The Estrada Fam

Our little Cameron is quite a character. Not a day passes that he doesn't crack us up with the witty, funny, silly things he says. Far too often I hear myself say, "I need to write that down, so I don't forget." Yet, I haven't been doing it. So I decided to start today. Here are some of our favorite funny quotes and stories from Cam.

First and most favorite is the way he says his baby sister's name. Her name is Hailey of course, but he pronounces it "Hairry." He realizes that this isn't exactly accurate, so for a while when anyone would ask him her name, he would sheepishly say, "I say it weird . . .like on the top of her head." (meaning hair, since he pronounces it Hairry) He has now gotten comfortable with his pronunciation. feel free to ask him her name and he will confidently tell you, Hairry! He lovingly plays and talks to little "Hairry" all the time. He is always looking out for her and will come running to me any time she needs something. "Mom, Hairry is hungry, Mom, Hairry needs a diaper, etc." (He like his other siblings is a star binky finder as well.)

I can think of plenty of cute nicknames for a baby girl and "Hairry" probably wouldn't be one of them, but considering the origin, it's starting to stick. Austin, Brooke and Daddy have all jumped on the Hairry bandwagon and we generally refer to her as such. :-) I guess that's how these things go. Come to think of it, I still have a nickname that my younger brother gave me when we were little. He couldn't quite pronounce my name and called me "Ana dud." 30+ years later I sometimes still get it... and it means more and more as the years go by. Thanks to Cameron, Hailey will probably be our little Hairry for years to come.

Just this morning, Cameron said something else that made me smile. Thanks to a recent cold front, we enjoyed a little bit of snow at our house this past week. The kids were very excited and played in it as much as they could before the little white dusting melted away. Cameron has been talking about it ever since. Unfortunately, the weather warmed up and he realized this morning that it probably wasn't going to snow again. He let me know that by saying, "Mom, all the snow is gone. I think the "snower" is broken." Of course! That's why we don't have any more snow! The "snower" is broken.

One more cute story of Cameron cracking me up happened a couple weeks ago when he and I were talking about a Teddy Bear Picnic he would be having at his preschool. I was asking which of his teddy bears he wanted to take to school. Then I explained that they were going to take their teddy bears on a picnic at lunchtime. He looked at me incredulously with big eyes and asked, "What?? We're going to eat them??" Ha! It never even crossed my mind that he thought I'd ask him to bring his teddy bear on a picnic, so he could eat it! I quickly corrected the mistake. He was happy to know that his teddy bear would only be a guest for lunch, not lunch itself. :-)

Here's some of the other favorite Cameron terminology around our house:

trampoline = Jump a leen

the jack rabbit we often see in our back yard = Jack Bunny

a little bit = wibb a witt

disgusting = a skusting

q-tips = ear poker inners

fighting a bad guy with a sword = watching off the bad guy

Cameron looking at the thermometer and letting us know the temperature will result in any range of numbers in random sequences. For example, he might say, "Wow! It's hot out side. It's 20, 60, 8, 14 degrees." This same rule applies with telling time. He will walk over to the clock, look at it and say, "Whoa, it's getting late isn't it? It's 18, 40 o'clock."

Those are just a few of the funny examples of things Cameron says. He has no problem giving things names of his own if he isn't exactly sure what they're called or how to pronounce them. I know this will correct itself all too soon. So in the mean time, we listen and respond with a smile. I love the language of kids!