Updates

So Cambry is now 11 months old. In less than one month she will be turning one!! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. She has grown to be such a cute and fiesty little girl. She is very quite tall for her age but yet she is pretty petite at only 16lbs. She is learning to walk without support. Just the other she took like two or three steps without even thinking about it! I won't be surprised if she is completely walking by her birthday. She is also learning the fine motor skills like stacking things, put things through holes, and pushing buttons to make her toys play music. She loves to look at pictures in books, and be read to. She does very well at playing by herself, which is really nice. She can entertain herself for a good hour at home. She loves to torture the poor cats and the dog. Lilly doesn't really like her, she tries to avoid her. Diesel will put up with her for awhile but then runs off. And well Lizzy loves her. She licks her and plays with her. She lets Cambry climb and walk all over her, pull her ears. They are really good, except that Lizzy is getting bigger and even more clumsy. She doesn't understand the concept of walking around things. She always walks through or on everything. She tends to push Cambry over because she will walk right between Cambry and the couch when Cambry is standing up. I'm trying to teach her to go around things, but its not working so well. Cambry has also started to test us. She is doing the whole crying for what she wants that she can't have thing. So we have been just ignoring her and then about 30 seconds later she is over it and already playing with another toy. So I'm hoping that everyone else that watches her notices that that is what she is doing and will do the same. Just ignore her or give her another toy. DO NOT GIVE IN!! She knows how to get what she wants! So over all she is doing good, progressing really well, learning quickly and growing too quickly. But a couple weeks ago she came down with gastroenteritis. Its a stomache and instestinal infection that has been going around. She had diarrhea for a few days but acted normal so I didn't think much of it. Then on the fourth day she woke up and didn't want anything and was very cuddly but seemed tired. So I got her to take her bottle and as soon as she got done eating most of it she threw it right back up, three times!! And then she was crying and shaking and was really weak. So I took her in and they told me to give her nothing but pedialyte and water every ten minutes, then to try just bland foods food for the next day, then try formula. She got over it and has been ok since. But since she had such bad diarrhea she now has a really bad diaper rash. I have tried everything. Desatin, ButtPaste that the nurse gave me, A&D ointment, UdderCream. Nothing is helping and it doesn't help that she is filling her diaper every hour or even more often. I'm not sure what to do. I think its because she is eating more solids but I'm not sure. So if anyone knows any tricks please let me know!!

Granny Dan by Danielle Steel

So this past week I read the book "Granny Dan" by Danielle Steel. It is about a young Russian girl who is sent to a ballet school when her mom dies and she is left to live with her dad and four brothers. She becomes one of the best ballerinas in Russia but then becomes severely ill with the influenza. She is invited to stay at the Royal family's guest house to recuperate. While there she falls in love with her doctor, who in turn falls in love with her. However, he is unhappily married and two children and can't just walk away. And she has dedicated her life to ballet and doesn't want to just give it up. The doctor tries to convince his wife to a divorce but she won't. So a couple years go by and they still can't be together. They see each other every now and then. Then a revolution breaks out and the ballerina breaks her ankle. The doctor convinces her to go to Vermont with him to start a new life together. He stays with the Royal family and moves around with them while they try to find a safe place to stay. He sends the ballerina to Vermont to stay with his cousin and promises her he will follow shortly. Well he ends up getting stuck with the family and they all get executed including him. All her brothers and her father were killed in the war and she can no longer dance because of her ankle. So she stays in Vermont and marries the doctor's cousin and has a daughter. She is forced to forget everything from her past to raise her new family with a husband she doesn't truly love. How sad is that? I was so disappointed when I finished to book. Couldn't she have at least had some sort of happy ending. I know that is always what happens in books, but when you read a story where two people love each other so much and have to work so hard just to be together and then it all ends tragically with neither ever getting what they truly wanted, I just can't stand that kind of story. The rest of it was good but the ending just totally ruined it for me. I have read a lot of love stories and I love them, even if not everything works out, but I hate it when absolutely nothing works out and the main character loses everything. I don't recommend reading it unless you want to cry and be disappointed.

Thankful

I just have to say that I am very thankful for everything that I have. I have a wonderful husband you shows that he cares for me and tries to make me happy. I have a beautiful baby girl that lights up my whole world. I have a very good supportive family that helps me with everything. I have a good relationship with my husband. We rarely ever argue, like more than just stupid little things. We have never really had a big argument because we care too much for each other that we don't want hurt each others feelings. We have a nice comfy house, and at 20 years old thats a big accomplishment. We both have good jobs, so we don't have to worry too much about how we are going to make the bills. We both have a car to get where we need to. We have a good little family! I say this because I am seeing a lot of people on facebook saying that they are having problems with their significant others, or they are breaking up and that there is no hope! Its so sad to see that. Especially when there are children involved. I just wish that I could share with them all how Jake and I work things out but I know they probably won't listen to me. People seem to be convinced that relationships will just work themselves out if its meant to happen. Well guess what! It takes a lot of work and commitment to make a relationship strong and to be able to jump the hurdles and get through all the detours that come along with life and happiness. You have to go through a lot of bad and depressing things to get to be happy. You have to know what its like to be miserable in order to know if your truly happy. Just like you have to get ripped off a few times to know what to look for so that it doesn't happen again. You have to know what its like to be poor in order to know how to handle more money properly. But the harder you work to make things right and to make you and your family happy, the more it will work out. Yeah it may take years and lots of hard times to get to where you want to be. But isn't it worth it once you get there. If you've had to work hard for something, doesn't it feel so good when you get it? Compared to when its just handed to you? I know it does from experience. I also know that my challenges will never stop. Every day is challenge, its just about how you face that challenge and if you decide to over come it. If you just give up because its too hard, it will never work out. Life is hard and it never ceases to be that way. So suck it up and be the best that you can be. Don't be a whimp and give when things get "too hard." If it was too hard for us to handle, it never would have come across our paths. We need to learn from these things to make ourselves into better persons. We need to grow from these challenges and then our lives can move forward. Other wise our lives are boring and worthless. So think about that the next time you are faced with a challenge. Think about how you can overcome it. And how you can grow from the experience. Be a better person. You always have room for improvement.