We had your One in a Melon birthday party after your baptism. It turned out super cute you did well being tired and not getting your nap. The smash cake you werent too sure and then when you had frosting on your face you were not happy and smeared it into your eyes and up your nose. You did not like being dirty.
1 years old already!!! EEK
*We think you weigh 24 lbs 12 oz 95% perentile, 29inches long (51%).
*Wearing 12 and 18 month clothes size 5 diaper
*Finished up helmet the end of July, now I feel I stare at your head and see flatness ugh.. I hope it gets better more on its own. ahhh
*Cruising on furniture and pulling up on everything.. opening cupboards and walking behind toys and with our hands. No walking yet.
*Still say mama dada baba it sounds like you say Bella?
*shakes head yes and no for things-food... like to sign all done for diaper changes and when you dont want to go on walks
*Started liking pacis:( hahah
*Sleeping better after more sleep training.. most nights youll stay asleep and we have to wake you up at like 645 for school. Youll still have occ nights where restless for 2-3 hours
*Started giving you some whole milk in with your bottles.. hoping to do more just cups next week..running out of my frozen breast milk supply but we made it the full year with no formula! WOop woop
*Still nursing you in the mornings... I think youd be fine without it? You dont really seem to eat for long?
* Loving most foods and you just pile it all in your mouth
*Getting baptized this weekend along with your first bday party
*You are crawling everywhere and pulling yourself up on things.. youve kinda walked with help with your walking toy.
*Working on tooth number 8... you got all four on the top and the ones on the sides of the bottom teeth all at once.
*You caught the awful hand foot mouth at daycare..was just awful.
*Had your first trip to visit cousin Charlie.. you did great despite being on the go and not getting your naps. You slept in a pack and play for the first itme.
*Still saying mama, dada, baba.
*Only nursing in the morning and then using up the freezer stash.
*Sleeping better.. youll either sleep all night or wake up once usually. Sometimes like an hour or so after bed or various times.
*Napping twice usualy around 10 and 2. Daycare naps ar ehit or miss..sometimes a good hour long one but then wont in the afternoon then youre pretty cranky.
*Wearing 12 and 18 month clothes, size 5 diaper.
*Still love playing in the water..went on your first boat ride. You did well.
*Still rocking the helmet... we may stop in one more week. Youve met all the goals.
*Prob weigh close to 24 lbs..you were 23 somthing whne you went in for HFM.
*Love your brothers and love seeing dogs on walks. First trip tothe zoo and you laughed and got excited at all the animals.
*Eating pretty much all foods
*Love dancing and when alexa turns on to play music
*Not sure how much you weigh id say prob around 23 pds.
*Wearing 12 month clothes but could prob fit into some 18 month stuff. some 12 m is a little tight especially if its more fitted.
*Still rocking your helmet; its getting harder as its warmer..we have to do more breaks when playing with water or if its super hot out.
*Dropped one botttle at daycare so now just drinking two there..typically 5-6 oz.
*Still nursing in the mornings and I recently stopped pumping during the day. Only pumping when you go to bed and then we give you a bigger bottle usually 6ish oz. Trying to use up that freezer stash. Hopefully will have enough for the next two months so we dont have to use formula. Fingers crossed.
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your 4 top teeth. The two on left side came in first and now you can see the ones on the right. You were having several nights of tossing and turning I think when the tyelnol wore off.
*Sleeping a lot better after we did some sleep training.. youll sometimes sleep thru the night or youll wake up once and need to be rocked.
*Still saying mama, dada, baba, ahhh
*Crawling alot without hte helmet off or a few forward then army crawling.. you kinda did the bear type walk thing outside. Youll pull yourself up to your knees but not fully up.
*Eating everything! Yogurt is still your fav. The only thing you havent liked is watermelon--pears at home. Drink water out of your sippy cup. We ve tried a straw cup but you dont get it yet.
*Love baths and playing in the water.. you like to crawl in the bath and pool and face plant into the water on purpose.
*Love books and singing and dancing..if you hear us tell alexa to play a song you get super excited.
*Love your brothers and wrestling them and attacking them.
*Rocking the pony tail.
Nine Months old 5/20
*You weight.. height.
*Were on week 8 of the helmet..
*You are wearing size 12 month clothes, size 5 diapers but still using up some 4s at home.
