Keane

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Keane Eli or Keano as we like to call him is 16 months old and a package wrapped up with smiles and stubborness. We have entered into the phase of, "Mom don't you dare put me down, or I will throw myself onto the floor and scream as loud as I can." Yes that stage as all you moms who have been there can sympathize with me here. Keano, my third son, has definitely been my most stubborn child. If I'm just looking at him out of no where he will just raise his hand up and smack me in the face and then laugh about it. I guess my big "OWWWWW" reaction must seem real funny to him. Followed along with a "NO Keano that is not nice", followed along with another wack by Keano. Scott always looks at me and says "you're 24 and he's 16 months"..haha like I can win this battle. So I set him down on the floor and fits of rage enter Keane as he dramatically collapes on the floor and screams. And then my heart breaks for him and I scoop him up in my arms and pat his little tush and lovingly say in a motherly voice "it's ooooooookay Keano, mama's here." I love his little mind. He is constantly on the move from one thing to the next and I would love to know what goes through his little head on a day to day basis. He's constantly watching Kaid and Keegan play and often tries to squeeze himself into whatever they are doing. Which often results in two boys yelling, "NO KEANO YOU'RE KNOCKING IT DOWN!" or "NO KEANO THATS MINE!" So yes I do think Keane has reason to be so stubborn and tough. He does have to stick up for himself in this pile of boys. Keane's name meaning is Commander. And that he is.

It's OFFICIAL!!!!

Our application was approved and we are officially in the Ethiopia program with our agency Children's Hope International!!! This was such exciting news for me to hear. I can seriously compare it to taking a pregnancy test and seeing the positive sign come up telling you that your pregnant. Yes...I'm an expectant mother in the early weeks of a "paper pregnancy". It's been my easiest "pregnancy" yet as I have no morning sickness and I won't be hanging over a toilet seat for the next three months! It does bring anxiety and long hours of paperwork and digging into my past and totally exposing my whole life to a social worker (a complete stranger). Which I would totally trade any day over morning sickness:)
Ah yes my three handsome boys all gave this mommy severe morning sickness and nausea...and they were so totally worth it! Keegan humored Scott and I tonight as he was cooking dinner and we were all hanging out in the kitchen. Our kitty cat Ukee is going to get neutered at the vet next week and I was sitting on the floor with Keegan in my lap and Ukee came up to be pet and I said, "Ukee you are going to get fixed." And Keegan said as cute and serious as can be in his little three year old voice, "Mookie broken?"....."Mookie broken mommy?"...that just made me smile and then I had to go into explaining that Ukee wasn't broken but that he had to go to the vet and ya well ya know...try explaining that to a three year old!! Well that is all I got tonight folks...it is late and I'm off to bed! I will leave you with a cute pic of Keegan and Kaiden and their snowman that they made.





I love this picture! All three boys plus the dog staring outside at the snow..it's too cold out there!

Wow! So I just checked and I haven't posted since our wedding anniversary. Things have been crazy here at the Cameron household. We went to Michigan for Christmas to be with family and friends and had such a good time! Then New Years came and went and we are in 2011! We are starting out the year with the start of our "paper chase" to bring home our 4th child, a son or daughter, from Ethiopia. We are so very excited about this and are in the midst of paperwork and more paperwork! We thank everybody who has supported us in our decision to adopt. This is not something we are going into lightly. After much research and prayer for the past couple of years we are doing exactly what God has called our family to be doing at this time. In order to bring our son or daughter home we will need the funds to make that happen. We have faith that God WILL provide as He obviously brought us to this point. We will do whatever it takes to bring Baby K home. We will be applying for adoption grants and fundraising. We will be having a big fundraiser event at our church with another family, amazing friends of ours, The Dawkin's family, who are bringing a daughter home from Ethiopia. There will be music and a silent auction and testimonies of why we are doing what we are doing and a chance to learn about the culture and people of Ethiopia. I will post in a few weeks once we have the date set in stone, but it will be in April. I will also be selling hand totes that I have made and will post about that in a couple of days when I can get some pictures up. We are very excited and we look forward to sharing our adoption journey with you on our blog! Your support in prayers is very much appreciated!

