Water balloons, dress-up and praying

H-O-T!!! That is how it feels around here! We can hardly make it outside during the day unless it involves some sort of water activity to keep us cool. I even attempted to take Camdyn walking during the day and right when we got to the mailbox she put her hand to her head (dramatic!) and made a sigh and said "mommy, too hot" and then headed back to the door. So we make sure to go on our family walks at night when it is a bit cooler. Which brings me to our water balloon war with her daddy! I bought a large pack a while back and we filled them up and targeted Dustin. He then thought it would be funny to target me...great. All in all we had a lot of fun and we will be getting to an additional war very soon.

Get him Camdyn, get him!

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For a while now, Camdyn has loved playing dress up...she has her little basket full of accessories in the playroom that she loves to dig through. Here are a few of her "looks" --and this is ALL of what she picks out and puts on!

And this one was from when Dustin took the front door off to fix and she ran out of the house like this----no worries, the neighbors all know her very well so this is probably not unusual for them to see her like this :)

I just know this is going to be her favorite center at pre-school in a few weeks!

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Prayer-I am a huge believer in prayer...it can change everything. Dustin taught Camdyn how to pray forever ago and I absolutely love to listen in on them in the mornings while Dustin is getting dressed. Camdyn now asks a lot if she can pray. It's precious hearing those words come out of her mouth at such a young age. Her prayers are adorable and they always start out like this..."Dear Jejus, tank you for Nanny, Poppy, Gigi, G-Dad, Mommy, Daddy, Taytee, Issa, Macey, HayeeKentall," and the list continues. This little girl just makes my heart smile.

A few weeks ago I asked her what she wanted to do today and she said "pray" and then did this.
and then had to snicker a little bit because she knew I was taking her picture!

This just makes me laugh because it is evident that she is taking after Dustin...little organizer

and C still likes to keep Bozley company while he eats but now she wears sunglasses :)

**It has taken me about a week to finish this posting so I'm hoping to post more soon about Camdyn's first week at Mrs. Tracy's! We have had a FABULOUS week and Camdyn is back in her routine and ready to start pre-school in a couple of weeks! We have "Meet the Teacher Night" at the first of September (I cannot believe I am even saying those words!)

Good night!

Capturing Summer

I absolutely love capturing "action" pictures of Camdyn to look back on (and of course all of the posed ones with her precious grin.) Sneaking out the camera when she doesn't know it = great pictures! Last week I sent her "first year of life" blog book off to get printed and I am ecstatic about getting it back! Here are pictures from the last couple of weeks of C's love for life!

Sweet little girl ready for Sunday school! Her favorite friends right now in class that she talks about are Chloe, Zoe, Michael (I know everyone in the family is laughing about that one right now as they read this!) and of course Macey.

Dustin kept the girls one night so us sisters could go to dinner and shopping. He is a great babysitter!

Dustin gets up with Camdyn in the mornings and lets me sleep :) and she always begs him to make waffles!

Can't wait to edit these!!

This is what happens when you miss your naps during the day...
You fall asleep eating your dinner!! This is so not like her either!

Camdyn helped me make a puppy one day and she carried him around everywhere

Loves finger painting Always trying to get me to put a ton of clips in her hair

And the next two are pictures I found her doing around the house :)

Yep...measuring the dog

Happy Sunday!

Circus-Zing, Zang, Zoom!!!

This past Friday we headed to the circus! It's so much fun to do these things with Camdyn and to watch her light up when she sees something new. The animals were definitely her favorite. We "talked up" the circus to her a few days before and she was super excited when the day finally arrived. Sweet girl is still asking to go to the circus as of today. Her favorites were indeed the elephants, zebras, dogs, horses and the tigers. (hmmm...every animal there) She asked the entire 2 1/2 hours we were there when the tigers were going to come out :). We arrived about 45 minutes before it started to look at the clowns, acrobats and an elephant up close! We can't wait to go back next year!!

Doesn't her outfit look just perfect for the circus!!?? (Clown-esque!!)

Poor Dustin...always packed down with a hundred items-

Ready for the show!!

They had the audience stand up and dance and don't think that she was not going to stand up and dance!!!

(Not a yawn but her "surprised" face!)

*Thanks Alyssa for the much better pictures than what I took!

Most of the pictures I took were of the elephants...they were the cutest things ever! Seriously...they are so mild mannered and I wish our house was big enough to own one of our own. Look what they trained them to do!!!

Sit up...

Do handstands...

Roll over...

Eat acrobats (ha!! only kidding but I'm sure Camdyn thought that!)

I thought this was amazing! They got up there fairly quickly too.

C also picked out this cute stuffed elephant to sleep with at night :)

Huggies

Such a great time!!