Things I Love About Cameron… May 4, 2010

(In no particular order and by NO MEANS complete)

- The way he so desperately wants to count. He can’t say the numbers but he does this voice inflection thing and gets REALLY excited when he gets to 3!

- The way he grabs my arm while I’m changing his diaper and kisses it.

- How he knows his animal sounds and any time he sees a picture of a cow or cat he “Moos” or “Meow’s” respectively.

- When he watches cartoons he likes to get down and play and just pay attention every 10 minutes or so. When he decides to watch, he comes and stands by me and holds on to my pant leg for dear life. I don’t know why he needs that comfort while he watches TV, but I am happy to provide it.

- He likes to do what we call, “Climb Mt. Momma”. Meaning he gets in my lap, gets down, stands on my lap, gets down, wants me to hold him, gets down…you get the idea. The amazing part is that all of this takes place within about 1 minute. It is often very annoying, yet I know the day will come when I long or him to be able to do it.

- He is in a major “Daddy Phase” right now and I love it. It is so sweet to watch his face light up when Michael is around. It just melts my heart.

- He is learning so many words. A lot of them only I can understand, but it still counts.

- At night, after his bath, he starts saying “nigh nigh”. He so happily goes in his bed after many sweet hugs. I am so proud of how easily he goes to bed.

- Anytime he sees pictures of Jesus in his story book Bible he always yells, “Daddy”. Every time we go over how “That’s not Daddy, that’s Jesus”. However, it is a great reminder to take advantage of those moments and continuously pray for Cameron’s heart to be sensitive to the Lord and for us to be diligent in our instruction, so that he can someday call Jesus “Daddy” and be correct.

Sick, Sick, Sick May 3, 2010

Well, I was going to post sooner than this, but that obviously didn’t happen. I was going to post Easter pictures but I’m STILL waiting on my mother-in-law to send them to me. So, if you know her give her a hard time maybe that will speed the process up. In my last post I wrote about our trip to CO. Well that fell through at the last minute so we went home to Memphis instead. That’s kind of where this story begins…

So far, every time we take Cameron to Memphis he comes home sick. So we came home April 12th and sure enough he had fever and some sort of cold. Each day his fever got a little worse and even topped out at 105.1 (that was scary). I took him to the Dr. and found out he had an ear infection. We started medicine and he started feeling better but the next week he broke out with a bad rash all over. The nurse said that happens after high fevers. So just as the rash gets all better and I think we’re all back to 100%, it was time for Mike to get his wisdom teeth pulled. We did really well. No dry sockets, but they only pulled 2 – he has to go back for the rest. The next week I had to go in for a root canal. As soon as I left my throat started hurting. I thought it was just from holding my mouth open for so long but as the days passed by and it kept getting worse, I knew I was wrong. By Saturday I felt AWFUL and spent the entire weekend in bed. I woke up this morning still feeling pretty bad and when I picked up Cameron from his crib I noticed that he was warm. Sure enough…he has fever. So far  it has gotten up to 103.5 today and now we’re experiencing the joys of “bad diapers”. So now Cameron and I are BOTH sick.

WE GIVE UP!!!! THE SHAEFFER FAMILY CRIES “UNCLE”!!!!!