Category Archives: Cammy

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Part III Peak Performance

*about this title I thought that was a cute play on words since apparently there are romance novels for NASCAR fans. I was like Seriously? so it was either that or Spies, Lies and Naked Thighs, but there was no spying in my weekend so there you go…

moving on to my early week:
Monday Jerry took the day off to recover from the massive amounts fermented beverages he consumed. Went to lunch with his best friend then went to hang out before going to see Iron Man, and then apparently hung out after as well. I, however went to work, came home with an extra four year old and did the mom thing until 8:30 when the extra four year old got picked up and Cammy decided it was a good time to

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Fun with Cammy and Bri

Cammy and I have a good time together. She is very much my girl, and shes adjusted pretty well to the whole baby thing, she still has her days wher she has to be the center of attention - particularly center of MY attention. and on those days the best way to acheive that is through baking.

super chef

We spend a good thrity minutes mixing and pouring while I pretend I do see her sneaking cookie dough. we wear matching blue aprons. And all is right with her world for a few days. I don’t know what she id gonna do when Bri is big enough that hse wants to help. She looked so put out when I suggested that one day she would have to SHARE the sppon or the paddle from mixing hte dough with her sister. as if I had suggested she cut of her ARM or something!
chocolate chip goodness We have made oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies this week, although most of the oatmeal went to J’s job and most of the chocolate chip we served up at the blogger meet up - post coming soon. I am trying to decide if I should post recipes on the blog - there are soo many bloggers who do the recipe thing better and more regularly than I do so I’m taking votes in the comments. To post recipes or not?
It is offically spring time and Bris is just as much an outdoor baby as her sister was. We have taken to putting her swing in the door so she can see the outside. Or putting on the porch while we watch Cam play with the neighborhood kids.
angel on our walk
everday when I get home from work Bri and I go on a little walk of our block, we look at the flowers and all the colors in the yards (not mine I need to garden soooo bad) and we get to see how the street is changing and getting better. Most posting to come…

Picture perfect day

Few days ago I was on my mommy job and took Cammy the butterfly kite she requested to school for kite flying day, I stayed and watcher her and her classmates race through the blocked off parking lot and try to fly kites. I thought I would share a few of the pictures here - if this tool is working correctly you only have to hover your mouse over the image and click to get it to blow up to a larger viewing size without leaving the page.. if it makes you leave the page -then I need to fix it.
 

bar baby

I just read the most interesting article about moms and babies and bars. which is funny cause in my last post I was talking about how my mom had her birthday party at the Ritz in the lobby which - has a bar in it. A full, honest to goodness bar mind you, with kick butt mojitos, and a sushi bar in another area. So when I read this article I had to laugh.

It never occured to me to not take my girls with me to wish their grandmother a happy birthday. Cammy was excited to get dressed up in her party dress (she looked way better than me mind you) and I don’t think any less of my parenting because they went and stayed up rediculously late and had a really good time. We didn’t ply them with tequilla shots, and I didn’t drink either. But Cam did help with passing out cake slices and danced with her Granny and followed uncle Erskin around till well after her normal bed time. SHe learned seh couldn’t drink grown up drinks, but learned the joy of a shirley temple. It was a non smoking hotel so we had no issues in our party really.

I don’t take my kids when I want to hang with my girls and really have a drink. I don’t want my kids to watch me get saucy. I don’t take my girls unless I know we are going to be among a group of people who are child friendly, I am usually not concerned about the venue, and I have no intention of drinking. But I have taken my kids to pubs like Llywellens, and Ice and something or other. And I will again, I’m sure.

I beleive if my kids are well behaved and enjoying themselves they can go anywhere I want them to. I don’t allow my girls to throw tantrums - at all - in public places. Cam knows that is a sure fire way to get taken home ever so quickly you might for get you ever left.SO I am always confident about taking my kids where ever I want them to be.

do you guys take your kids to places typically not concidered kid friendly?

side note- Randy Pauch is going to be on ABC News on wed. I watch his lecture once a week. I’ve been watching it since the week after he gave it- when I first saw it - it wasn’t on youtube yet, you had to go down load it from somebody at the school. It helps me remember who I want to be and how I want my kids to be. I would strongly recommend you watch it if you can.

