Puppy Nails

Camilla filing puppy's claws, they do get a little sharp! Bella is really learning how to tolerate kids! Camilla drags her around by the collar, yells at her and puppy just takes it all in! They are best friends, when Camilla is gone puppy looks for her. She hasn't bit at all for a long time, so I feel really good about her. She just needed to learn how to play nicer!

Thanksgiving

We were able to make it to Reno Weds night to stay at my Mom's parents and see all her family! I had my camera but of course didn't take one picture. But we had a good time, played lots of games. I think we played monopoly 5 times and I didn't come close to winning once! Always good to see that side of the family,we don't get to see them much.
Ian had to leave early to go back to work so I came home with Mom and Dad and we stopped at a rest area and let the dog and Camilla play in the snow! The dog had a great time running around and Camilla did too, she loves snow!
Puppy running around!

Poor little cold cheeks!

The theme is friends.

I have lost another friend to cancer. It is just amazing to me how many people die from cancer. I bet there isn't anyone who hasn't had someone close to them die from cancer. My friend not only beat breast cancer but then she got lung cancer, how unfair is that?
She was my high school librarian, she was not just a authoritive figure but a friend to me. I was placed as her aide I think my sophmore year because I had surgery on my shoulder and wasn't able to do PE. So they put me as her TA. She told me later that she wasn't really excited to hear that I would be helping her. I was a bit wild and well probably rude. But, time went on and I changed and she became a great friend to me. I really needed a adult friend in my highschool years, my relationship with my parents was to say the least strained. (I had some major rebellion going on) She helped me so much and I even would go and hang out with her at her house! I think it seemed strange to my friends that I would spend a Friday night hanging out with a 60 something year old lady. But she was fun and we had such a great time. We were faithful "Friends" watchers and I remember that it was her who I watched the last episode with. I graduated and moved around but still kept in touch with her. She came to our wedding and she was there to see baby Camilla. I last saw her a few weeks ago in the hospital. She seemed fine, her pain was better she just was having trouble walking. Or maybe thats just what she told me. Either way I'm majorly kicking myself for not seeing her more often.
I will miss you Hilma Harris, thanks for being a true friend.

Time is passing oh so quickly

Can NOT believe that in 2 and a half weeks it will already be Thanksgiving!! For some reason just does not seem like November to me. Today we finally had a real storm, lost of rain and hail. Now I look at the calender and it says Nov. 7 wow. Camilla is going to be 4 in a few months, she seems that old but yet I can't believe that it has been that long since I was pregnant. I never really wanted this much space between kids, but maybe it is for the best. Hate to say it, but Camilla has been SO hard for me. So it will be nice to have her grown up a little more if and when we can hopefully have another child. At the earliest she will be almost 5 or over 5 if the medicine works fast and like its supposed too. (PLEASE?)
I'm almost done with the first medicine that they put me on and the next step is some form of a fertility medicine. I don't know much about what they will have me on, my next appt is soon and hopefully I can learn more and get some sort of a round about time frame.
For now I'm really trying to just enjoy mother hood a lot more. To not let the naughtiness or bad behaviour affect me too long. I know the more I can relax and be calm the more she will also. It's been brought to my attention that I see her bad behaviour so much more than anyone else. That I notice all this stuff but people around me don't even see it. Not everything of course, but just little things that I feel like everyone is seeing, in reality it's only me. So, I'm trying to just be more calm and by doing that hopefully she can too. I guess some parents are in la la land about their child and I'm in this anal land of what is she doing, is she being good.. Just breathe and let her be a child. I know that already these days are flying by and I don't want to waste them by being angry at her behaviour and missing the sweet times of her being little.

Happy Halloween!

This year Camilla was a mermaid, went perfect with her red hair! Some friends of ours own a carehome Lavender Hills , so all of the residents hand out candy. They are very generous!


Ballerina Lila

My attempt at a witch costume