400 names

This year, my New Year's resolution was to make a goal for each month. 12 month-long goals seems so much easier and relevant than a year-long goal. For July, I set a goal to index 400 names on the familysearch.org website. I look at scanned pictures of records and type up the information so people today can search for their ancestors more easily. I must admit it's pretty addicting!

I worked on a Jamaican birth registry project, which included people born from about 1885 until 1900. I also worked on a Canadian birth registry for people born between 1900 and 1910. I finished, with 409 names to be exact! I found a few people born on my birthday (or perhaps I was born on their birthday!) and I found a Marchant family in Jamaica.

I still have a few days to think of my August goal... :)

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!