Vacation Highlights: Cameron

During Matthew's birthday party, Cameron spent most of his time in the basement playing and watching others play with the Nintendo Wii. He and Alex enthusiastically cheered each other on.Cameron's favorite part of our vacation on the west coast of MI was Lake Michigan. He was awed by its size and the sandy beaches. On the beach, Cameron braved the chilly water briefly but spent most of his time building elaborate sand structures including a really cool tunnel (with some help from Daddy).
Cameron also buried his feet in the sand, posed for this photo, then discovered that he could not extract his feet and began screaming for help. At the cottage, we spent nearly every evening in the yard -- grilling, roasting marshmallows or, best of all, playing a game created just by Cameron. It's called "Bulls and Unicorns." "OK, me and Daddy are the Bulls and we go like this. Places hands on forehead like horns and makes a snorting sound. And Mommy, you and Matthew are the Unicorns."

To which I reply, "OK, so we go like this." Placing an outstretched finger on forehead like a horn and whinnying.

"Right. Now, listen everybody. The Bulls try to hit the Unicorns with this ball. And Unicorns, you try to hit us with the ball."

It was great.

We also discovered that Cameron, like his father, has a penchant for gag photos. Here he is in his "old fashioned Crocs."
And while eating lunch at The Good Earth, he had us all in hysterics -- especially his baby brother who thought this was the funniest thing he had ever seen.

At the park, he posed for this photo "in jail." "Let's send it to Grandpa Frank and we'll say that I got put in jail!" he suggested. "Wait. Maybe instead we should say, 'This is Cameron at the park. He's pretending he's in jail.' Because we don't want Grandpa to get too scared that I'm really in jail!"Cameron was really well-behaved the whole trip, aside from a meltdown when he really, REALLY didn't want to go to Windmill Island. He was so awful that he lost his beloved Smurfs DVD for two days. When we finally went to Windmill Island, lo and behold, he discovered that it was tons of fun. Huh! Who would've guessed?

Also on this trip, Cameron developed a passion for photography. He seems to be a natural. Who's this a photo of, you ask? No idea.