Camden & Claire's World

Ahem... I hadn't realized it had been this long since I posted

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I didn't realize it was before Christmas that I last posted... time flies way too quickly. Camden starts kindergarten in the fall and Claire turns 3 at the end of June!

Aunt Mags took this of the girls at Farewell Bend Park on my birthday. She made the outfits, of course.

Straightened Camden's hair... and promptly realized how grown up she is getting.

Claire was dressing up like me. Because this is apparently how I look every day. Note my fabulous birthday shoes. :)

Christmas Dresses

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Snow!

2009-10-06T20:49:00.000-07:00

We had 7 surprise inches of snow when we woke up on Sunday morning. The girls were excited to play in it and picked out their own "snow outfits". Aram and I couldn't stop laughing, they looked like cartoon characters.

September

2009-09-11T15:29:00.001-07:00

The many sleeping positions of C-Bear.

Tea Party

Camden's Birthday

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Camden’s comments while opening her birthday gifts on 4th birthday:

"I am sure going to enjoy this"

"Wow, I really like this"

"It sure is a good job that you got me all these presents, Mommy."

Later that weekend:

Camden: Mommy, what is your whole name?

Me: Mollie Jayne Boyd

Camden: No, it’s Mollie Cleaner, Bed Washer, Sprayer, Vacuumer

Me (thinking to myself): Got that right!

Aram (snickering to himself)

~ ~ ~ ~

Camden (prim and proper): Claire, are you sorry yet that you made such a big mess?

Claire (emphatically): NO!!

~ ~ ~ ~

While playing her Dora Candy Land computer game (and Dora won again):

Camden: Mommy, Dora cheated again!! I’m so irritated at this!

~ ~ ~ ~

Camden telling Claire: You don’t speak Spanish

Claire: I know that!

Camden: Mommy, Claire said I know that to me

Me: Where do you think she learned that from?

Camden (after a long pause): Uh… me??

~ ~ ~ ~

Checking out the zucchini in the garden:

Camden: Holy COW!!! (I have no idea where she picked up that?)

Talking about a guy who fell off the roof while painting at her daycare:

Camden: He was freaking out! But, he walked right out of the hospital with only a bandage.

Told her to go feed the dogs:

Camden: Two dinners coming right up!!

August so far

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Claire always insists on wearing her sunglasses upside down... I'm sure you will soon see "the Claire-Bear look" everywhere.

Reading in our bed...

Cutest Bear in the world

I think they like eachother

Camden sneaks into any bed she can find (that isn't hers). Luckily for us it was Claire's turn...

Weekend

2009-07-27T20:36:00.000-07:00

Tiners and Scruncher after their bath

It's shame Camden has no personality... (with Papa Jer at the wedding this weekend)

Headed home...

July

2009-07-27T20:32:00.000-07:00

Camden's first "harvest"...

Claire's favorite thing to do... trust me, this buys alot of time when I need to get something done.

Random Cuteness

2009-07-06T15:36:00.000-07:00

Those eyes get me every time... I'm a sucker for them.

Yes, Claire is STILL toobie.

Helping Dad put up the flag on 4th of July...

Helping me make Aunt Mandi's famous Oatmeal and everything else cookies.

Addicted to the DVDV pway-wer.

Cam's first fishing trip

2009-07-06T15:28:00.001-07:00

Spooling her own reel (hopefully I got that phrase right!) (Hey, Mom... didn't I make that dress for Madalyne?? Cam calls it her "tu-yip dress" tulip dress)

Our Family

2009-07-06T15:07:00.000-07:00

We hadn't all had a picture taken together since Claire was about 5 months old... seemed overdue.

The Garden

2009-07-06T15:02:00.000-07:00

Nana & Papa Jer brought many vegetable starts with them for Aram and Camden to plant in their garden. Camden faithfully waters every night with her dad and runs out first thing to see how they are growing. She can tell you what eash one is also.

Claire Turned 2!

2009-07-06T14:43:00.001-07:00

Can't believe this little girl has already had her 2nd birthday! No joke that time flies.

What doing, Daddy?

Camden asking Papa Jer questions, 20 per minute at least, and he always patiently answers every one.

June

2009-06-20T15:37:00.000-07:00

Camden's best pirate impersonation

Claire-Bear

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Tour DE France has nothing on this!

