Cameron has been drawing a lot and much better for the past couple months. Before that he would get really frustrated with other people when they didn’t draw exactly as he envisioned. Thankfully he finally ventured into drawing himself and the more he drew, the more confident he became! 🙂
My favorite is the faces that he draws. He came up with these big eyes and crazy hair all by himself that cracks me up. Under those funny faces, he would draw stick figures—they used to be short, so the people would have big heads on short bodies like many cartoon characters, but today when I asked him to draw a family portrait, he made long stick figures—a little less cute in my opinion, but still it’s his first family portrait! The first person is himself—he and Darren have been huge fans of the cartoon Fireman Sam ever since Cameron fell in love with fire trucks and they assigned characters in the cartoon for the whole family—Cameron is Station Officer Steele who has a moustache, hence the little lines that you see Cameron drawing on the first face above the mouth!
At our breakfasts with Mickey earlier this week, Minnie was there too, but we didn’t manage to get a family picture with her. Today is our fourth and last day at Disneyland/California Adventure—we catch our flight back home tomorrow. As we were walking out of Disneyland to return to the hotel for the kids’ bath and dinner, we noticed Minnie was available for picture-taking. We waited in line and the short wait was well worth it—she gave our biggest Disney fan Cameron lots of hugs and this perfect farewell souvenir!
Today we’re meeting friends at California Adventure, but first we’re all meeting for breakfast with Mickey and Friends! The protocol is—before you get seated for breakfast, you have a photo op with Mickey. We didn’t get a family picture with Mickey yesterday morning, but thanks to our friends, we got one this morning!
Cameron’s love of Mickey Mouse has brought our family to Disneyland again and again. This time we’re staying at the Disneyland Resort and our hotel’s best feature undoubtedly is the breakfast with Mickey and Friends. It’s our first morning here and the kids are so excited to see Mickey. They got to take pictures with Mickey and then this!
Cameron has been going to bed late at night. He has never been a huge night sleeper, which is probably why he’s a champion napper—he could nap for more than 3 hours in the afternoon, so most of the time we have to wake him up at 4:30pm if he hasn’t woken up by himself to “protect” his night sleep. Since he goes to bed so late, I decided Vincent and I should take him shopping tonight after Darren went down. Vincent discovered one of our travel duffel bags had a hole when we came back from our recent Tahoe trip, but we’re going to Disneyland this weekend, so we need to buy a new one. The only times Cameron would go out late at night after dinner would be to catch a flight, so when we arrived at the nearby mall, Cameron asked, “Is this San Diego?” 😉 When he realized we’re shopping for new luggage, he decided to try out the one we like!
It’s Chinese New Year’s Eve tonight, so we went out for dinner with MaMa, Grandaunt, Granduncle, and Auntie Selene. Cousin Charisse and Uncle Ivan were having dinner with his family, so Darren and Cameron got to spend some extra quality time with Auntie Selene tonight! In fact, I just realized this may be the first—and long overdue—picture of just the three of them!
Darren was three and a half when he first tried skiing and it worked out pretty well. Cameron only just turned three and he’s not as strong as Darren, and definitely much more cautious, but we wanted to put him on skis sooner rather than later since we plan to go up to Tahoe at least two more times this season. Vincent took Cameron to Soda Springs’ Planet Kids today for a half-hour ski lesson just like Darren’s first time on skis. Cameron’s a trooper—he’d fall and when asked if he wanted to go again, he’d say no, but when the instructor and Vincent said “Let’s go”, he’d say “OK.” Even onlookers applauded and praised his effort!
