How does she do that?

My little girl is perfect...she is also clumsy...I am assured that this is perfectly normal for her age and she will out grow it, but it still makes me wince. Cam can literally fall down at any time, even if all she is doing is standing there. It is like a spark of energy goes through her and she gets overwhelmed and falls.

Just this week she was standing in the bathroom, just standing there. Out of the corner of my eye I see her.....she spins around and smacks her head right on the door jam! Nice line bruise down the center of her face...

Just last night she was laying on her Auntie J's couch and all of a sudden I hear a thud and she is on the floor screaming. She is facing the opposite direction and is upside down from where she was on the couch. How did she do that? Always, 0-60 and what is really funny is that she rarely falls from tripping over her own two feet....oh she does do that, but rarely compared to all the other ways she falls... I even asked the doctor, he said she is fine...and Auntie J, who is very wise especially when it comes to Cami...says "It is normal for Cami."

My arms are little....

An overheard conversation from the other day:

Cami: "Daddy get my blankie" (She is sitting on the couch and the blanket is on the floor next to the couch.)

Jon: "Cami, Daddy just sat down." (He is sitting across the room.)

Cami: "Please Daddy, my arms are short." She begins to wildly waves her arms toward the blanket showing that she couldn't possibly reach it.

Jon: Laughing so hard he starts to choke.

I swoop in and grab her blanket off the floor for her, fearing that she would fall off the couch from waiving her arms around so wildly.

Clouds

Camryn has a thing about clouds...One day as we are leaving for school Cami declares "I don't like dark clouds!" Which I respond well what about the white ones? She ponders it for a minute and says "They are okay." I made the mistake of posting this on my Facebook and a couple of people really found double meaning in that one.

About two weeks later we were driving to the store and I hear her from the backseat mutter "Dumb clouds." I ask why are they dumb? She matter o' fact tells me "They are not doing their job, the sun is still in my eyes!"

Are all kids THIS funny?

Cam has an imagination...A BIG off the chart imagination...... so as suggested by a friend it seemed like a good idea to start writing all this stuff down....

A little background first I suppose...Camryn is my 2 and half year old little girl....and she is simply hilarious.... She has the biggest eyes and long thick curly brown hair....She is small for her age and quite clumsy....and she can talk.....boy can she talk! I don't remember a time when Cam didn't have something to say... I think that is why she may be so accident prone, she is so busy thinking she isn't paying attention to her surroundings.

So that is the long and short of my inspiration...my daughter

The Crazy Guy!!!

Okay, I have told this story half a dozen times and it dawned on me that I might want to write it down so that one day I remember to tell Camryn. Cam is incredibly verbal, smart, and well I always say a fourteen year old trapped in that tiny two year old body.

This last Friday on the way to school we ended up behind a black van. It was a big one, like the SWAT or CIA would use and I was surprised when it turned into the school parking lot. He then went to park in front of the school, but changed his mind and decided to make a left into the parking lot. I had to brake because he turned in front of me and I blurted out "That guy is crazy!" From the back seat I hear Cami saying "Crazy Guy, Crazy Guy!" I ignore her hoping she will stop and she does......until I park and go to get her out of the car and she sees the guy again and from inside the car starts pointing and shouting "Crazy Guy, Crazy Guy!" Luckily she was still in the car and he didn't see or hear her! I am glad I didn't blurt out something else!

Sick Already

My poor Bug....he is already missing school. He woke me up at 1:30 am when he crawled in bed with me...There are many things that you are given the moment you become a mother. One of those things is fever radar. This morning I immediately knew that this little hotbox was warmer than his norm and one look at his swollen eyes & red skin confirmed it. So me and the Thermoscan (love that thing) have been keeping a close watch. Aiden tends to catch whatever is out there....and he is usually down longer than other kiddos... I just wish he had lasted a little longer before he caught something...is after all only the fourth day of school!

First Day of School

Well we ALL made it to and then through our first day of school. I was really good dropping him off...I didn't even cry! As the day went on though I got more and more anxious. "How is he doing?" "Can the teacher understand him." "Did he remember where the bathroom is." This is not the first time Aiden has gone to a school...this was just so new....we were comfortable at his preschool. They knew him and all his "stuff."

Picking him up that day was when it hit me...I waited in the car with Cami while Jon went to pick him up. Watching him come out of the school, walking across the grass towards the car, is when it hit me... I couldn't wait to get him in my arms and breath him in. He got in the car and climbed up front with me and snuggled his head into the crook of my neck like he has done since the day he was born and then I was okay.

Except for a minor "hiccup" the day went pretty good...the next day the teacher even made some time to meet with us...He is great...he "gets" Aiden and now he knows all of Aiden's "stuff" so we are going to be okay...I think.