Fun, fun, fun.

Our favorite thing to do in our house is have fun and laugh.  We try to do a fun activity every night even if it just a dance party after school.  Tonight it was making flowers and playing outside. 

Tatum went to get a snack out of the pantry and she saw the coffee filters.  She asked me what they were and I told what they were and what they were for.  And then I had an idea.  I decided we could make flowers out of them and use pipe cleaners for stems.  So thats what we did, and we had a lot of fun making them!!

Working hard coloring the 'flowers'

Camdyn helping too!!

Our finished flowers in a vase.

When Daddy got home we decided to go outside and enjoy this BEAUTIFUL weather.  Matt mowed the lawn and I pulled weeds.  Tatum danced around and went on her slide and Camdyn got to go in the pink swing for the very first time. 

Twirling

Camdyn in the pink swing.

We put Camdyn to bed in her crib last night for the FIRST time. 

Camdyn's Crib

Yes I know she is 8 months old, but she has slept in our room every night.  I kept saying we were going to have her sleep in her room, but then everything went on with her ears and I wanted her near me.  And yes it is all about me and wanting her in our room right next to me.  :)

So yesterday morning I was kissing her before I left for work and I looked down at her and was like, wow when did she get so big?!?!  Camdyn is almost as big as the bassinet bed!!  So we decided that last night we would put her in her crib in her very own room.

It was tough for me to put her in there, for some reason I was nervous about her being in there alone and it being to dark and yadda, yadda, yadda.  But we got the light just right and got her all settled in her bed.  I checked on her 4 times before I went to bed and of course she was snoozing soundly each time.

Sleeping Beauty

I heard her crying and jumped out of bed and went to get her.  I figured it was around 3 because that is when she has been getting up to eat.  Camdyn and I went downstairs and I looked at the clock to find out it was only 11:45.  Knowing she couldn't possibly be hungry yet and also the fact that she was sound asleep on me again we went back upstairs for a little rocking time.  When I put her back in her crib she was not a happy baby.  I tried a couple of more times to rock her and put her back in her crib but she just wasn't having it.  So I rolled over the bassinet and put her back in our room and of course she went right back to sleep.

So we will try her crib again tonight and when she cries I will be sure to see what time it is first to try and figure out why she is waking up and hopefully can just comfort her back to sleep in the crib if it isn't quite eating time yet!! :)

Figure maybe she will feel a little more comfortable every night and soon she will be snoozing the whole night through in her very own room!! (And then we can work on getting Tatum to sleep in her room!!)