Goodbye to Summer

While Kamdyn and I enjoy our last week together for this summer, I am both sad and happy. I am sad that I won't get to see her all-day-everyday and witness each new word and accomplishment. Instead, I will be hearing much of these accomplishments second-hand. But, I am happy and blessed to be able to spend so much time with her each summer (thank you, Richard). I love working, don't get me wrong, and I'm not sure that my "calling" is being a stay-at-home Mom; however, I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with Kamdyn this summer.

Instead of spending all of my time with my own baby, I will be spending much of my day "raising" children who come from various family structures. While I feel blessed to be a part of the lives of these children, whom I truly believe need me, I do feel a little sad that I will be missing so much of my own child's day-to-day life. Thank God for Georgia! I know that Kamdyn is loved beyond words by Georgia and her family and we are so very lucky to have them in our lives. Even still, I can't help but be a little sad. So, pray for Kamdyn and me as we adjust to being without each other in the next couple of weeks. I'm sure she will be fine and will have no problem waving "bye bye" to me each morning as I drop her off at Georgia's, nor will she have a problem refusing to leave Georgia's when I pick her up each afternoon. As for Mommy, a few tears may fall, but thank God for all of the many blessings in my life! I have absolutely nothing to complain about.....not even my job!!!

I Help, Mommy!

Kamdyn frequently helps us put dirty clothes in the clothes hamper. While this is great, it's not so great when I get ready to do laundry. I separate our clothes on our bedroom floor by color. As quickly as I take them out of the clothes hamper to seperate them, Kamdyn desperately tries to put them back saying, "basket" and "I help" all the while. I guess she thinks it's a game! I try to make her understand that it's okay for them to be out of the hamper at certain times, but it's just not computing yet. Here is Mommy's little helper working away as I run off to put one load in the washing machine. This is what I find her doing when I come back!

Shake Your Bootie

I Ready!

I gave Kamdyn one of my old "purses," as Kamdyn calls them. She loves to put one of my old cell phones and her keys inside her purse, zip it up, walk to the door and say, "I ready! Bye bye!" She loves to go, go, go just as much as I do. Daddy is going to be in trouble when Kamdyn is old enough to want to go shopping!!





Here she is trying to put the keys in the door, too! I love sneaking up on her to document all of these new "baby tricks!"

Let's Go to the Park

Since the weather was somewhat nice today, 85 and low humidity, I decided to stroll Kamdyn up to our neighborhood park. She likes to swing and says "SWING" while you are pushing her. When she gets tired of the swing, she likes to walk around. She especially likes to walk back and forth over the "bridge". She did this most of the time we were there. She wanted to slide, but didn't like the fact that the slide was a little hot even though it was in the shade. She decided to climb up the slide instead, but didn't like this either. After spending some time at the park, she pointed to her stroller and said "stroller". That was our cue to go! How nice it is for her to be able to tell me what she wants!!!

Unfortunately, our full time Mommy and Kamdyn days are coming to an end. I only have 2 weeks before I have to go back to work. YUCK!

Brushing Teeth

After sitting on the counter almost everyday and watching me brush my teeth, I decided that it was time for Kamdyn to start brushing her own teeth. Since it has taken her so long to actually get teeth, this was previously not an issue. However, now it seems as if she has a new tooth everyday. When I brush my teeth she copies me by pretending that she is spitting. Now that she has her own toothbrush, she loves to brush her own teeth. She takes the toothbrush out of the holder, she can hold it under the water, brush her own teeth, and then put the toothbrush back in the holder. She can also say "brush teeth." Here she is showing off her new skill!

UNCLE

We spent the weekend at the Black River with friends. NaNa and Pop Pop came down to North Augusta to keep Kamdyn for us (much thanks)! Uncle Matthew and Holly drove down from Atlanta to ride with us. This is Kamdyn reading with Uncle Matthew before he and Holly went back to Atlanta.

We have been practicing diligently with Kamdyn to try to get her to say Uncle Matthew. After lots of hard work we finally have her saying "Uncle." For now we have given up on saying Matthew. Kamdyn was so cute when she saw "Uncle" and Holly. She immediately said, "Hi, Holly!" Then, she said, "Uncle" and she pointed to Matthew. We were so proud of her that we all started clapping for her and saying "Yay!" After the display of approval she can't stop saying "Uncle" and "Hi, Uncle!" Be careful what you ask for, right??? :)

Aiken Foxhounds Game

Saturday evening Richard's work had a little company outing at the Aiken Foxhound baseball game. This is a semipro team in Aiken and they play at USC Aiken's field. His company provided GSK families a BBQ Buffet, tickets to the game, and they also had door prizes. We decided to be brave and take Kamdyn with us even though we knew it was going to severely cut in to her bedtime. She, as always, surprised us! She did great! She kept her eye on the Foxhound mascot. She continuously said "dog" as if she wanted him to come over to her. However, as soon as he came near her she would start to cry. He would go away and she would say "dog" over and over again. Go figure! As they were singing the Star Spangled Banner before the game started, she was entertaining everyone in our section by singing her own rendition of the National Anthem! Who knew that she already knew the National Anthem? :)

Also, Richard, who never wins anything at these company events, won a DVD surround sound system. Good thing we decided to go! Overall, it was a good family outing!

Here are a few pictures of Kamdyn "watching" the game. She would say "hit" when they would hit the ball and, believe it or not, she was somewhat watching the game. Richard and I were so amazed at how well she did! Maybe we'll be able to take her on a few more of our adventures now that we know she can behave! :)