Here we go again...

I know it's been quite sometime since I last updated. I changed grade levels this school year & the stress from it & a very active toddler have made the very little down time I get focused on sleep & recuperating from the day. Now as for my excuse as to why I didn't get to updating all summer while I was off, well I was just stinking lazy & that's all there is to it. But the time has come to post again & I think you'll be pleased I did so. I don't think my pictures (I just couldn't choose) need any explaining! ;)

     

We are truly very excited about this BIG surprise in our life. A friend from my mom group said "you are the last person I expected to become pregnant anytime soon" & boy did I think the same thing. Because of how much we struggled to get pregnant with Cambric, we know what a wonderful blessing this is. It is amazing how God works & as we have learned with both pregnancies, His plans are usually not our plans but they are the perfect plans. We are excited to see what God has in store for our growing family.

And I'm sure I'll get a lot of "what do you want the baby to be" questions so I'll go ahead & answer. Honestly, I don't care. I just want a healthy baby who will one day grow to love The Lord & serve him with his/her whole heart. I had a feeling with Cambric that he was a boy. I just knew. I don't feel anything yet with this one although I do keep calling "it" a he. I really would love for Cambric to have a brother. When I listen to my brothers banter back & forth, it only makes me want that for him even more, but I truly will be happy either way. There are no prayers here for a specific gender, just a specific healthy child of God.

Oh & our other prayer is about Cambric & that he'll transition ok. I know. I know. It will all work out but it's hard not being worried about your first baby & how they will handle it all. And it sure didn't help that the day after we found out, I picked him up from Little Hawks & they informed me that Cambric did not like babies. He had to go to the baby class due to their AC being out in his room & he was not a fan. I may have cried the whole way home...but now it makes me laugh so hard. We have whipped out momma's childhood baby doll in hopes that he will learn how to love on a baby. So far, he just throws the baby. But at least he's playing with it. ;)

 Hopefully the next time I update y'all it won't be when I'm having this child!

P.S. As I was getting out the computer to post, my child decided to get in the trash and get out the rootbeer bottle from last night's dinner and chug what was left in it. I will soon have double of this! ;) 

Just a normal day in the Tuttle home

Well today has been interesting. Cambric has been having some tummy stuff going on so we went & saw a GI doctor (that's not what this post is about just the prologue). Well she asked us to get a stool sample. No big deal. I change his nasty poop diaper ALL the time. He's even pooped on me a few times...ok it's been more than a few times but who's counting? Anyways I definitely can do this whole stool sample thing.

Side note: She gave me gloves to use. Lady why on earth do I need gloves? I change my son everyday. Pretty much every time I change him I get a little poop on my finger. What's the big deal?

Anyways, I am SO lucky (sarcasm dripping from every word) that once we got home C had a massive poopy diaper. So massive it was coming out of his crack & getting on his shirt. I was excited. Man I just got home & I was already going to get to do this & get it out if the way. So I clean him off & take the diaper into my laboratory (bathroom) & begin the process.

Remember how I thought it was weird that lady gave me gloves? Ya, I was very thankful at that time that she did that. It's one thing to get a little poop on your fingers while changing a diaper....it a WHOLE other thing to be digging around in it with a little wooden stick.

Side note: one of the issues with C is that he is not digesting his food. It comes out the same way it went in about 30 minutes later. Ya you know where I'm going with this.....

So anyways you fill up the tube to the line & THEN you have to mix it with the stick in the solution & shake vigorously. If your feeling ill right now please don't feel like your alone. My tummy wasn't feeling the greatest but I handled it. You know who couldn't? Yep you guessed. Troy started gagging the moment I got home & told him what we (I) had to do. As soon as I started shaking the tube it was all over. My big strong wonderful hubby threw up in his hands. Yep you read that right. I'M the one digging through poop & HE threw up. Men!!!

