Thursday, November 19, 2015

Cameron's big boy haircut

Last night, my little boy got his first official haircut. Mom gave him a trim about 6 months ago but today was the BIG BOY haircut. He no longer looks like my baby.

We had to start out with suckers...he was so happy to be high up on the chair.

Then she started cutting/trimming. She used a trimmers to take most of it off. Val said he was the best "1st haircut" she ever gave. He just sat there, as long as the candy kept coming.

 

Val letting Cameron feel the clippers so he wouldn't freak out, it was so cute!

As I'm taking a picture, he's saying "cheeeeseee" to Val.

And off it comes. And Cooper digging in the candy bowl!

All the hair on top of his head!

And a little "Lane" curl, as I call it. She did this and instantly thought of my nephew Lane. LOL

Finishing up!!

And because Cooper wanted his picture taken too....and mommy!

And one last sucker because he was such a good boy! I didn't get a full shot but you can tell here how much she took off, now his little chubby cheeks are chubbier and I'm in love!

Val kept some (lots) of Cameron's hair for me to add to his baby book, now if I can remember to take it out of my purse and put in his baby book.

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Halloween 2015

Was it just me, or did Halloween last the WHOLE month of October?? I like Halloween but wow, there was a lot going on. And as Cooper would say..."another Halloween" in a really high, squeaky pitched voice. It was the cutest thing ever! I think I needed a couple costumes for this years festivities.

Here is what we did ALL month long!!

First up Halloween at Whitetail Bluff!! This is always so much fun, this year the Borgerdings were able to join us along with Landyn, Tom's cousin's boy. All the campers pass out candy, needless to say we have tons of candy! This is always the last weekend in September and the first weekend in October, there are always two of them. We didn't make the first one but was able to make it to the second. I heard the first one was a lot crazier as the weather was nicer, but it turned out to be a beautiful day anyway.







My new wreath that my mother-in-law made. I'm in love!

Next up...ABC Learning Halloween party! This is held at the kids' daycare every year, it's a blast. Everyone dresses up and the kids have so much fun.
Cameron playing in the corn!

Thomas the train

This is what we get every time the hood comes up! Poor penguin!

Playing robots with daddy.


Cheese!

Day off with mommy! haircut in his cute shirt from Aunt Stephanie!!

Halloween parade!! Cooper and Cameron both loved it, this is one of my favorite parades. Cameron would start dancing in his stroller every time a band would go by or music playing. Again, lots of candy!

Trick-or-treat at Loras College. Some of the dorms had students handing out candy so we met up with Gordon, Lorlie, Gavin and Wyatt!

Again, doesn't like being a penguin!

But is happy as a lark when it's not on and sitting up in the front seat with mommy! Can you see it's raining out, so we were waiting for the others before getting out.

Big sissy came with!

Cookie Monster and Thomas getting more candy!

These two are buds!! Did you hear Gavin is going to be starting at ABC Learning?? Cooper is super excited!

My little penguin insisted on holding his own treat bag. I think that thing was heavier than him!

Practicing our Halloween set at Jazzercise. Cooper loved trying on these masks! 
Roar....

This was how he fell asleep after our Jazzercise Hallowen set, he was tuckered out and covered himself up, turned on my clock radio and was watching Monsters Inc. and fell asleep.

Finally trick-or-treat night!! First stop was at Great Grandma and Grandpa Barretts, I didn't get a picture there but they got lots of suckers!

Next stop Grandma and Grandpa Hillebrands...my penguin was high on sugar!

Walking the neighborhood

Cooper having a blast! He wanted to go to every house that had a light on!

We had to make a special stop to Great Aunt Sandy's as well, she's on our way up to mom's so it worked out great!

Trick-or-treat Bacca....


After trick-or-treating it was time for homemade pizza and jammies! Speaking of jammies, I found all Cooper's old jammies that Cameron could now wear after I was putting all the Halloween decor away...maybe next year or 2 for the new baby! UGH...

October was a busy busy month, but so many fun memories made. Now onto the next holiday...Thanksgiving! This year, we're hosting it on the Hillebrand side and having our reveal party! Can't wait to find out what we're having. Think Pink!

Monday, October 12, 2015

Firetrucks, Trolleys and Boats

Oh my!! What a busy last couple of weeks we had...

Last weekend, or maybe 2 weekends ago, Cooper and I went to an open house at a local Fire Station. All the fire stations around had their doors open for anyone who wanted to come and visit. Cameron was napping so I decided to take Cooper.

He loves Fire Trucks, Ambulances and Police Cars. When you ask what a Fire Truck says, he screams like the sirens are going off, it's too funny!

He climbed up the big Fire Truck all my himself


Driving!! He loved this seat!

And he even got to spray the fire house, he thought this was pretty cool and got to do it a couple of times.


And we couldn't leave without going in the Fire Truck again!


Trolleys!!

Saturdays, in Dubuque, the city offers free trolley rides, thanks to mom for checking on this. Cooper loves riding just about anything and one of his favorite shows right now is Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Well, Daniel rides a trolley to wherever they go and we thought this would be perfect. So Saturday afternoon we went to a bus stop to wait for the trolley. We thought we missed but low and behold it came, 10 minutes late! It was a lot of fun, for someone touring DBQ it's perfect. The driver was talking about the history of Dubuque, however we were the only ones on for awhile and we told him to could save his breathe because we're from here and just along for the ride. It was funny! Then he picked up some Wisconsin peeps so he got to carry on with the history of DBQ.

But for the Trolley ride, I think Cooper really liked it. Cameron, he fell asleep because it was around his nap time, but for the most part he liked it as well. Cooper said after about 45 minutes he wanted to get off. It was about an hour ride.


He found a new seat where he could "hang on".


And then there were boats!!

Tom's dad has pontoon, we don't get to go out very often because we're usually camping when they go out on the river, but yesterday, Sunday, they took there last boat ride of the season. It was near 80 degrees yesterday and if you know Iowa weather, sometimes it's snowing by now. Not really, but it's hardly every 80 degrees mid-October.

It was a perfect day. Cameron got to drive the boat but I didn't get a picture...bad mom! This was our first and last ride of the season. As for camping, we'll be closing up shop there probably next weekend.

So as you can see the boys love to "travel" Cooper loves anything that moves. We can't wait for the Polar Express come November!!!