Baby Girl Update

Sorry it has been 2 weeks since the last picture update. We have been taking pictures, so don't worry. Alex has just decided that he no longer wants to post, so I have to take over again. Kambria has changed so much since she was born. She has really grown. She has put some cheeks on her and she has a bit of a double chin now. At least I know she is eating well, but it makes me sad to see her change so quickly. I am now putting her in 0-3 month clothing because her newborn clothes have become quite snug on her. I'm sad. When she was born, she was practically swimming in her newborn clothes, so it is hard to believe that just 3 weeks later, she is already in the next size of clothes and the next size of diaper. Babies just don't stay small for long. This is why I want 5 or 6 kids. You just can't have enough of the baby phase.

I'm very happy because Kambria finally went 4 hours between a feeding for the first time last night. I'm hoping she will go 5 hours soon. However, she has been doing a pretty good job of going right back to sleep after I feed her, so I have been getting a fairly good amount of rest. My mom flew back to Las Vegas last night, so I have to take care of 2 children all by myself now. It's a little scary, but I think I can do it. My mom was such a tremendous help getting Delson up and ready every morning so that I could sleep in a bit more. She made dinner for us nearly every night and she also pretty much did all of my laundry for 3 weeks. I am so grateful to her and her willingness to help me for 3 weeks. I love you, Mom!

Delson has been such a stinker lately. I'm sure a lot of it is related to bringing a baby home, but it is hard to say since he can't communicate that to us very well and he never seems to notice the baby except when she cries. Delson is 14 months now, so he is just going through some difficult phases. It will be nice once we can communicate better, but he is surprising us everyday. He now knows that a cat says "Meow." And when he sees a banana, he calls it a "nana" and he loves balloons and comes pretty close to saying the word. He is working really hard to speak. It's amazing! And he is really understanding a lot of what we say. He is a very smart boy.

Also, Saturday was my 25th birthday (which is very hard to believe). My mom was very sweet and decorated the house with balloons and candy and she ordered me an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. It was really good. We went out to Red Robin for lunch with Alex's family and then they came over to our house for the cake. Then, Alex and I went with Dean and Sarah to the movie theater to see "Valentine's Day." It was so nice to see a movie in theaters again since we probably won't get to for a little while now. I had a great birthday.

So there is the update on our lives over the last 2 weeks. Enjoy the pictures!

Kambria enjoying Grandpa Del's arms.

Family picture before church.

Kambria and Momma.

Mom and 2 of her 4 children.

Mom with her birthday cake. Kambia and Delson got me a #1 Mom sticker for my B-day.

Kambria and the funny things she does with her arms.

Grammy and her grandchildren.

Our baby girl.

More Time Has Gone By

And what has taken me so long to write another blog update? Well, I would try to come up with an excuse, but I know that you don't really care what excuse I might be able to get. And if I already have a hard time making time to write a quick blog update, why would I want to spend more time making up some elaborate story on why I didn't do it sooner?

So Delson just started bringing things to Mommy when he's asked. I'm not sure if they were random incidents or if he actually did it on purpose. Either way it will be helpful if he starts doing it full time. A lot of what we see is a sleeping baby. It is pretty interesting. We're not used to a baby this small sleeping this much. We like that she sleeps so much though. It makes it easier for us. Everything is going well and we don't really have any complaints.

Sleepy Baby

Guess what. I've heard that I do a "dorky" job with the blog. My response is, "tough." I have the computer and if you really want to see pictures of our brand new baby then you will have to deal with me.

So Kambria is getting a bath now, Delson is asleep and I am on my computer to give everybody an update about our recent activities. Kambria is doing a pretty good job sleeping. She is showing signs of being a calmer baby than Delson, which has Kristen and me quite ecstatic. We're hoping that she's going to stay a calm baby to offset the craziness that is Delson. Everybody is still doing great. Healthy baby and Healthy mama. Walt and Karen are doing a lot to help us out. It has been great having them around. Okay, I'm done. Enjoy the pictures.

These are pictures of Delson from a while ago, he likes to put a hat over his face and then run around. It looks funny when he does it, but only until he runs full speed into something.

New Baby Update

I'm still running the show here on our fantastic blog site. As a little game I am going to consciously make a grammatical error and see if anybody can find it. Have fun with that.

Now on with the new baby stuff. Kambria is doing well, as is her mother. She really likes to be held, so that didn't work out very well for us last night. She is really small and nobody here is used to being around something this little. It's pretty interesting dealing with a newborn again. She seems to be motoring right along and enjoying life as much as somebody can this early in life. Delson seemed like he finally realized something was up about the little baby that just showed up. I don't think he's quite figured out she's going to be here all the time like him, but it should be entertaining when he does. Now onto the real reason you are reading this, the pictures. By the way, there are more pictures in the post below.

These are extra pictures from the above post. I can only fit five per post.

More Pictures

I don't want to waste too much of your time by typing a lot. We just had my mom and dad visit their new granddaughter and I ended up with a couple more photos of the three of them and with Delson too. So here are some more pictures. By the way, Delson got a haircut today so I'm including a couple pictures of him also. We'll have more pictures again later, maybe some closer shots, but it depends on what happens.

I Know What You're Thinking...

So, by now you may have noticed that this is Alex, not Kristen, and when you see that it's me then you're probably wondering what's going on. Well, Kristen had our second child, a girl, about an hour ago. It was really quick and we checked in around 9:30 this morning. She was dilated at 8 cm so they rushed us into a room to get her an epidural. A little less than 2 hours after we checked in it was all over and I was looking at a brand new little girl.

We named her Kambria Kate Christensen. She is 20 inches long and weighed in at 7lb 1oz. We're very excited and everybody is doing well. Kristen is doing exceptionally well. She feels a lot better than last time and is only moderately mad at me. I do have a few pictures right now, but there will be plenty more to come later. Delson is with his grandparents right now and after his nap he'll come back to visit his new sister. I'm pretty sure he has no idea what happened in the past few hours.

We will have more info later. These are just the preliminary pictures and we will have many more later. Thanks for checking in and we'll get more as soon as we can.