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1. He was born here in Heidelberg 14 years ago.
   
   
2. From the start, he was quirky. His first word was "cheese."
   
   
3. He was also polite and thoughtful from the start. His second word was "please." All my kids are polite, but Camden's even more so. He thanks me for waking him up in the morning, for goodness' sake.
   
   
4. Camden was the only one of my kids who would tolerate wearing a hat. This evolved into a collection of hats--here are 3 of them: a soda-drinking hat, a solar-powered fan hat, and a moose hat.
   
   
5. He's also the only one of my kids to ever have broken a bone. He broke his right arm the day before we moved from Germany to Texas. He was a couple of months shy of 3 years.
   
   
6. Camden's got a great imagination. When he was very little, preschool age, he told us ongoing stories about "Jack Colvin and the Lost Kids." It went on for a couple of years. I'm still not sure where he got it, and he doesn't remember, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't this actor.
   
   
7. Around the same time, maybe a little later, he came up with a tradition--every time we would have tossed salad at dinner, he would tell a story about "Skinny Teeth." I'm certain it wasn't based off this play, but the stories got quite elaborate, and he could always remember where he left off, even if a week went by without having tossed salad.
   
   
8. Camden's adventurous. He's always eager to try new things. He didn't hesitate to go to the neighborhood grocery store by himself, even though he was the only one of the kids who hadn't learned German yet. Whenever we go to a restaurant, he almost always chooses something he's never had before. Sometimes he doesn't like it, but that doesn't stop him from trying new things.
   
   
9. He's very smart. He's always been on the honor roll, and in 5th grade, he once got not just straight A's, but straight A+'s.
   
   
10. Camden is Carl's new running buddy. For the past year, they've been running together 3 - 4 times a week.
    
    
11. This is Camden's third year in band. He plays the clarinet, and is really good at it. He just bought himself a book of sheet music for the clarinet of Coldplay songs, and that's definitely motivated him to practice. He's also in the jazz band, which meets after school.
    
    
12. Camden has an extensive chicken collection, but he's quit collecting them now. He'd intended to get rid of all the chickens when we moved, but his siblings were aghast at the idea, so he moved them all into Curran's room. Which was frustrating, because we were so tempted to get him this for his birthday, but we had to settle for this instead.
    
    
13. Camden likes plants and animals. He has a... oh, heck--I never know the names of plants. He's got four in his room, though. Two medium-sized house plants, one huge house plant, and a bonsai tree. And he has an aquarium with a water turtle named Gamera and a handful of neons that have to swim fast to escape the "swift claws of justice."
    

1. Mielikki plays I spy
2. Carmen & Jim: cruise news
3. AVTCoach has a blog twin
4. Brenda ND: writer's block
5. Sue: scary kids' books
6. Janet: October quotes
7. things Alice Audrey has read aloud to her husband
8. Colleen: mailing bricks
9. Meju's daughters
   
10. You're next!

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// posted by Darla @ 10/02/2008 11:09:00 AM