Camp Tontozona

Today we headed up north to take part in the Sun Devil Tradition that is Camp Tontozona.  We got up early and took a short drive to pine trees and fresh air and got to watch the Sun Devils play some football.

On Our Way

We got to Camp Tontozona and were surprised at how many people were there.  It seemed to us like there was thousands of cars and people were parked for miles.  Lucky for us they just opened a new road to park on when we got there and we were able to park right at the top of the hill and only had to walk down the hill to get to the field.  The walk down was great, the football players were just starting to come out and we walked towards the field with them.  Sparky was there and meeting all of the fans.  Tatum was super scared of Sparky today.  Hopefully as the season goes on she can get used to him again.  Camdyn of course didn't care for him too much either. 

Go Devils

We got to walk around a bit and Tatum got to play with her friend Kennedy and see Sparky's Den before the scrimmage started.  I was so proud to be a Sun Devil and to see everyone that came out to see the Devils play this morning and watch the team get back to tradition.  The scrimmage wasn't too long and ended just in time for us to make it back to the truck before it started pouring huge rain drops.  I do have to say that the hike back up the hill to the car was not quite as easy as coming down.  Pushing both of the girls in the stroller up the hill sure did give us a workout!!

Tatum Ann

Sparky's Den

Camdyn Breeze

Scrimmage Time

Kisses for Camdyn

Daddy and Tatum

After the game we went back to the cabin for some lunch with the family.  We loved taking in the fresh air and sitting on the porch watching the rain come down.  When the rain stopped we took the girls out on a little nature walk to pick some flowers.

Sisters

Nature walk

Aunt Lindsey, Camdyn, Tatum and Uncle Doo-Doo

It was a perfect way to spend the day; beautiful weather surrounded by Sun Devils!!  Can't wait for the season to start!!

The Kahler's

18 Months

Camdyn Breeze is 18 months!!  She turned 18 months on August 4th but she just had her 18 month well check yesterday. 

Camdyn is running everywhere, she loves to chase her sister and to always be playing.  Her favorite game is duck duck goose and she is so super cute when she says duck.  She doesn't quite get that only one person is supposed to do the chasing and she gets up to run around the circle each time and oh boy is she cute!!  Camdyn is getting pretty good at hide and seek too.  She loves to count with Tatum and she is oh so good at finding the hiders.  Now we just have to work on her being a little bit quieter when she is hiding, right now she likes to laugh and giggle while she is hiding.  She is good at doing the shhh sign though :)

Camdyn eats mostly everything that we give her.  But her favorites are definitely maccaroni and cheese and anything that is dessert.  You know, cookies, brownies, ice cream.  Yeah she is definitely my daughter!!  Thank goodness she loves fruit and will also eat her vegetables. 

Camdyn is doing great at school and has so much fun with her friends.  She likes to keep the classroom organized and gets mad at her friends when they try to get her toys out of place.  Think she gets that from Tatum for sure!!

She has spent the last week being sick.  It started on Saturday when she woke up from her nap.  We were over at Uncle Adam and Aunt Lindsey's swimming and having fun and we layed Camdyn down for her nap.  She didn't sleep very long before she woke up crying and Uncle Adam went in to get her.  As soon as we held her we knew something was wrong.  She was on fire and sort of shaking.  We took her temp and it was 104.  Right away her Daddy went to get some medicine and we covered her in a damp towel.  She fell back asleep and seemed to be doing better.  Throughout the weekend her temp was up and down.  Sunday night she didn't sleep much and still had a fever so Monday I took her to the doctor.  At the doc her temp was 103.4, poor girl.  She of course had an ear infection.  The tube in her left ear is almost all the way out and has turned and is blocking her ear canal and the infection is behind that.  Since Camdyn had such a high fever the doc thought there was something else going on as well.  So she got an antibiotic shot that was not fun for either of us.  Monday night was miserable.  Poor Camdyn was not doing well.  She screamed basically from midnight until the sun came up.  She would scream for 20 minutes, then fall asleep for 2-5 minutes and that was our whole night.  We were all exhausted come Tuesday morning and weren't quite sure what to do.  She seemed to be a bit better Tuesday and did finally eat a little bit.  About 10:30 she was SO tired and I layed her down.  She took a 5 hour nap!!!!  Goodness did she need it!!  She woke up seeming like she felt better and ate a whole meal.  So glad our babe was back to feeling better!!

Wednesday the girls went back to school and had good days.  Camdyn went back in to the doctor for her 18 month well check (and to check up on her ears).  Camdyn does not like the doctor at all.  She starts crying the minute they weigh her and take her temp.  She is not a fan.  Hopefully she will start to feel more comfortable there as she gets older. 

Camdyn is 26.15 pounds (82%) and 32 inches (57%).  She looks great and seems to be doing most of the things she should be doing.  She is walking and running well, can feed herself with utensils and understands most everything we ask or tell her.  She isn't quite saying as many words as she should be able to say at this point, but we just need to keep working with her.  That has to do with all of the ear troubles she has had.  We will just keep making a point to repeat words to her and have her say them back.  If she is not saying about 40 words by the time she is 2 then we will go from there and do what we need to do.  But for now she is fine.

And super exciting news.... Camdyn went potty on the potty this morning!!  We are so proud of her!!  We bought her a new Princess seat for the potty in the girls bathroom this weekend hoping that we could start getting her familiarized with the potty.  She has sat on it a few times but hasn't wanted to do much.  This morning she woke up with a dry diaper so her Daddy took her straight to the potty.  He said she sat there for a minute and then went potty and got the biggest smile on her face.  I am sure Tatum and Daddy had lots of excitement for her!!  So proud of our little girl, hopefully she can keep it up!!

