After our Utah family came and left, the rest of May was spent lounging around at home, taking care of baby Cameron and getting all the newborn snuggles in that we possibly could! Cosette had some time off work and has been such a blessing to our family. I don't think I would've survived without her!
There was one day in particular where I was just totally exhausted from being up a lot with Cameron. I had gotten Cameron to sleep and was dozing off myself because of how tired I was. The older kids were bored and probably feeling a little cooped up since I wasn't up for going anywhere with a newborn, so Cosette took them in the backyard and let them play in the water and have the time of their lives in the backyard! She is seriously such a kind and generous person. I was so grateful that they were being watched over by a responsible person so I could get some rest!
Cosette took these pictures of the kids playing outside:
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| She loves her kitty and purse that Grandma Sundee brought her! |
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| Kimbri headed to school and wanted a picture with the animal Grandma Sundee gave her. |
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| Garrett answered these questions at preschool about Rick for Fathers Day coming up. Ya think he is a little obsessed with the "Breath of the Wild" game?! Hahaha. He loves to play that with Rick. |
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| Kimbri loves to organize all her little trinkets and things on her nightstand. |
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| Brenna seriously adores Cameron. It's the cutest :) |
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| Kimbir has the sweetest smile. Her eyes seriously just light up when she smiles. And I love her missing tooth grin ;) |
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| I know I take way too many pictures of him, so I made a collage of these ones. I love his little grins. They make me so happy! |
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| I love newborn feet. They are so tiny! But his toes are so long! |
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| Those cheeks and that hair... |
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| The hair just sticks up and is so long, but only right on top of his head, haha! |
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| Grandma got a cute pic of Garrett in his graduation outfit on the front porch. |
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| Birthday selfie! This was when we whipped out the strawberry fluff for Olivia's birthday. |
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| His hair kind of curls on top if you get it wet. |
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| Or you can comb it flat and it looks like this. |
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| Another adorable smile. This little guy just makes my heart flutter! He is so cute! |
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| Garrett as Spiderman, taking time to be with his new little brother. I'm glad they have each other! |
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| The girls loving on their baby brother, Cameron. |
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| I love his dinosaur feet! He grew out of this outfit way to fast and hardly got to wear it! So we had to document it :) |
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| I had the phone out taking pics of Cameron and Garrett wanted a picture. I was going to just take it of the two boys but Garrett insisted that I be in it too. I look super tired, haha. |
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| A little bit of tummy time for baby Cameron. |
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| Cameron in the middle of the night. I love when he finishes nursing and is in a "milk-drunk" kind of state. His expressions! |
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| Another newborn stretch. His legs always go up and his chin inward, creating an even bigger double chin, hahaha. |
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| Grandma Haycock with Cameron |
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| Waking up at 3:45am to go to the airport to drop off Grandma and Olivia. Rick had to be to work way early so I took Cameron on the drive with us to not risk him waking up Rick earlier than he had to be. |
After dropping of my mom and sister at the Fayetteville airport, I came back home, nursed Cameron, and we went back to sleep. But it wasn't too much longer before the kids were up and at it. I was so tired from being up feeding Cameron, and also from making a middle-of-the-night trip to the airport.
When the kids woke up I asked them if they could all go down and get themselves breakfast. While they were down there, Kimbri set up breakfast for me too. She is such a sweet, thoughtful girl. She got me my water jug, the homemade granola, spoon/bowl, milk and wrote me a little note to go with it. She is so thoughtful! And I loved my breakfast!
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| Sisters! |
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| Another selfie where I probably could fall asleep on the spot if I could... But I think K and G have enough energy for the world! |
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| Tummy time in only his diaper. |
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| He's sure trying to lift that head up! |
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| The snuggles are just for real. I love newborns and the way they just sleep and snuggle with not a care in the world. |
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| I think Brenna got all tuckered out too... She has been sooo obsessed with wearing her pink dress. She wants every day to be church day so she can wear it! |
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| Brenna always puts this pink pig wherever Cameron is. She legitimately thinks he just loves the pink pig so much. Brenna wants him to have it all the time, haha :) |
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| Always has to have that hand/arm out. |
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| Another day when I was so tired. Kimbri was at school, I had been nursing in my room while G and B had been playing together. I guess I dozed off because I woke up and heard them downstairs. I scooped up Cameron and walked down to find them and Garrett had poured themselves bowls of cereal. He takes such good care of his little sister Brenna. He's so good with her! |
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| My 2 boys! |
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| I really couldn't get that button snapped! He's already too big for newborn clothes. What?!? |
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| Socks on hands to make sure he doesn't get cold with the A/C on! |
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| At Cameron's 2 week appointment. |
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| I was making lunch and looked over and they were just ooo-ing and ahhh-ing over Cameron. |
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| Then I had them turn around and smile for a picture with baby :) |
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| The hospital gave us this ink kit to make footprints with. I finally got around to doing it. It was tricky! But a fun memory to have. |
