Crazy Camden!

It's been a while since our last post, and we thought some pictures could tell a better story of what we've been up to.

Celebrating the 4th of July watching a parade.

Camden has become quite proficient at pillow wrestling! He pulls them off the couch, throws them to the ground, and begins his series of falling on them, biting them, and otherwise beating them up. Here he is conquering the pillow.

When he's done eating, a lot of times he throws his food on the floor. We usually ask him what we're going to do or where it went.
"I don't know!"

Here is Camden on his rocking motorcycle. A friend in our ward made several of these at one point and was tired of tripping over them in his basement. He was very kind to choose Camden as a lucky recipient. He had it all figured out the same day we brought it home. It's really fitting for our little guy because he loves motorcycles, big trucks, and any other noisy vehicle. He loves to say, "vroom!" when he sees them drive by.

Spin!

Camden is quite the little book worm. Some of his favorite toys are actually books. He will often bring us a book and wait for us to pick him up and read it to him. A lot of times he just pulls out lots of books and starts to go through them, jabbering to himself the whole time. Here's a story he read to us.

I promise he isn't always partway undressed, just in these pictures!

Where is it?

Camden has started holding his hands out like he's asking a question. I think it is the cutest thing! Anyway, a few days ago, I couldn't find my shoes. I looked all over, even in the bathroom. I asked Camden, "Where are Mama's shoes?" He raised his hands like he was saying, "Where is it?" After about 1/2 hour of searching, I found them in his kitchen cupboard. There is one cupboard that we didn't lock, where we put some relatively sturdy pans. And, there were my shoes! He also likes to put his own shoes in the laundry basket.

Then today, I couldn't find my keys. I felt especially nervous because on Monday, I locked us out of the house, and we had to call the locksmith. I looked for 15 minutes, and definitely checked his cupboard. Nothing. Feeling a little panicky, I looked everywhere again, and Camden had dropped them inside a bowl and pushed it behind the other door of the cupboard. No wonder I didn't see them the first or second times!

Time to move keys and shoes to higher ground!

Update

Hi, again! I guess I've taken a break from blogging for awhile. If any of you are curious about my previous post that doesn't show up, I'll email you the story.

Anyway, after Camden's birthday, Brian's graduation, and our anniversary, life seems a bit quieter. We've been doing all the projects we've thought of as Brian has been in school. Now we have a little more time to do them! The most recent is that we put a real door on our laundry room. Before, we had a bifold door, and the dryer was really loud. Now, the real door makes it much quieter. I LOVE it!

Camden is learning so much! He can crawl up stairs pretty well on his own and is starting to understand the idea of crawling down backward. We hope he can learn before any major falls, because he isn't really afraid to just walk off edges. He is getting better at chewing food and likes to eat lots of things, especially milk, peanut butter, apples, shredded wheat, and chocolate. It's amazing how fast he learned about chocolate--it only took one chocolate chip! He can reach the door knob, but isn't quite strong enough to turn it (yet). :) He also likes to hide things in the laundry baskets--his toys, books, cooking pots, cell phones, etc. And, he is really close to being able to run. I don't think I like that idea so much.

I'll post some pictures or videos next time.