Cami in February

Cami is almost 2!  I love this age and she is super fun.  She talks all of the time.  She is very independent and wants to do everything herself, even things she really can't do.  She loves Cade and wants to be just like him.  Some highlights from the month. . .

• We were reading the picture Book of Mormon for scriptures one night and I pointed out Alma in one of the pictures.  Cami found him in every other picture and kept asking "That Alma?" over and over again.  I couldn't really read any more because she was so noisy. 
• We decorated cookies at a friend's house for Valentine's day.  Cami got a hold of one of the bottles of sprinkles and dumped them all over her plate.  She dumped out like 3/4 of the bottle.  She spent the next 20 minutes eating sprinkles.  oh well.  I felt bad that the floor got so messy, but at least sprinkles vacuum up pretty quick. 
• We went and rode the carousel and Cami loved it.  She was very serious the whole time she was on the ride, and didn't smile at all.  As soon as it was over, though, she said "horsey again?"  over and over. 
• Cade loves to choose Cami's clothes.  So does Cami.  She ends up with some interesting outfits.  Often, one of them will choose her shirt and the other will choose her pants.  Cami loves to wear skirts with her pants too.  If her shirt gets wet or dirty during the day, she will go upstairs and get a new one.  She does not like to be dirty.
• One day she was going upstairs to play with Cade and she said "bye-bye Mommy.  Go upstairs.  Love you!"  It was super cute. 
• She loves to wear my and Kirk's shoes. 
• She likes to have her hair done in a pony tail and will tell me if she wants one or two that day. 
• She will not let me help her get in the car.  She will do it all by herself.  If I try to help, she climbs down and does it again.  We just have to make sure we have plenty of time to get in the car whenever we go anywhere. 
• She loves to listen to stories.  She will sit for 10-15 minutes (a long time for a 2 year old) and listen to books.  Some of her favorites are the seek-and-find books where you have to find a specific object on each page. 
• Cami is still a great eater.  She loves asparagus, chicken and broccoli.  She also eats a lot of yogurt and oranges.  Her favorite treat is ice cream. 
• Cami likes to pretend to be Santa clause and puts on our santa hat and asks everyone "Want Christmas?"  then she will go get you whatever you say, either pretend or real. 
• Cami loves to put stickers on paper and glue papers together.  She spends a lot of time at church coloring in notebooks too.  One day I picked her up from class and she was crying saying "color picture" because they didn't have one to color that day.