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My name is Sandra. I'm a mommy of a crazy & wild 4 year old, Cameron (aka Cam the Man & Buddy), a baby boy named Evan, a wife to my loving & very supportive husband Gerry, and an avid lover of anything photography related. I can almost always be found with my camera around my neck, waiting to get the next silly shot of my son, my neice, my nephew, or even your kiddo. The blog consists of both my personal crazy fun life, and of my photography venture. Sit back, read along, and enjoy. Feel free to leave comments and make me giggle. Thanks for stopping by!


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Updates on the kiddos

Who should we start with first??

CAM THE MAN!!!!!

We scheduled Cameron’s first Disney trip.  Oh man is that kid excited.  He can not wait to meet all the princesses.  I have finally convinced him that they princesses like to meet NICE princes.  This is making for great leverage on being good at home and at daycare.  Because, you know, princesses dont like mean princes…right???  Everyone nod and agree please :)

Cam has discovered that he knows how to whistle.  He’s really proud of this new accomplishment.  In fact, we whistled LOUDLY the entire way to daycare this morning…my ears felt great.

I don’t know HOW he does it, but seems like Cameron is the ONLY person that can make his baby brother REALLY REALLY laugh.  I mean I can get a TINY little giggle once in a while from Evan…but Cam gets full blow cracking up out of him.  I have to admit, I am kinda jealous about this.

In case you didn’t see from the picture in the other post below, Cameron is running and jumping into the pool this year.  NO FEAR.

We have added a new member to our doggie collection…because, you know, you can never have enough of these.  Meet Little Brown.  (What Cam DOESN’T know is that I have a Little Blue hidden away for another day…maybe its ME that’s addicted to getting these little guys hehe)

As you can plainly see, Cameron is very much in love with all his doggies :)

Tis the season for playing hard & crashing hard.  This is what happens when Cam plays hard all day in the heat :)

So thats about it with updates on Cam the man…

Oh…okay, one more picture of him :)

Now…On to Chubster…I mean, Evan ;-)

Evan has a check up at the end of this month…I am thinking he is more than 18 lbs at this point.  The kid doesn’t eat that much either.  I mean 24 oz at day and 1 bowl of cereal.  So its not like I am over feeding him at all.  The boy just really holds on to his food :-)

No teeth yet…but LOTS of drool.  LOTS.

Evan can roll over belly to back easily.  Can turn himself in circles while on his belly.  He CAN NOT roll back to belly yet.  He gets half way there and just can’t get over his pudgy little arm.  It’s very cute to watch him grunt and try hard.

The best thing that Evan does…he SLEEPS THROUGH THE NIGHT for us now :-)   Makes us very very happy.  Evan goes to bed around 7pm and typically will not wake at all till 6/7am.  Once in a blue moon he will fuss in the middle of the night, but anymore, he can sooth himself back to sleep.  YAY!!!!

So thats about it!

Oh…okay….happy brothers picture together :)

Evan Talking

Last night 06/07/2010

Mr Evan is cooing…babbling…talking. non. stop.

Happy Summer :)

Sun & Fun & Swimming = Happy Cameron

Happy Boys Together :)

Little Details…

I am super fortunate to have a great friend who lets me play around with her camera gear.  My dear friend Susan Stripling lent me her beautiful d700 & 60mm macro to play with.  I got to play a little and was able to capture these little details of Evan that just make me smile :)

And because no post is ever complete with out my other lil dude :)

Hi…we are alive…

yup….I know, its been a while.

Maybe I should post some stats???

1st up:  Cameron

4 years old!  42 lbs.  42.5” tall


Evan 4 Month Stats:

17 lbs 4 oz    24” tall

All in all..that means Evan is short & round :)

Cam’s “featured”

Parents magazine “GoodyBlog” featured our adorable Cam the Man :)

Because I don’t want to forget this….

Cam: Mooooooooooommmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyy….Can I PLEEEEEASE hold my baby Evan??

Me:  Okay

Cam:  IN my lap, not next to me…

Me:  Okay

Cam:  Oh baby Evan, I love you (while patting his head and kissing him)

Cam:  Okay mommy..now take our picture!  CHEEEEEEESE

Happy 4th Birthday Cameron – My letter to Cam the Man.

Dear Cameron,

Oh my…when did THIS happen?!?! 4 years old?!?! There is NO way that you can be really 4 already. I still don’t think I’m ready for that. But, if I ask you when your birthday is and how old you are going to be, you proudly puff out your chest and scream APRIL 10th 2006 & 4!!! These past 4 years have flown by so quickly.

You have accomplished SO much in just this year alone.

Your biggest accomplishment?! You are potty trained. Oye, was that an adventure, but YOU DID IT! We couldn’t be more proud of you.

You talk and talk and talk and talk. We sometimes wonder if you ever take a break to breath in between all the talking. I guess that’s payback to mommy and daddy since we both happen to be chatterboxes too. That’s okay though, I could listen to you talk all day long. It’s even funnier when we tell you that you need to stop talking for a few minutes and we watch you squirm in your seat trying to not talk but you can’t last more than 1 minute.

Your so very curious. You want to know the why and how about everything. We can’t answer with an “I don’t know buds…” that just doesn’t suffice for you. Thankfully, your daddy has answers for everything.

You love to tell jokes now. The best one to date: What do cows read on Sundays?? The MOOOOOOOOOOOOS-Paper :) Cracks you up every time you tell it :)

You are still obsessed with anything related to music. You LOOOOOOVE Taylor Swift’s music and that would be mommy’s fault :) You could listen to Love Story (you call that the princess song), Our Song, and Fairytale on repeat all.day.long. You also happen to love ABBA and Juice Newton. You put on your ear phones, turn on the itouch mp3 player and just rock out. I am so thankful that I was able to get all these on video to relive anytime I want :)

Reading books is something else you could do all the time too. You have PILES of books in your room AND IN BED. I’d say, nightly, you have at least 10 books piled in your bed and we can hear you read them, some nights, till about 9pm or later.

This year was also a big year for you. You became a BIG BROTHER. You are in love with Evan and boy does he love you back. We love to watch you make him smile, sing him songs, help cover him with his blanky. In the mornings, when we do our drop off at daycare, I love watching you go into the nursery and give your baby brother big hugs and kisses and you remind me that you will check up on him through out the day :)

You have become such a big boy over this past year and we are SO very proud of you buds! We love you so much. We can’t wait for you to have your first big bowling birthday party.

Brand New :)

1 Year Old

2 Years Old

3 Years Old

4 Years Old

Easter 2010

Total snap-shots-bad photography…but this was our day :)

Cam & Evan’s random happiness


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