Recent Family Activities

Cameron really loves baking with me. He likes dumping ingredients into the bowl and he likes helping me use the hand mixer, but mostly it's because of brown sugar. He wants to put brown sugar into everything because it gives him a chance to nick some out of the container while I bake. Every time I get out the mixing bowl, "Okay, we gotta get out the brown sugar for it Mommy!" A boy after my own heart.

Cameron thought it would be fun to take every single book off of his book shelf and scatter them on his floor and the floor of the living room. Same with all of his train tracks and his play food. Yayyyyyyy! We got to use it to teach him a good lesson about cleaning up though, so it's all good.

These little boys are just gathering cuteness and flinging it all over our apartment. I can't get them to stop.

Cameron has been in a group of toddlers who are doing tot school together. We've been rotating houses once a week and doing lessons with a certain letter, color, shape, and number. I LOVE IT. It has been so fun to see Cameron in a learning setting with his peers and of course he always loves the play time afterwards. So grateful for my friends that help make it happen.



We were able to score a Groupon to Lollipop Park not too long ago and a bunch of our friends jumped on too so Cameron was finally able to experience the rides with his friends instead of just strangers.

We went to the zoo with Brandi and her awesome kids. Sweet baby Cora did amazing. She's a rock star and I'm in awe of how her mother does it. We hadn't been at the zoo in forever, so of course Cameron was running all over the park. It's a bit of a battle every time we go, but he just loves it so much.
Obviously he also really loves me making him pose for family pictures too. ;-)

Cameron could have spent hours at the sea lions tank. It's probably one of my favorite parts of the zoo too actually.

We had fun one morning reading books in our cave and running away from crocodiles. Cameron loves crocodiles. He loves watching them in videos on YouTube, he loves pretending that they live in my closet, and he loves hiding from them at play grounds. Any time you see him running away from something, it's probably a crocodile. :-)

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