Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday to my Love.

Ocean Eyes

No. I am not talking about the Owl City Album by the same name.

If I were, I'd say that Owl City - Ocean Eyes it awesome...and that is coming from a down home country girl.

The ocean eyes that I am referring to are Cameron's.

Don't you just get lost in them?

Madison "Hannah Montana" Lee

So - my kid is a little late in getting on the Hannah Montana bandwagon. She is on it just the same.

She LOVES Hannah. In fact, most nights the tv is on the Disney Channel, playing episode after episode of Hannah Montana while we play with the kids. We throw in a little Wizards of Waverly Place for good measure. (Selena Gomez is such a cute, sweet girl - love her!)

I actually like Hannah - but the Disney grown over-acting drives me insane. And that Moises Arias kid, A.N.N.O.Y.I.N.G. There is no other word to describe that.

Moving on.

Hannah, err...Madison, loves to sing and dance.

Mommy's tripod makes a great microphone stand.


Her stage is in front of the three way mirror just for fun.

We enjoy concerts nearly every night.

We will be releasing tour dates and cities in the coming weeks.

Tiny Dancer

Madison:  Mamma!  Look at me!  I'm balleting! I never knew that ballet could also be a verb.  I even checked dictionary.com - just to make sure it was still a noun.  Yep - it still is. It's still kind of cute as a verb.  After watching how much Madison enjoys dancing balleting around the house, we decided to enroll her in a class.  Enter community education dance classes.  The registration said that comfy gym clothes and tennis shoes were acceptable attire.  Madison asked for ballet clothes and I said she didn't need them. She happily accepts that and we head off to her first class where I discover my complete and total failure as a mother.  It turns out the registration book lied and it is entirely not acceptable to be the only little girl not wearing a full leotard and tutu.  Especially if that little girl is your little girl and you see the look of disappointment on her face as she asks why all the other kids get to wear their ballet clothes.  Fail.  Needless to say, we went out and bought ballet clothes.  Then we took all kinds of video of her showing us her balleting.

Like Father.....

Like son. 

Cameron LOVES to play with the remote controls.  It must be a man thing, right? 

Or not.

Madison loved to play with the remote controls too.  In fact, her grandparents bought her a universal remote just to play with.  She kept hiding the real ones.  Thankfully, she has outgrown her obsession with hiding it.  That's probably because there would not be any Playhouse Disney if we couldn't find the remote. 

Cameron doesn't hide the remotes, he likes to throw them on the tile floors.  The batteries usually go flying and then he has fun trying to find them. 

Except that I worry he will either swallow one of those nifty AA sized batteries or he will break the remote as it bounces off the floor. 

I wonder what happened to that battery-less universal remote of Madison's?  We might need it to replace the ones Cameron is sure to break soon!

I shall call this one....

Blackmail.

"lil buckaroo

The mother of my childhood friend, Pam, would yell Annie Oakley! if she sees this picture.  I've said before that I am not fond of horses.  We don't get along and it stems from a very scarring incident involving a pony and a cute boy at a church fall festival.  I think I was in fifth grade. 

I still don't know how I earned the title of Annie Oakley - because I'm pretty sure my namesake was a drunken sharp shooter.  If you ever watched HBO's series, Deadwood, you'll know that she somehow managed to stay on her horse. 

I digress.

This is my 'Lil Buckaroo riding his pony.  Cameron, unlike his Mamma, has a good relationship with his pony. In fact, he loves the pony that Santa brought him.

We weren't sure that he did at first.  You see, he was about a half inch too short to effectively ride his little pony.  However, the one month since Christmas has brought a little more height and the ability to ride like the wind! 

Cameron can really get this thing going! 

It plays music as he bounces and his smile lights up the room.

It can also be hooked up to the TV to play games.  We'll do that when he is ready for it.  For now, we're just enjoying watching him ride.

Giddyup!