Girls reading nicely while Mommy was sleeping. (Thanks, Daddy!!!)

Definitely a girl pistol water fight, they used towels between attacks.

Camden with Mommy's birthday purse from Karen (Grandma Parkie)...

Yooks yike...

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Aram (top left) & Camden (top right) at close to the same age;

Claire (bottom right) & me (bottom left) at close to the same age.

Aunt "Max" Mags visit for my bday

2009-04-19T22:38:00.000-07:00

Maggie suggested that we have a picnic at Peterson Rock Garden for my birthday (the 25th). We didn't remember until we got there that this was usually the spot I requested to have a picnic lunch with the family on my birthday every year. I'm know Mom has alot of pictures of all of us lined up on one of the bridges... maybe I can get ahold of one of these on my next visit...

At first this peacock was cool... with his beautiful feathers. He was very possesive of us... chased off the other peacocks. Then after about 15 minutes he started to get annoying. Obviously he was not the smartest peacock in the world and the others plus us didn't have any respect for him.

Our trip to North Dakota...

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These are all the pictures I ended up with...

Drumroll please!

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Claire's finally got hair!! Have you ever seen a hairdo as cute as this?

Just a few cute pictures

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Camden piled herself with bears and wanted me to take a picture.

This is the dress Mom made for Camden and the sweater she made for Claire for this Christmas. If Claire sees the sweater, she refuses to wear anything else.

Camden's first cookie decorating day

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Just some pictures of the girls

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Camden informed me that she was a "great cooker, mom"

Yes, this is Claire's version of being a "great cooker"... toobie with an apron over her head.

I love that they get such a kick out of eachother...

This is Claire-bear's personality captured in this picture. She just has a happy glow surrounding her that's very contagious.

A few things...

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A few things Camden has told me lately:
(when she had to go get a shot, in the waiting room) "Mom, yooks yike (looks like) I really don't want to get a shot today" (matter-of-factly)

After several hours in the car when I asked Daddy to find somewhere not raining for the kids to stretch their legs, we let the kids walk around in a Fred Meyer. I looked behind me to see Camden with her legs completely outstretched in the splits "I'm stretching my legs, Mommy"

"Mommy, did you notice boogers are green?"

"How does Daddy have TWO friends? His cheeks are so scratchy!" (incredulously)

When Daddy and Mommy were verbally sparring "Daddy! USE. YOUR. WORDS!"

Life According to Claire-bear

2009-01-10T19:17:00.000-08:00

Playing dress-up with your sister is the best...

You must always wear matching coats made by Aunt Mags...

You must always hold your baby so she can see the dvdv player too... (yes, she did this on purpose)

You must make sure the dogs know you love them...

You must love cheese...

You must have fun playing the piano with your sister...

You must be completely "toobie" when you go potty...

And above all, you must be completely comfortable when you eat...

Sledding after Christmas

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Christmas at the Boyds!

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Difficulties

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So yesterday, I was trying to get some pictures off of the camera and both the girls crawled up into my lap and kept trying to type and grab stuff. I told them "girls, you are really making things difficult for me" and Camden responds without missing a beat and in a tone of voice like she was telling you she loved you "Mom, we yike (like) to make things difficult. And we are kids, we know how!"

Christmas Parade

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Giddy-Up!

2008-11-16T12:25:00.000-08:00

Forgot to post this before. This was from Nana & Papa Jer's last visit. Its important to have your baby on your back, but clothing is optional...

Uncle Mark & Claire Bear

2008-11-07T20:30:00.001-08:00

Wow... can't tell they are related!

Cuteness Alert!

2008-11-07T20:15:00.000-08:00

This kid certainly has the Kercher genes. I cannot get a picture of her without the silly face.

How can someone be this cute??? Hmmm... she seems to resemble Uncle Mark (as her dad pointed out)

Claire-Bear climbed up to the table and fed herself Camden's abandoned yogurt.

Where oh where has all my hair gone??

2008-11-05T20:21:00.000-08:00

Here by popular request (and Camden's amazing photography) is my new 'do'. Yes, I chopped it all off. I tried to donate it, but I guess they cannot accept highlighted hair because of the chemical processing they have to do when they receive it. Yikes.

Camden's vacuuming adventures... Claire "helping"

2008-11-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

Camden's favorite thing, vacuuming!
Claire's favorite thing, being cute!
The other day at daycare they were talking about middle names; Jacky asked Camden what Claire's middle name was and she said "bear!".

