From the mouth of Camden

Camden is still learning how to grasp time. We talk about days of the week quite often now, and he understands when something happened in the past or when something is going to happen in the future. But, his concept of time is still a bit abstract.

One evening after dinner, Camden looked thoughtful and asked, "Is it 3 days until bedtime?" You wish, buddy!

Referring to his Play-Doh escapades: "I played that all day last night." (And, for the record, "last night" might be referring to the previous night, but he also may be referencing last week, or even two months ago. Right now, "last night" simply means "in the past" to Camden.)

**

Currently, we do not go to church. There are a few different reasons for this, but I grew up in the church and would like to find a church home for us again in the near future. I've made a real effort to start talking to Camden about God lately. We've discussed relatives of ours that now live with God and during one of our conversations, I mentioned that these relatives went to live with God when they were very old. Camden got a far off, thoughtful expression on his face and was quiet for several moments. Then, he asked softly, "Are we new, Mommy?"

**

I had Macey in the bathtub and the space heater running on nearly full blast in the bathroom. Camden walked in, made a face, and exclaimed, "It's hotter than a summer day in here!" (Disclaimer: I have never, EVER used that expression. It sounds better suited to an 80-year-old woman than a 3-year-old boy. Weeks later, I'm still totally baffled about where he heard that line!)

**

A few days ago, we were wrapping Christmas presents and Camden was being my helper. His job was to pick a little sticky name tag and stick it on each gift after I wrapped them. Camden, however, really wanted his job to be playing with tape. As I stuck tape on the carefully folded corners of my gifts, Camden asked why he couldn't be in charge of the tape. I told him that putting tape on the presents was too hard and that I'd have to handle it. He replied, "Putting tape on is hard...but putting the name stickers on is squishy?" (I have to admit, I was initially confused by this statement, until I realized that Camden was thinking about hard in the physical sense of the word-- so squishy made the perfect antonym.)

**

A couple of nights ago, Matt was putting Camden to bed when he had this epiphany:

"I don't think spiders have hands, Daddy. Because if they did, they would open the door." There's just no arguing with that kind of logic.