This is what happened while daddy was busy through up in his hands

Oh & here's another good one. Last week when C had diarrhea real bad it was making it hurt down in his little area. Every time I changed him he tried to grab his man stuff. So he of course would do this & I would have to clean his hands off cause sometimes he got stuff on them. Soooooooo this one time Troy is walking by & C has just grabbed himself & Troy hurries & grabs his hands. As I'm cleaning him up I look up to see Troy kissing all over Cambric's hands. Just as I'm about to tell him that he had just touched him wiener where there had been poop, Troy pops the WHOLE hand in his mouth. Lets just say I laughed a lot. Luckily Troy did too. Somehow he hardly gagged at that yet threw up when I was scooping the poop. What's up with that?

I can just hear my mom now..." Camille! Ewwww! Thanks for sharing but we did not need to know that."
Y'all know you wanna laugh. That's funny stuff right there. ;)

I would love to say that nights like tonight are a rarity but sadly I cannot. Actually I'm not sad about it one bit. We sure do have a lot of fun in our home & there is always laughter. What can I say? We are just turtley awesome....get it? Turtley - Turtle - Tuttle.
Oh come on that was good.yes I have become my father.

Oh & did I mention that earlier a diaper only filled 2 of 5 tubes. I still got some digging to do.

Trying out his Tarzan cloth diaper. Can anyone say STUD? 

10 months!

10 months old today! TEN MONTHS OLD! I can't believe we are almost at the year mark. It seems like just yesterday that I was sucking on popsicles waiting for my doctor to say it was time...and yet at the same time I feel like he has been in our lives forever.

In case you haven't met Cambric or you aren't around him a lot he is quite the handful. Happy Happy Happy...but a handful. He is all over the place right now and he's not even walking. Although he does enjoy walking around the living room pushing the end tables and the high chair. He refuses to stand up without holding onto something though so I guess we still have a little bit till he starts actually walking....and making me more tired than he already is.

He was mad because it got stuck on the chair

He now has 8 teeth. 4 up top and 4 on bottom. And praise the Lord we haven't felt the effects of any of them. I'm sure if you follow all my Instagram pictures you have seen Cambric wear his teething necklace. That necklace is amazing. When we were about 3-4 teeth in, I was still a little skeptical but now that he has 8 and the only day he was fussy was the day that I sent him to school without it, I am now a believer in it.    Just ask his daycare teachers. They told me I'm never allowed to forget it again! haha And to think, I was going to make him stop wearing it because people like to be rude and give me a hard time for putting a necklace on my boy. Well all those people can kiss my booty cause it is staying on him.

Cambric likes to use those new teeth to chomp away on big boy food. We decided to go the "Baby Led Weaning" way cause he just wasn't into pureed foods. He loves chicken and green beans. It's his fav. Oh and strawberries. He chomps away at them. The only problem is he is a little chipmunk and hoards it away in his mouth. I find food in his mouth like 30 minutes after he has eaten.

Spaghetti is a favorite too! 

Cambric is still going strong on breastfeeding. Can I just toot my own horn for a second? Today I was thinking "Wow, 10 months of breastfeeding!" Looking back to that first month I didn't think I would make it past 2 months let alone 10. I plan on weaning this summer but I have a feeling it will NOT be easy. The other day Cambric had a big meal of chicken and green beans (his fav), oranges, and a baby cookie with some water to wash it down. I went to pick him up and he just about attacked me. He still roots like a crazed hungry newborn. I might just be one of those ladies you see on Dr. Phil because my son is 9 years old and still breast feeding.

We celebrated our first Easter as a family this past week. We spent Saturday at Troy's parents where his Granny read him an Easter story & had a small egg hunt....or I guess you could say it was more of a "put a bunch of eggs around the baby and let him go for it" hunt. He LOVES playing with ball type things. That also goes for in the tub too! ;) BOYS! Then on Easter we went to Aunt Kim's in the country and ate a lot and spent time outside swinging and trying to stay away from Aunt Wendy's bull. Oh that was of course after his first Easter service at church. I don't know if I have mentioned this before but he LOVES to hear Troy play the drums on Sunday. the moment they start playing, Cambric starts squealing and kicking. He used to do the same in my tummy! ;)  Anyways it was a special Easter. I can't wait till he is a little older and I can sit and do all the fun Easter activities that I remember my mom doing with my brothers and I when we were little.

