Cameron's Adventures

Today is my due date. But so far nothing to report. I am still up and about just waiting. I do have a good book to keep me company and so I am waiting patiently for when the baby is ready to come out and meet us.

Yesterday Rory and I went to Costco for grocery shopping. We ended up buying a lot of fruits from papaya, to pineapple, oranges and apples. Then we went to Babies R’Us where we found a crib and changing table.

Last night Rory assembled them and I washed the covers and made the bed. The bed and changing table are set now. The room still needs more decorations and the cloths need to be better organized, but that will happen slowly as I’m not in a hurry. The first few months we are actually going to have the baby with us in the bedroom. For that, I bought a bassinet. This too is ready for the baby.

So we’ve nested pretty nicely. The only question now is when will the baby come. Looking by the size of the bump, I’d says I’m pretty ready.

I do want to show some awesome onsies that I got from work on Friday. The people I work with are amazing and it’s going to be hard to not be there for a few months.

     
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Last Sunday, our neighbor made origami for our soon to arrive baby. She spent all afternoon working on them and they turned out amazing. We are really fortunate to live among such great neighbors.

Last weekend, Rory, Teika and I went to Cle Elum one last time before the baby arrives. It was a nice, quiet trip. On Saturday, we drove to Ellensburg to see a cowboy rodeo. Though we didn’t stay to see the bull riding, it was interesting to observe how they get the bulls ready for riding. Here are a few pictures and video from the event.

Then on Saturday evening, the sunset was very pretty over the mountains with snow:

A great weekend yet again in Cle Elum!

Four weeks ago, Rory and I had a wonderful 1 hour photos session with photographer Kristen Honeycutt. Today, I just received the photos and they are wonderful. Here are a few of my favorites.

With only 3 weeks to go, we are awaiting the arrival of our little baby. I’m sure Teika will be taking great care of our little one and will make sure everything is in order and safe. We can’t wait to meet the little one.

Yesterday, Sunday January 24th I had my baby shower. My three great friends, Laurie, Amy and Bianca did a fabulous job on organizing and taking care of everything for the shower from invitations, contacting people, cooking and providing a great place for the event.

There were many girls that showed up at the shower and I am very lucky to have such wonderful friends and I’m deeply honored for their generosity. Here are some photos from the event.

The three Cs: Carol, Crystal and Courtney. They are my mother-in-law and sisters-in-law accordingly:

Betsy and I are both pregnant. Betsy is due in 2 weeks. I still have 6 weeks.

Thank you all for a great baby shower. Just 6 more weeks before the baby comes…

On Saturday afternoon, we had our friends Andy, Wendy and little Vienna Goodwin visit us. It was the first time that we had a little baby stay with us and the experience was great. Wendy is a great mother and little Vienna was mostly a happy baby. Of course she did not want to go to sleep when it was time to go and instead stayed up with us until 10:30pm. Here are some photos of beautiful Vienna.

Wendy and Andy, congratulations on your beautiful little baby girl!

Over the past week and today, Rory worked really hard to finish the trim, install the doors for the bedrooms and the sliding doors for the closet. Everything is shaping up nicely. I will still have to paint the trim and the doors but we’ve got basement bedrooms!

Bedroom to the left:

Bedroom to the right:

Today in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. I came home to find Rory had done most of the trim for the two basement rooms we are trying to finish. He also ordered the doors which will come on Wednesday. Now that’s one hard working husband!

Yippee, the rooms are starting to look great!

Last night, Rory partook in a bicycle ride event that involved hooking up your Christmas tree to the bicycle and riding to Golden Gardens for a bon fire event. Quite a few people took part in this yearly tradition and this year Rory was one of them. On Thursday night, he worked on engineering a solution to carry our 8 foot Christmas tree on the back of his bike. The solution involved him drilling a whole into the tree and attaching a third wheel.

He then rode with Alex and Andrew, stopping in some places.

Here’s a video of their crazy but fun ride.

Until finally they reached the bon fire event.

Rory took all of these shots and one of the most surreal and interesting pictures is the one below. The woman being silhouetted is almost looking at the camera while all the other people are oblivious of the shot being taken. At the same time the sky above is glowing and the fire is dancing behind her.

Another great shot is below showing the skeleton of the tree as it is burning. It is almost a painful picture to look at.

Tonight we finished wrapping all the presents and had a nice quiet Christmas Eve.

  
Ho, ho, ho… Merry Christmas.