Cambree at 9 months.

It's hard to believe that this month Cambree will be 9 months old. She has grown so much in the past few weeks that I wanted to write about it so I don't forget. I feel like overnight she has turned into a little girl. A smart, curious, smiley and loving little girl. In the past few weeks she has learned how to clap her hands, eat solid food, CHEW!, feed herself snacks, crawl, stand up on furniture and use it to walk, take a bottle and hold her own bottle and she has gotten her first (FOUR!) teeth!! Seriously, all the the past 3 weeks. What the heck happened to my sweet sleepy snuggly baby? Now she is squirmy and wide eyed, always trying to be in on the action.

She is still as sweet as ever and often when we go to the grocery store or out shopping I catch her smiling at strangers just waiting for them to look over so she can win them over with her smile.

In a month she will get her helmet off and although it was tough financially for us I am so grateful we made the decision to correct her misshaped head. It is now almost perfect and it has been a blessing for Cambree to have while she has been learning to crawl/walk. It has protected her from her many falls and has enabled her to be fancy free and adventurous, which we love!

We sure love our {not so} little bug!

Car

Cambree is 6 months!

Can you believe it? I sure can't. 

Our little baby girl is 6 months old!!

She has been such a blessing in our lives. I just want to hold her close and soak her in because I feel like time with her is so precious. She really is only a baby for a short period of time and then it's gone. I want to enjoy every single second with that sweet little girl and not take anything for granted.

Cambree at 6 months:

* She sleeps 7-7 every day without fail. The girl is seriously like clockwork. I haven't heard a peep from her after putting her to sleep since she was 2 months old. Between 7 and 8 every morning I go in to her room to wake her up and she usually is already awake and talking to herself and as soon as she sees me she gets a huge smile on her face and starts kicking like crazy!

* She scares very easily! She jumps at EVERY loud noise and if she is playing by herself and doesn't hear me walk up she always jumps when she sees me. Bathroom flushes and hand dryers also terrify her.

* Unfortunately our cute girl has a misshaped head. We have done everything we can to help it grow normal but it's just not happening so she got fitted today for a helmet. It was a sad day, but the way Ryan put it was "Well I'd rather her have to wear a helmet for 3 months than have her be "the girl with the weird shaped head that nobody wants to date in high school". I'm glad I always have Ry to put things into perspective :)

* She is such a sneaky little girl! At times she will start to cry and scream until we come into the room and as soon as she sees us she gets a sneaky little grin on her face as if she is saying, "Ha! I tricked you! I'm so sneaky!"

* She weighs just about 18 lbs and LOVES her food. Sometimes she will nurse for an hour and refuse to stop. When she finally finishes she looks so drunk on milk - Red face, sweaty hair, eyes rolled back and simply delirious!

* She now eats milk, formula, rice cereal and sweet potatoes. She likes everything we give her, unless it is in a bottle. She hates bottles and flat out refuses to drink from one.

* She loves to smile and smiles at every stranger we see when we are out!

* Her best friends are Sophie and Geoffrey the giraffes. She could play with them all day - I hope they don't mind that she tries to eat them!

* Everything goes in her mouth. And I mean EVERYTHING. I put her down in her bumbo last week and came back a minute later and she had grabbed Ryans shoe and was chewing on it. This girl is going to have an immune system of a champ!

* She has a very mellow personality. She can be held by anyone and not make a fuss, or just play by herself in her bouncer. If she cries it is either one of two things: She's hungry or tired. I think she may be like her momma in that way :)

I hope that as she gets older she knows how special she is and how much she is loved!

We love you little bug!

Love Mom :)

Picture Updates (Obviously mostly Cambree!)

Our little bug is growing up quick... She can now sit up in shopping carts and high chairs!

We also got her a new swimsuit in preparation for our first hot Utah summer!

She also has started to notice guys... Especially older married guys. We have quite a few friends that whenever she sees them her face just lights up and she looks so in love. I caught her posing while hanging out with my friends husband the other day and it was so cute!

