Mr. Cameron just completed his first official piano recital. He did SUCH a great job. I was a little nervous for him… He was the 12th performer and he was feeling really tired. But you know what? He nailed it. Nailed it:

(If you can’t see it, you can go here.)

Cam performed in his after school program’s talent show… And he did great!! Just think, he still had another week before he performs the same song at his first official piano recital. The best part of this video? How Cam’s not sure what to do after he’s done performing (and my little wahoo since I was shooting the video and couldn’t clap).

Cameron has voiced concerns about the Santa thing. You know what I’m talking about. But we had a discussion about belief and disbelief and he quickly learned that you MUST believe to enjoy Santa’s gifts on Christmas Day. And that discussion worked. We visited Santa this past weekend and Cam had a great time.

A cool part of our Santa visit was how it was part of a local high school’s Breakfast with Santa event. We got to eat doughnuts and then while we waited to see the jolly guy, the kids got to write out their Santa List. Cameron wrote that he wants a Nintendo DS and Mario Kart. After delivering his list to Santa, Cam and his sister got gifts! He won a checker board and he promptly kicked his Dad’s butt in a game. Cameron has clearly been playing a lot at school lately. He’s also started learning about chess!

Later in the day Cameron and his sister pitched in and decorated the tree. They were really good at it this year. I’m going to be able to hand off the job to the kids soon! While I was getting the tree prepared, Cameron spent a lot of time practicing his piano by playing Jingle Bells. He’s thinking about playing that song for his first piano recital in a couple of weeks. I’m looking forward to it. He’s really interested in music and I’ve been fascinated seeing how he’s taken to understanding music a bit!

The highlight of decorating – we learned that Cam is VERY close to getting that Christmas tree star to the top all by himself. In the end, his Dad needed to give him an extra lift.