5.10.2011

10 Months!

Show us how many months you are, Cambria!

good job!

She now has her 4 top teeth along with her 2 bottom ones.

She loves creating disarray by pulling books off of tables, or by pulling every item of clothing out of our bottom drawers.

Most of the day she goes around saying ma ma ma. She also goes around saying da da da and buh buh buh. As of lately she seems to talk to herself while she's playing and makes lots of different sounds as if she understands what she's saying.
Along with her pureed food she now eats cheese, cheerios, cut up grapes, animal crackers, goldfish crackers, wheat bread, applesauce, bananas (shares one with mom every morning), rice krispes and anything else that looks of interest to her.
She now climbs up on chairs, stools, the coffee table, couches, the vacuum, the dishwasher and anything else she finds to help her walk around during the day.
She loves climbing up the stairs and crawling down the hall to push dad's office door open and see what he's up to. She's pretty good at stair climbing and can do it fast. It's a good way for her to burn energy.

Mom's first Mother's day with the sweet little girl who made me a mom :)
She has pretty good balance now and manages to stand for a few seconds at a time before she gets nervous and squats back down.

Dad found Cambria her first turtle! She got to crawl around after it for a while before we walked it back down to the watershed.
She picks up EVERYTHING off the floor and puts it into her mouth. I am surprised she hasn't tried to eat an ant yet. She knows she's not supposed to put things from the floor into her mouth so if she knows I saw her do it she'll give a guilty look and try to crawl away from me as fast as she can.

Her dad brought her home a giant bear full of animal crackers. She LOVES them and gets a really excited expression when one of us pulls the bear down from the top of the fridge and lets her take out a cracker or two. Here she is making her surprised/guilty face even though she is allowed to be eating the animal crackers.

She enjoys the swings at the park. She gets to go swinging with mom while dad practices tennis on the courts.

She will not sit down in her bath. She is up and all over the place. It's a chore trying to find something to occupy her long enough so that she forgets how much she wants to stand up and climb around.

Daddy is her best friend and she loves to play with him. She has started crying and crawling after him when she notices him leaving.

New York Trip - 3 yrs!

For our anniversary this year Amos and I got to go to New York City! I have wanted to go there for so long. My parents came up to watch Cambria for Friday and Saturday. We had a great time exploring with the help of some colleagues of Amos who live in the city (one was our tour guide and one was our photographer - lucky us!)

Friday evening we were able to go to the Manhattan temple.

Afterward we met up with the guys for dinner and on the way we passed the Seinfeld restaurant!
Saturday morning we started out riding bikes all around Central Park. The weather was perfect and it was a blast.

We took a lunch break and ate at the famous Shake Shack. We got there just before the line started forming out the door and around the corner.

Amos and Boss-man
Then we walked around Times Square...
Went to M&M world...
Went by NBC Studios and saw the set for the Today Show at Rockefeller Plaza...
Got some Red Velvet cupcakes and Banana Pudding from Magnolia Bakery...
and saw the Naked Cowboy, and other naked things...
Wahoo for Anniversary trips!

Easter

This little bunny was spoiled for her first Easter! From her Mimi & Geepy she got a basket full of all of the flavors of gerber puffs, a bathing suit for the beach, a peter rabbit book, a bouncy ball egg, a pretty headband and mom's pink bunny from when she was a kid.

The rest of the loot was all for mom and dad. Yum!

And then, of course, Dad had to clear out Target's shelves of Cadbury chocolate eggs ;)

Easter day was great. We went to Church, took Cambria swinging at the park, and enjoyed a nice dinner with good friends.

Visit to Mimi & Geepy's

One night as I was getting ready for bed I went to wash Cambria's bottles and no water came out of the faucet. I called a neighbor and she was having the same problem. I can't say I've ever encountered that before. I called the water company and found out there was a water main break due to some construction and that they didn't have a time frame for when the water would be back on. We couldn't shower, or wash dishes or anything.

Luckily we had an emergency kit with some bottled water that we could use until the water came back on. Once it came back on it was brown and we were not supposed to use it unless it had been boiled. Cambria and I took this opportunity to go visit Mimi and Geepy.

Geepy and Scott were running a 5k mud run so we got to go watch them, rain and everything. Cambria loved the mug Geepy got and wouldn't let go of it without a fight, so he got her one of her very own which she loves.
We got to go visit her Great Grandma (at home) and Grandpa (at his airport). She loved the wind chimes hanging in their house and pulled them down almost instantly.

Here she is playing with a little red chair that belonged to my great great grandmother that my dad remembers from when he was little.

We also got to take her to the park on a nice day where she got to try the swing and the slides.


Looking studious playing on the ipad.

Thanks for a nice visit!