Cutest Baby Ever

Kambria is such a great Baby!! She has her moments as all babies do, but I just love her to pieces. I went in to check on her while she was napping and she was the wrong direction in her crib, on her tummy and the cutest ..... her toes were poking out the slats of the crib. She is 100% sitting up now and grabs everything around her, she is a fun kid!

I must say the 5 min (with letting her cry and then comfort, previous post) thing has brought a lot of happiness to me!!! It worked so well, and Kambria is only waking up 1 time a night. Going to bed around 8, waking at 2 and then waking again around 7 or 8. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!

Nothing much else new, other then today we went to the park, and the little guy I tend was stung by a bee/wasp/hornet 2 times, not fun at all for him or me. But he is okay, and his parents were understanding, can't really control insects when you are outside!

Sleep issues!

My Baby Kambria has some major sleep issues, she sleeps way under the amount she should. She cries and so mommy is a sucker and goes and picks her up and talks to her and she has caught on apparently, and doesn't sleep, just cries. At her 6 month check up I was telling the Dr. what a horrible sleeper she is, he stated that I needed to put in ear plugs and just let her cry :0( Yeah not going to happen I thought to myself as I said okay to the Dr. Well it just keeps getting worse and worse .... in return, mom gets no sleep so she is tired, ornery, and useless.
I was talking to my sister and telling her how hard it is, she suggested the following method.
Put Kambria to sleep, allow her to cry for 5 mins, go into her room and comfort her .... however DO NOT pick her up. Leave the room once she is calm and allow her to cry 1o mins this time unless she goes to sleep, if still crying after 10 mins go in and comfort her again, leave and let cry for 15 mins, you then repeat the 15 mins until she goes to sleep.
This sounded way too hard for me, I really feel like a jerk to let my little baby girl cry ..... BUT I need my sleep. So today when she would not take a nap, and I was getting frustrated, after getting only 4 hours of sleep last night (Marshall was up with high fever all night), I decided it was time.
I put Kam in her crib, she gave me the sad eyes and I walked out, she began to cry, so loud, so hard, so sad ..... I sat in the kitchen listening to her cry .... counting down the 5 mins feeling like the worst mom in the world. After 5 mins I ran in her room, put her Binky in her mouth rubbed her tummy, said I was so sorry, talked to her and almost cried. She calmed down and I walked out ..... so wanted to pick up my little girl. Went back in the kitchen, Kam starts crying then stops after about 2 mins, go peek in and she is sound asleep. YEAH :0), she is asleep faster then it would normally take, and she didn't have to be held or fed to go to sleep.
I here you have to do this about 2 or 3 times before they understand and it works.
I will continue this for I know it is best for us all. Lets all hope it works like a charm tonight!!!!

Da Da

This is just for my records so I can remember to put it in Kambria's baby book!!
Today Kambria looked at Jake and said da da, and then did it over and over again. I love when there babbling starts to connect and they put it with something. Da Da always seems to come first, so now the waiting for when she says ma ma.

Kambria sitting

Kambria is just over 6 months and she finally has the sitting down. She still falls over once in a while, but she can sit for long periods and reach for things. She is getting good. She is all over th plac on her tummy, circles and forward a bit. She is so much fun !!! :0)

July 10th at 11:00am Marshall's Water Party

Hey friends, Marshall wants to have a water party with his friends! We have a big water slide and a pool to play in. Come have some fun. We will provide some hot dogs and chips! Let the neighbors know, cause I am not sure who all checks our blog. The more the merrier. It will be this Friday at 11:00. Leave us a message and let us know if you will be coming so we know how much food to buy!!

4th of July Weekend

The 4th was a lot of fun!! We started out the weekend by Jake with the help of Ryan and my dad and then later his dad and BJ helping build an awning over our patio, it is so so so so nice!!!! Friday night me and the kids and my parents and Ary’s kids went to the Riverton Parade, it was a lot of fun. We ate pizza and then watched the parade. Fun but very HOT! On Saturday we had family and friends over for a Big BBQ and water party! Last year my mom bought a big huge water slide, and we have several pools. So what we did was … we took out a section of the fence between our yard and the Rousey’s that way we had a lot of yard to play with. We set up the slide in the Rousey’s backyard and it was a blast. The day started out by Jake soaking me with water. Throwing me in the pool, he is lucky there were people or he would have been in TROUBLE!!!!! But I was in my swimsuit so it was okay and it was fun. After lots of swimming and food , we did fireworks out front. It was a fun night!

There are a lot of pictures so I combined a lot of them together.

This is the kids sitting on the curb at the parade.

Splash Park

In our ward we do a park play group and each week it is at a different park. Today it was at the Splash Park!!! So I packed up the kids (including the 2 I watch) and we headed over. It was fun, but 1 hour was plenty long trying to keep track of 3 kids when you are used to 1!!!
Here are some pics of Marshall:

Kambria hung out in the stroller
Soaking Wet Poser Boy

Running right through the water, much more brave then last year :0)

It got him right in the face !

He loved that thing for some reason???