My First Easter

This was my first Easter. It seemed a lot like Christmas, only without Santa Claus and a tree in the living room and a lot less snow. When we woke up, there was a pile of presents for us. One of my favoritest things I got was this remote control.



I think Ben's favoritest gift was the books I got!



In the end, we both played with the same toy anyhow, so I guess it was okay.



After we opened all of our loot, we got dressed up for Church.



When we got home from church, we saw that the Easter Bunny had come and left eggs all over our yard. This is a picture of Ben, running around the front yard, picking up eggs for us both.



And finally, here's Ben with the chocolate chicken that the Easter Bunny left him. I got one too, but I can't eat it (yet). It was my best Easter holiday ever.

Love,
Cameron

My First Visit to the Easter Bunny

This is me and my brother Ben with the Easter Bunny. It was my first time there and I was more concerned with the lollipops than with Daddy trying to take the picture of us. The Easter Bunny said he would come and bring us candy and presents tomorrow, so we're both very excited!

Love,
Cameron

My New Bed

This is my new bed. As you can see, it doesn't fit my headboard that came with my crib, but we're going to move that into the basement anyhow. I did finally get to take out my airplane blankets from Pottery Barn Kids and have those in my room, so that's good. If you look closely, you'll see that I also have the same flannel snow man sheets as my Mommy and Daddy do!

Love,
Ben

Me and Daddy Napping

Daddy was laying in his chair the other day, when I thought it would be fun to take a nap on him. He kept on sleeping, but I couldn't stop giggling, especially when Mommy took our picture.

PS: This is spring break week, so there's no school project to share. We did take a tour of Krispy Kreme today -- I've been there before, but it was Cameron's first time.

Love,
Ben

Me Versus the Laundry Basket

We've had some trouble posting pictures over the weekend, so this is really from last Thursday.

Mommy set me in the laundry basket, as she thought it would be fun for me to play in it.




I thought I might be able to salute my way out of the laundry basket.




In the end, I was very tired.




So, when I was done, I tried to go upstairs to my room.




Love,
Cameron

My New Stroller

Here I am in my new stroller. Our old stroller broke, so Mommy and Daddy had to get a new one. We went to Pottery Barn Kids and Target and Babies R Us and we finally settled on this one. It's pretty neat. I get to sit up higher and I think Mommy and Daddy and Ben can fit more of their stuff underneath me. It also has more cupholders than the last stroller, so I think that everyone can have Caribou now!

Love,
Cameron

My Little Lamb

This is my project from school on Monday. The theme for the day was lambs. I think that was because the Easter bunny is coming soon and with spring break next week, I won't have school until after Easter. Fortunately, we have a Krispy Kreme tour next Monday during the time that I would have had school!

Love,
Ben

The Corral

This is me and my brother Ben in the "corral." Mommy and Daddy got it out the other day and it mostly seems designed to keep me from crawling up and down the stairs, as I have started to do lately. I am learning how to walk around while holding on to it though, which is fun.

Love,
Cameron

My Mouse from School

This is the mouse I made at school on Monday. It has a base made out of play-doh. We learned all about mice and even learned some nursery rhymes about mice. It was lots of fun.

Love,
Ben

My First Trip to the Park When I Didn't Sleep the Whole Time!

This is me and mom at the park. It was nearly 60 degrees here today, so after Ben and Daddy washed the cars, we all went to Camelot park, which is one of Ben's favorites.


I liked the swings a lot. They were a lot of fun to play on. My Daddy pushed me so that I could go really, really high in the air. It was lots of fun. I also got to go down a curly slide with my Daddy and crawl through a tunnel after my big brother. I can't wait for it to warm up so that we can go back to the park again!

If you have Windows Media Player, you can click here to see a video of me on the swings!
Love,
Cameron

Who is this baby?

I was crawling around the kitchen yesterday and saw this other baby in the stove. I thought that was odd, since we're not supposed to be near the stove. I had to check it out anyhow.

PS: I tried to climb up the stairs today, but only made it up one stair before I paniced and fell backwards. Luckily, Mommy was there to catch me.

Love,
Cameron

We've Been Working on the Railroad!

A nice lady that our Daddy works with got us these really great engineer hats when she went to visit Union Pacific Rail Road's headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. Cameron and I had a blast pretending that we were engineers working on a railroad.










PS: I started swimming lessons yesterday at the community center!

Love,
Ben

10 Months!

Here's a picture of me and Max the bunny at 10 months. Be sure to check out my shoes. I just got them yesterday and they are puppy dogs. The lady at the shoe store said I was going to have very wide feet, like my Daddy!

PS: I went to the doctor today and I have another ear infection, so I have to take more yucky medicine. :(

Love,
Cameron

Three New Teeth, Crawling and Pulling Myself Up

Here I am with my new teeth (two new teeth up top, one more new one on the bottom), my new crawling abilities (everywhere and then some) and my new pulling myself up ability (I can pull myself up on anything these days). It's lots of fun to play with my brother's stuff now that I can crawl to it, but I have to be careful not to bite myself in the process!

Love,
Cameron

The G-Men

Last night, we went shopping at the Shoppes of Arbor Lakes and Ben and I both got these great sun glasses. Mommy says we look like trouble. What do you think?

