Chums & Buddies

Cambria loves people. She's a very curious little lass, and she loves to see new things and new faces. When someone new holds her, she'll most likely reach up and touch their face (or grab) and put her hand on their mouth if they talk. :) It's pretty cute.

I have a little job in the mornings doing activities for residents at a little assisted living center in American Fork, and luckily Cambria is able to go with me. (Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken over the job from my sister, Bree) It's just 10 hours a week, which doesn't make much, but it's nice to have a little extra income and I like having something to do. For some reason, I just love working with old people. :) And it's like the easiest, most rewarding job to go in there every morning and do stuff like make ice cream in a bag, make tissue paper flowers, play Bingo, and toss beanbags around. I think their favorite thing, though, is seeing Cambria everyday. It's therapeutic for them to interact with a little baby, and it puts a smile on everyone's face, whether they're a loving lady or a grumpy old man. Cam's really good...she usually just sits in her carseat and plays and watches what we're doing. I keep a close watch on the loving residents to make sure they don't touch her toooo much, but they sure love her little toes. Nobody remembers her name, so I repeat it and spell it from day to day, but they sure enjoy her. :)

In the picture above, Cambria is being held by her favorite adopted great-grandma, Ann. She's the sweetest 93 year old lady who watches Cambria for me when I need to walk away for a minute, and she gives her son updates about Cam when he calls. Ann can't put a whole lot of sentences together since a stroke, but she greets Cambria with a smile, wave and "Hello, little one" and when she held her for the picture, she said "Yes, you love me and I love you." It was touching. :)

And below, it's cousin time! Cam's enjoying some blankie bonding with Luke and Max at their Grandma Yospe's house.

I love this picture. :)

The reason they were all on the blankie together was because Grandma was "whooshing" them with my (nursing cover) and Cambria was getting a kick out of it! She laughed and giggled and squealed with delight.

Here's Cambria petting Sadie, Bree's baby. We were at the Midvale Harvest Days Parade enjoying the hooplah after Bree got done parading with her Boys & Girls Club.

Too close for comfort? Nahhh.

Cambria's made a new friend in the past couple months named Isabella. My friend and former BYU classmate and coworker, Carrianne, had a baby about 2 months after I did. We took Cam with us to a Bee's baseball game with her and her husband, and then she went into labor the next day! So it's been fun to spend time with her and little Bella (who's actually like double Cambria's size now!) Here they were enjoying the shade at Thanksgiving Point Gardens...gotta love those 2 buck Tuesdays in August!

Haha...her mom stuck Bella's hand in her pants because she was grabbing Cambria's face. I don't think she's having as much fun anymore!

We went to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy perform at the Scera Shell with our friends, Melanie and Steve and their cute little boy, Jacob. (Yup, they named him after our very own Jake because his birthday party was the reason they got to know each other) It was fun, but Jacob conked out early!

Cambria met another little boy, Samuel, and played with him at a park. His mom is my sister's friend, Tina, and we've all had fun together a few times. He's 7 months and quite the little chunk! That's what people used to call me when I was a baby..,the chunk. haha.

And Cambria loves her aunts and uncles, of course. We love when Bree stops by on her way home from work, and this time she even fed Cambria some rice cereal! Yes, she started eating solids! More pictures on that to come later. ;)

Here she is with Aunt Brittney at another concert outdoors....I tell ya, I sure love the hook-ups Jake gets from his work. These summer concerts and musicals at the Scera have been so fun the past few years! This one was called Dancing Under the Stars, and it was a big dance recital thing with Randi and Brandon from this past season of So You Think You Can Dance, and a whole dance company doing different numbers. It was pretty cool! I always wish I had stuck with dancing beyond my handful of tap and jazz classes as a little girl. :) I wouldn't be suprised if Cambria becomes a dancer, with her long limber legs and such.

She's just been having all kinds of fun with different friends and family! Her uncle Nathan babysat her on Sunday while we went to the Oquirrh Mt. Temple dedication, and he took a video of her new thing we call "flying". So maybe I can snag that from him and put it on here (although I've never even figured out how to make a slideshow, so we'll see. hehe)

By the way, I never gave the update. At her 4 month appointment, she weighed 10 lbs 11 oz., putting her in the 0%! And she's 24 inches long, so she's average in height. Sooo...whatever. I'm feeding her more and trying to get some meat on her bones, but she may just stay our little petite girl and that's fine with me. She's as happy as a clam, and hopefully she continues to make lots of new friends!