Laughing

I tried to capture his laugh today, I got a little of it. I think he has the funniest laugh! I wish I could catch him laughing more on video, he recognizes the camera so I have to be sneaky and hide it so he cant see it to get him doing anything like this. Silly boy...

Summer Swimming

Today we went swimming with my friend Andrea and her two kids Corina and Rylec. It was a lot of fun! Cameron slept for the first little while we were there so we left Rylec and Cameron by the side of the pool with Andrea's mom so we could go play ourselves, its fun to act like a kid again sometimes. Then we took the babies in with us and Cameron wasnt sure he liked it at first but he warmed up to the idea and started to have fun. Rylec was having a blast he was kicking his feet and pushing himself away from the stairs, it was so cute! Im so glad we have sons so close in age. I had to get a picture of the baby bottoms, I love it! Summer is so much fun. Im sure it will be even more fun next year when he is over a year old, I cant wait!

Cameron and Eva

These are pictures from spending time with Camerons friend Eva today. Arent they cute! They are a week apart in age. Evas mom Tiffany and I met in birth class while we were still pregnant. It was a fun day. I especially love the one of them holding hands, how sweet!

Score!

Today Cameron and I went to Babies R Us with my friend Tiffany and her daughter Eva who is a week older than Cameron. Just our luck we were wandering around and a girl from Kiddy Kandids came up and asked if we wanted to do a free portrait of our babies! At first I was hesitant and asked what the catch was but there wasnt one, it was a promotion they were doing. What a deal! So we did it and this is the photo they took, how cute, right? He cant help being so cute, after all he is my son:)

Crazy Day

Friday started out as a normal day... it wasnt very nice out so I decided that instead of going for a walk at home I would take Cameron to the Super Mall in Auburn and walk there and maybe look for a cute baby hat for his pictures Saturday. We were about 2 miles from our house and he started to sound like he was choking. He has reflux and he is teething so he sometimes coughs like he is choking and it normally stops after a about 2 coughs, but occasionally he doesnt stop and you have to pick him up and pat his back to get him to stop. This happened to be one of the times when he wasnt stopping and I was driving so I couldnt just pick him up and help him so I turned for a second to make sure he was ok, that he wasnt turning blue or anything and then turned back around and realized the light had turned red ahead of me and the cars were stopped! I tried to brake but realized that I couldnt in time so I tried to turn off the road instead of hitting the car in front of me but I hit their rear corner and then, you wouldnt guess, ran my car into a chain link fence!! Ahh! I didnt know I could move so fast because I was out of that car and getting him out of his car seat in a matter of seconds to make sure he was ok. I was so afraid he was hurt. I feel bad I didnt even go up to check on the other person because I was so worried about him. Its amazing how quickly you can move when your worried about your baby. He was fine and so was I and the girl in the other car. My car wasnt fine and neither was the fence... but those are repairable. Of course when you need someone to come get you no one was home and Bret was at least an hour or more away. Courtney came to pick me up and take us home, it was so nice of her:) I just cant believe how crazy that day turned out to be. Now I have a rental car, a ticket and a court date... and no hat for his pictures. Im just so glad that we were ok, especially Cameron. So that was our busy Friday.

3 Month Photos

Here are a few of the pictures from his 3 month photo shoot today with Photosbyiah. It was a lot of fun and they did such an awesome job! I got these off their blog so when I get them on CD I will post some more. Their link is under "friends" on my blog if you are interested in having them take pictures for you too. I will say that they did a really great job and they were very creative with their ideas. I would highly recommend having them take your families pictures. They are right in Tacoma which is really handy!

We Created a Giant

Today I had a doctors appointment and he is our family doctor so he sees Cameron too. I asked them if I could weigh him because it has been killing me wanting to know how much he weighs because he seems like he has gotten so big! They did and he weighs 16lbs 12oz!! He is only 3 months old and he already weighs that much! I am amazed. So thats the latest news on him... BIG boy. Im sure in a number of months when he starts crawling and then walking and terrorizing my house I will have a post called "We created a monster!" but for now giant works.

