My parents and brother (with family) came down for Christmas again this year. My sister is now living in Mesa, which definitely makes Arizona the place with the most Camargos, hence we all met here. We spent the holidays in between both places and the kids had a blast being able to play with their cousins and grandparents.
This year my sister booked a "Cowboy" dinner and show for us to go and I did manage to get a picture of Drew riding the pony. The food was yummy, the show was okay (not my style) but we enjoyed each others company.
I got a WEIRD infection under my thumb nail right before the New Years which landed me at the ER 3 days in a row. Ahh, I had to go to the year on the last 2 days of the year!!! If only I could have waited until January 1st I would have met my deductible for this year, but no, I me my 2012 health insurance deductible December 31st!! Anyway, to make a very long story short, after 3 weeks on antibiotics, 6 different doctors, I finally got my nail pulled and the infection cleaned out. My thumb looks ugly, but at least it doesn't hurt and I can use it again.
On New Year's Eve we went out to dinner with my family to the Cheesecake Factory. We waited 1 hour and 20 minutes to be seated (what were we thinking, taking 19 people out to eat on New Years?) The food was great as usual, but the night ended with an EXPLOSION!! And I mean, a diaper explosion from Clarissa. It totally caught us off guard to see poop falling on the table, booth and us. Luckily we were all done eating and getting ready to leave. I do have to give Cynthia a HUGE thanks for cleaning Clarissa all up since I had an infected thumb and needed to keep it as clean as possible (and plus I couldn't use my hand anyway).
The boys had preschool off for the whole month of January, which definitely kept me busy. They've been saying and doing the cutest things, but I can't seem to remember any right now, but here's a try.
Christopher
He's still the BEST escape artist I've ever met. The kid can jump our backyard wall and run out the front. I can't do that. He hates playing with toys, but is constantly coming up with a new (and dangerous) activity. The picture I posted is of him pretending he's a Salvation Army guy collecting money for Christmas. (You know the ones that ring the bell outside grocery stores during the holidays.)
Andrew
He's at that age where kids say funny things. The other day we were at church and there was an African American giving a talk. Andrew turned to Cory and asked "Is he Chocolate? Looks yummy!" Haha, I couldn't stop laughing at his innocence. Here's another Drewism.
Drew: Dad, what's that?
Cory: My Adam's apple
Drew trying to move it with his hands. "Does it hurt?"
Cory: No. You have one too.
Drew: Yea, but your is REALLY big.
Clarissa
My baby is learning to talk!! She has all of a sudden discovered the world of words. She can say quite a few things now, that only we can understand. Some of her latest are:
Baby - yells it every time she sees one.
Uh socks - I want socks
Ouside - outside. She loves going outside.
Shoes
Uh juice - I want juice. She says this specially if we give her water.
She still LOVES playing in any water. Yesterday we found her in the tub all dressed in her pajamas) playing with the leftover, drained, water on the tub. She's great at following commands. By far our most obedient child. I just realized I have no pictures of her to post now. :(
Playing Salvation Army
Pony ride
3 year old pictures (never posted them)
4 year old pictures
My cute boys. this was the easiest photo session ever!
Infected thumb (the black thing under the top part of the nail)
Cured, ugly, thumb with nail growing in.
