Cameron didn't want a lot of gifts this year for his birthday. He felt that he was being selfish by asking for too much. Thus, he asked all of his friends to come and have fun on Sunday, but not to bring him anything. His two closest buddies struggled with this request, but honored it. I asked him if we could get him anything. He said he would like money to use at Disney World during Spring Break. I said that would be great, but how about his siblings. He seemed ok with them getting him something if they really wanted to.
All three definitely wanted to give Cam a gift. Brett had something for Cameron, but wanted to give it to him when we visit on the 22nd of February. Meg chose Just Dance 4 for the XBOX as she knew they would have fun playing it together. As Cam opened Cal's gift he looked a little funny. At first he wasn't quite sure what to think as he pulled out a binder and what he thought was a package of paper. He couldn't understand why Cal was giving him school supplies, but was very nice about it. He started to thank Cal and then it dawned on him as he grabbed the last gift in the bag - a box of 50 basketball cards. Cal's gift wasn't the dreaded school supplies (as if Cal would want to give him those), but instead it was a great lot of cards and a way to keep them organized.
Cam talked of nothing else today. He couldn't wait to put them in order of teams, years and players. There were NBA cards to divide into piles and a few college and coaches cards as well. I had to laugh as Cameron displayed this love of organizing. It was almost as exciting as the cards themselves. I understand where he gets this love. The older two boys let me organize all of their cards - Pokemon, Yugi-Oh, baseball, etc. They loved trading the cards and playing games with them more than the organization of it all. Cam, however, takes after his mother. I had almost as much fun watching him as he had showing them all to me!!
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