Campbell's Blog

Ever since a young age, Campbell has had a fascination with garbage cans, or has he likes to say more often is trash cans. Before he could even talk he was pointing and making verbal cues towards the shiny objects and we would have to interpret what in the world he was so excited about. But you already know of this if you read the post, “Favorite Things.”

A little while ago we began taking some pictures of him next to his inanimate friends. I cannot remember if he was the first to ask for it, or we just started doing it. But, he rather enjoys it. Here are a few of the pictures we have shot.

Taking a break from kicking the ball around at the school.

On a hike at Pilot Mountain.

Photo shoot in downtown Greensboro.

If you want to look at all of them that are posted you can look in the album here. I expect that we will be shooting some more and adding them in over time (maybe).

As another sign of growing up, Campbell has gradually been making a progression out of his crib to his more “permanent” of a resting place. And since I missed the in between post that I originally intended to make when he made the big step to a bed, this post will be all encompassing.

A short time ago we decided that we would get Campbell’s bedroom upgraded and coordinated. It wasn’t that we didn’t like his original furniture, but soon it was time for him to move up in the world and get out of his crib.

The old standby.

That set in motion a series of events. First he made the move from the crib to the bed we had in Mara’s room. Mara got moved into a bed we had in storage. I think we did this at about two and a half for Campbell, a few months ago. He was so excited to be in a bed. We were lucky as he took to it pretty well at first. It was nice for a time when he didn’t get out of bed, until that moment when he realizes, “hey, I can get out of my room and go talk to Mom and Dad.” He gets out of the bed a little more than Mara (unfortunately we are still dealing with that).

Me and my buddies, sitting in a bed…

That brings us to a couple of weeks ago when we made a trip to Ikea to purchase some new bedroom furniture for Campbell. Ikea is kind of ideal for kids furniture since it is inexpensive and you don’t really need much. Mom settled on a set of white furniture and it goes well with his brown walls. Campbell likes it enough. Let’s see if he can stay in it as it is a little farther to fall out of. I think he has done that once or twice so far, but luckily no serious injuries!

As you can see, it works.

Last week we made our first trip down to Walt Disney World. We had a wonderful time and the kids absolutely loved it. After telling you about Campbell’s infatuation with garbage cans and vacuum cleaners, our trip was met with some unexpected excitement. To our surprise they have a moving and talking garbage can in Tomorrowland. There is no schedule so there is no guarantee that it will be out and about at all, much less when you are in the area. On our first walk over to the area we had the chance to see it right away. This worked out really well since we had begun to hype it up to Campbell the day before.

Campbell’s new best friend.

Campbell and Mara chased it around for a few minutes and as you can see got a chance to pose with it. We took some video too so that you can see what it in action. Enjoy!

Push Video
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On a recent trip for business Mom sent an email to Dad. The simple subject line read, “Something to brighten your day.” I thought I would share the content with all, since I think it could brighten your day as well.

Just posted this entry to Mara’s website, but thought I would chronicle the video here as well.

Climbing Video

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Watch out! Halloween candy will rot your teeth out!

We cannot say yet if the hair is also affected by candy or not.

It’s another spooky night. The more the world needs some super heroes to save the day!

The kids are all ready to go out trick or treating. They have been excited all month for this day. We really got good use out of the costumes this year. Campbell loves his so much that he has been going around wearing his almost every day this month since we bought it. He even went to a puppet show out at a local firehouse in it and all the other kids thought it was so cool!

Spider-Man!!

Supergirl!!

Our little heroes.

Click through to see some additional pictures that Steph took.

For those of you who don’t know Campbell all that well because you don’t get to see him, you might not know what he likes and he doesn’t like. He likes the color green best. In fact, he has never wavered on that. He likes his best buddy Bubba that he sleeps with every night. But what he may be most infatuated with is trash cans. And running up a close second to that is vacuums. This has been the case since he was a little little boy. If we are out for a walk, he points out the trash cans in the neighbor’s drive way. Mondays are his favorite day because that is trash day around these here parts. Watch out, if there is a trash can tipped over on trash day, Campbell just might run outside to try and pick it up.

Trash can heaven.

This boy was born to clean. There is something about it, because he will help you out whenever you want. And his favorite tool for the job? A vacuum. He will bowl you over if you get in his way in Home Depot on the way to the vacuum section. Once, we were in Sears and we turned the corner to appliances and it was like the holy grail. “Vacuums!!! Red ones, and purple ones, and black ones, and…” We had to sedate him.

Whoa! Vacuums on green? That’s like chocolate and peanut butter.

Mom was nice enough to help him make these collages one weekend. He loved it and was proud to pose with them.

This past weekend we did a little bit of upgrade work on the kids rooms. Really what spurned this is the fact that Campbell is ready to move out of the crib and up into a real bed. When we went on a beach trip a few weeks back the kids got to stay in bunk beds. Even though we surrounded Campbell with some pillows just to be sure he didn’t fall out, he did a pretty good job of not rolling around too much and generally staying put. So it was time.

We took Mara’s old bed and moved it into Campbell’s room. Then we took a spare bedroom bed that was in storage and moved it into Mara’s room. And that was it! Now Campbell is a big boy and Mara is enjoying a bit of a renaissance in her room.

Enjoying the new digs with Bubba and others.

Mara enjoys her brother’s progress.

If you didn’t know, Friday was cow appreciation day at Chick-fil-a. Represent!