We love our beautiful Camdyn Breeze and cannot believe she is already 18 months old. She is a total ball of happiness and makes us smile all day long!!

Bath Time Fun

Bath time should be fun, there are days when the girls don't want to take a bath and tears are invovled, but most of the time baths are fun.  We wanted to do something new, other than just bath markers so I thought painting in the bath was the way to go.  We got some shaving cream for a dollar at walmart added in a few drops of food coloring and we were in business.  The girls had a great time with it.  Tatum was pumped about it right from the start.  Camdyn did try to taste the shaving cream, but she figured out quickly that was not going to be a good idea!!  It went from painting the walls of the bath tub to painting tummys and painting each other. 

I think the girls really did enjoy it because getting them out of the bath took quite a while!!

Fun bath time!!

Tatum the artist

Camdyn thinking about eating the 'paint'

Body paint.....

Colors.....

I really want to have active kids in our house.  We do lots of body active things everyday but I am trying to get in a few mind activities as well.  I want to feel like I am teaching them something and make it fun.

Tatum is doing science projects the next few weeks at school and I have been looking around for fun things we can do at home that both she and Camdyn can have fun doing.  Yesterday when I found out that Tatum had learned about rainbows at school and she started learning about what colors mixed together will make other colors, I was so excited because I had found an "experiment" online that was about combining colors.

Rainbow drawings from school.

As soon as we got home we got out what we needed and got to work on our "experiment"....... 
It was supposed to show how when colors mix they make a new color.  Some milk, food coloring and dish soap was all we needed.  We talked about the different colors after we put them in the milk and then talked about what we thought might happen when we put in the soap.  Well, what was supposed to happen didn't happen, the milk just looked like a cool swirl tye dye pan.  I laughed so hard.  I thought maybe the pan was too big and we needed to use a smaller bowl.  So we tried again.  But nope, no new colors, just swirls.  Then finally after some bowl shaking we saw orange.  We were so excited!!  So it was a fail for our first science experiment but at least we had a fun time swirling the colors around!!

Getting the project going.... Tatum saying, "What's going to happen??"

Boo, it didn't work!!

Trying again.....

We saw orange!!!!! Haha.

I thought we could also get some crayons to represent the colors of the rainbow and do the melting crayons with a hair dryer project.  First we unwrapped and glued on our crayons, then out came the hair dryer.  Tatum and I talked about what was going to happen when the hair dryer was blowing hot air on the crayons.  And then what would happen when we stopped and let the crayons cool.  Luckily this "experiment" turned out to be much better and we actually had a fun craft to show for the few minutes of work.

Having fun melting crayons!!

Proud of her artwork.

It was a fun evening of color in our home.  Not sure if the girls learned anything or not, but its always fun to see a smile on their faces when we are doing something new.  I sure do love these smart little learners of mine!!

Summer

Summer is still going strong, its still hot and we are still busy.  Seems like we are always busy with something or other, but that is how we like it!!  Pink eye has made it way around our house, not fun at all.  First Tatum got it, then Camdyn and now me.  Matt is next in line but hopefully he can stay contamination free and not catch it, doesn't seem likely though as awful as pink eye is.  But other than goopy eyes all is good in the Kahler house.

We have been trying to get outside a little bit everyday even though it is hot.  We wait until after dinner when it is down to like 105 degrees and go out for a little while.  Lately we have been playing with bubbles, the girls are really into blowing the bubbles and chasing them down. So fun!!  The girls have also been working on their chalk artistry on our back patio.  Messy and awesome!! 

Summer Fun

Bubbles

Camdyn is working on her jumping skills.  She is absolutely adorable when we ask her to jump.  She can't quite get her feet off the ground at the same time, but has a little hop step thing going on and we love watching her do it!!

The Olympics are in full swing and we are loving it.  We have all been staying up way too late watching them every night.  I try to stay off the internet all day, which is super tough to do, so the results won't be spoiled for me by the world of social media.  We turn the Olympics on each night and cheer on the U.S.A!!  I know it isn't live, but my heart races fast and I get all pumped up anyway.  I cry when people win, I cry when people don't win, I cry when they do the personal stories, I cry when the show the athletes families, basically just a whole lot of crying.  It is so amazing to me what these athletes do and how inspiring they are.  I just wonder how you make that switch from every day kid to athelete training for the Olympics!?

Since we have been watching the Olympics, Tatum of course has decided that she REALLY wants to do gymnastics.  She keeps asking me everyday; 'Mom, do I get to start gymnastics today?'.  She is so cute.  I told her that maybe next year she can give gymnastics a try.  I don't think I want to enroll her with the thousands of other kids who want to be Olympians right now.  We will maybe enroll her on a non-olympic year....

Camdyn turned 18 months old on Saturday and has her check up next week.  It will be fun to see how she has grown in the last few months.  Hoping this will be a good appointment for her and we will be able to leave with the Doc telling us she is healthy.  Think good healthy thoughts!!

One more quick thing...  Tatum works really hard at being a good sister.  Sometimes it is a bit tough I am sure since Camdyn doesn't always want to share and be a good sister back.  But Tatum is usually so patient with Camdyn and always wants to help her.  When Camdyn cries Tatum always says, Camdyn here I am, I can make you happy.  The other day Camdyn was crying and Tatum went over to her grabbed her hand and said, "Don't cry Camdyn I am right here and I will always be here for you."  My girls sure are lucky to have each other!!