As Spring approaches I have been reflecting on this past season.
Oh this winter has been such a fabulous one! We have filled it with so many memories. A lot of Christmasy adventures for the holidays, and now a lot of outdoor time. We have built snowmen and had snowball fights, and we have attended the zoo in short sleeves and sunshine. We love Colorado's weather it is so great. A little mix of everything.
We are the usual Wright family level of busy. Garth is working and attending grad school. He always takes on so much I am always so inspired by how happily he does it. He is currently working about 35 hours a week plus full time school. Tuesday Thursday are happy days because we get to have breakfast all together as a family before he leaves for the entire day of classes.I have been really enjoying the area we live in. Our ward is just so awesome. We have made some great friends and they make my week so much better. We have a little work out group and it is much needed social time for the moms as well as a really good workout. I love it. We got really lucky with our ward having so many great and fun families!!
I feel really at peace where we currently live. Great friends, near family, good area-- I try not to think about the inevitable fact we will most likely have to leave it!
I enjoy being a stay at home mom. It is such a blessing. I've come to understand that it really is so hard, but I wouldn't change it. It is also wonderful and fulfilling. It just depends on the moment of the day sometimes [;
Camden is our busy bee. Gosh he is just so energetic. My sister told me not long ago that just watching him run around exhausts her. He is the typical into-everything-destructive boy. I love it. He's so fun. Currently he really enjoys being a "big helper". He helps unload the dishwasher, load the dryer and start it, dust, sweep, and pretends to vacuum with his shovel while I vacuum for real lol. Most of the time letting him help makes things go much slower, but he gets so excited I just can't say no. He loves all things that include some sort of ball.
He can play basketball forever, catch, soccer, baseball and golf.. he loves them all. Grandpa has been enjoying teaching Camden how to putt, and Garth has been enjoying teaching him how to bat. It's a good thing Camden likes sports so far, he has a lot of family counting on that.
He made it through nursery alone for the first time today (this is his third week). The first week he didn't make it very long, the second week I stayed with him most the time and then this week he did it! We are happy. I love nursery, it made all the little ones seem so old watching them color and have their lessons.
Tantrums seem to have really settled as Camden has learned to communicate better and grown up a bit. Of course he is still a toddler boy! But he knows what it means to go sit in time out (we do our timeouts on the stairs). So occasionally he will go over there and sit down in time out when asked to. Usually while in time out he has to sit still and I give him some sort of talking to, I'm not sure he understands but he always whispers "OKAY" back when I'm finished. Then we usually do our best to go correct his "wrong". He's really good at saying sorry or saying "CLEAN UP!" as he throws away his food he dumped. Sometimes I wonder if he enjoys the correcting the wrong too much and so he doesn't mind getting in trouble.Camden can talk with the best of them. I'm really actually amazed at all he can say on a daily basis, I couldn't even count all his words. Which is probably only amazing to me because he is my first child!
But just to name a few of the typical words 18 month old Camden says:
"Hi" to everyone
"see ya!" when we are leaving anybody
"please" and "thank you"
"I want it" when he wants something
"I see it" or "I see you"
"baseball"
"football"
He can say almost all his cousins and aunts and uncles names
"jesus" "church"
"I fell" when he falls down
"Hurt" when he's hurt
"help" if he wants help with something.
"happy" and "be happy"
"love you"
"sippy"
"snow"
"toothpaste" etc etc. He really just imitates us all day long so he learns new words often. I love it!
But probably my favorite thing is that every single night after prayers Camden gives each of us a hug while saying "awwwh", then a kiss, then says "push it" (asking if he can turn off the light).
He turns off the light and I put him in his crib and he says "bear?" I hand him his bear.
"Eli?" I hand him his elephant. Then he says "night night" and I say it back, then he says "LOVE YOU!"
It is the sweetest little routine ever. I hope it sticks around for a long long time!
