Chubby Cheek Photography Houston, TX Natural Light Photographer

my sweet sweet cam-b

i rolled over close to 6 am and realized i was holding your hand….yep you had once again very “stealthily” snuck into bed with us, as you have been doing for the last month and a half.  yep you once again had me teetering on the very edge, and your face was as close to mine as it could be, bc we were in fact sharing a pillow again….but the best part of all of it was the simple fact that you were holding my hand, or maybe i was holding yours, who knows, but your sweet squishy baby hand was right there in the middle of my mommy one, just like we do every time we walk through a parking lot.  I laid there too afraid to move for fear of you waking up or worse moving your hand.  I dont know what kind of magical dreamland you were running through but you were taking me along with you.  at some point, which wasnt nearly long enough you must have felt my eyelashes (yes we were THAT close, you practically lay on my face) because you sleepily opened your eyes, one blue and one blue/green/brown and smiled at my, as i told you my second baby happy second birthday….you proceeded to giggle and say “happy burfday to mommy”.  and if i woke up like that every day i wouldnt mind waking up at 6am, hahaha, thank goodness you sleep until 8:00.

This past year has been so full….full of growth but not too much on your behalf you have only grown 1 in and 1 lb in the past 6 months… full of learning, everything from swimming with floaties to counting to 20, saying your abc’s and recognizing numbers…full of chatter, between you and addi nobody else really gets to say too much.  and full of love.  you love the beach, you love addi, you love anything princess-y, prissy, or pink.  You love meat!  (which is no suprise considering i ate whataburger cheesburgers ever morning for breakfast during my entire pregnancy with you).  You love to sing and  do anything “all by myself” as long as i am within a few feet of you.  You love “chat-tick” and put it on so daintily.  You love to “hip haway” with daddy, and you love telling us to “scoot” so you can sit on our chairs with us at dinner time, no need to have your own.  but most of all you still love to snuggle, and i mean snuggle. 

You and addi are such a pair and your connection to eachother amazes me everyday….lets just say i will be suprised if our plumbing doesnt just explode soon bc you two have run a muck flushing who knows what down the toilets lately, in short but not limited to, several pairs of panties, a few small toys, one too many wipes and of course the elusive hopefully aerodynamic blue goggles.  You two get in trouble together and take care of eachother, and i am grateful for BOTH of those things. 

You know you are the “baby sis-tur” and you remind us of that when we ask you to do big girls things you dont want to do like put your cup in the sink. 

Again i am shocked that another year has flown by, by the fact that i have a two year old and amazed by just how much we didnt even know it but we needed you in our lives to be complete….one complete family of four.  God has a way of meeting our needs before we even knew what we needed.

I love you my camdyn belle.

okay so before i get a gazillion emails here are the party “stats”

oreo pops sweeties by kim

stickers and cupcake toppers from the amazing rebekah at blissful nest studios 

heart marshmallows and giant lollipops from marshalls homegoods

giant gumdrops my amazing neighbor

giant lollipops, giant cotton candy, giant choc bar giant sticks of gum, waterbottle lables and table signs all made by my super creative family

chocolate fountain target

candy in bulk candy warehouse

gorgeous birthday outfit (pants not shown) from julie at green apple boutique