Love,
Cameron

My New Airplane Lamp

Here's a photo of my new bedroom lamp. I had some gift certificates to Pottery Barn Kids from Christmas, and with the help of Mommy and Daddy, I got this really neat airplane lamp!

Pretty cool, eh?

Love,
Ben

A Mexican PDF Photoshow

Hi everyone,

My Daddy thought you might like to see the most extensive pictures of our week in Mexico. It's best if you have Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Reader or better (version 7 is preferred), so that you can see the slide show and hear the music. Click here for it.

PS: It may take a while to load. It's a big file!
We'll be back soon!

Love,
Ben

Traveling Again!

While Ben, Mommy and I are down in Algona, I asked Daddy to post this picture of me so that you wouldn't think we've forgotten about all of you. Hope you have a nice weekend, we'll be back with some new pictures soon.

Love,
Cameron

A Week in Cancun: Ben's Perspective

Well, we just got back from our vacation in Cancun and both Cameron and I thought we'd share our thoughts with you. As many of you know, we left last Sunday morning to spend a week in Cancun. We were going to visit some of Mommy and Daddy's friends, the Besancons. I had previously met Rachel, the Mommy, and the two kids, Ben and Claire, but it was a while ago and I wasn't sure what to expect.

We started out the day Sunday with a trip to the airport. We got to ride a bus to the terminal and I even got to help Daddy carry some heavy luggage to the check in desk. We got to get on a neat plane and Daddy and I had a whole row to ourselves. We finished up Sunday watching the Super Bowl and going to bed early. Even though it's a foreign country (a first for both me and my baby brother), we still were able to have Pappa John's pizza while we were watching football. Unfortunately for my Mommy and Daddy, Sunday was the national election and no beer, wine or margaritas were served.

On Monday, we got to get up early and go play. There was a long pier right in front of our villa on the beach. From out on the pier, you could see this really big flag!




Apparently, this flag is a well known Cancun landmark, so it was neat to look for it when we were in different parts of the city.

I took Mommy and Daddy all over the resort, but we spent a lot of time in the kiddie pool. Normally, I could take advantage of the Besancon's jet lag and get up early to hit the pool well before anyone else. Here's a shot Daddy took around 8am. We beat all of the other kids here by about 2 hours.




The kiddie pool wasn't heated at all, so it often took the whole afternoon for it to warm up. One day, we skipped the pool in the morning and went to meet Cookie Monster instead. We also got to go to a fancy aquarium!




One other day, we headed over to another place where the pool was heated. It was called the Royal Sands. They had a great beach. Here is a picture of the view from it.




Here's a picture of Claire and I in the (heated) kiddie pool at the Sands. It was fun playing in the (warmer) water!




Here are a few pictures of us that were taken later in the day. Here's a picture of me and my brother and our Daddy in the kiddie pool at the Sands.




And here's a picture of us and Mommy.




Even though I don't like the feel of sand on my feet, I was sad to have to go home.




Anyhow, Daddy will post a link to a big PDF slide show with more pictures later in the week. Have a good one!

Love,
Ben

A Week in Cancun: Cameron's Perspective

Well, we just got back from our vacation in Cancun and both Benjamin and I thought we'd share our thoughts with you. We all went to this place in Mexico, which is apparently another country, and we met some people I had never met before and who's name I can't pronounce, let alone spell. They seemed nice, and I was instantly in love with Claire, their daughter. That was good, as I started my time of seperation anxiety from my Mommy and Daddy.

Anyhow, like Ben said, I got to go on a plane too. And Mommy and I had a row to ourselves, but unlike Ben, I napped most of the way there. We got to take a taxi to the resort, which was the first taxi I had ever been in. Ben had been in one before, so he knew what to do. I was pretty tired, so I didn't even watch the big football game before I went to bed.

On Monday, the Besancon kids were really jet lagged and they got up really early. I could hear Claire talking, so I made Mommy and Daddy get up with me. Here's a picture of me and Mommy at 6:30am.




We had a great view of the ocean from our villa -- in fact, we were three steps from the beach! I had never been to a beach before, so it was really neat to play in the sand.




I knew pretty quickly that we weren't in Maple Grove, Minnesota, where we live anymore, and I was really excited about it.




I loved going out and about in Cancun as well. Most of the time, we took the buses. The bus drivers go crazy fast and you have to run to get on and off. Lots of times when we were on the bus, I would hold on to the seat in front of me and stand on Mommy or Daddy's lap and scream with delight. Here's a picture of me on a bus.




You may have seen the picture of Claire in Ben's post. I took a liking to Claire and I think she took a liking to me. Here's a picture of her feeding me my bottle.




And here's a picture of her feeding me my food.




She was a great help for me too when Heidi from cancunnannyservice.com came over and put us to bed one night so that all of the Mommies and Daddies could go out.

The next day, we went to the Royal Sands. Ben has some great pictures of us in the pools, but I was pooped from partying with Heidi, so I spent a lot of time sacked out in my lawn chair.




At long last, we had to go home. Here's a picture we took of all of us kids on the steps to the beach.




Both Bens thought it was too bright out.

Anyhow, those were the highlights of the week! I hope you enjoyed our vacation pictures as much as we enjoyed the vacation!

Love,
Cameron