My Little Sorter

A few weeks back, I spilled a bowl of buttons in our office. I picked them up and put them in a bowl with a missing lid so I asked Camden if he would get a plastic bag. He came back and said, "Mommy, I'll put them in the bag. Okay Mommy?"

I had moved onto a different room and came back about thirty minutes and found that he was sorting the buttons by color and the one baggie and increased to nine baggies. He was even sorting the dark blue buttons from the light blue buttons. Every time these kind of sorting or organizations moments happens it freaks Anson out. Since I am the same way and have not taught Camden these behaviors, Anson is shocked that this organization/sorting behavior has been passed down. I love it!

About once a month Camden will pull out six Tupperware containers and sort through his money. He will spend a couple hours doing this.

My mom gave Camden and Sydney a bag of colored balls to play with....well, Camden likes to sort them by color in piles and then line the perimeter of the room color after color. He is a very organized player.
One other unusual traits I think Camden has is extreme patience! He had just turned 3 when this picture was taken. He found one of Sydney's Tinker Bell puzzles with fifty pieces and worked on that thing until it was complete. He took each piece and tried it on every other piece turning each side to find the matching piece. He worked on that puzzle close to two hours the first time. I knew he was really working hard because he wouldn't look up, respond to you and he was breathing hard. Camden does not give up and will work at almost anything until he figures something out. His hard work reminds me of this at the age of 2. He has the sorting/organization trait from his mom and not giving up and figuring stuff out from his dad.