Cambric constantly has me on my toes and I am constantly learning new things. Recently I learned something not necessarily from him but just from being a mommy. Every parent has a different way of raising and parenting their children. There are so many different methods out there, that there is no way we can all agree with one another. Therefore we all just need to support one another and keep any negative opinions to ourself. Us mommy's have a lot on our backs. The last thing we need is another mom making us feel bad for how we decided to raise our child. I am a breast feeding, co-sleeping, no cry it out, rear facing till a least 2 years old, baby-wearing momma and its ok that you aren't too. Some of those things may even change with my second child.  We are all doing whats best for our babies. Let's just leave it at that. ;)

Anyways, I know this wasn't the greatest blog post ever but I wanted to kind of update on my sweet handsome little man!  And here are some pictures to swoon over...

Cambric had RSV last month...we do not like RSV!

The week of RSV was a rough week. It also involved his first boo boo. 

At cousin Tiffany's wedding

Mom, I am going to need you to hurry and get out of the shower so I can hang on you like a spider monkey! 

6 Years!

Today marks 6 years of being married! 6 long, agonizing, horrible years. JUST KIDDING!

Man I just can't believe it. It really does seem like just yesterday that I was fighting with my brother and crying and my dad knocking him upside the head and saying "Leave Camille alone! This is her wedding day! Give her one stinking day where you don't fight with each other!" haha I also remember waking up in my moms bed (of course I had to sleep with my mommy one last time) with Austin sleeping sideways with his little feet jamming me in my head.

So I didn't start telling this story until just recently. It's so funny that I just have to. Ok so when we were up at the alter and went over to the side to have communion. We were praying and both crying and Troy breathed through his nose and a booger flew out and landed on my hand. YEP, a booger! What a way to try to ruin a sweet moment. I was a trooper though and just wiped it off with my kleenex. Fast forward to when we are back up front and Troy's brother (who helped marry us) is speaking to us & of course I start crying again and I start dabbing under my eyes with my kleenex. I looked at the kleenex to see if my make-up was coming off and I see it. IT! That nasty booger that had just flew out of Troy's nose and onto my hand. I kinda chuckled and my stomach turned all at the same time. Oh man I hope that made you laugh as much as I'm laughing right now thinking about it.

From that point on it has been full of craziness and fun. We seriously are the funniest people! I mean we were kinda funny when we first got married but boy are we funny now. I guess that's what happens when you are married to your best friend and you are always having fun.

This past year has been quite different than the other 5 but its has definitely been the best having our sweet boy in our lives. I'm not gonna lie. We miss how comfortable our life was. How easy it was. If we wanted to go to Dallas at 9pm to eat then we did. If we wanted to lay in bed till noon we did. We did a lot! After being married and just the two of us for 5 years it was a huge adjustment when we had Cambric. I was terrified of what a child would do to our relationship because people were always "warning" me of how hard it was going to be on us. Thanks for that by the way. *Sarcastic eye roll*  The first few weeks when my baby blues were at their peak, I would hug Troy and just cry. Even though I was so happy to have Cambric in our lives, I was struggling with the fact that it was no longer just the 2 of us. I was mourning the past 5 years of our marriage where it was just us, all at the same time I was ecstatic thinking about the future and how much fun the 3 of us were going to have. There are just way too many crazy hormone stuff going on those 1st few months!

I am so thankful that we had 5 years to grow and establish a strong relationship with just the 2 of us. I wouldn't have wanted to do it any other way. Cambric has only made our marriage better. Yes it has been an adjustment throwing a baby in the mix and trying to figure out what kind of parents we want to be but we sure are having fun. We are tired, but having fun! Troy is such a good daddy and husband. People think I'm the big sucker but Troy proved he is just as bad as me when the first night we moved Cambric into his crib, I went to sleep and he went in and checked on him every 10 minutes till 2am and when he missed Cambric being in our bed so he went and woke him up and brought him to me saying he was hungry. Yep, he's a sucker too!

