The Phamily Blog

So this morning was pretty dramatic.



First of all, Cameron had a serious "I hate school" moment while getting ready this morning. It resulted in me saying "I can't take this right now!" and walking out of the room while Nguyen attempted to wrestle him long enough to get his sandles on. Many tears later, Nguyen somehow managed to be able to talk him into getting into the car. We were only ten minutes late but I despise being late, so it felt like an eternity. Still, the transition was easy enough. The hardest part was getting him to agree to get in the car.



Gabby and I then went and grabbed breakfast at iHop with a neighbor friend. It has been so long since I have gone out to breakfast. It was nice. Gabby enjoyed it too ;)



When I got home, I waited for Nguyen and then we were about to be on our way to pick up Cam. I opened the front door and to my horror, I saw this:





OH.MY.GAWD.

(and NO, that is not a picture I took...this is another "pretend" photo.)



I shrieked like a little girl. It was SO not cool. It would have been so much better if it was just sitting there coiled up, but NO. It was slithering around in true snake fashion, making me quiver in disgust. I immediately slammed the door shut and Nguyen came running down the hall to see what all of the fuss was about. I opened the blinds that look out to the front porch and just pointed because I knew exactly what his reaction would be. He was MORE freaked out than I was. Gabby just sat in her carseat in front of the door watching her phsychotic parents staring at a measley little snake.



Nguyen kept saying "What do we do?!!" To which I said "we'll just go out the garage." Nguyen wanted to kill the snake but I assured him that it would be totally disgusting to have to clean up snake guts. Finally we decided we would make a mad dash through our garage to the car and just let the snake find his way AWAY from our front porch. Nguyen kept asking if there was such a thing as snake poison and if there was, we were dang sure going to be buying some today at home depot. I am pretty sure there is no such thing, so I guess we'll be living in fear for the rest of our lives.



I am pretty sure we will not be using the front door for entering the house for quite a while. If one of those creatures actually ever gets inside my house...I swear, we will pack up and move. SO GROSS!

http://www.parenting.com/gallery/Baby/A-Special-Joy-9-Babies-With-Down-Syndrome/3

Well that was an exciting post. :)

I feel like I am running out of things to say, but really, that's not the case...I'm just lazy, ha!

So on that note, what's been going on in our lives?

Cameron is officially a "Big Boy." He has decided that preschool is actually kind of cool, and tears are not needed. It is so much less stressful now in the mornings when he has school. He still puts up a little bit of a fight, but as soon as we convince him that "school is cool," he is excited again, and ready to roll. This past Tuesday, as I was driving him to school, he kept saying "I am SO excited mommy! I can't wait!" Sweet.

On Monday, our County of Education finally made it out to our house to meet with Gabby. There were three women total. They had lots of fun playing with the princess and the general consensus was that "gabby seems to be quite advanced, and even exibits characteristics of a baby much older than she is." HA! Take that!

She totally showed off during the entire meeting. Smiling, laughing, talking...the whole nine yards! She even rolled and scooted towards her toys : ) One of the nurses asked if we would be interested in infant massage. Of course I told her we were, so in a couple of weeks, she'll be back to give Gabby a rub down and teach me how to do it as well. Lucky princess!

Oh- we were also chatting about how Gabby is currently on a rather expensive infant formula due to doctors orders. The nurse told me that can be covered by our regional center! WOOHOO! Seriously it has been such a pain in the butt...not only is it super expensive, but it isn't always easy to find. Most stores only carry a couple of bottles of this stuff, so I usually clear their shelves and then have to come back a few days later to do it again. Our regional center is not only going to pay for it, but they'll ship to my doorstep too! Nice.

What else, what else...

OH- we bought some palm trees from our neighbors for a killer price. We have had nothing but our pool and some grass in our backyard for quite a while since we need to save bookoo $$$ to be able to landscape our HUGE yard. Well anyway, we got five palm trees and had them put in right behind our pool. It makes such a difference! We are already talking about getting a bunch more, because five was just not enough! Now I am itching to get a vegetable garden started but who knows...it might be too much work for me right now. We'll see!

So we're still recruiting for our Buddy Walk on October 4th, as well as donations! We would absolutely love it if anyone who can and wants to, would join us! It's for a great cause, and it's going to be lot's of fun! As a team, we have raised $255 and there is still lot's of time!

Go HERE to register to walk or make a donation! : )

Okay...that's all for now. Gotta make dinner!

I am off to start thinking about thirty one things to write about, ha!

Check out the princess...

It means he always smells fresh.



It means he files his nails every night.



It means he even flosses EVERY night.



But most importantly...





It means he can pick out a mean pair of Manolo's for your first anniversary present.

He is a VERY good hubby :)

The kids danced and played with the cow for quite a while. Cameron was making all of the other guests laugh with his mad dancing skills.

After the dancing, there was an ice cream "bar" where the kids could go make up any combination of an ice cream sundae they wanted. It was yummy...the parents enjoyed some too!

How he survived this party without having an extreme bellyache, I'll never know. He consumed an extreme amount of sugar :()

After ice cream, we thanked Nicole for having us and headed home where cameron crashed for the night at 6pm...sweet!

Later that night, while surfing the net, I realized the circus was in town. I have been wanting to take Cameron for a while but hadn't yet had the chance. SO, I bought some tickets that night for Sunday morning. G-ma was due to come over on Sunday so we made her tag along with us!

I didn't bother taking my camera (which I totally should have!) because I thought they wouldn't allow flash photography. I am bummed now because practically everyone in there had their camera. I suck. So all of these pics are from the net...but we saw the same thing, so just pretend!

Cameron enjoyed the motorcycles...and I thought these guys were pretty cool!

Cameron had a great time at the circus, but as soon as I bought him a little flashy light toy, he lost interest in the show. We made it just past intermission. Not bad...not bad at all. Cameron lasted about three minutes in the car before he crashed.

So that was our weekend in a nutshell. Jam-packed with lots of fun and now we're all exhausted.

I copied this from a fellow blogger...thanks Kristin!!

Hi Friends and family!





Guess what? Next month is Down syndrome awareness month. Thirteen years ago, the Buddy Walk was created to promote acceptance and inclusion of People with Down syndrome.

Buddy walks take place all over the United States and I am lucky enough to be living just outside of one of those cities!

I am going to go more into depth about this next week, but for now I am asking anyone who lives in my area to please save October 4th on your calendar, so you can walk with our team!

Let's do our part!

I could really use your creative minds in helping me think of a team name! All ideas are welcome!

ps- Aunt Nutty and Aunt Leigh...you walking?!

Is anyone reading this besides my three faithful commenters? Seriously...This is a threat. Start commenting. Make me feel like someone cares. :) Otherwise, I'll just stick to my journal in my nightstand.

xoxo