at the end of the day so it wasn't terribly hot (terribly being the KEY word, it was still hot!)
Here are some pics of our trip!

Well, my brother-in-law Sam proposed to his long time girlfriend, so I will finally be gettin an Emerson sister in law! We will still be out numbered, Reed and the boys makes 5 and now with Katlin makes only 4 girls! Very excited to be welcoming her into our family, I just love her to pieces! They are both going to have such a happy life together. Another bit of "doubly" great news is, my best friend Kylee is expecting TWINS!! Ahhh, even now I still get way too excited for them. Kylee is such a great mom, it will be so nice to see her blessed with two more beautiful babies!
I don't know about you, BUT I have become a pin-addict! AH! I just love pinterest.com, Nick tells me that that website is by far his favorite because he is getting fed better and more creatively than ever! lol It's so inspiriing, but the problem I run into is I wanna do everything I see. My friend Amber is also a pin addict and we planned a "pin worthy" day full of crafts and food we had no business eating! It was a blast!

We got some very sad news about a dear friend of ours, Kelli. She had been in her 2nd battle with cancer when she passed away in her home about a week ago. Kelli was an amazing person with the biggest heart I have ever seen. She had a protective love of animals, family and her friends. She, along with her husband Nate, was a God parent to my son Cameron. Nate and Nick are very good friends, Nate was Nick's best man and Nick was his. I still remember the day they were married and the day she told me she thought the cancer had returned. Of course we made the trip down for her memorial. Nick really wanted to be there for his best friend. That was a very hard day, filled with a lot of tears! Before we found out about Kelli's passing I had a flight to go to OK to visit family and take pictures. Since I didn't want Cameron to make the trip twice I left him behind in Oklahoma... *tear* I have never spent anytime away from him, and I'd say 5 days and nearly three states away is a BIG leap. No baby steps for this momma! I cried my eyes out when his Grandma drove off with him. I miss my baby boy sooo much, but it really is what's best for him and I know his grandparents are enjoying their time with him!

LOVE THAT BOY!!!!!!!!!

Pics of miss Gracie OTW home :)

What a fun life!

So much is happening in our little family! Cameron is learning so much everyday. I worried for a little bit about his speech a few months back. It is just so easy to compare your child to another, but not good. Well it happend overnight it seemed! (true Camo fashion) He now speaks in sentences, not all are perfect, but he is getting better everyday! Cameron has all of his body parts down now, a few shapes and colors as well as numbers, animals and their sounds! His favorite of each is: Nose, 3, elephant, woof woof, baaaalue (blue), and star! He tells me to "wait, mom" all the time when I am getting onto him or tell him to go to bed lol. Cameron is beyond in love with his sister, Gracie! They do everything together, he is still a little possesive of certain toys and he most always wants whatever Gracie is playing with. We have been doing so many crafty things lately, and I enjoy so much watching him feel so accomplished and proud of himself!

Making Daddy some lunch, we are so glad Nick comes home a couple days a week to eat with us!

Nick told him "Thanks very much, Camo" and "your welcome much, dad" and gave him a pat on the back! Those two crack me up!

Gracie is learning more and more every single day! She say's momma and dada, we took her to her 9 month check up and of course her doctor was increadibly impressed with her activity. He didn't mind at all about her height and weight, she is just going to be on the small side. Right now she is juuuuust getting out of 3-6 month clothes, a size 2 foot, 15 lbs and 26 1/2 inches. She has been crawling since 6 1/2 months and is starting to show a liiitttle bit of interest in walking EEKK! She is all over the place and into everything, of course big brother is by her side cheering her on into doing things she shouldn't like climbing the stairs and messing with pots and pans. 

Gracie just recently started making THE "scrunchy nose face"