This Little Piggy

A special moment shared with Grammie on her vist in July.  I didn't realize I had this video until today.

Enjoy!

Picture Taking with a Toddler

I find it has become increasingly difficult to snap nice pictures of Camden.  I am mostly getting blurry hands, arms and a cropped off head.

He is so cute and I don't want to miss sharing his funny and special moments with his Grammie and our friends, but he needs to stay still a little bit.

Here are some recent snaps of a cute moment after Ron put bubbles on his head.

See?  Blurry hands and arms.

It gets worse. He likes to tackle the photographer (me) and knock me to the ground.

In the end, I did manage to get a clear shot of the bubbles on the top of his head but wish it included the rest of him :)

Fun with Flour

While Ron was sleeping in yesterday Camden and I made a mess.  Messes will always happen when Ron is sleeping or away, he hates mess.

We love it though!

I gave Cam some flour and watched what he did with it.

He poked it.

He moved it around with his fingers.

He let it run through his fingers like sand

When I added water, he pushed everything together with a spoon

and then tried to eat the sticky paste...yuck!

I added some more flour and we made a dough

Camden enjoyed mushing it and tearing it (and throwing it on the floor)

I think our morning of play was successful and took up an hour or more after breakfast.  When we were done, all washed up and dressed in clean clothes (both of us), it was time for a nap (for both of us).

16 Months

Camden, you are 16 months old now and here are some things we want to remember about this time in your life.

• You are 25 pounds and tall enough to reach things on the counter
• You have 8 teeth and three more on the way
• You can walk backwards
• You say "buck-buck" when you want to visit Rambo, the chicken who lives down the road from us
• You say "all done" when you are tired of doing something or had enough to eat
• You have learned some sign language and know Daddy, Mommy, Milk, Drink, Ball, Sleepy, Cereal
• You still love Duncan the best and give him hugs and kisses
• You wave "bye bye" when you turn the corner to go into the kitchen, every single time you leave the room
• You hate to have your diaper changed and we have to distract you with a new toy or sing a song
• You are still not sleeping through the night, but Mommy loves you anyway. 
• The laundry basket is your personal race car
• You do everything that Daddy does, you are his shadow
• You put your arms through your shirt and are starting to put your feet through your pant legs
• You give kisses to everyone and everything, even cookies
• You love bellybuttons, ours and your own
• You cry when I come home from work, and then cry some more if I don't carry you around for a while
• Bike rides with Daddy are fun and you look awesome in your helmut

Happy 16 Months little man!

Questions - # 1

Now that I am a Mum-Mum, I ask myself questions all the time.  For example: Will I ever get to work withought having drool, crushed cookies or general baby mess on my clothes?

I wear clean clothes in the morning, sometimes I don't even see Camden before I leave for work, yet often my clothes are dirty when I arrive at the office.

Yesterday my skirt had some mysterious goo on the front of it - dried cereal?  Dried boogies?  I dunno. 

Just one of those things.