There was no school or mommy-and-me classes today (Memorial Day), so we decided to check out Children’s Fairyland. Vincent and Darren went ahead first because Cameron’s naptime is in the middle of the day. I already put Cameron down earlier than usual today and he cooperated and fell asleep very quickly, except he slept for 2.5 hours, which is not totally unusual, but I was definitely hoping he would be up sooner in order to have more playtime at Children’s Fairyland. So we kinda cut short his lunch—thankfully the traffic to the East Bay was great and we were able to get Cameron on couple rides (he would always wave hi to Dad whenever we passed by), see quite a few animals up close (which was a first for Cameron), and try a bite of ice cream sandwich (also a first)!
Cameron has a new favorite activity: buckling! He started with his own booster seat—he’d stand in front of his booster seat, ask someone to sit in a chair next to him, snap the buckles of his booster seat in place, and then ask for help undoing the buckles, so he could repeat this exercise over and over. Today when Darren was climbing into his highchair, I found the safety straps buckled, which I thought was weird. After Darren was done with his meal and let out of his highchair, Cameron walked over and started buckling Darren’s highchair’s safety straps and I realized why they were buckled earlier! Cameron could go at this so many times it’s amazing! Seems to me Cameron understands at a tender age couple important lessons in life: patience is a virtue and practice makes perfect! 🙂
The day didn’t start off too promising – periods of showers and sun. But as the day progressed, the blue sky returned despite the occasional gust. Darren insisted that he play in the backyard. Aren’t we glad that we obliged? It was a beautiful day! Cameron joined the fun after he finished his lunch. The two brothers actually spent some quality time together as playmates.
Since Cameron is walking a lot better now, he can roam around the backyard with ease and stability. He can now push around the toy cars too.
These are a few of Cameron’s favorite things: balls, blueberries, any cleaning agents (from Kleenex to brooms (toy or the real thing)), a Mickey Mouse soft toy (that Darren could argue is his, but since Darren has a huge collection of soft toys, I insisted he let Cameron have this one because that’s the only one Cameron cares about), pacifiers (Cameron’s all-time favorite! Cameron’s really funny—sometimes he’ll pull out his pacifier and “share” it with me or Vincent–we’ll pretend to suck on it and look like we’re really enjoying it and he’ll giggle and ask for it back), and the “Row Row Row Your Boat” song. Today he combined two of his favorite things:
Yes, kicking a ball while holding onto his Mickey Mouse. 🙂
