Crazy Week

We have had quite a week around here. I went back to work on Monday, I have started working an extra 2 days a week, Monday and Wednesday. But I also worked Tuesday as well this week, and I am worn out. I enjoyed working it is just going to take a little time to get used to the change. Getting up and getting two kids ready as well as yourself is a bit draining, I'm exhausted before I'm even out the door. Campbell is going to St.Stephens, the same preschool that Bailey went to. It is the only place I feel comfortable leaving her and she really did well the first week. I think she enjoyed being around other kids and having lots to keep her busy, and best of all she even found a snotty nose while she was there and mommy is loving it. Bailey is doing awesome in school. It is amazing how much she is learning, she is reading and sounding out words, and is very into reading books to me, which is great. She is always telling me the sounds that each letter makes and she is just constantly reading and sounding out any words that she sees from books to the cereal box.

I am still doing lawns as well so between work, lawns, kids, family, it gets a little crazy, but we are figuring it all out. The girls are doing great and they get along so well. Campbell is cruising around the furniture but no walking yet, which is perfectly fine with me. We have 11 more days and we will offically have a 1 year old in our house. I cant believe that its almost here, its amazing how much things change in a year.

Bathtime Fun

Tim gave Campbell a bath in the sink the other night. We do this allot because she fits in perfectly and its just allot easier than kneeling over the tub, and she seems to like it to. We'll Tim was giving her a bath because I was deliriously tired, and my actions proved it even more. I was getting things ready and came back to check on the water and thought wow that's allot of bubbles, I then realized that I had put dawn soap in the water. I thought it wouldn't hurt to put her in and let me tell you she had the time of her life in bubble heaven.

It may be hard to see but if you look in the bottom back of Campbell's mouth you will see her new teeth. She has some of her big back chompers in and she is using them full force. She now has 8 total teeth and 2 half sized teeth, its amazing.

10 and 11 Months Old

We'll what better way to start out this post than to do it with a naked baby picture.  Miss Campbell Avery turned 10 months old on July 28, 2010.  And a very special event happened on that very day, she started to crawl.  It's not just any crawl, no it is a very special crawl that needs a post all to itself.  I like to call it the pirate shuffle, you see, as in the picture above that is what she looks like when she is crawling.  One knee is supporting her and the other is dragged to the side, like a pirate with a wooden leg.  It is how she has done it from day one and it looks as if this is how it will remain.  But it is adorable and hilarious to watch.

On August 28th, 2010 Campbell turned 11 months old.  Its so hard to believe that the next post will be 12 months, craziness.  In this last month Campbell has been very busy, she is crawling, pulling up, cruising, getting new teeth as we speak.  She currently has 4 teeth across the top and 2 on the bottom and now 2 bottom back teeth have come in as well, for a grand total of 8, wow.  She has handled it very well, the worse it waking up a few times a night but she always goes right back to sleep. 

She is eating well, we are trying new things all the time, but we still pretty much stick with baby food.  Some textures seem to throw her off, but she loves yogurt, bread, cheese, mashed potatoes, and many others.  We have also started some milk as well.  We usually have this with our meals in a sippy cup.  We have gone organic in the Melton household, not everything, but allot of our dairy products and things like chicken nuggets and fish.  

We tried taking our normal picture in the crib but that just wasn't happenin.  Miss Campbell was up and about so we just had to go with it.  She is a growing girl at 23 pounds and 31 inches long.  She is wearing 12-18 month clothes right now and I'm not sure how much longer that will last. 

Her she is doing what she does best, pulling up on anything that will stand still.  Her vocabulary has become more pronounced.  She says mama and dada, and we call Bailey sissy, but Campbell says it KiKi, its so cute.  At 10 months she started the whole reaching up her arms when she wants to bed held and now at 11 months that has turned in to bird flappin.  She puts her arms in the air and starts flapping them until you pick her up.

Now, I know that you all can tell from this picture that I desperately need to get my baby some toys to play with, ha, yeah right.  Its pretty sad when your 11 months old  already has her own dedicated section of the living room, which is larger than anyone else's might I add.  But this is usually how you will see Miss Cami these days, the back of her.  She always crawling somewhere or found something that she can go through.  She also loves to pull on cords in the bathroom.  Yes the cord of a curling iron that is, no it wasn't on, thank god, but mommies curling iron no longer has an end, seems they break when they hit tiled surfaces, fyi :)

A few days ago it was beautiful outside so we spent some time there.  You may be wondering how I get anything done outside during the day, well thanks to these handy little inventions I can.  The other morning I put her on the back porch in her bouncy saucer and entertained her with some yard mowing.  I think she was quit impressed with her old lady's skills, maybe she'll take over the family business someday, haha!!

These two pictures were both taken at 10 months.  It's amazing to see how they change in just a year.  Campbell is just a wonderful little girl with an awesome demeanor about her.  She is very laid back and very nosy.  I say that in a good way, she is always checking things out to see whats going on.  She likes to watch a situation before making a move to jump into it, its very neat to watch her.  You can see that she is just taking in so much and just processing everything she can. 

I love this picture.  This has been something we have started in the last week.  She likes for me to raise the blinds and she just looks out the window, more of her being nosy I guess.  But she does it in the front yard  and the back as well.  It just makes you wonder what their little minds are thinking, I may regret saying that in a month or two when the words really start coming out of her mouth, ha!!