Start Smart Basketball

Cameron did the Start Smart Basketball program through the Rec Center. He was by far the youngest participant by as much as two and a half years, but loved every minute of it. I think he was most excited though to be doing it with his cousin Logan. He surprised me when he would come home and tell me how you're supposed to dribble with your fingertips, or about chest and bounce passes.

Logan, Cameron, Baylee

Getting a treat after class.

Cameron's intense defense!

Showing his dribbling skills. Not a big fan of passing. Just dribbling and shooting.

Uh-oh, I guess he's already a ball hog! :)

Reasons

Here are some new reasons we love to live where we live. This spring we've seen many deer, bunnies (brown with white fluffy tails), foxes, and a skunk all within a mile radius of our house. Forgive the poor picture quality. It was dusk and they wouldn't hold still.

The Stats are in!

Cameron and Billy went for their well check-ups shortly after Cameron's birthday. The visit went well even though Billy had to get some shots. I absolutely LOVE our pediatrician. She is SOOO good. Cam was a little nervous to be there, but she put him at ease right from the start. She called him Dr. Cameron and let him help her check out Billy, even letting him use her stethoscope. Cameron was convinced he was such a good doctor he thought they were going to let him give Billy the shots.

Anyway, the boys are healthy and growing. Just as I suspected Billy hit the 16 pound mark. Four months old and 16 pounds and 1/2 and ounce to be exact. Cameron only weighed 19.5 pounds when he turned one, so they're very different in this regard. Billy was also 26 inches long which put his height percentile higher than his weight. I don't remember Cam's exact stats, but he broke 30 pounds weighing 31 I believe, and was over 40 inches tall.

Unfortunately, they didn't stay 'well' for long. We all got some virus that eventually turned into other illnesses: worst sinus infection I've ever had, Billy got 2 ear infections and pink eye, and they never would give Wes or Cam antibiotics even though they had the same symptoms as me. I can't complain too much though because we made it through the winter without anything major. Although I hate being sick in the spring, especially when it lasts for 2 weeks and counting!

He's Rounding Second and Sliding Into Third!

Well, he already slid into third. Cameron had his third birthday in April. I can't believe he's that old already! Where does the time go? I took him to the store to choose the theme of his party. Fully expecting him to choose Diego, or Sponge Bob, I was very surprised he immediately settled on a baseball party. Cameron loves baseball. We had the family up for a barbeque, cake and ice cream, games, baseball cards, and cotton candy. It was a lot of fun. The only thing I didn't do this year was make a fancy cake. Our oven wasn't working at the time, so the cake wasn't high on the priority list. Cameron had a blast and was totally spoiled with all the presents.

Cameron has really grown up this past year. We do a little preschool with 6 other moms and rotate houses. Just since the beginning of preschool I've seen him really come out of his shell and be a big boy. He's such a boy. He wants to hunt with his Dad, ride horses with his Dad, pretty much everything with his Dad. If I let him outside for two seconds he does things like fill our garage with gravel, or start hiking up the hill in the sage brush with his dogs, or completely cover the dogs with dirt. Give him his dogs, or a shovel, or rocks, or his little dump truck, and he's happy for at least an hour. We gave him a big kid bike (with training wheels) for his birthday, and he already zooms all around our garage doing figure 8's. I have a feeling he's going to want the training wheels off before the summer is over. He's growing up WAY too fast!

WICKED

Completely, totally, utterly AMAZING! I was absolutely mesmerized the entire time. It was one of those experiences that leaves you thinking..."I WANT to do that!"..."I want to be on that STAGE!"..."I will do anything to do THAT!"...And then a few short seconds later reality sets in and you realize...I don't sing like Donna Vivino...I've never done a musical-though I'd like to...even if it were possible to make it into a cast...the traveling...the boys...the late nights...my headaches...

Then I totally laugh to myself over my train of thought. There are so many wonderfully different roles to have and places to be in this world. I think the secret is to be happy with the one you have, and I must say, for me, mine is pretty GREAT!

Growing like weeds

No longer my tiny cowboy.

I cannot get over how fast my boys are growing. Much too fast. Most of Cameron's 3T clothes all became 'floods' about 2 months ago, and according to my scale Billy is somewhere around 16 pounds! I take them to the doctor in about a week so I'll know for sure then. Cameron will soon be turning 3 and I just can't believe it. He is so grown up. I guess becoming a big brother, getting potty trained, and growing an inch or two really makes him seem so much older. He is so fun, smart, hilarious...I could go on. He is really coming out of his shell--even walking over to Steve Hardman after sacrament mtg to shake his hand and tell him goodbye.

Just recently I've really felt the weight of the responsibility I have to teach my children the 'important things'. So before Easter we had a little lesson which Cam loved. His favorite part of the story is about the angels rolling the stone away from the tomb. I recently looked at a friend's blog (the Scott's) and got some great ideas for next Easter from her and her sister. There is a link at the side of my blog if you're interested.

Cameron's most recent gospel centered question: "Does Jesus have a car or truck?" We laughed, weren't sure what to tell him, but when he persisted we told him "He can probably have whichever one he wants." Leave it to a little boy to be worried about cars and trucks!

An earlier discussion was him in the bathtub pretending to drink the water from one of his toys proudly exclaiming he was drinking "Copy" which he confused with coffee. He caught me off guard and after we figured out that he learned about 'copy' from TV I fumbled through an explanation that coffee isn't good for our bodies so we shouldn't drink it. He didn't really seem convinced so I then said, "Mom and Dad don't drink coffee because it isn't good for us, do you still want to?" To which he replied "Yep." So I took the discussion a little further explaining that we learn at church and from the scriptures that we shouldn't drink it. He liked this a little better, but what totally convinced him was that "President Monson doesn't drink coffee and tells us we shouldn't either." Well, I guess if he won't follow mine and Wes' example I definitely won't complain if the one he wants to follow is President Monson!

A Few Pictures

Thrush, thrush, go away! (Purple medicine)
Billy loves to be by Cameron. Cam was still half asleep.

CHUBBALICIOUS!

The boys hanging out.