December 4th, 2004

6 years ago today, on December 4th, 2005, I was wed to the love of my life, Michael Scott Cameron Jr. It was the best decision I could have ever made in my life. My husband is my best friend and an amazing father to our children. I got lucky...he is a romantic. Through out the years on our anniversaries he goes to great lengths to plan in depth and detail these amazing date nights. One time he rented out a local skating rink at night and he took me dancing there to music..just the two of us. Another time it was to see a Christmas symphony orchestra and take a romantic walk. I love that he does this but before hand he will sneak around and plan things for days and it drives me crazy trying to figure out what in the world is going on. Well he started doing all this sneaking around and planning a couple of days ago. All I knew was that at 5:00pm our friends Ted and Holly were going to watch our boys for us so we could go on a date night (which is very very rare). He was still leaving and arranging things when I woke up this morning. When he got home with the boys around 9:00am he made bacon, eggs, and toast. A wonderful breakfest to start the celebration of our 6 year anniversary. And then it happened. The first of many, Keegan our 3 year old (sorry for the graphic detail) spewed his eggs all over the kitchen table. Scott and I just looked at eachother thinking "okay maybe he gagged"..because Keegan sometimes tends to gag on food and spit it up. Then we heard the dreaded words "my tummy hurts." We overlooked it not thinking Keegan was feeling that bad because at this point he was still running around the house playing with Kaid. Scott told us the first festivity of the day. We would be going to Wassil Day! He then explained to us what in the world Wassil Day even was. It is a Christmas celebration at Cold Spring Village, which is a village remake of the 1800's era, and that they would have St. Nicholas there. Now we don't do Santa at our house. We really want to keep the focus on Christmas being about Jesus birth and that He was the greatest gift of all. Since Kaid has been going to preschool and watching Christmas movies he keeps asking who and what santa and rudolph are all about. We explained to him St. Nicholas or Santa was a man that lived long ago who did nice things for children in his town that didn't have any presents. That he made the children presents and took them to them. So Scott wanted to celebrate the first part of our anniversary with our kids, by taking Kaid and Keegan to see who this St. Nicholas was all about and hear him tell stories about helping the kids long ago. So the boys were all excited and Scott was getting the car ready. And then together in unison both Keegan AND Kaiden started gagging and throwing up on the kitchen floor. I stood in shock for a second not knowing which one to help first..so panicking I banged on the window for scott to come inside and then I grabbed towels and wipes and started cleaning up my sick little boys. Into pajamas they went and on the couch with a movie with throw up buckets by their side. Many many times throughout the day those buckets were used. Scott told me of his plans he had for our date later that night..which sounded amazing. Instead we stayed home with our stomach flu sick boys, instead we had take out subs for dinner. And I saw the beauty in it all. This is what it means to be married for 6 years. To be with the ones you love no matter what the cicumstances. When things don't always turn out right. To love and care for eachother when we are sick. I loved today..December 4, 2010. I wouldn't have changed it for the world. I do think we will look back and have a good laugh about how Scott planned so hard and long to pull of our 6 year anniversary and how it really turned out! And most of all I just really want to say, I love Scott Cameron, end of story.
PS. It's 12:00 am and NOW Scott has the stomach flu! not fun at all!

Project Hopefull

There is this amazing organization called project hopefull that advocates for orphaned children who are HIV+. They created this awesome video to inform people about the diffrences between HIV and Aids.

Because people need to know

I grabbed this video from my mother in law, Faith's blog....it is awesome and everyone should watch it. They are in the process of adopting a little boy from Liberia. This video is for Gborlee.

Happy Thanksgiving! There are so many things our family are thankful for today and everyday. Most of all we are thankful that we got to spend thanksgiving with my husband Scott. Even though he was working at the firehouse today we and the other wives and kiddos got to join our husbands for an amzing thanksgiving feast at the firehouse.