Fun and walking with Grandmom and Granddad

Last night, Grandmom and Granddad came to watch Cameron while Josh and I went to a meeting with our church group.  Before we left, we were telling Grandmom and Granddad how Cameron is starting to walk all over the place.  While we were gone, he was showing off his moves!!

Grandma took this great video...

Grandmom also took a great video of Cameron laughing and having fun, but I'm having difficulty uploading it.  Hopefully it will be posted soon!

Holly Fest Halloweekend and Trick-or-Treating!

After the Halloween parade at school on Friday, we headed out to Raleigh to go to Holly Fest and participate in some Halloween festivities! 

Uncle Steve and Cam

 Impossible to get any good pictures of the two crazy skeletons!

After picture time, Cameron put on his elephant costume and we headed to Holly Fest.

Ella enjoying the inflatables!

 Grammy and Mr. Elephant

 Ella putting out a fire with the Holly Springs Fireman!

 Grampy G and Mr. Elephant

 Cameron got to see his first pig races!

 Mr. Serious and Aunt Colleen

 A sweet goodbye kiss from Ella

My beautiful birthday present from Ella!

 Cameron did really well on the ride home.  He woke up when we were about 20 miles from home, and left a present in his diaper so we pulled over to change him.  We decided to eat lunch and had a fun picnic in the car.  Cameron loved the view from the front seat!

 On Halloween night we drove out to go Trick-or-Treating with Chris, Kristy, Bailey, and Chase.

Mr. Elephant, a muscle-y Spiderman, and beautiful Super Girl!

 Cameron and Aunt Kristy

 Sweet cousins

 Cameron and Uncle Chris

Halloween Parade at school!

This morning was the Halloween parade at Cameron's school.  I'm so glad we didn't buy him a monkey costume because there were already 3 monkeys in his class alone!  Instead, Cameron was a sweet little elephant.  He hated the elephant hat, but without it, he'd just be a man in a grey suit, so he wore it for a bit and showed off in the parade!

 Getting dressed in his classroom

 At first he did okay and enjoyed jumping in the crib...

 The longer it took to get everybody in order, the more irritated the little elephant got.  The progression of pictures says it all...

(There's even a peanut next to him!)

 Get me out of here!

 En route...

 My sweet elephant...finally rescued from all this silliness!

Playing after the parade...

After the parade, Cameron changed back into his skeleton outfit.  He worked up quite an appetite and was ready for a snack!

Mr. Skeleton sitting at the table like a big boy.

 and even sharing his snack with his friends, Jackson and Wren.

Eating cookies and instruments...

With the exploration of new snacks and such, I've been giving Cameron a "cookie" after dinner.  They are these little biscuits for babies, but you would think it was pure gold by the way he responds.  He waves his cookie over his head so proudly, as if it is his prized possession.  

As I mentioned before, Cameron just loves his musical instrument set.  Check him out as he plays the drums and plays/eats the other instruments...and sings along!

Some Fall pics and celebrating Granddad's Birthday!

Hugs from the Big Man are just the best!  He wraps his chunky little arms around your neck and just snuggles in.

Big snuggles for Grammy

Grammy got Cameron a musical instrument set recently and he just loves it.  I can't believe it, but he doesn't even try to hit anyone with the drumsticks!  He loves waving them around, playing on the drums, and jingling the bells! 

 Good night, Charlotte!

Last weekend we went to Grandmom and Granddad's to celebrate Granddad's birthday.  Cameron was such a champ and went hours without a nap because he was just having too much fun chasing Chico.  We took a nice long drive in the golf cart and enjoyed the perfect fall day.

We went to the playground and Cameron had tons of fun on the swings!

Granddad giving Cameron a push!

Video of Cameron swinging with Granddad

 Even Daddy had to show off his playground skills...

CME's 1st Buggy Ride!

Cameron's teacher invited me to come on a buggy ride with them this morning.  It's the cutest thing ever.  It's basically 4-seater buggies, and the little cuties get wheeled all over the city.  Cameron's teachers said "heavier friends go up front"...so Cameron got a front seat of course!  

They went to the farmers market and looked at the fresh fruits and vegetables.

They went to the green and watched the fish and water.

 They listened to a street performer play his guitar.  The kiddos loved it and were all dancing in their seats.

A video of Cameron enjoying the fountain...

Shaking his head "no"!

I have some great photos from this past weekend that I have to post, but in the meantime I wanted to quickly post this silly video.  Cameron just learned to shake his head "no"!  Oh Lord!  

I make it a point to try and keep the "no's" to a minimum and focus more on redirection.  His "no's" are for the more egregious matters, mostly involving going after electrical outlets, the occasional hitting, the "not-so-occasional" biting, or throwing food and/or his sippy cup.  The other day he threw some peaches from his highchair and I didn't even say no, rather just shook my head "no", and he thought it was the funniest thing and started mimicking me.  While he definitely understands the word "no", he doesn't have a negative connotation with shaking your head "no".  He just thinks it is so funny!  Guess I am going to have my hands full!