For All You Doubters....

2008-09-07T20:45:00.000-07:00

Shame on all of you who thought Claire would never get any hair! Here she is debuting her first "hair-do!" She is definitely rocking a "business in the front, party in the back" hairstyle not unlike her dad in 1989.

Notice the princess heels that Camden runs in everywhere... she even wore them shopping! I took Camden to the store the other day and told her she could pick out a new doll to take home as a treat. She looks at every single toy in the toy department and finally came to me with a package of 4 pairs of princess high heels. I thought, "now that's MY girl!".

Happy 3rd Birthday to Camden!

2008-08-23T14:04:00.000-07:00

Camden's famous quote of the day was, (when Aram was talking about his birthday which was last month) "Daddy, your Christmas is over; now its MY Christmas!"

Where has my baby gone??!!

2008-08-15T05:41:00.000-07:00

My little Camden looks so grown up lately. Several weeks ago we were driving to the grocery store early one Saturday morning after I couldn't stand my itchy allergy eyes anymore. I was kind of being vocal about my discomfort in the car and Camden says "Mommy, you need to change your attitude, stop your whining".

After being terrified of the vacuum for the first 18 months of her life and being extremely wary the last year or so; Camden now loves to vacuum and will vacuum the whole living room floor by herself. She gets the vacuum out, vacuums the floor, winds up the cord and puts it back in the closet by herself.

This is the new outfit she got from Aunt Mandi for her birthday; yes I let her open it early.

Hanging out at home

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I LOVE how she runs!

Camden's fort, notice all the purses. She loves purses and shoes... I have no idea where she got that from

Sometimes Camden will go in and keep Claire company so I can finish up whatever I might be doing

Our trip to the beach

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Well, somehow we ended up without ANY pictures of the beach, but we sure had fun at Nana and Papa Jer's river!

This one was more excited about the birthday...

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The Bear's First Birthday!!

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Bike Ride

2008-06-19T16:19:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd take the girls for a bike ride. Unfortunately at the end I decided to take them to the neighborhood park (which is up hill). With it being the first nice day in a LONG while, everyone was out in their yards. That was quite unfortunate because I had to pretend I wasn't dying as I rode up that last hill....

Visit to Grandma's

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Watching Daddy mow the lawn

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LOVE this face....

More Sisters

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Sisters

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Matching Sisters

Make sure you take all your stuff when you go
for a bike ride!!!

Kind of helping Mommy cook breakfast....

Remember Camden's picture of watching Daddy mow the lawn??
Not sure if she had as much "thigh area"...

Happy Father's Day

2008-06-19T16:08:00.000-07:00

Now... how well do you think you would catch fish without rocks attracting them to the surface????

Camden's favorite phrases

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"That be perfect, Mommy" (This is usually if you ask her if she wants something)

"That make me so happy" (This is if she is trying to convince you to get or do something) Such as "you can get me some cimm-onim toast, Daddy? That make me so happy"

"That make me so sad" (This is if she doesn't like what you are doing, or a song on the radio, etc)

"My want to be on my own right now" (If she's mad at you for telling her no)

"Time to tidy up, that means you too"

And the other day Claire was taking Camden's animals off the shelf and putting them into a bucket, Camden says "good helper Cwares, wonderful job"

Little Climber

2008-05-29T19:38:00.001-07:00

Claire LOVES to climb, she climbs on everything and is very pleased with

herself when she does it

Pedro

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We thought she looked like Pedro from Napolean Dynomite

Camden's bike ride with Daddy

A perfect ending

Apparently this is how I read, Camden said she
was reading like Mommy.

Helping Daddy weed..... with a spoon and a bowl

Claire Bear

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Camden

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Camden-isms

2008-05-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I gave Claire a little cracker. Camden admonished me that "she doesn't have any teeth, Mommy"
Me: Remember that she has two tiny little teeth now that you can't see?
Camden: She can borrow one of yours, Mommy?

This weekend I was playing legos with Camden and I was building her a house for her little people... when we got to the bathroom I explained how this was the sink, the bath and the toilet. She says "Oh, he needs book for the potty".

Cutie Little Cwares...

