3 Week Pictures

 I know I sent a link to these pictures as well but there are more that I want to share with you. Sorry there's so many but I love them all!! If you ever need a good photographer my friend Maija-Liisa did these and did an awesome job! Check out her blog here.

 

Newborn Hospital Pictures

So I know I sent a link to this before but we decided to buy the pictures since they are so priceless.  I want to post them on here as well so I know I have a backup. I can't believe how much she's changed already. She was so little!

 

Playing with Daddy

Tyler LOVES Cambri and is so dang cute with her. He is always trying to get some kind of reaction from her even though she isn't quite at the age to be able to react when she's excited. Let's just say that she is very patient with Daddy.

"Daddy, I'm trying to get my beauty sleep!"

"okay, I guess I can wake up, it will be fun to see all those funny faces"

"Yep, here they come"

"oh great here comes the nose touching"

"oh no, not the Eskimo kiss"

"All right if it makes him happy. Let's just get this done and over with"

"I should have stayed asleep"

"Finally, the last picture"

Well she must have had some fun because she sure was happy after playing with Daddy!

We love our little bunny! Do I see blond hair and blue eyes coming our way? I never thought with my dark features I'd ever have a blond hair blue eyed baby. I guess time will tell! Speaking of time I can't believe how much she's grown lately! She's now 6 weeks old and this last week grew out of her newborn clothes and is now in 0-3 month. I was SO sad when her cute newborn outfits didn't fit anymore!

My Lifesaver

This bottle, The First Year Breastflow, has saved me!

Breastfeeding has definitely been the biggest challenge for me with Cambri. We just had a rough start from the beginning with her being a preemie. She just wouldn't suck long enough or hard enough and we had to supplement with formula from day one. Due to this, I never got a sufficient milk supply and only get about half the milk I should. To supplement I would use a  syringe tube thing that I would put next to the breast while she was feeding and she would suck on it and I'd slowly feed her formula while breastfeeding. Well she and I both hated this. The little tube would poke her mouth and she would spit it out and it took about an hour to feed her plus I had to pump after because she still wasn't sucking everything out. So I decided to try feeding her formula with a bottle instead and breastfeed her normally. This worked for a about a day until she loved the flow of the bottle and not how she had to work at the breast so she would nurse for about 5 minutes and stop. So I had to go back to the tube Well my friend told me about this bottle from the beginning but I couldn't fid it anywhere. Finally I found it at target so I bought it and it is AMAZING! It is just like sucking at the breast. I can now breastfeed and she does really well and then supplement with formula using this bottle and we are both so happy! It's the coolest bottle because it has one nipple inside of the other so she has to both suck and compress just like a real breast. The nipple will also collapse down as she is feeding so she doesn't get air as she sucks. It makes her work getting her milk and makes her latch on just she would the breast. It used to only take about 5 minutes to gobble down a bottle and now it takes about 15 minutes or more which is good because it means she has to work at it (and it keeps her awake longer). So yeah, I love this bottle and recommend it to anyone who is breastfeeding and using bottles.

And here are some more cute pictures of Cambri!!!

St. Patricks Day

Happy St Patricks Day! 

(1 day late posting but it's all good)

 

  This is Cambri before and after her pacifier fell out

It was a little strange having a holiday and not being in class throwing a big class party and making a big deal out of it. I usually have a "leprechaun" mess up my class during recess and leave a map to his pot of gold that goes trough the school. The kids love it. All I got to do today for it was wear green but I do I think I'll be one of those moms that dresses up their kids for every holiday haha. Poor kids.

We did have a busy day celebrating Tyler's brothers Birthday. We got to go to Tucannos to celebrate. It was Cambris first experience at a restaurant. We then got to visit with Tyler's Grandma and Grandpa and then Tyler got to babysit Cambri while I went to our Relief Society's Birthday celebration. I also snuck to Target while I had Tyler babysitting. So it was definitely the busiest day I've had since Cambri was born.