Little Stinker...

Tonight, Clif and I asked C what he would like to name the baby.  He promptly replied, "Monster". I could not quit laughing:)

Right now at 28 months old, one of his favorite games is "Ready, Set, GO!"  And then, he wants you to race him.  But regardless of whoever is ahead when he decides the race is over, he always proudly pronounces " I win!"

Thanksgiving and an Announcement!

This year, we traveled out to West Texas for Thanksgiving and hung out with my whole family.  My parents brought this piano down for us to have at our house but Cameron had lots of fun playing with Great-Grandma Vogler before it left Lamesa...

Also on this particular evening Clif and I were going to announce to our family that Baby Oberle #2 is on its way!  I stole the idea from my friend Erin on how to tell them.  Basically we took a before picture where we said "Cheese!"....see below...

Now, "We're Pregnant!!"

I love my mom's face!  I think Dad was asking someone "What did she say??" haha  Great idea, thanks Erin!  Baby Oberle #2 is due July 11th and we are all very excited!  

On Thanksgiving Day, we hung around at Grandma Vogler's house but I don't have any pictures!  The next day, we went to Lubbock to have Thanksgiving with the Thornton side.  After dinner, the cousins went with the kids to The Polar Express Train.  Cameron enjoyed everything at first, but it soon became overwhelming and he told my mom, "Ready to go to Daddy's truck!"

In PJs ready to go!

Cousin Wesley! 

 Wesley, Logan and George the Cat

Ready to Board! 

All of us!

"Let's go home Mommy!"  

Good times in West Texas!

What we've been up to..

So I just wanted to get some pics up here so I would remember everything!  This past Halloween Cameron was a DINO! (RARRRRR he would say)

We went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood with the Albrights and all had a great time!

On a free Saturday we went to Dewberry farms.  This place has a little petting zoo area, tons of things for the kids to play on and a pumpkin patch.  We played on the fun things but didn't venture out into the pumpkin patch this year.  Since we have had very little rain this past fall, we heard the pumpkins were "transplanted" (from the grocery store if you get my drift) into the pumpkin patch.

 Boy does this kid love tractors...

 This slide was lots of fun...for Cameron.  It was really difficult to get on with him without sliding down it while trying to sit down...

We had a great time this past fall with some fun adventures:)

2 Years!

I cannot believe this little guy is 2 years old.  I used to hear moms saying things like "they grow up so fast" etc.  But I find myself getting sad, when I think that one day this little guy MIGHT move out...of course he is welcome to live with Mommy for the rest of his life as far as I'm concerned:)  ( I know, I know...I won't be singing the same tune when he's a teenager:)

Clif and I were talking and we both think that Cameron is at such a fun age!  He cracks me up constantly.  He will repeat anything you say and he is also becoming a little bit easier to reason with.  For instance, consider this conversation while we were driving in the car.

Cameron:  "Mommy, cat?" ( wanting to see the cat app on my iphone)

Me: "How about we look at the cat when we get to the house?"

Cameron: "OK!!" (smiling from ear to ear in the backseat)

....2 seconds later

Cameron: "Mommy, cat?" 

Me: "When we get to the house OK?"

Cameron: "House!! OK!!"

It was that easy!! Of course, most things are not this easy...like nap time, or not being able to play with his trains...but I love that he is beginning to understand a FEW things..

Happy happy birthday little wild man!!

It's Fall!

I love fall! It is probably my favorite season!  The ridiculously hot weather eases, pumpkin flavors abound and football is everywhere.  I was browsing around pinterest for fall ideas and came across this luminary idea..

So...I decided to give it a try...here is the finished product on my mantle

I think it turned out great!  However, I thought this would be a super easy project.  Hot glue did not work against the glass so I went to Hobby Lobby and bought glass adhesive which worked much better.

I'm loving my fall-ish mantle!

Children's Museum!

Well in keeping with the theme of what I post about most, here's another post about the Monkey!  We went to the Children's Museum on Wednesday with 2 of my friends and their boys.  They have a toddler area and Cameron had a blast!  He was not ready to leave to say the least...

Very interested in the Dinos..

Something about this blue truck; he was practically shoving other kids out of it so he could climb in!

Lite Brite!

One of the pictures of him actually looking at the camera...though not a great one

"Mom, please stop asking me to look at the camera...I'm busy breaking up this tea party with my truck":)

He had such a great time, and we are ready to go again.  It is a bit far from home so we have to make a morning of it.  We're just winding down the summer here, I'm ready for a bit cooler weather and some rain.  I'm  ready to watch it rain while it is cool outside and drink a big mug of coffee...mmm.....

Surprise!

Yesterday, Cameron was at his Mimi and Pappy's while I was working.  She got out some paint to watercolor with and Cameron pointed at the blue color and said "bue!" (blue), and then "geen!" and "onge!"(orange), "back!" (black) and "ye-ow" (yellow).  We were shocked!  We have never heard him say any of his colors.  Then on the way to the restaurant last night Cameron pointed up and said, "sky, bue!"  What?!?!
I guess this kid is listening to us.  This made me curious, so last night we read Brown Bear Brown Bear.  We read this book a lot, so I figured I was going to test him on the last page where all of the characters are on the page.  I asked him where each character was (bird, duck, horse, teacher etc.) all in different orders and he pointed to the correct one each time!! Wow!!
I know it is simple, but I was so impressed!!  Way to go buddy!:)