We are home again after a magic time at Nature’s. The whole family was together – 17 people in the house, and Lola! Cam’s second Christmas was really special! And he actually seemed to know more or less what was going on this year. He kept saying ‘Christmas!’ and ‘Another present?’
Cam absolutely loved the sea, the beach, the lagoon... He rushed into the water shouting, ‘Deeper! Deeper!’ and despite the fact that he stayed in the water until he was blue and shivering, there were tears every time we finally wrenched him away. He was even sleep talking about swimming. His grandparents, aunts and uncles ran up and down sand dunes with him, took him for rides on surf boards and walks in the forest, jumped over waves with him, dug holes, etc, etc. His cousins were also amazing – they caught fish for him to touch, tried to prevent him from eating too much sand, played with him tirelessly... It brought us deep seated joy, relief, healing and sheer pleasure to watch his fearless, insouciant elation, his revelling in God’s creation. My little man teaches me new things every day.
He is a real little linguistic sponge at the moment, repeating absolutely everything we say – very cute and awesome to be holding mini conversations with him! He also sings most of the day. Murray says he’s living in a permanent Gilbert and Sullivan musical... We’ve started potty training and he is getting very good at telling me, ‘Pooh!’ when such an event has occurred. He got undies for Christmas, and he has officially used the potty once, but I do believe I will still be buying nappies for quite some time... :)
In terms of his vision, he is still coping pretty well, despite the fact that his world is now rapidly expanding and we are noticing his need to compensate. We don’t hold him down anymore, when we put his lenses in. He lies perfectly still and cooperatively announces, ‘Tiny lenses!’ On Christmas morning, sitting with my folks, he pointed each time to the respective set of eyes and said, ‘Grandpa’s glasses – Granny’s glasses – lenses.’ He mistook his Great-Aunty Nettie for Granny (they are sisters and do look very alike), and he mistook the model on the box of my Nice ‘n Easy Natural Dark Chestnut Brown hair colour for his Aunty Shaleen - both gorgeous! :) That kind of tells us how much detail he can see. He can make out hair length and colour, shape of face, and maybe some other features? Not sure.
I’ll post some holiday photos on the blog in the next couple of days. There are gazillions... hard to choose!
May 2010 be a year of living in the light – a year of laughter and adventure, growth and prayer, contentment and truth.
‘The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand.’ – Psalm 37:23-24
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