Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Names for Baby Sister . . .

I am terrible about recording the funny things that my kids say, which I regret, because I've already forgotten more of them than I remember. But I thought I'd share this little nugget from Gordon.

We are having hard time deciding on a name for Baby Girl, and periodically ask the boys for suggestions or ask them what they think about certain names. For a long time, Gordon suggested that we name Baby Sister "Sassy Cat." Then, a few weeks ago, on a Saturday morning, Gordon came into our bedroom and announced that her name should be "Princess." Then, later that morning, we asked the boys what they thought about a couple names, and Gordon looked very thoughtful, then with a big smile exclaimed, "I think that we should name Baby Sister 'Cobra'!"

What do you think? Sassy Cat, Princess, or Cobra? Any of them strike a chord with you?

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Cameron's Birthday Week!

Cameron celebrated his 6th Birthday last week! The week started out with a bang, quite literally, when Cameron ended up in the pediatric urgent care on Sunday to receive stitches in his left eyelid. Let's just say that the incident involved Cameron, Cody, and a ceiling fan, and we are very, very thankful for the near miss to his eye. Cameron is one tough kid, though. The doctor could not believe how still he lay there to receive his stitches. Here are a some photos of the prize fighter a couple days after the incident.




On Tuesday night, Gammie and Boppa dropped by with a pretty cool birthday gift - a Leapfrog Learning System.









On Wednesday, his actual birthday, Cameron brought "C is for Cameron" cupcakes to school. He brought the same type of cupcakes last year, but this year he specifically wanted white frosting with chocolate chip C's. Last year it was chocolate frosting with white chocolate chips. Here is Cameron is at his classroom birthday celebration.







As gifts, Cameron received several Target gift cards, which he used to have the shopping spree of his life - three new Transformers, a slinky, a Lego set, and a Spiderman magnetic writing thing. He also received an awesome pirate watch and pirate socks as well as some cool new Sketchers shoes.







And here is Cameron one week after his accident - stitches out and eye healing up nicely!

Girls' Weekend

I spent a few days away in Sunriver, Oregon with 3 college friends - Katie, Tasha, and Micheleen - and their babies. I, on the other hand, had no children with me, other than the one I'm toting around in my belly!! It was a fun weekend!