Amen!

We've recently been teaching Camden to fold his arms during prayers. Sometimes (mostly at nighttime prayers and during church) he gets really angry that we make him fold his arms, and he gets squirmy and squeals a lot. For those situations we compliment him for being reverent if he is simply quiet. He is starting to get better...occasionally. At dinner time (and other meal times) he lets us know he's ready because he folds his arms and impatiently waits by the table for the rest of us to get there. Once we finally get everything settled and start to pray, he gets really fidgety. He stays quiet for meal time prayers, but he waits until he hears us finishing the prayer. He knows how prayers end, and he immediately folds his arms just before we say amen...then he gives a big grin and immediately starts clapping for himself. It's hard not to laugh!

Camden update

Hi, again! I thought I better post a few recent videos. They are each pretty short.

Here's Mr. Daredevil riding his motorcycle:


Here's Camden's elephant trumpet. He is quite adept at identifying elephants in many different books.



Here is Camden's "roar", which is used for dinosaurs, lions, and, occasionally, bears.

Look! Trucks! Zoom!

In the past week, Camden has started saying lots of words. I was starting to worry a little because another child who is a few months younger than Camden says lots of words. Camden jabbered a lot but didn’t really say anything. Here are the words (and what they actually sound like when Camden says them) that we’ve heard:
Uh-oh! (Oh-oh)
Zoom! (zhuuuuuu)
Horse (hohs)
Look! (yoot)
Truck (chuch or shuchs or tuts or chuts or something like that) FAVORITE WORD AWARD!

Animal sounds he knows:
Roof-Roof –dog bark
Roar! (Roh)—He says it every time we read his dinosaur book and we see the T-rex
Elephant trumpet sound (Brian is teaching us both how to do it. Camden points to elephants in different stories and makes the sound, even when we’re in church!)

He can show us where his belly button is. He can also tell us he wants milk and “please’’ using sign language, though ‘milk’ happens a lot more than ‘please’.

I am totally amazed by how much he can do and all the things he is learning.