Just a Quick Post

I need to remember to update this a little more often. New things going on are:

-I started school again this Fall, I'm only taking one class ( I don't like to be away from Derek, but my sweet mom has been watching him for me), the class meets only once a week for 2 1/2 hrs... so not too bad.

- Derek does take the bottle pretty good, but it makes me sad whenever I think of him drinking from a bottle.

-Cameron started school as well. He's taking a CNC class, but it's bummer that his class meets on Saturdays only for 8 hours!

-Derek weighs 10 lbs 12 oz, measures 22 1/2 in now.

- I'm running again, and it feels so good!! I'm signing up for a 5K on Oct 1st, and it's not enough time to train but who cares?

- Derek smiles so much now.

- Derek doesn't sleep through the night but he knows it is night time, for he'll only wake up to change, feed and burp, and goes right back to sleep. He used to wake up for hours.

- It's so hard to keep the house clean these days.

-Derek loves to hear my piano-playing :)

- and we just love being parents!

Smiling Derek

I know this is kinda long, but I really don't know how to edit it.
We just love his smiles!!!
(Derek at 7 weeks)

It's Already Been a Month!

Our little Derek is a month old today, I can't believe how fast time has gone by. He's getting bigger quickly. At one of my baby showers, people wrote down advice on diapers for me to read as I change Derek's diapers and one of them said, "Enjoy every moment with him, they grow too fast." I try to remember that when I'm really tired at night and he's fussy. Time will fly and he will only be like this for a short time, this is when I can snuggle up with him and kiss him as much as I want. He truly is growing fast, it's only been a month but he already seems so much bigger. These are some of the pictures we got of him today on his month mark.

He smiles now and is just starting cooing, we love it!

This is a blurry picture but this is one of the only smiling pictures we have of him.

He's so adorable! At this point his eyes are still blue, his hands look more like his daddy's, wears size 1 diapers, is growing out of his newborn clothes and loves bath time!

Derek's Baby Blessing

We got to bless Derek last Sunday Aug 7, 2011. He got such a beautiful blessing from Cameron. We are thankful to everyone that was able to be with us on this special day, and for those who participated. We are blessed with so much love and support from family and friends.

and last but not least we are very blessed to have Derek in our family, we've had a blast so far. He is the best thing that has happened to us and we love him so much.

(my family is so short, Cameron looks so tall.. I think that's really funny)

This is who came from my side of the family, except for my dad. He had to go home before we took pictures.

(love how Adam is eating Danny's tie. . so cute)

We had so many more people here with us, they actually made our ward look like a ward. Thanks everyone for coming!

Derek has many cousins close in age, they were all born within four months.

My mother-in-law made his cute blessing outfit, he looked so handsome. Thanks Mom! She also provided these pictures for us, since we didn't take any... oops.

Derek Robbe Campbell

-He is finally here!

-We are truly thankful and honored to have a baby boy be part of our lives, to love and to care for!

-He was born July 15, 2011

-6 lbs 14 oz

-19 inch

-He is the most beautiful baby in the whole world!

-He's such a good baby, he sleeps, feeds well, smiles, knows our voices, is beautiful to look at.

-This has been one of those things where you just can't believe you've been living without that something or someone. I can't believe Cameron and I've been without Derek this whole time.

-So we finally came up with the name after we saw him, for all of you who always asked what his name was going to be.

-Labor is hard, but to end up with a baby I would and will do it again.

-Derek did develop jaundice but his jaundice levels have finally come down as of yesterday.

-Everyone says he looks just like Cameron.

-Breastfeeding is amazing, not saying it's been the easiest thing, but we're still working at it and I love it.

-I am doing just fine, I just have to take it easy.

-Our families are also very excited about this new addition.. My parents are finally grandparents!

-We can spend all day just starring at him, he's just so amazing.

-It has been an awesome almost-week with this new addition to our family!

Thirty-Eight Weeks and Ready!

Cameron's dad has made a cradle for every of his children's first baby, we all picked out what we wanted it to look like and he tried his best to make it just like it. I love ours so much, can't wait to see our baby sleeping in it. This is the picture we found:


and this is the wonderful job he's done!

Mom made us the bedding for it and we just love it!



We've also finally finished the nursery and thanks to Darcy who gave us the bedding and everything that comes with it, it looks great! Now we are just waiting for our baby boy to arrive!

Thirty-Seven Weeks

and 3 more to go, hopefully!

-Well this is me at 37 weeks, I feel huge and we're so ready to have this baby, these last three weeks will feel like an eternity.

-I feel like I've dropped, being that I can breath better and I feel super sharp pains on my pelvic floor, and I visit the bathroom even more that ever throughout this pregnancy.

-I still walk every morning

-Our baby keeps squirming inside of me, I know he's dying to come out of there too.

-I've started filling out his baby book

-I'm experiencing the nesting stage for I can't stop cleaning out closets and moving stuff in the baby room, and my big project of the moment is to scrub the grout on our tile floor, it's looking great- I have 2/3 of it done.

-I'm not really craving anything anymore, but I do enjoy otter pops in this heat.

-My hands and feet get really swollen to the point where it hurts to bend my fingers and toes, therefore I am not able to wear my beautiful wedding ring anymore :(

- I am currently dealing with a bad cold :(

-Cameron's been dying to install the car seat in our car so I finally let him yesterday

-If you came over to my house, you'd probably find me cleaning, watching grey's anatomy on netflix, or reading some labor and delivery book.

-Swimming makes me happy

-I have had awesome baby showers lately, Thanks to everyone who helped us get things ready for our little bundle of joy through gifts and advice. We are blessed to have gotten pretty much everything we need to this baby from baby showers.

-I feel GUILTY about not wanting my house to look messy with all the colorful baby stuff around, like our bouncer and swing- they are cute but they do not match our theme

-We have the cutest bedding for our baby's crib

-My mom gave me a prenatal heart listener and I'm always using it, it's really cool.

-At our ultrasound last week, our baby weighed 6 lbs 3 ounces, I might have a huge baby and that makes me nervous.

-It's great to know that our baby has made it to full term as of today and will pretty much be healthy anytime he comes out now.

-I'm glad we only have 3 more weeks to wait for our baby, he'll be with us very soon!! ( I just have to stay busy so time flies)