Cameron got a major shiner on Sunday. At Meeting, the person who takes care of the kids is a little flaky. She reported that he jumped off a table and landed on the other kid's head. This is a 10' x 10' room she is in charge of. Anyhow, he seems to be fine, but it's looking pretty colorful still. :-P

Last night I noticed that one of Cameron's front teeth is chipped! :-( It's not really jagged or hugely noticeable, but I'm pretty sure I would have noticed it if it had happened before. We did go to the park yesterday (a huge one across town recommended by another mom at our usual park; it has a water feature that the kids can paddle in. Very cool. But hugely busy on Labor Day!), and he did slip...

...it would be off. Once he gets the idea I'll start nudging the morning wakeup time a little later. The trick was to find a place in Cameron's room for the timer which could be seen easily from Cameron's bed, had access to an outlet, and could not be accessed by curious three-foot-tall button pushers and cord yankers. To my surprise I did hit on such a place. I plugged in an extension cord...

No fever, but he's doing a little barky cough at night. I don't think it's croup; or a very mild case if it is. I put the humidifier in his room; it seems to help.

Cameron slept like a log last night. Did not hear one peep out of him from 8pm to 7am, not even talking or crying in his sleep, which he nearly always does. I guess he slept it off , because he seems to be fine. He went in the pool and everything. Maybe it was the vaccines after all. I guess we'll see if his temperature flares up in the evening.

...toys. There was a Sponge Bob on the left and a Mickey Mouse on the right, each of which lit up and moved with a noisy motor. In the center, there was a yellow duck that lit up but didn't move. Cameron enjoyed when the duck lit up, and he pointed to it and said, "Duckie," and sometimes "Yellow duckie" ("da-do guckie"). Other than one very low-frequency hum which sounded like feedback, and the...

Cameron has a fever. And that's it. No lethargy. No loss of appetite (except for a couple hours this morning; I gave him Tylenol and within half an hour he was back to devouring everything in sight). The only reason I knew he was feverish was that his skin was hot to the touch. 102.9 (rectally) after naptime today. Yikes! I went and got the other thermometer just to make sure there was no mistake...

...cleaned his teeth or anything; he just got his mouth looked at by the dentist. WE LOVE THE DENTIST. Long hair, a goatee, a brightly-colored bandanna on his head -- could this really be a dentist? Cameron is usually shy around strange men, but he didn't even think of hiding his face with this guy. He even opened his mouth when "Dr. Doug" asked him to say Ah , and let him poke his mirror around...

...and finally I get through to "Trudy" at EPMG, who professed not to know anything about "Adam" taking me off collections. Real condescending, as usual. She kept typing things into her computer and saying Cameron was coming up "ineligible," and that I was not going to just be "taken off collections" unless I sent the money. Finally I said, "Might it have anything to do with the fact that you guys copied...

Today was a day for spillage. This morning Cameron accidentally dropped his water cup, causing a minor flood in his bedroom. Then, at breakfast, he managed to dump his milk all over himself and the floor. I myself put some butter on the griddle, didn't watch it, and it melted and dribbled off the edge and onto the stove. And then, at Meeting, C. fell down the stairs. The uncarpeted, steep back stairs...