Oh my words.

Lately Cameron has become such a chatterbox. So I decided to write down all the words I could think of that he knows and says. He actually says all of these words without repeating us. It's amazing! I started about a week ago, and I've been adding 3-4 words each day. So, before this list gets too big, here it is. Oh...some are short 2 word phrases and some I'm no so thrilled about. I'm sure you get guess which ones.

airplane
all done
all gone
apple
baby
ball
bath
bed
belly
bike
bin
bite
blanket
book
brush teeth
buckle
button
bye (or bye-bye)
car
cat
cereal
cheese
chip
clean-up
coat
cold
cookie
cool
cup
cute(says it about my necklaces)
dad
diaper
dog
don't do that
door
down
ears
eyes
glasses
gum
hair
hand
hat
hello
hi
hot
ice
I go
keys
light
mat
mine
mommy
money
more
mouth
night-night
nine
no
no more
nose
okay
oh crap
oh man
on
orange
pat-pat
pee
please
poopy
seat
see ya
shoe
sit down
sky
slipper
sock
some (more)
sorry
spoon (pronounced soup)
stop
table
teeth
thank you
tiger
tigger
toilet
up
wagon
want some
water
Willow (a name)
yeah
118. zipper
(I didn't feel like numbering them all without my ten key pad thingy)

By the way...I really hate that there is no way to put things in columns without actually using your space bar 15 times between each word. I was not about to do that. I can't even use the tab button. And since I put this into a word document and used columns, unfortunately it doesn't copy over that way. So, sorry for the lengthy looking post.

Rachel's Gift.

My sister finally got her Christmas present from me, which I had completed a week before Christmas, but never got it sent to her. Typical.

Anway, here it is. I love it and wanted to keep it for myself, but now I think I will just make one for myself.

This one is for holding earrings. You just hang the frame on the wall and stick the earrings in the material.

This one obviously holds necklaces and bracelets.

Now that is a clean face.

Well, at least compared to this...


And this...

And this...

And most recently...

THIS! Which isn't nearly as bad as what I didn't catch on camera.

But the first picture is what I love to see. I gave Cameron a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and he #1 ate the whole thing, which NEVER happens around here, and #2 kept his face fairly clean. Gotta love better coordination!

My Little Reader

The other day I wasn't really paying attention to what Cameron was doing, so I went to find him, and this is what I saw.

So freaking cute. When I found him, he was talking like he was reading and laughing hysterically.

Best Friends

Vickie, one of Clint's coworkers, has become one of our really good friends here in Montana. Actually pretty much our only good friend. Her and her husband have a 22 month old boy, Christian. They are over at our house all the time and vise versa. Christian and Cameron have become quite a pair.

I just have to post this...

My sister just posted about her son who is now learning to fold his arms. When I read it, I got so excited because I'd been wanting to post this same thing about Cameron since Sunday when he learned to do it. I thought Cameron was a little behind learning to fold his arms, and I was so excited when he finally folded his arms in church on Sunday when I told him to. He even bows his head. It's so stinking cute. But my sister's kid is three days older than Cameron, so we must have done something right.

He was trying to bow his head and look up at the camera in this picture. I just love it!

Is is too late for Christmas?

This post is really late in coming, but I'm lazy and finally decided I should post Christmas and all the happenings since, before I decide myself that it's too late.

Christmas...was great. Clint and I stayed in Montana and had our own little Christmas. We did some really fun things this year and thought I would share.

Advent Garland for the 12 days of Christmas. Each day we chose one activity to do. Very fun. Check out my sister's blog for the whole explanation.

Clint's office had a Christmas party for the kids and Cameron had a blast making cookies, snowmen, visiting with Santa, opening a present (from us), swinging at a pinata, and he even got his own stocking and decorated ornament with his name on each of them.

Making a snowman

Decorating a cookie

Sitting on Santa's lap (screaming is more like it)

Opening his present (he wouldn't sit on Santa's lap)

Clint helping Cameron swing at the wreath pinata

We also went to the ward Christmas party. It was mostly for the kids. Different rooms around the building were decorated for the story that was being read to the kids. The kids sat on the floor and wore pajamas. It was...interesting. Kind of boring for us. But Cameron somewhat enjoyed himself. He really enjoyed the activity when The Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (one of my favorite Christmas stories since 7th grade) was read and he got to decorate a nativity scene with stickers. I think he did a fabulous job.

Here is the Christmas Tree, stockings, and other such things.

We made a gingerbread house this year. It was fun except that it took a really long time and it still looks a little sloppy to me. I think next year we'll stick to candy trains. Plus Cameron can probably help with those. He couldn't really do much with the gingerbread house.

Here is our Christmas tree. I couldn't get a very good picture with my simple digital camera. But tree lights were on in this picture. Cameron did a really good job at not touching the ornaments or the presents. We also have a tradition that we made in our little family. Clint makes the star out of garland and a clothes hanger and sticks a light up in the middle of it every year. It's actually really pretty. This year he did a four point star. I like the five point star myself.

Here are our stockings. Both Clint's and my stockings are homemade. I wanted to make Cameron's this year but didn't get a chance because I got busy making Clint's Christmas present, so we used the one from the kid's Christmas party.

Cameron had way more fun opening presents this year, but he is 12 months older. He loved just ripping the paper off and getting another present. He helped us open our presents.

Every year when Clint was growing up he would get a teddy bear for Christmas. I'm not exactly sure how he lost his every year. But we decided that we would at least get one for Cameron this year. Thanks goes to the Dollar Store for that one (and most of his stupid little presents that just gave him more to unwrap. He absolutely loved his bear and he still does. Now he has to sleep with his white tiger and his bear. And sometimes he needs all three of his stuffed animals including his Tigger.

Cameron kept trying to get the tricylcle out from under the tree, but we made him wait till last on that present. He loved it and we had to push him around on it all day. He can sort of reach the peddals, but isn't strong enough to move them yet. I'm sure we'll see him strolling around in no time.