Fruit and Veg

Here is a link I found on another blog I read that has some interesting info on food digestion. I've always wondered why sometimes it's harder for me to digest certain fruits and vegetables. Hopefully this will be a good jumping off point in figuring out better food combinations for easier digestion.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/444046-should-fruits-vegetables-be-mixed-together/

We have also started making smoothies with different combos of fruits and veggies for Camden. Sometimes I sneak in my own while making his. He is obsessed with smoothies. I can get him to eat so many greens and vegetables in a smoothie bc he will drink 3 cups full! Another tip I learned is to drink them alone within an hour of eating anything else to absorb all the nutrients.

Any other good fruit/veg tips out there?

dancing and playing the piano

Here are a couple recent videos of Camden. The first one is at my friend Kimberly's house. Her daughter frequently has little dance parties and requests a song to be played on the computer. This one happened to be Fun and Camden was way more into it than Amelia was this time. Usually she is the one dancing away! He had a pretty good groove going on so I had to post it!





This is a video of Camden playing the piano after I had it set up to practice for church. My mom always let us "doodle" on the piano when we were little and has all these cassette tapes of us playing, so I thought it would be fun to keep the tradition alive and let Camden do the same.

Lil Bro got married!

My little brother (not so little anymore) got married last Saturday and I couldn't be happier for him and Lauren! It was a beautiful wedding (outdoors in the hill country) and Jared, Camden, and I had a fun time seeing all our family while we were there. 

Here are some shots from the rehearsal dinner and wedding

 Me and the beautiful bride!

 My mom and her sister, Molly. We got to see her stunning new house in the hill country while we were there, too.

 Bride and Groom

 Me and Jare Bear

 Me and my Meme

 Me and Andrew at the wedding

 Me and Jared with his sister Jordan and Mark

We got to go back to Houston for 2 days post wedding and were able to get all the babies together for a  picture. This is the best we could do! Mason, Estelle, and Camden...toddlers...doing their own thing!

Old Easter Pics and A Bridal Shower

I just uploaded the pictures from our camera today and found some fun ones from Easter that I never posted.
We had a great day at church with friends and then had a little egg hunt with Camden in the front yard with our friend Casey.

 So excited to get more cars at Easter

 playing in the front yard!

Wanting to play ball with Casey!

This is just a silly photo from yesterday. He pulled out the basket in the living room with the blankets and thought it was really funny!

I also attended a bridal shower for a friend Saturday. She is actually from the town where Jared and I grew up and is marrying an old friend as well. Here are some shots from the party. 

Me and Jenn

We had such a fun weekend (our first one in a few months together as a family without Jared working Saturday). We had a BBQ for some friends and neighbors which was also really fun! Next weekend we are planning a little getaway with some friends in the mountains of Malibu. We are excited to get away from the city and our routine for a couple days and relax in nature and enjoy God's presence. Here is a great verse I read today from the desiring God blog that was super encouraging!

The Lord your God is in your midst,

a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.

Zephaniah 3:17

Sometimes I don't believe that the Lord wants to rejoice over me. I know we all struggle with our own guilt, fears and failures, but the fact is, He wants to rejoice over you in spite of these. He gave us great freedom through His son Jesus and I'm learning how to live in that place and learning to fear Him and not anything or anyone else. :)

Start of Summer

We are enjoying the start of summer here in LA! It's warming up a lot more and we have even been to the beach twice! We have been enjoying going to the school park across the street, too. 

We are full on running now! :)

Trying out the swing for the first time.

Baby sized picnic tables! Always wanting to take other people's snacks and water cups.

Imagination

We officially have an imagination!

Words Words Words

This week has been full of fun, new challenges now that I have a toddler, but I'm going to share with you some of the exciting things that have been happening in Camden's world recently instead of boring you with my dronings of tantrums and discipline woes.

It's absolutely amazing to see all of the light bulbs going off in his little head, now. He's connecting some many words to the actual object/person/animal, etc. A few weeks ago, he started saying car and pointing to the cars outside. I don't think that I had made a big deal about showing him cars when we were out or anything, but if you are around us for more than 5 minutes, you will no doubt hear the word car at least 10 times. I bought him a race track for Easter and a little red car he can ride in outside. He absolutely loves it and plays with his cars all the time. I have even let him watch 15 minutes of Cars the movie at a time and we finally made it all the way through the other day. I don't think he could believe that they made a full film just about cars! 

He also has a lot of animal noises and names. Here are some favorites:
mooo for cow
quack and duck
aerrrr for elephant (with trunk motion)
Hoo Hoo for Owl
Bird

Some other favorite words:
Tuck for truck
vroom
beep beep
car for milk because he has it in his cars cup...that gets a little confusing sometimes.
mama
dada
mum mum for more food
No (not my favorite)....but he will say no and point to things he's not supposed to touch. He will also say it if he doesn't fancy doing something.
Ball

My favorite:
Night Night
He says it when he gets tired. I think that it is in reference to wanting his blankie because he always reaches for it when he says night night. He runs in to his room to grab it off his bed. He will usually go down pretty easily after saying night night, too. My mom told me that I always did that when I was little. I would just disappear and then they would find me asleep in my bed. It's been a bit more of an issue as of late because he knows he's tired but doesn't always want to stop playing. :)