Happy New Year!

We are officially one month into 2022 and it has been a doozy already. Cameron was in New York for the Christmas Holiday this year and sustained a pretty bad black eye rough housing with some family. I had it checked out by his pediatrician here and they said it was just badly bruised and swollen - but nothing was broken.

We celebrated Santa coming to our house the evening of the 29th. He was very excited to wake up in his house and see what Santa had brought him. My parents, nephew and sister-in-law spent the night as well. It was wonderful to get up and have breakfast and matching jammies.

A few days after we rung in the New Year, we got our first good snow. It was the first snow that Cameron remembered. We had plenty in New York, but he didn't remember every playing in the snow. We tried to build an igloo at our house (we used his sand box top as a roof), we made snow angels and had a snowball fight. We went over to his Mom-Mom and Pop-Pops house and he built a real igloo with his cousin, Bobby and neighbor, Michael.

On Martin Luther King Jr day, Cameron, myself, his Aunt Sarah and cousin, Bobby, drove out onto the beach at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. While driving down we saw this amazing shipwreck that had come uncovered with the storm that passed through the day before. We were all so excited to see the beautiful copper down the side and Cameron was quick to theorize if it was a pirate ship or not. We grabbed lunch at a local pizza shop to warm up before heading home

Cameron and I went up to Baltimore the following weekend. My dad was taken to John's Hopkins Hospital for spine stabilization surgery and while we couldn't visit my dad, we wanted to support my mom (his Mom-Mom) and visit with her when she wasn't at the hospital. While she was with my dad, Cameron and I went to the National Aquarium in the morning. He also did not remember going to an aquarium before, so she was very excited to see all "new" things.

His favorite thing to see were the dolphins.

We went back to our hotel for lunch and a nap and then headed over to Port Discovery. It was amazing and we had such an awesome time climbing, experimenting, drawing, playing and just being carefree.

Mother Nature decided she wasn't done dumping snow on the Mid-Atlantic for January so she dropped another half a foot in our area. We built his "first ever" snowman and had more snowball fights. Our very good family friend, who we refer to as Uncle Bill, took Cameron sledding. He thought this was his first time sledding and just knew he was a daredevil. He loved falling off and "going fast".

We were officially 6 months post-op on the 15th of January! Cameron is doing wonderfully and we have his officially appointment in Annapolis on February 7th. We are expecting good news and a great clean bill of health.

Thank you all for keeping Cameron in your thoughts and prayers. We are so lucky that we were able to "fix" our little guy and can not wait to see what he accomplishes in his life.

Jess aka mom