Break Pads

I had a nice, relaxing weekend! On Friday night Scott and I invited some friends over to hang out on our back porch and chill. It was fun! Just within the last few weeks I finally feel like I can enjoy my weekends without the anxiety of wondering what the middle of my night will be like. Before Campbell started sleeping all night, I didn't have much interest in doing anything. I knew I would be waking up in the middle of the night and the exhaustion just wasn't worth it to me. I missed hanging with my friends so much but I wanted to be in bed early so I wouldn't feel like a zombie the next day. Now that my little guy is sleeping all night, I feel comfortable staying up late to hang out with friends or watch a movie with Scott.

While it's easy to have people come over to our house now, it's not so easy going to others houses. I want to be able to go to my friends homes to have dinner and hang out but it always messes with Campbell's little routine. I don't want to hire a babysitter because 1.) I don't know anyone that could babysit for me , 2.) I don't want to pay for it and 3.) I probably wouldn't be able to relax and enjoy myself anyway because I would be worried about my little peanut the entire time. How do you do stuff with friends on the weekend unless it's at your house? Now there's a thinker....

Since the weather has been so amazing, I've been taking Campbell for long walks around the neighborhood. We've both enjoyed it so much! However, I experienced trauma that will most likely stick with me forever while we were on our walk one day. After a lovely long stroll, I headed up my (extremely flat) driveway, punched in the code on my garage keypad, turned around and saw my stroller was flying down my driveway....while my precious baby was still in it! Usain Bolt had nothing on me. I went from 0-120 mph in .12 seconds. I seriously could have won a gold medal in the Olympic 'Mad Dash To Save Your Baby While Flying Down The Driveway In The Stroller' if there was such an event. Note to self: always use stroller breaks even on a flat surface. Campbell wasn't even a tiny bit fazed. He thought his Momma was behind him all along and out of nowhere decided to go super fast. Lord have mercy that nearly gave me a heart attack. Hopefully none of my neighbors witnessed that happening.

Splish Splash

I took Campbell to the pool twice this week. The second time we went, Scott tagged along so he could get some pictures of our little peanut floating in the water. I hope Campbell ends up loving the pool because he's going to spend the majority of his summers there once he gets a little older!

Night two of both arms out of the swaddle went great. Campbell slept until 7:00 this morning! Hoping he can keep up the good work! Enjoy your weekend everyone!

What's Happenings

First off, I'm going to kick off this post with this.

My neighbor was giving away some mason jars so I snatched up a few and have been putting some flowers from my garden in them and I'm enjoying it so much! I have a couple of them here and there around my house with some knockout roses, daylilies, crepe mytrles (not from the bushes that were so sadly chopped down to little nubs....still not over that) and other little flowers thrown in. It adds a tiny little something around here. Who says flowers have to be a big bouquet? Teeny tiny flowers in small little mason jars are just as enjoyable to me!

I started leaving Campbell's arms out of the swaddle last night. That's some scary business right there! He woke up around 4:45 which was such a bummer. He's been sleeping through the night for almost 2 weeks now, so the 4:45 wake up call was a rude awakening! I was only up with him for 12 minutes but I was so tired this morning! I used to think getting up once a night was a piece of cake. Now I'm used to my sleep so I had to take a nap today. Other than last night, Campbells sleep schedule has been pretty awesome. He goes down for bed around 7:30. At 10:30 I do a dreamfeed then he doesn't wake up until 7:00 the next day. Yay Campbell!! According to Babywise, I can drop that last feeding any time between 16-24 weeks (Campbell is 16 weeks now). I'm so scared to try it though! I'm not sure he would sleep all night without it. I think I'll keep doing it for another month and just attempt to tackle the no swaddle stuff for now!

A new problem I'm running into is this. Campbell is starting to get too big for his bouncer which is super sad because we love the bouncer. He just kicks and squirms so much and once I set him in it, he's down like this about 30 seconds later. We have the Bumbo but I want something a little more plush and cozy for him to sit in. Any of you Momma's out there have a solution for me? Other than buckling him into the bouncer?? I just don't really want to mess with the buckle.