*Did some sleep training with you this past weekend and it was rought..we did 5 min checkins which I think just made you more mad.. the first night you finally fell asleep two hours later and then never woke up again till morning not even to eat..you still had been eating once a night.. night 2 you cried a couple mins but woke up a couple hours later and then it was 1.5 hours of crying. Night 3 you went to sleep in about 10 mins and only wimpered and slept all night. Heres too hoping this will last. Its so hard to listen to you cry.. night two I was crying too. UGH. haha
*Still rolling all over and eating your toes.. you get up like you are going to crawl but dont..you can also go form sitting to crawling.
*Standing up to play with toys osmetimes one handed..or youll try and switch ot grab something else. You have pulled yourself up a few times..like from our lap to a toy.
*Love riding in your brothers old push blue car..you honk the horn and steer the wheel.
*Put your hair in its first pony tail..soo cute.
*Learned to say mama...say it alot when you are tired or mad haha.
*Learned to clap and still wave a lot.
*Like looking at books and singing songs.
*Eating so many things... hamburger, avacado, puffs, cheerios, fruits. Tried fro yo. Scrambled eggs, waffles, yogurt, toast, pancakes, beans, Shredded cheese.. you love anything.
*Still drinking 3 5 oz bottles at daycare and they are giving you breakfast, lunch and snack there..starting to do more table foods there the past week. Still nursing you in the mornings and nights..we did do one bottle at night with dad and it went ok.. Still nursing you on the weekends too but I am looking to phase out pumping soon. I wanted to wait till 9 months and i have so much frozen milk to use up too. I get sad about it but want my freedom back too..pumping gets so old. well see i may see if i can stil nurse in morning and or nights for awhile before stopping.
*Naps are still hit or miss there..sometimes youll do an hour or a halft hour. usually around close to 10 and then 1ish.. it needs to be mor elike 2ish.. at home youll usually sleep 1 hour sometimes 1.5-2 hours and well wake you up.
*Going to bed around 7 usually daycare days you sometimes only make it till like 630 and are losing it.
*Still only the two bottom teeth but you act like you are getting more teeth.
*Love bath time and pull yourself up we are currently using a laundry basket to contain you and then we dont have to worry about you falling over although you are perfect at sittin gnow.
* YOu love your borthers, swinging at the park and slide..you like to go go and dondt really like to just ist in a lap much more.
*You get dragged to soccer games and practices and usaully get bored.
*You are so easy going and we love you! You dont really get mad unless you are hungry or tired.
* We love you Livie-loo:)
You are 8 months old and bursting with smiles and a fun personality.
*Wearing mostly 12 month clothes, you can squeeze into some 9m. Moved up to size 5 diapers.
*Eating--every 3 hours usually. Most days youll drink 3 5ish oz bottles at school and take two naps there. At home youll nap a little longer.
*Go to bed its usually a struggle to make it till 7pm... Im still nursing you to sleep which we prob should stop but enjoying the cuddles.
*Still nursing and pumping.. my slacker boob is making like nothing so its getting harder to keep pumping I keep wanting to stop and then have guilt and sadness..well see how much longer Ill last.
*Sleep- Good nights you wake up like once... some nights its like twice.. like around 10pm and ill feed you and then you may wake up again and dad will rock you back to sleep.. I have just not wanted to feed you more than once a night. We prob need to cut you off completely. When nursing its just easier to just feed you quick and back to sleep you go.
*Eating purees and yogurt. You do like raspberries, banana.. puffs and yogurt melts. Weve given you random bites of some things. Eggs you dont really like the texture. You like peanut butter alot.
*Still rolling all over to get where you want to go and you can go from sitting to your tummy..no crawling yet. Weve had you stand up holding on to stuff for a bit.
*You started waving which is super cute.
*Still only babbling and saying dada but not sure you get it.
*Love grabbing on to things and chewing on everything.. still just two teeth but I think more are on their way.
*Love your jumping toys and spinning around.
*Getting better at sitting longer but will still occ topple over esp when grabbing for things.
*Almost a month with your helmet and doing great with it..doesn't bother you and we have seen great improvements...hopefully it continues and we wont need it too much longer.
We made the hard decision to get a helmet to fix your head shape. Every since about 2 months your head was You had a little flat in the upper part of your head in the back. We brought you in and they said we were doing all the right things by keeping you off your head and tummy time etc. Id even hold you for naps so you werent on your head. You also preferred to sleep straight back on your head even when wed try and turn your head.
