Cami is so cute right now!  She talks a lot and has such a happy, fun-loving personality.  She loves to laugh and be tickled.  She loves Cade (except when he steals her toys) and her mommy and daddy. She never wants to be left out of anything. 

• We went to the park and the drinking fountain was turned off.  I told Cami it was broken and she said "batteries in it?"
• She loves to get animals and run around and make the roar (garr) at you
• She loves to crawl through tunnels like my legs. 
• She gets so excited whenever we see puppies or kitties.  We go visit Mary (our older neighbor) just so Cami can see her little dog.
• She is great at cleaning up and loves to pack and unpack bags and boxes.
• Cami has started singing lots of songs.  She sings Raffi's tingaleo like this "AAAOOO, come donkey come."  We have been going to a music group with kids in the ward called Cherubs.  One song they do every week is "when I sing La la la" by Janine Brady.  Each of the kids get a puppet.  Cami loves this part.  At home she takes her socks off and puts them on her hands and starts singing "sing la la la."  We were driving home from Yakima late one evening.  We listened to this song about 20 times in the car.  Each time it ended Cami would say "more la la la" and then when it started she said "Cherubs today.  Puppet.  La la la."  It was cute.  Cade was getting sick of it by the end. 
• Whenever I tell Cami I don't know where something is or we need to find it she says "hiding?"  If I ask her to look for it she bends over and stares at the floor  and says "not here."
• She loves to wear anything pretty--skirts, dresses, ribbons, flowers, bows.  She is a cute girl.
• She loves to play with our blocks and build towers or just stand them all up on end.  She doesn't love it when Cade knocks over her tower or steals her blocks.
• We dropped Cade off at preschool one day and I was driving home.  I asked Cami what we should do.  She said "play."  I asked her what she wanted to play with.  She said "babies."  So we went home and found a few dolls and blankets.  She wanted to feed the babies and put them in our high chairs.  We wrapped them up and put them to bed and sang them songs.  It was really fun to play with just Cami.  She was really excited and could do all of her ideas without interference. 
• We went to storytime at the library.  It is for Cade and over Cami's head.  She had a great time and took stuff out of my purse and rolled on the floor and pulled off her socks and boots.  She just played right by Cade and I for 45 minutes. 
• Cade was pretending there was a dinosaur in his room one day and we went and said "buggabuggaboo" to scare it outside.  The rest of the day (and whenever we mention dinosaurs) Cami says "dinosaur, room" over and over again until we go scare it away. 

• There is a country song that sings "When the sun goes down it will get a little hotter"  I was singing this one day and Cade said "No, it should be when the sun goes down it will get a little darker." 
• We were playing with alphabet magnets one day and he can find all of the letters in his name.  He can write a C A D and E but they all face different directions and are randomly placed on the paper.
• He can do up buttons on his shirt
• He was playing with his dump truck one day.  It is a fisher price toy and had a little person that can drive it.  He told me that the guy stands up to drive it because he can't sit down because he doesn't have a bum.
• We have a laundry hamper made of pvc pipe with a mesh bag.  I think this is one of the favorite toys in the house.  One day Cade pulled it apart so he had the top square and 2 long leg pieces and Cami had the bottom part.  Within a few minutes he had made that into a vacuum, a lawn mower, a picnic table, a garage, a chair, a truck and a tunnel.  He has quite an imagination!
• We took the kids fishing a few weeks ago and Cade was in heaven all day.  He got to eat lunch sitting on a rock and using another rock as his table.  We brought his sand tractors and he got to dig in the dirt.  He also filled up a Ziploc bag with dirt from all around the car over and over. 
• We had Jack-O-Lantern pancakes for Halloween with chocolate chip faces.  Cade ate away his pancake and showed us how it just had eyes left.  Then he ate one of the eyes and said "Look, Mike Wazouski!"
• Cade loves to play hide-and-seek.  We played for about 45 minutes one Sunday evening.  Cami loves it too, but you have to watch her because she cheats!
• We got to bring home a new tractor book from the library and Cade thinks it is awesome!
• He told me he was going landscaping.  He put his feet into 2 boxes and started sliding around.  I was a little confused.  Today we had freezing rain and Kirk was sliding around on the ice.  He told me that Daddy was landscaping.  I think he means ice skating.
• He loves to build a garage out of blocks and park all of his cars in it.  Cami would rather build a tower with the blocks and sometimes they don't get along very well. 
• We went to the mall Christmas parade and Cade was so excited to see Santa!  A few mascots from local teams were also in the parade and Cade wasn't too sure about them.  Cami loved them and after Cade saw how excited Cami was he thought it was ok to give them a high five.  
• Cade still loves preschool and his church class.  He still gets a little nervous when strangers come over, but he loves to be with his friends.  He doesn't play much with them, but still enjoys spending time with them. 

Cade and Cami loved Halloween this year.  Cade wanted to be a doctor and Cami has a cute Belle dress that she used. 


We carved pumpkins a few days ahead of time and they loved seeing them all lit up.  We went to our music group in the morning and the kids got to wear costumes. 
I took the kids trick-or-treating during the afternoon of Halloween day at some stores nearby and they thought it was great.  Cami was super shy at first, but by then end she didn't want to stop!  We came home and had scones and chili for dinner.  Kirk made it home record-early (5:15) and we ate and got set to go trick-or-treating.  The street we live on has no young families.  We had one neighbor who told us she had made cookies for our kids and we had to go visit her and another lady who we see out on walks all of the time and we love her.  Cami loves her dog :).  So we visited with these two first and then walked about a block to a street we know has lots more kids around.  Cade thought it was great and loved knocking on the doors and getting candy. We weren't too sure how Cami would act because she has been pretty shy the last few weeks and only wants to be with mommy.  However, she loved it!  She was running down each driveway yelling "next one, next one."  Some homes would offer a bowl so the kids could pick one and Cami usually ended up with 2.  She also had to knock on each door, even after Cade knocked.  It was a fun evening and we definitely have enough candy to last us a while now!

Some of our good friends from LA came to visit us a couple of weeks ago.  They were here for general conference.  They have a 2 year old girl and are expecting another one any day now.  We were a bit limited in what we could do, but it was super fun to talk and hang out.  We went to the park for a picnic on Saturday. 

Cami's hair looks awesome when she goes down slides!

After conference was over, we didn't have a lot of time, but wanted to get out of the house again.  Richland isn't super excited, but we did go to Costco and get some smoothies!  Next time you come, we will plan something better, I promise!  They guys went to the priesthood session and we stayed home and played outside and put kids to bed.  We had a late adult only dinner which was kind of nice.  Sunday we watched more conference and went for a walk around the temple.  We had an early dinner and sent them back to Portland around 5:00.  It was a quick trip, but I really appreciate them making the effort to come.  It is always fun to spend time together!

The girls wanted to share the stuffed animals with Kirk