Cambree is on solids... she really likes rice cereal and sweet potatoes!

$1000 dollars later and this is the only physical reminder I have from my kitchen accident.. Ugh!

Cambree has no clue how to take a bottle.. She refuses to suck on the nipple and usually just chews on the wrong end.

Hanging at church with Daddy!

...And she didn't last long!

She loves to chew/suck on anything she can get into her mouth!

That's it that's all!

xoxo Car

Momma came for a visit

This past week has been a wonderful one. My mom came down from Canada for a visit and spent 10 days with us here in Provo. It was so nice to have her here and it just made my heart sing seeing her and Cambree together. When I was pregnant, I remember telling Ryan how excited I was for my parents to have a grandchild. I truly believe that children are a gift from God, and they can bring so much joy to a family! Cambree has done just that, and it is the sweetest thing seeing the special bond she and my mother have!

We had a jam packed 10 days full of shopping, good food and lots of laughs! We took my mom to Temple Square to see the Salt Lake temple and she was also able to go to a session of General Conference, which is a conference where leaders in our church give talks and speeches... Very inspirational!

Cambree was loving the sunshine while we were at Temple Square!

Mom was such a help around the house, and she especially loved getting Cambree all clean and ready for the day - I think Cambree may have loved it too!

We went to see one of Ryan's football games and my mom shot a pic of some of the wives. I am so grateful to have made such great friends while here in Provo!

Getting all 3 to smile at once was just too hard!

My mom and Ryan also made it out to see one of my rugby games!

My mom left on Sunday to head back to Canada. She only made it about 4 hours to Idaho Falls when she had to pull over because of a snow storm. She decided the next day that the weather was too bad to continue on, so she headed on back to Provo for visit round #2! I think that she was inspired to come back because 2 hours after she arrived at our apartment I had an accident with a knife and sliced my hand open! I was trying to separate frozen hamburgers with a knife and I slipped and stabbed myself right in my hand really deep and our kitchen floor was covered in blood. I had never seen that much blood before and I was really scared. I was so grateful that she was there and able to watch Cambree so that I could head out to the hospital!!

My favorite part of the story was that she was so flustered about my accident that she couldn't remember how to use a phone and kept on pressing the Instagram home screen and saying "I don't know how to use this! I don't know how to call Ryan!" She must have pressed the home screen 5 times until I got frustrated and walked out of the house and headed over to the neighbours, I knew that they would be sane! She finally got a hold of Ryan and apparently said, "Carly cut herself! You need to come home! She's bleeding everywhere!... And now she's run away!" Haha 

I ended up getting stitches and a shot and $1000 later I was back at home, only a little worse for wear :) I am so grateful we have such wonderful friends and neighbors who were there for me in my time of need! They also came over with a pizza and coke (My fave!) and spent the evening with us - They are the best!

All in all it has been an eventful trip, and I will sure miss my momma when she goes back home!

xoxo Car

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April 7th 2013.. Cambree rolled over front to back for the first time!! My mom, Ryan and I were all there to see it... My little baby is growing up too fast!

Springtime - Through the eyes of my iphone

Don't you just love technology? I carry around this tiny little handheld device in my pocket that connects me to everyone I love. It helps me chronicle my life through videos and pictures and enables me to share it with whoever I want, wherever they are! Here's a peak into our Bevans life... Through the eyes of my iPhone photo album!

We've got a little bunny running around...

I wanted to take some pictures of Cambree for Easter this week and nothing seemed to be turning out. The lighting was all over the place... Cambree wouldn't sit still...And I was totally lost trying to change the manual settings on my camera. Anyways, here they are. I know in the end all the matters is that I have pictures of Cambree to cherish in the future!

Through most of the pictures she was pulling down her ears so she could do this!

I could just see her thinking "Okay Mom.. Stop.. This is getting embarrassing"