The Tompkins Family: Camilla

Camilla is a fantastic addition to our family. We love her so much!

She is almost ALWAYS in a good mood.
She eats everything (except peaches). Her favorites are grapes and fruit snacks.
She sleeps like a champ. 7:30p-7:30a without a peep. Its been this way for probably 16 of the 17 1/2 months she has been alive. Plus she takes one or two naps a day!

She loves to play with Gorden and Adelaide.
She likes to follow me around and do what I do. (I love this.)
She loves to read and to be read to. She can spend a lot of time looking through books by herself.

She appreciates being treated like a big kid. One example of this is if I give her a small bowl of grapes or crackers and NOT put her in her high chair, she is thrilled! She will go sit where Gorden likes to sit on the couch whenever he is watching a show. Or maybe she will sit in the middle of the floor. In fact, wherever she is when I say "sit down" is right where she sits. Its kind of funny.

She likes to put things on her head,like hats, bowls, paper, necklaces, etc. She does pretty well at balancing things there and gets excited like shes proud of herself.
She LOVES swimming!

The doctor says she will probably be 5 foot 11.
She colors every single day. She loves to color! She usually chooses the orange crayon.

She gives wet kisses and is starting to squeeze our necks for hugs. Usually she lays on our shoulder and tucks her arms down beside her and underneath her stomach (which is how she laid on our shoulders for so long when she was swaddled!)

She likes to give high-fives. If she is mad about something and runs away, or grabs something she shouldn't and runs away, and just calling her doesn't get her back, she will almost always come running if you ask her to give you five!
She loves the bath! Especially when either Gorden or Adelaide join her because that makes it more fun. She loves them!

She likes to fold her arms and whenever we say the word "prayer" she stops what she's doing and folds her arms and bows her head.
She likes to be outside.

She talks all day long! Camilla has lots of words she says that we can understand: mama, dad, papa, Adelaide (which she uses for both Adelaide and Gorden), baby, Hi, bye bye, snack, teeth, eyes, ear, nose, bubble, dog, grandma, grandpa, suck (as in "pacifier"), diaper, ball, bath, and probably some others.
She can point to correct body parts when you say the word, and she echoes it: eyes, nose, lips, teeth, tongue, ears, hair, belly button, toes, and dimples.

Camilla loves babies. She carries a baby doll around half the time. She likes to pretend to feed them and she loves to hug them. She walks around the house pushing the baby doll stroller and sometimes puts them in the highchair.

She likes to put on bracelets, necklaces, and chapstick, and carry a bag or purse on her arm.
She knows where the nail polish is and often brings it to me to paint her nails. She likes having it on but doesn't sit still for long enough to do all her nails at the same time. So we do them in shifts. That's how she prefers it.

(She is not yelling, just super expressive!)

She tries to be sneaky and get into Gorden and Adelaide's stuff. We've had to get creative about where we put things lately. She's good. You know how people say when the house is quiet then its time to worry? Like somebody is up to no good. Yeah I've never had that before. With either of my first two kids! But lately with Camilla, she's busy and tricky and smart and determined!

We call her Camilla, Millie, Millie Belle, Camillie, Camilla Belle, and Baby Face.
She is super silly and makes us all laugh out loud every single day. She is so much fun! She smiles all the time and we are in love with her gap and her dimples and HER!

The Tompkins Family