Shes still only three

Mom: you child doesn’t care about orphans.
ME: Orphans? What orphans?
Mom: you know the “Orphans” The ones who would be glad to have all her toys cause they don’t have any. (she stresses “Orphans” the way you do when you are trying to make somebody remember something they clearly don’t or are making up as you go.. one of the two)
Me: Oh!!! The “Orphans” Why do you think she doesn’t care about orphans?
Mom: Cammy tell your mother what you said wen I said the orphans don’t have that many toys.
Cammy: Whatever (sounding a little to Cher from Clueless like for my taste)
Mom and I look at each other
Me: Cammy that’s not a nice thing to say.
Cammy: Oh WHAT-ever (I almost expected her to put a w on her forhead with her fingers)
Mom(quietly to me) : we’ve got a mild issue…
Me(quietly back) : I think more so that the issue is shes three and the orphans are abstract. Watch this. (turns to Cammy) Cammy what about Sydney, what if she didn’t ahve any toys? can she have your toys?
Cammy: Yeah Sydney can play with them all the time.
Mom and I look at each other with relief.
Me: I though I was raising one of the mean girls for a second there.

All the things I should have blogged

In all the hub bub about I have failed to tell you all all the great news floating around my home!! Cammy got into the school we wanted her to attend and will be starting in August!

This is so awesome.

Not that she didn’t get in last year, but this year I was on my game and she can actually GO this time! SWEET!

imgp5616I have never been more grateful for anything outside of their births and my marriage.

You know when people say they just want to give their kids the things they didn’t have - it sounds cheesy. I admit that. And I had a good childhood. I can’t think of very many things I just didn’t have as a kid. I got a car when I was seventeen, went to disney world, wasn’t beaten or abandoned, had typical little brother and little sister annoy the crap out of me things. I had a good childhood. But the funny thing is the things that worked just fine for me - don’t seem like they are the basic good anymore. We live in ST. Louis City and public school (which was barely holdin on when I was a kid) is SUCH a non option in my area. this is the first very major area of my a parenting where I felt a serious pressure to give my kids better than I had, to provide her with the best spring board to begin her walk into formal education. I don’t believe I am patient enough for home school. And Some of the local private schools while providing the excellent education I know Cammy would thrive in, would in my opinion stifle her development as a adult. We were very diligent in checking out the recommendations of parents who raised kids we liked and were the type of parents we admired, as well and double and triple checking the schools for academic and social atmosphere that fit our family as well as Cam as an individual. SO we are ecstatic to join this school family and hope Jerry and I get as much out of Cammy’s education there as she does.

BriGab is now a beautiful six months old. Shes a bouncy thriving beautiful little girl. SHes so much differnt than I expected her to be. She is much more like her father than CAmmy ever was, CAmmy is way more like me - way more outgoing, more social. Bri likes to sit back in the cut and observe. Shes, been sitting up on her own for a while now, SHes well on the solids, we have video of hte first bowl of solids - we’ll have to post that soon. I just gotta get my cut and splice on..

She’s got the hand thing goin on - they are the most fascinating things ever - her hands and the cat. Cat can do no wrong. She likes the decals on T-shirts she always wants to take them off. Shes into self service feeding, and tries to remove my shirt when she gets an urge.

She refuses to crawl, she, I think , is aware they being carried moves her along faster. and she now motions for us to pick her up - instead of this grand look of entitlement she normally had when she wanted to be lifted. She can roll over and does, she just does not really care for time on her belly. She moves like shes crawling gets annoyed and quits.

imgp5651 She can sit up with out support, puts everything in her mouth. She wants to feed herself so bad, and takes the spoon all the time.And she and her sister SHREEK at each other all the time. like I can see the stock in Advil I will need when they have sleep overs.

we did the easter bunny at a basic egg hunt,. Photos with pseudo rabbit were interesting. We took Cammys best friend who is on the opposite spectrum of affection than Cammy as shown in this picture. Cammys like “WHEE!! its a good time with the Easter bunny!” her friend is like ” dude - there is some chick dressed up in a rabbit suit, I feel sorry for you.”

