Christmas 2009

Well, I'm a little embarrassed to say that I did not take one single picture on Christmas morning! Neal was a good boy and took video, but we have no still pictures! I think I was just so excited to watch Cami open her presents that I wasn't even thinking about pictures. Either way, I did finally remember to take some at Grammy and Papaw's house later on in the day. Cami loves her baby dolls! She got three of them for Christmas. She is very loving to them as she rocks them and gives them their bottle.

I know this is a bad picture, but I wanted to show what we deal with when we try to take a family picture.

We got matching aprons and oven mitts. Now we can bake together. Not a word on how I don't cook...

Cami and daddy having a tea party

on Cami's new big girl table.

Papaw playing doctor.

She is so cute with this doctor kit. She will take the thermometer and put it in her ear because that is how we take her temperature. She will also put the stethoscope to your heart and say "bu bu" for bump bump like the heart goes.

This is Cami's idea of a hug.

She leans her head into you :)

Chad and Troy

I want to apologize, once again, for being such a procrastinator with the blog. I have heard from several people how they are waiting on pictures-all I can say is sorry! Being a working mommy is not suiting me so well, so finding free time is hard! I am working on getting some video uploaded, so please be patient with me. That will be my next task!

Rudolph!

Cami made the cutest Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Her teachers at school made antlers for each child in the class using their hands. Then the whole class went on a "parade" around the school. I got tears in my eyes when I saw this cute reindeer at my classroom door! I am making a collection of cute artwork to go in Cami's baby book and this tiny little hand trace will definitely make it. I don't want her little hands to ever get any bigger!

Christmas Fun!

We had an absolutely wonderful Christmas holiday and hope that you did, too! It was so much fun to watch Cami get excited about seeing a Christmas tree, lights, and Santa. She made it through her first Santa visit without a single tear shed. I will try to scan the overpriced, poor quality picture and post it soon. Trying to take a picture of our whole family for the Christmas card was quite difficult. We tried on several different occasions, but saying Cami is not photogenic is a huge understatement. She actually gets mad if you put a camera in her face! Ok, well maybe she doesn't always get mad, because these are a few cute pictures of her happy (or atleast okay) to have a camera around.

Cami loves wearing hats. Any kind will do. This particular hat is pretty cheesy but Grammy just had to buy it for her! Here she is actually saying "Cheese."

We made it through the whole Christmas season without any broken ornaments or opened presents. I was impressed! I thought for sure we were going to have to put all the ornaments up high and have wrapping paper pulled off everywhere we looked. But, not so. Cami was a very well-behaved toddler :) Cami loves to help, so I had her place the newly wrapped presents under the tree for me.

Nini came in town in early December so Neal and I could go Christmas shopping (without the Cam) and go on a much needed date night! We also took her along for Cami's first Santa experience. Here we are waiting outside to see Santa. The wait was over an hour...why so much hype for Santa? I can't figure it out!