2008-05-03T22:23:00.000-07:00

Training for the Tour de France

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Claire's first tooth

2008-04-28T21:32:00.000-07:00

If you look really closely it actually looks like she has teeth up top... nope, they are just very very swollen. Poor kid has been miserable for 8 long weeks now. She did have the first one break through on Saturday and the other 3 are close behind!!

My Birthday

2008-04-28T21:29:00.000-07:00

Camden always practices "safety first"

No, that's really not how I sit ... I was caught off guard

Just Cute

2008-04-28T21:23:00.000-07:00

In Camden's Own Words...

2008-04-13T14:33:00.000-07:00

So, Camden cracks us up on a daily basis, but today she embarrassed me in the store... TWICE. I'm told that this is just the beginning.

We were at Safeway and the guy next to us had tatoos all over his leg. Why is it that when kids are spoken to or asked questions by strangers they speak in the quietest voice possible, but when they want to say something about the person they speak in the loudest voice possible??!!
So Camden says "Mommy, why someone write all over that man's leg?" He didn't seem to find it funny and glared at us and walked off.

Then we were at a craft store with very narrow aisles. We went down one aisle where two rather large women were blocking the whole aisle. I was just getting ready to back out when Camden says, loudly of course, "Mommy, get that big lady out of way!" I got out of there as fast as I could.

Apparently there are a few phrases that I use too often because Camden has been using them lately. For instance, she will tell us that "the dogs are 'nnoying' her" or "Claire-bear is 'nnoying" her". If I tell her no or not to do something she says "Mommy, you're irr-tating me". Aram and I have to try really hard to keep our stern faces on when really we are cracking up. I know it won't be cute some day, but it sure if cute right now.

Also, when I'm driving (I have a "minor" case of road rage) and I start getting mad, she will yell "Someone people make room for Mommy, she getting fwustrated!"

A look at the Boyd girls

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Now, that's what I'd call a great sleep!

You can tell that I'm their mom and my mom is their Grandma... these girls would turn
down ice cream in order to have popcorn. Yummm...

Claire pulling herself up on everything...

Claire loves Camden's 4-wheeler. Sometimes's Camden gets on behind her
and zooms her around. And when we put her on there by herself she starts
bouncing back and forth as if to say "Let's get going!"

Some more from Aunt Mandi

2008-03-29T16:03:00.000-07:00

Me with the girls

Claire's ever present tongue,
you can tell she is quite proud of it

Some more pictures Aunt Mandi took of the girls

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Pictures of Camden on Grandma's Bridge by Aunt Mandi

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Pictures of The Whole Brood

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Pictures Aunt Melody Took of Claire

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Camden likes to say "run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man"...

Some other cute things she said today:

I was drinking a glass of water and she came into the kitchen and said "Mommy, your kid sure needs a drink".

I asked her if she was done with her nama (banana) and she said "not quite yet, Mommy".

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They weren't "posed", Claire loves to tackle her big sister.

Claire couldn't figure out how to get her legs back together so she just played like this for a while...

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This is the famous Claire smile that she always shares with everyone...

Child Labor

2008-03-09T14:54:00.000-07:00

Camden washed all the dishes in the sink by herself today. She did a great job. She said every step with each piece... scrub the inside, rinse all the bubbles off so Claire doesn't get sick, put upside down on the towel to dry. It was really cute.

Oh, One More I Thought Was Cute

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Just A Fun Day At Home With My Girls

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Beautiful Day

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It was finally warm enough to take the kids out yesterday, so we went to the neighborhood park. I pushed Camden in the swing until she got tired of it... an hour later.

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This is Camden's "frog". We really aren't sure why this is a frog ... but she likes to pile thing that are the same in perfect little piles and calls them her frog. Such as... socks, pants, "jam-jams" (pajamas), or "cwoff-cwoffs" (wash-cloths). You aren't allowed to touch them or put them away either... The other day she was perfectly lining up her pants on her legs and said "yook Mommy, my frog on my yegs (legs)!"

Claire's Theme and Have you ever seen a two year old peel an orange??!!

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Claire is SO close to crawling...

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Camden with the Care Bears that Mom and Madalyne made for the girls for Christmas. She takes good care of Claire's for her.

Camden on her way to "school"...

Camden wanted to watch her movie on the "puter" because Daddy was hogging the "reg-lar tv".

We're Here!!!

2008-01-17T19:53:00.000-08:00

This has been on my to-do list for a long time... have a blog so I can hang with the rest of the sibs.