Father's Day, one year later, and a lap full of dinner

Happy Father's Day!

Campbell and I are blessed to have a lot of great fathers in our lives. Each of these men are oh-so valuable to us!

Her exceptional beyond words daddy and the love of my life.

Campbell has three wonderful grandfathers who absolutely adore her. It is a blessing that these men are involved in her life on an everyday kind of basis. Russ & I couldn't hope for anything more for our girl.

My daddy & Campbell's Geda.
Russ's dad & Campbell's Paw-Paw.
Russ's stepdad & Grandpa Bob.
We love you guys!

A year ago, on Father's Day, Campbell was dedicated at church. That morning I took these pictures of her all dressed up and sitting on the chair in Russ and my bedroom.
Wasn't she a precious little thing?

This morning Campbell and I were sitting in the bedroom talking to Russ while he got ready for worship practice before church. I thought about those pictures, taken last Father's Day.

Trying to recreate those pictures with my squirmy, wormy one year-old was a little more difficult!

I put Campbell's dinner on a cute little plastic tray (think miniature cafeteria style tray) tonight thinking she was ready for that. She has actually done pretty well with bowls lately and not totally dumping them out. I stopped paying a whole lot of attention a few minutes into her eating dinner and looked up just in time to see her dump her whole tray of pasta, banana, and pork chop pieces over her head and into her lap.

She even dumps her food cute.

So normally she would have totally gotten in trouble for that, but I realized later that I was too intent on taking pictures. Oops.

Famous Last Words

Life is becoming increasingly more interesting every day since Campbell turned one. It's like someone (someone? :) flipped a switched and amped up her personality. Today she kept Missy and I entertained on a shopping trip to Target and Old Navy with a bag of goldfish and just enough attitude to be cute.

Missy and Spencer came over tonight to check on the progress of our current house project (that is another story for another day!). Missy was telling me that Ellison had just pooped in the bathtub. I thought to myself...not smugly, mind you, just matter-of-factly...that Campbell has never done that, not even as a newborn.

Famous last words. (Thoughts?).

Literally five minutes later, Missy, Spence, and Ellison left and I put Cam in the bath. She was just starting to play with her toys and instructing me which toys to hand her, when I saw IT. It was huge. I yelled for Russ and pulled her out of the tub.

We both totally panicked and acted totally bewildered...like we haven't been dealing with her poop for over a year now.

She was, of course, so funny.

If you have a sensitive stomach, you should probably stop here. I promise it's tasteful at least!


She then instructed her daddy on washing the bathtub. If you know me, you are not the least bit surprised that my child is already demonstrating an overwhelming amount of bossiness. Seriously. How can you spend that much time bossing people around when you only know ten words at the most?



Bathtub's clean. Let's try again.


Second time around was definitely less eventful!

First Birthday!!

So it's about time I got around to posting first birthday party pics of our girl.

First up, her actual birthday. Some time ago, someone had given me the advice to spend time just the three of us on her actual birthday. We thought it sounded like a great idea. Looking back, with the chaos that was her party, we are so glad to have had that evening together to celebrate one year of life with Campbell Rose.

We started by turning her carseat around to face the FRONT.

She wasn't as excited as I thought she would be at first. She was pretty happy about it the next day though!

Then we went to Double Dave's. Cause you know, we trust the crust. Campbell had her first taste of pizza!

Next we went to get ice cream. I have been BEYOND neurotic about what Campbell can and cannot eat. So other than family members (yes, I know who you are!) sneaking her bites of things, she has not been allowed to have sweets at all. We didn't want to give her cake and ruin the birthday party cake effect, so we opted for ice cream instead. I think she actually enjoyed the ice cream much more.

Birthday party post coming soon!

Diapers are for babies

Campbell is officially on the mend. She hasn't had any fever since yesterday and is starting to eat and drink like normal again.

Today we saw the return of her personality. When I laid her down for her nap this afternoon, she was in her diaper and a shirt. When I went to get her up, this is how I found her....


Her daddy said I had to censor the pictures. She was just too proud of herself!