The weather has been so amazing lately so Grace, Ivy and Madison have basically been spending their entire day, the last few days, playing outside. They're finally tired of it, believe it or not! Turns out they like being indoor pups after all. They got some nice sunshine, a cool breeze and plenty of running this week though. Good for them!

Wordless Wednesday

Swimming and Errands

Not a whole lot is going on around our house these days. I spend my days trying to come up with ways to entertain Campbell so we don't get stuck in the same ol' routine. I like to try to keep it exciting for him! Yesterday I decided I would go get Campbell a floatie and see what he thought about our neighborhood pool. Trying to decided on the right floatie for Campbell was something that I turned into a major production but oh well. I really like the one I went with and Campbell seemed to as well. He really enjoyed the pool and was perfectly content floating in the water with his Mommy. I'm glad he enjoyed it! This will be something we may have to start doing a few times a week for a little change of pace! Hopefully Scott can go with us next time so we can get some pictures of Campbell in the pool.

Other than the pool we really haven't done anything eventful around here. My Mom came up yesterday to pick up Grace and hang out a few days so that's fun. It's nice to have company! We went to lunch then the mall today and took the little peanut with us. I was hoping he would fall asleep while on his outing but he's decided he doesn't like to do that anymore. He prefers his cozy bed in his dark room with his white noise. Even though he pretty much missed an entire nap, he was still really sweet and didn't get mad at me for keeping him out. I like that he's pretty chill these days! Makes life a touch easier.

He looks like a giant in this photo! My little man is growing up so fast!!

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I had such a fun weekend! I went with my best girls to the Miranda Lambert concert here at the Walmart amp. I've been looking forward to it for weeks and it did not disappoint. We went to Bonefish first for dinner which was so yum. Then we headed over to the amp, threw a quilt down on the grass and hung there until the music started. After that we were on our feet the rest of the night. Miranda looks awesome and sounds amazing. I seriously had so much fun. It was the longest I've ever been away from the little peanut but I knew he was in excellent hands with his Daddy so I had nothing to worry about. I was able to sit back and relax with my best girlfriends and have a good time. It was great!

The rest of my weekend didn't consist of much. I did experience some slight trauma yesterday though. This may sound so ridiculous to some of you but we had a guy come out yesterday to lay down some new mulch in our beds and do some other stuff in our yard. Apparently he was given the order to trim up some of our bushes. I wasn't aware that he was told to do this otherwise I would have been out there supervising. I am extremely particular about my landscaping.
So I put Campbell down for a nap then tell Scott I'm going to hop over to the pool for a bit. I'm walking across my yard and do a double take. Then I ran to my front door and told Scott to come look at the massacre that is now my shrubs. The guy seriously butchered them. I have these bushes that are in the crepe myrtle family (I'm not exactly sure what they are) and they are SO BEAUTIFUL. I love them so much and they have these tiny little pink flowers on them and the leaves and flowers droop over and are just so, so pretty. The pink flowers on them were just starting to sprout up and it was making me so excited. Actually, I went on a walk Saturday morning with my friend, Jax, and we were talking about landscaping and I made it a point to bring her to my pink droopy bushes and point out how pretty they were---which she completely agreed. Except not anymore because the guy ruined my droopy pink bushes and cut them into a teeny tiny box. Seriously yall, I stood in my yard and cried. No joke. Then I was like OMG I can't believe I'm crying over bushes but I did. Like, bawled and squawled and told Scott they were RUINED. He was like "you have GOT to calm down." But I refused. I seriously cried over it for 15 minutes. It makes me sick. Sick I tell you! I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. My landscaping looks ridiculous now and I'm so, so angry. Thankfully they will grow back and look okay.....a whole year from now. But for real it made me so upset that I cried.
Once I wiped my tears, I walked to the pool and vented to my neighbors about it. None of them made me feel ridiculous and all agreed they would feel the same as me. Then one of them said "you know you're an adult when you get this upset over your landscaping." Ha! Yes. So true. Ugh yall, I'm gonna be mad about this for the rest of the summer.