Ah, yet another year has come and gone…
Good riddance 2008.
It has been a tough tight year for Chez Henderson, not that we haven’t leanred some good lessons and fought hard to come out the back end, its just life could just sent me a memo and it woulda been just as effective. Alas I don’t know that we would be in the right place that way, so I am okay with the trials and valleys.
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Cammy is growing and flourishing and becoming a beautiful young lady. Shes a singin’ dancin’ tornado of wonder and sweetness. Shes done well in school this year, we’ve gotten her thru school and only had to sell two kidneys and part of a liver.
As I mentioned in the little holiday drive by we are very into games and puzzles still. Some where in the last few weeks she started sayin she didn’t like math, but we’ve been reprograming that cause shes actually very good at counting and adding and shes very comfortable with numbers – so we won’t be having any of that girls don’t like math thing in our house. No sir. I need to pick up tht chick Winnie from the Wonder Years book on girls and math.
Other than school, Cammy has grown in most of the ways I mostly expected, shes an avid baker and loves to assist with the cooking, shes genuinely the nicest person I know.
Shes very into clothing lately – and make-up. Shes four and does eye make up better than me. A family friend is a make-up artist and spends alot of time playing with Cammy they do cheeks and eyes and lips and my kids looks sometimes like she fell out of 1984 but she loves it and shes happy.
Shes got more MAC make-up than YOU.
She had a little rough patch dealing with the sharing of affection as Bri has come into her personality and is walking and talking. But Bri is right at the playing age so tehy get to play together – which was probably the single best reason to have an extra kid – they entertain each other.
Shes still a bit too winey and she has her fathers selective hearing:
“Cammy! Come clean up your board game!”
“Cammy…”
“Cammy…”
“Cammy come help me amke cookies..”
“Coming mommy!”
“Pick up your game first.”
“Aww mann!!!”
Other than that I can say shes a great great kid. Shes gentle and sweet – if a bit loud at times, but she comes from loud people. So what can you do?
Oh- she also got a Cat. UBee. He is a cat terrorist, but they love each other. He will get his own post soon.
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Now Miss Gabrielle, she has had a year full of firsts. First word (it was yes) first steps, shes quite happy to feed her self and is about done with bottles except occasinally at bed time. Shes still my reserved personality but shes much quicker to warm to people especially when they come to our house versus being out in a new place. She talks when she wants to and has a TON of words. Example – she knows the sign for “up” and makes it when she wants to be picked up. She and Spoken were in the kitchen and she was making the sign for up at Spoken.
“I wish you would learn how to say up, instead of just signing at me..”
Bri looked her square in the eye and said “Up!”
“Well, okay then.” Spoken said.
What else can we say to this kid? Shes really into things with peices, trains and animals. Shes very partial to her tooth brush so I think she has a fair shot at being a dentist. Shes also bossy so she could easily be Hillary Clinton when she growns up, with a large dose of Condi Rice. Shes also got thing for pens and pencils. Loves to write. (Wonder where she got that from..) Shes got the brightest smile, and she still pats my back when I pick her up. We had a small pneumonia scare a few weeks back, and you never realise how important a person can become to you in such a short amount of time.
And my husband. There are no words. Really for all the support and friendship and love, really none.
So we are so very blessed in ‘08, and have many many things on our plate for ‘09, The photography business Pinxit is taking off well, Thank you to all my clients and brides who have come along with me on this our soft lauch in 08. ‘09 is our first full wedding season, starting in the fall was not the best idea I ever had but I am very excited about ‘09 for both business and personal reasons.
I am off to make my annual ginormus pot of “Everything and the kitchen sink” gumbo drink margaritas with my homies and kiss my babies for the east coast new year put them to bed and knock back a few with the grown ups before midnight central time.
Remember in all the relvery to reflect on all the joys and trials you have overcome and prepare your self to look forward. New Years are for the NEW!
See you guys in ‘09, tomorrows post is a sibling session.
Be peaceful, be poetry, Be photographed!
Raquita
