Camille - 15 months

Camille has been through a lot this months. Mostly good things, but a couple hard things, so it has been an interesting month.

Okay, confession time. I am writing this a month late. I have been such a huge slacker in blogging (sorry Camille). I wrote down some of the new things she is doing, so I will just write those because I have forgotten the specifics of last month. I am so sad.

Camille is a little talker. I love it. Some words that she says are fishies, in reference to the goldfish crackers. Hot, especially when I take something out of the microwave. I know, which is so cute because she just repeats it and repeats it, "I know, I know, I know". Hi and Bye. Strawberry (a favorite fruit of hers). Careful (I think I say this a lot to her, probably because she is climbing on everything). Hachoo, it is so cute. When she hears me sneeze she will pretend to sneeze and say hachoo, and last but not least "oh no". I think she picked that up at her Aunt Shantel's house. Instead of saying uh-oh all the time she now switches between the two. It is so cute.

Camille just loves monkeys!

The reasons that this month has been hard is because first she got six shots!!!! Six shots at one time! Three in each leg. Oh goodness. It was so sad. She was such a trooper at the doctors office. It is the first time in months though that the next day her legs have been so sore that she didn't want to walk. Her legs use to hurt her after shots when she couldn't walk or crawl, but ever since she started walking we haven't had a problem with shots, but we did this time. It was so sad.

A day after shots we headed down to Utah and on the way picked up the stomach flu from my parents. Luckily it was only a 24 hour deal, but it was still nasty. We went to church with Shantel and David Sunday Morning, and Camille wasn't feeling 100%, but I didn't know if she was sick or just from her shots still. We luckily ended up sitting in the overflow on the basketball court. I was holding her and she was holding her bunny rabbit, then all of a sudden an explosion came out of her mouth. I had never seen so much throw up. It went all over me and the bunny rabbit and the floor. It was really disgusting. We hurried and walked back to Shan's house and hopped in the shower and changed our clothes. It was just quite the experience. That night after putting Camille to bed I wasn't feeling very well and threw up many times during the night. I was so grateful that Camille only threw up once. Especially at Shantel's house where other healthy babies were.

Camille loves to play at the park, and also loves Hippos for some reason. 

I cut Camille's hair for the first time in her life this month. It was getting kind of long, and I was babysitting a little girl and her hair was so cute. So I decided to cut Camille's hair. A month later I am still so glad that I cut it. It makes her look so cute and not as homeless.

Camille learned how to find her tongue this month. It is so cute, I will say where is your tongue and she will point to it. Then she will try to find mine and when she touches it I make a noise and jerk back and she thinks it is so funny. I just love her little laugh.

Camille, you are the sweetest girl. I hope you know that I love you and think the world of you. I hope you always stay sweet and stay you. Don't let the world tell you to be anything that you don't want to be! Love you!

Easter

This Easter has been so fun with Camille. Kevin's parents are so great. They had a fun little Easter party. We went to the park and played baseball with Jenny's family and Grandma even was batting. It was so fun. Then we went and ate soup and had an Easter egg hunt. Camille was not exactly sure what to do, but once she saw some goldfish in a bag on the ground, she was all about finding more things. I love spending time with family and I am so glad Kevin's parents live closer to us.

Another fun thing we did for Easter this year was attending a Easter egg hunt in a swimming pool. Have I told you how much we love our neighborhood? We absolutely adore the people here. We are so sad to leave. There is a club house in the neighborhood and the owners put on a fun Easter egg hunt. They had some eggs outside on the lawn that everyone went and collected first, then everyone moved inside and they had the pool sectioned off into age groups. Camille's group was in the little wading pool. They had put empty Easter eggs in the pool and even sunk some with little rocks for the older kids. Camille had so much fun picking up Easter eggs and putting them in her little bowl. After the Easter egg hunt was over Kevin hopped in and we all went swimming for a while. We always take advantage of free swim days over there.

We dyed eggs for Easter this year. Kevin was unfortunately gone, but Camille and I proceeded to do it anyway. She thought it was so cool. She just wanted to touch everything. I probably should have let her explore them more, but they were so wet.

The next day for her little Easter egg hunt she found them though. She started hitting them together like she did with her blocks, but they started breaking so I had to take them away. She was so sad. This was her first Easter basket (last year when she was 4 months old I didn't do anything, I am the lame mom like that). This year though she mostly liked the basket the most. She would carry it around for a long time after. The basket was so large that she had to put her arm practically straight up so it would stay off the ground. It was sweet. She is just the sweetest (have I ever said that in any other post? probably not. I should say it again) She is the SWEETEST girl.

I was so glad that General Conference landed on Easter weekend. It always makes for a special conference and this was no different.

A week after Easter Camille and I went down to Utah to spend time with family. Melissa was so awesome and made a little Easter Egg hunt for Lydia and Camille. Melissa is so awesome and thoughtful. Camille was pretty sick, but she still really enjoyed it, and we just love being with family!

Happy Easter!!