imgp5620 We also hit the science enter although we only stayed for an hour and a half they are open late on Friday nights but the thing that makes me want to take them isn’t so we’ll need to schedule another trip soon so we can get the most of out our local attractions. Spoken came over that night to hang out while I put the girls down for the night and while I was feeding Bri sat on teh foot of my bed while across the hall in a dark bedroom the two girls giggled and laughed while trying to convince me that they were going to sleep, you know classic girl sleep over stuff. And spoken mentioned she couldn’t remember giggling in the dark with her girlfriends at that age. I hope Cammy and Syd both remember how much fun they had together all the time. I hope Cammy remembers that Syd is the person she always thought of when she got to do something cool. She always asks for another (fill in the blank) for Syd when shes getting a treat, and always tries to save some of her dessert, candy anything and everything for her. and if she doesn’t I hope I do so I can tell her how great her first friendship was for her.

Lastly as a Christian and avid book reader I when I found this book in my weekly bag of cheese I had a good and hearty laugh.  Anybody who doesn’t see the funny in this needs good hearty shake..

you guys have a great day!

two steps back

I was about to post something about how far we have come as humanity…

then I saw this and as I watched with clenched fists and anger, I deleted the post.

we need to get farther. I have daughters. Girls who will become black women. We need to get farther. We clearly have not come far enough. Potential Presidents be damned,we have not.

This is all I can say with out it turning into a soapbox I don’t particularly want to get on.

Somedays I feel like I harp on race too much, others I don’t feel like I say or do enough. I don’t know what to do.. which way to go.

I’ve deleted paragraphs, over and over again.

I’m sorry I just…can’t unclench my fists to say this properly.

significant days

ah, It has been a time internets.
Yes – We found someone at the party stole cologne and perfume from the medicine cabinet and several bottles of wine.
So, clearly next time the party guest list will not be so open. Just a mild damper on what was a funky good time.
pretty baby Our big fuzzy baby has been hangin out with us way more as Cammy has become much more Anubis friendly in these last few weeks. Which is awesome.

Cammy has certainly started to come into her own. She is dominating the puzzle world. She loves puzzles as much as I do. And I loves me some puzzles. She started off blowing through 24 piece

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Weekend rewind….

creme bruleeIt has been a full weekend, even if we didn’t have anything planned. Friday night we stayed home, stayed in hung out with the children and hit the sack kinda early. These earlier days tend to catch up to me by Friday, as I don’t go to bed much earlier than I did before I started waking before the sun. I fully intended to go to an open mic this week, particularly my old stomping grounds, Legacy. Alas I got to see Spoken - she brought me her blow torch for to make Crème Brule, which I did at three a.m. when my milk came in and my kid was still sleeping. In the hopes of fostering some all night sleeping I pumped it off and made Crème Brule, and not with my breast milk you silly people.

Saturday morning we woke and dressed and made our way to

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halloween beauties


My creation

Originally uploaded by raquita.
So we had a full and fun Halloween this year. This was Cammys first year really getting into the whole thing. She wanted to be a princess dragon, and since they don’t exactly sell those in teh store, and they were out of dragons in her size at Childrens Place, we went with the princess thing.
We chose Princess Jasmine from the Aladin for obvious reasons. (you really don’t know me if you think I’d let my kid run around as Cinderella or god forbid Snow White) And the Littlest wonder was a kitty - in a pink tutu?!?
We don’t ask questions we just go with the cute, and she was just a little ball of cute.
I went to school with Cammy and we did the cookie decorating thing there - which went over well, and left me with no mess at home to clean. Then we picked up Jerryand dropped them both at the Botanical Gardens for trick or treating in the childrens garden . Then they walked home (which is only a couple of blocks - I love my neighborhood.) and did a little house to house trick or treating. Then they carved a pumpkin had some dinner and gave out candy to the kids who came to the door. Cammy liked that part alot.
She was in bed by 9 pm. her uncle Justin showed up in kilt, (photo will be up tomorrow) and they played a little super nintendo before bed. Gotta love a guy who travels with classic video games in the car.
all in all it was a good day.
and a great reason to take cute pictures of my babies.

enjoy!