All dressed up

It's perfectly normal for kids to want to be like their parents and be bigger than they are. Cameron particularly has this fascination with wearing adult shoes, especially women's ones. He'll put my flip flops on or dress shoes and try to scoot around the house. I would be concerned about this but I have a brother who's name is J__h that use to do this too. Wouldn't it have been great if mom could have sent me that picture to post. Anyway he turned out pretty normal considering he liked to walk around in mom's heels. So I'm sure Cameron will too. Isn't he handsome!

How not to treat your baby brother

As you know Cameron has a monkey that is his baby. We've been talking to him a lot about how we treat our babies and take care of them. Most of the time he is really sweet and affectionate. I had the infant carrier out because I was cleaning it, and he would put his baby inside and rock him to sleep telling all of us "SH!!" He'll even cuddle with his monkey and sometimes sleep with him. I know your thinking that's great. He'll be such a good brother.

Well, he also will drop his monkey for no reason and sometimes he'll even sit on him. The worst thing he's done is stuff him into his little people bus and take him for a ride which doesn't sound that bad. However, he rides on top of both of them. Hopefully, Hudson will fair better than the monkey.

Picture with my Baby brother

I debated whether to put this picture up, mostly because no one likes showing off their stretch marks. Those are courtesy of Cameron and the preeclampsia I had last time. However the picture was very sweet. Cameron constantly runs up to my belly and says baby. Then he pulls my shirt up to give my belly hugs and kisses. If this is any indication, he'll be a really good big brother. Right now the plan is to have Hudson on June 30th unless he decides to make his appearance before then. So one month to go!

Monkeys!

Cameron loves all animals, but especially monkeys. I'm sure that's because his nursery was decorated in them. Grammy came over to watch Cameron on Saturday night so Dan and I could go out. While we were out, we bought 2 monkeys. We let Cameron pick which one he wanted and the other is waiting for Hudson. Cameron carries it around and calls it his baby. Hopefully he'll love his new baby brother as much as he does his new monkey.

Cameron also has a pair of monkey slippers that we bought him for Valentine's Day. He wasn't very interested in them then, but now he loves them. For no reason at all he'll bring them to one of us so we can help him put them on and wear them the rest of the day.

I'll be Good

Cameron can't say these words yet, but if he could he would. Instead, when I had to take Cameron out Sunday night at church, he decided to try and kiss me all the way to the foyer to make up for pitching fits. It was so hard to keep a straight face through it and still discipline him.

After coming back in, he again needed to be taken out for not listening to us and telling us no. Dan took him out this time. He tried the same technique on Dan to no avail. It's amazing that at such a young age, they already begin to try and manipulate you into getting their way.

Gig 'Em

This past weekend the three us went on our last road trip for awhile. We went to College Station to see Jacob graduate. This is the last of my family to graduate. YEAH!! When my parents get back from their celebratory cruise, I'll have some pictures.
Trips like these are always hard with kids, but especially when you are almost 32 weeks pregnant/8 months pregnant. This was the last trip because I'm not allowed to travel more than 30 minutes or so from the hospital after today.
Back to Aggieland, it really makes you feel old when you go back to visit and see your little brother graduating, married, and about to become a real adult. Or the fact that you start to forget street names and where things are in a place that you spent over 4 years of your life. Of course I could chalk the forgetfullness up to the pregancy.

Potty Training

We haven't officially started potty training because Cameron is only 18 months old. A lot of times he would let us know he's gone after the fact which does us no good. However, anytime he shows interest in it we talk about it or let him sit on the toilet, flush it and close the lid. He never goes. He just likes to pretend he's a big boy. On Sunday night he was acting like he needed to go. He had the toilet seat up and was pulling at his diaper so I was like okay we'll pretend to go to the bathroom again. Except for this time, he actually did potty in the toilet. Dan and I made a huge deal of it and praised him relentlessly on how big of a boy he was. Of course he hasn't done it since. He's sat on the toilet a couple times and gone through the motions, but no tinkle.