Once you started to roll youd sleep on your side or tummy...it was getting slightly better but still not great. We decided to have your head scanned. Your 4 numbers were all 1,1,1, and 2. 3 and 4s are considered severe. Your numbers were considered mild. The one measurement of a 2 qualified you for a helmet.
We decided to move forward in case it did not round out more on its own. We went and and got your light pink helmet and they cut some things off to fit to your head. You were really unphased by it and even fell asleep while we were there. We gradually eased you into wearing it 1 hour 1 hour off working up our way to 23 hours a day and sleeping with it as well. You did so good. You never really fussed and continued to sleep really well wiht it.
We have had some slight rashes on the one side..hopefully that clears up. We are trying to dress you cooler so you dont over heat.
We didnt make it to the first appointment a week later..you got red spots on both sides of your head.. so we went in for an adjustment early...they shaved off those areas to give your head more room. The only time weve really seen your head get super sweaty..was on a two hour car ride..you got pretty sweating.
Hopefully we see good results and this goes by fast.
*Id say you prob weigh 20 lbs or close to it
*Wearing size 9 months but it is tight esp if washed and dried lol.
*Moved up to size 4 diapers.
*Sleeps in cotton jammies with zipadee zip..still love to sleep on side or belly.
*Got first nasty daycare cold..had a fever for 5 days.. could not breathe out of your nose..all while getting your first two bottom teeth.
*Love to grab everything and put in your mouth
*Roll all over thte place rarely stay on your tummy
*Getting better at sitting alone and playing wiht toys but if you go to grab stuff youll sometimes tip over or face plant.
*Sitting up in stroller like big girl.. like walks but sometimes fall asleep.
*Adjusted to daycare finally they say you are soo smiley and happy. Your naps can range from 30 mins sometimes an hour.
*You eat 3 5 oz bottles at daycare.. you still nurse in the morning and at bed and on the weekends.. you are a very distracted eater though at any noise and stop and start. Like like to nurse/rock to sleep too which I prob shouldnt let you do.
*Sleeping you have slept thru the night or wake up once..or youll have crappy nights where you wake up over and ove rand need to be fed or rocked by us.
*Had your head scanned and will be getting a helmet htis week :( It was so borderline but I want you to have a perfect head.
*Hair is starting to grow in more..put in your first bow.
*Love talking and making noises and screeching..
*Said da da ...not sure if you know the word or just say it.
*Love being scared-boo or danced. or bounced.
*Eating more purees love yogurt and fruits..most veggies you spit out or gag.. liked pb, anything with texture you spit out.
*Use sippy cup of water..mostly chew on it.
*if you like something you eat you usally scream in bt bites.
*Daycare is also feeding you lunch--usually oatmeal and fruit and sometimes youll eat it sometimes not.
Love bath time and try to sit up from your infant tub..have sat a little bit.
*Love to pull my hair especially when eating.
First tooth-- left on bottom the one on right also on its way too.
*Weighs 19 lbs .8oz, 26.3" long.
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*Wearing size 3 diaper prob needs size 4, we switched to over night diaper, starting to wear 9 month clothes and some 6-9 still.
*Naps-- made a huge improvement on naps right before going back to daycare by you falling asleep on your own after a short book and in your zipadee zip.. youd take 1.5-2 hour naps or typically an hour. Then you started daycare and went back to like 30 min naps for them.
*Sleeping with cotton jammies with the zipadee zip blanket--immediately roll to side to sleep and then often times end up on tummy which you sleep better.
*Liking more foods.. youve had oatmeal but it constipated you some, you love squash and apples. Carrots and avacado you spit out. we even tried mixing carrots with fruit it was a no go. we have you a sippy cup with water and you dont realy get it. we tried putting down some broken up puffs to see if youd pick up but you dotn get it yet.
*Love jumper and activity toy tables..
*Can roll to belly and side in crib... like to sleep on side now and belly
*You have rolled belly to back but dont do it consistently.. you look like you are moving forward like you want to crawl.
*Like tummy time water mat
*Getting better at sitting.. will still topple over or to side occ.
