Busy Week

The past week has been busy, busy, busy. Last weekend I took photos of sweet baby Cameron. He was such a cutie! And it was a really good learning experience. Mainly I learned that I still have a lot to learn!

After the photo shoot, the kids and I went to Dad's place for a sleepover. The sleepover part was a bit of a disaster in that it was nearly impossible to get my girls to sleep. But when that small detail fades from my memory, I'll have nothing but fond recollections!

On Sunday we went to the Natural History Museum downtown. We took the metro to add to the adventure...which turned out to be a mistake because they were doing maintenance and single tracking. We spent entirely too much time getting to and from the museum and not enough time wandering around it but such is the substance of all the best adventures, right?!

The three big kids had camp this week. Oskar and Annika did a rock climbing camp and Kiersten did an art camp. After day one Oskar said to me, "Mom, Annika is younger than me but she's better at rock climbing! Can you believe it?!" Yep, Annika took to rock climbing. Today when I picked them up, Oskar pointed out to me a smiley face that Annika drew at the top of one of the climbs (is it still called a pitch on a wall?). She went to the top many times and Oskar wondered whether next time she should do Advanced Rock Climbing. Today I watched the kids climb and Oskar would climb up quite comfortably and then all of a sudden he'd reach a height that felt uncomfortable to him and he'd just stop. But he told me he knew he could reach the top because each time he went a little higher than he did the time before. I'm very proud of him for stretching his comfort zone a little. And it makes me happy that he loved camp despite his fear of heights. Several times I said, "I'm sorry you don't like rock climbing buddy" and he'd say, "I love it Mom!" So it was a good lesson for me to back off and stop putting my grown up spin on things. He also drove me crazy all week telling me that he wants to do "Rock and Swim" (which is an all day camp that starts at the rock wall and ends up at - you guessed it - the pool).

I uploaded pictures to Flickr but it's getting very late and today is another busy, busy day so I really need to get to sleep. I'll have to add some photos later on...maybe Sunday?