Can't wait to see what God has in store for us over the next many many years.

Here are some pictures of us through the years. Oh and FYI When I was looking at the pictures from Cambric's birth Troy said "Oh my gosh you were so FAT!" hahaha I swelled BIG time. You know your in love when you can laugh and not punch your husband for saying that!

* I think this was more of a "look at how Camille's hair has changed through the years!"

7 months. Say what???

Well I figured you have waited long enough. I will put you out of your misery and update you on our exciting lives right now and what's going on with our sweet baby boy! 

First off, Cambric will be 7 months tomorrow. SEVEN MONTHS! What? That's over half a year old. Where has the time gone? I feel like just yesterday I was hearing him scream his way into this world. Mommy-hood has been amazing. I love watching him grow and learn every day. Even though he is growing out of some stinking cute clothes and learning how to thrown temper tantrums. It's all good.

Here's a pic of one of most recent fits. 

CrAzY!

Ok so here's what's going on with my boy: 

At his last checkup, which was almost a month ago, he was 19.9lbs and 29in. He's a big boy. A big boy that is killing my back. He still is such a happy baby. Even though lately he has had his moments of being Mr. Cranky Pants, he is still such a happy boy. His teachers told me the day we got out for Christmas break that he was such a good baby and that I am blessed to have such a happy boy! I was all like "Uh Ya! Duh! I knew that!" Just kidding! I do know that but sometimes I think that I just have on my mommy goggles and I only see the good in Cambric. So it feels AMAZING hearing other people tell me what an awesome kid I have!

We started playing around with solids. We've done oatmeal, avocado, sweet potatoes, apples, and bananas. He doesn't care for it one bit. It's been over a month and frankly he just wants the milk. Now thats the good stuff! ;) Hey I'm not complaining. One of the bonuses of breastfeeding for me is that I am   almost 10lbs under my pre-pregnancy weight. Hey I might just keep feeding him the mommy milk till he's like 10! What? Too long? ;) 

Oh and what comes with solids? STINKY TOOTS! My goodness that boy is about as bad as his daddy. ;) Although it's quite funny when he toots because he laughs. He is definitely ALL boy! But do you know what is not funny? When I'm holding him and I bend over and he toots. Like seriously child? Really? Does he not know how bad that looks? Or sounds I guess you could say. 

Speaking of stinky....I just had to pause to go change a MASSIVE blow out! That's another thing solids hasn't helped. 

Anyways. Here's what's going on with me:

I am tired. ALL. THE. TIME. Ok I lie. I'm only tired about 75% of the time. And really it's not Cambric that keeps me tired. It's 22 First graders that ask a lot of questions and tattle tale a lot. But boy do I love them. They are just getting me ready for when I will hear Cambric start asking "But why?" a million times a day. I kinda can't wait...kinda. I live in a messy house and don't cook dinner as much as I used to but that's ok because I'm spending my time home loving on my sweet boy. Well I cook but its not my 2 hour meals like it used to be. Man I miss those meals. All you that are super mom's that have a clean house, cook dinner, work full time, and still spend most of your time at home with your kids, GO YOU. But I'm ok with not being "Martha Tuttle" anymore. Kinda ok. I'm slowly getting back in the groove of things. Oh and did I mention I went to the Doctor for my yearly check-up today and she said my uterus looked amazing and I am ready for my next child. I laughed. And so did she.  Ya know I used to DREAD those appointments but I guess after you know someone has seen you in all your glory and delivered your child, its just not that bad anymore. 

Ok well I got a fussy boy who is tired of being in the "neglectisizer" and homemade potato soup cooking for my sick hubby that I need to finish. Until next time..... I don't know what but just don't miss me too much! ;) Here are some photos we had done last month by my wonderful friend Lyndsey Shillings. Here's her website if you wanna check her out... http://www.lyndseyshillingsphotography.com/