First Time at the Park!

It was so nice out today so we had to get out and enjoy it! We went to the park with my friend Andrea and her two kids Corina and Rylec, it was a lot of fun! Cameron got to sport his sunglasses and baseball hat and he looked so adorable. I think he likes being outside, he enjoys the scenery and the breeze. It was a fun afternoon!

Chatty Cameron

His new thing is in the mornings he loves to lay on his changer while Im getting him changed and dressed and talk, alot! And he is doing these high pitched noises sometimes accompanied by squeals. He will go on forever and kick his legs around and smile, its so cute! It was kinda darker in the room then I realized so the video didnt turn out as bright as I would have liked:( Look at the thighs on that kid though, Jeez!

Out with the old, in with the new

About a month or so ago Bret decided he needed a taller, bigger truck than the Silverado. He convinced me that the truck he wanted cost less than what he could sell his Silverado for so it would make it so we could pay off some bills if we sold it and he could get a new truck. He went ahead and got a new truck(the white one in the picture). I can barely get into it! Good thing Im not pregnant anymore, I certainly wouldnt be able to then. Anyhow, the Silverado is still sitting on the side of the house, but at least he has a new truck, right? As many of you know he also had a 94 Jimmy that he was building a new frame for and he had chopped the top off and turned it into a convertable. In doing so it created a lot of work that would need to be done to bring it back to life. He worked hours on the frame, put lots of blood, sweat and money into it. He has come to the realization that it will be years before he will have the money to finish the project and in the long run it would be best to just get a new body for the frame he built, one that is still put together would be nice. So in a sacrificial move he cut the Jimmy up into pieces to make more room in the garage and he is hauling it off to the scrap yard... Poor Bret. Im sure he had a moment of silence before loading the last piece into the bed of his new truck. Hopefully in the future he will be able to finish the project. In the end at least he has a giant to drive around now!

Project Toy Box: COMPLETE

I was getting so fed up with all Camerons toys and gadgets all over the living room. From books and rattles to tummy time mats and bouncers it was too much! So I decided that Bret was going to build a toy box to contain the wild mess. As usual when I get an idea in my head I wanted it done right then! Being the handy (obedient) hubby he is he got to work on it right away. He built the box with the dimensions I gave him (although I think I kind of over estimated the size and it is a bit big...) and made it perfectly! I wanted to paint it black to sort of go with our other living room furniture so I had some black matte paint from another project that was left over. I didnt like it matte though so I tried to use a clear coat to make it shiny but all this did was make it worse! It had all these funny bubbles in it and now it just looked cloudy and dirty. We had seen some chalkboard paint at the hardware store in town and thought that might be kind of cool. I trucked on down to pick some up and got to work right away. Even though he wont be able to really use it anytime too soon I thought it was a fun idea for when he is older. And my friends kids who have come over love it! I randomly have been changing what is on it and erasing previous drawings. It may have been a toy box for Cameron but I think Im enjoying it more! Thank heavens for handy husbands, what would we do without them? The crazy mess of all Camerons things has been contained... for now!

Family Fun!

Yesterday was a hair doing-family seeing extravaganza! First of all we stopped off at my parents to see them and I cut my brothers hair (doesnt he look handsome!). They really enjoyed seeing Cameron even though he slept through most the visit. Then we headed over to Maggie and Richards for me to cut and color Megans hair and color Maggies hair! Busy hair day. Cameron got to spend time with his Grandma and Grandpa Madsen, his Uncle Jim, Aunt Megan and his cousins Riley, Peyton and Brody, he really enjoyed it! I think all the commotion made him a little fussy, he isnt used to so many people all at once. We were going to take him in the pool but it turned out to be a little too cold for his little body so he sat by the pool with Bret while Riley, Peyton and Jim swam. It was so much fun spending time with family. We dont get to see Jim and Megan and their kids very often so it was a real treat:) Brody is getting so big! He was wearing Brets hat and looked so cute so we had to get a picture. I am so excited that they are so close in age! It will be so fun for them to have a cousin so close.