Happy Birthday, Cam!

Yesterday Cameron turned 7! I still find it impossible to believe that I have a second grader. Scott and I reminisced with Cam about our eventful day 7 years ago, telling him about how I had to ride in an ambulance, lights and sirens and all, from one hospital to another because he was determined to be born early. He loves hearing the story about how he just couldn't wait to meet his daddy (Scott's version of the birth) and seeing pictures of himself after he was born, connected to all the wires and tubes.

Today Cam's having a party in our backyard with 10 friends. It's a "water fun" party, complete with a double slip n' slide, sprinklers, inflatable pirate pool, and a couple hundred water balloons. It should be pretty easy for us. I think if you turn over control of the water hoses to a group of boys they can pretty much entertain themselves.

You all remember our newest member of the family, Tina the guinea pig, right? Well, she's becoming an even bigger addition than we thought. She's pregnant. At first I just thought we were over-feeding her. I knew she was still young and had some growing to do, but this was ridiculous. Then when I felt her belly moving I realized that she had the worst case of indigestion ever, or she had been a busy little girl before we bought her. When I told Scott about the impending birth his knee-jerk reaction was "Well, we're bringing her back to the store! We can't take care of baby guinea pigs." I think the horrible memories of the late night feedings with the triplets had come rushing back to him, and he panicked. When I reassured him that we weren't going to be responsible for feeding the babies every two hours, and that there would be no additional diapers to change, he was comforted. So now we just wait. This will be a great learning experience for the kids. It'll be interesting to see their reactions when the babies are born. So far, their insight is like this:

Ty: "Number one, she's a mommy. Number two, she's going to have babies."
Cam: "She can't be a mommy because she's not married." (My work here is done...)
Girls: "Babies? Belly? Babies? Belly? Babies? Belly? Babies? Belly?..........."

We'll let you know when the blessed event happens. Please let me know if you have room in your homes and hearts for a new member to your family. We'll be looking for good homes for 2 to 5 little ones......

More later - I have a few hundred water balloons to fill.