*Great at grabbing toys and everything in the mouth
*Love your brothers dancing and throwing blankets in air-
*Bray calls you missy and ms, Landon calls you peanut
*You started daycare on the 8th- the first day wa srough you didnt want to eat bottles but by second day you were eating better.. not napping well there or having trouble getting you asleep or wake up when laid down
*Pulling on to toys and putting everything in your mouth
*contsantly sucking on hands and fingers
*Drooling like crazy--suck and chew on bibs too-several outfit and bib changes per day
*Sleeping varies.. you are so tired after daycare..sometimes pass out in car or have a boob snooze.. usually cant make it till 7 without needing to go to bed.. you usually will wake up a few times shortly after and need to be rocked to sleep sometimes fed... you have had a coupl enights where youve gone 8-9 hours without feeding and having to have us wake you up for school at 640. YAY.
*Love bath time and try to sit up
*Weighs 17 lbs
*Had first urgent care visit- fluid in ears.. ahhh ear infections here we start? I hope not
*Wearing size 3 diaper, 6 month clothes--they are snug after washing and shrinking
*Naps-- still cat naps every 2 hours.. we worked hard to train you to fall asleep on your own for naps but still only nap 30-40 mins.. sigh. You become so over tired by bed time. You cant seem to fall alseep on your own at bedtime and will wake up like 40 mins later over and over.
*Sleeping with cotton jammies with the zipadee zip blanket vs swaddling.. took several nights to get used to it.
*Tried oatmeal but didnt like it the first time just pushed out with tounge.
*Love jumper and activity toy tables..
*Can roll to belly and side in crib... like to sleep on side now.
*Still havent rolled belly to back.
*Like tummy time water mat
*Love your brothers dancing and throwing blankets in air-
*Bray calls you missy and ms, Landon calls you peanut
*Only two more weeks home with mom and then im back to work and you start daycare wahhh.
*Pulling on to toys and putting everything in your mouth
*contsantly sucking on hands and fingers
*Drooling like crazy--suck and chew on bibs too-several outfit and bib changes per day
*Sleeping varies.. we have had some rought nights w multiple wakes ups.. we tried having dad give you a bottle before bed.. usually youre too tired and fall alseep eating.. then wake up a few times.. till you stay asleep then usually eat again 10-1030 then around 1 or 2 then usally 4 or 5... then up for day at like 830. During day you typically will nurse every 3 hours or so. You get so distracted easily.
*Love bath time and try to sit up
*Starting waking up after being put down or like 20 mins later and would just scream and scream..didnt want to be rocked etc.
*After two nights of doing that for four hours we decided with naps the next day to see how long youd cry wiht us sitting next to you.. you only cried about 10 mins and fell asleep.. much better than i was expecting.. we continued on doing htat for naps and at night. At night it was prob about 12 mins but you stopped and then started up again a couple of times.
*We stopped swaddling you in the sleep sack and tried the zippadee zip one that keeps your arms like bat wings that we borrowed from a friend.. you can roll on your side with it..
* You stayed asleep after the crying till around 12-1 to eat then again till 4 or 5 to eat then slept till 730-8.
* Next up will be conquering to stop the night feedings.. doing two a night is rough.
*You would think putting yourself to sleep would equal longer naps but usually still only getting 30 mins, 40 if we are lucky. hopefully this will get better.
Its so hard to listen to you cry but its prob better to do now vs later when im sure youd cry more and we need to break the rocking with dad habit now esp before daycare.
You weigh 15 lbs 8 oz, 24.5 inches
Starting wearing size 3 diaper.
Wearing 3-6 month clothes mostly, beg to wear some 6 month clothes
Eating every 2.5-3 hours.. doing some bottle here and there
Still love to be swaddled.
Have only rolled to side.. if we put you on side you can roll to belly and back.
Was sleeping like 8ish- 3 then till 830.
Love being on your changing pad and laying on the floor to play
Pulled out the jumperoo and your new activity table you got for xmas..
Love to do naps with dad rocking you facing out and passing out.
Will take one swing nap in mornings. most naps are always 30 mins occ we can get a 1.5 to 2 hour swing nap.
Love crinkly book toy...starting to play with some chew toys.
Had flat spot looked at will retrun around 5-6 months to access for helmet.. I hope not.
Love watching your brothers dance etc.
Loving to coo and making bird noises.
Love farmers horse and being scared like boo or startled..
