Life with E and M: October 2013

Weight: 20.1 lb (64 percentile)

Size Clothing: We jumped up a size fast! She's in 12-18 month and 18 month clothes now. The reason being her shirts kept riding up because of her buddha belly :-( so we moved up a size in shirts so her stomach is nice and covered. leggings are still 12 month tho since shes alittle bit of a shorty! her shoe size is between a 3 and 4. her feet are too wide for 3 but too short for 4. womp womp. we started wearing uggs and little mocassins tho! they mostly stay on okay.

Milestones: She finally said MAMA!! first time today!! the sweetest sound to my ears. i'm 99% sure she doesn't know what that means but i still love it. And shes been saying it all day long. Also she's crawling for reals now! finally! i wasn't worried about it but i am happy that she isn't draggin her stomach across our floor anymore. shes also cruising and walking with a walker like a pro. she is a cautious one still tho so she likes to take her time. she started signing this month as well. she can do "all done" and "more". altho she doesn't do it consistently but her daycare teacher mentioned it to me as well so i know she's doing it. she loves playing peekaboo with her blankie and thinks shes hilarious.

Food: she's doing 3 solid meals a day and 2 snacks. all with milk in a straw cup. she has two bottles, once in the morning and once before bed. thinking about how to start to get rid of the bottles. probably morning first then bedtime bottle. cannot wait for bottles to be done! her favorite foods right now are yogurt melts, meat of any kind, cheerios, cheese. veggies have taken a back seat and fruit is always hit or miss. i feel like shes always eating the same things tho so i'm trying to change it up for her! shes getting good at drinking from a straw cup as well. usually she will hold it in her lap while she eats and takes sips throughout the meal. i only take it away from her when she starts tipping it over for fun.

Schedule:
7am - wakeup, 6 oz bottle
8am - scrambled egg with cheese, cheese, breakfast sausage, cheerios straw cup of milk
9-11am - nap!
11am - 2-3oz milk in a straw cup, cheese/fruit/some other snack
12pm - veggies, meat, cheese, pasta, and/or egg, 2-3oz straw cup of milk
1:30-3:30pm - nap!
3:30pm - 2-3oz milk in a straw cup, cheese/fruit/some other snack
5:30pm - dinner veggies, meat, cheese, and/or pasta, 2-3 oz straw cup of milk
7pm - 6oz bottle, bath, brush teeth, sleep!

posing in her new jammies!

Sleep: her sleep is still great. she got sick last week so one night she woke up at 5am and needed some motrin because of a fever. but the other nights she was sick she slept through the night. her naps are usually 1.5 hours long these days. some days 2 hours. her record was 3.5 hrs one day when she was sick. daycare naps are still kind of the same about 45 min - 1.5 hours.

Her favorite things: she likes her walker and walking around the room, cruising from couch to couch, peekaboo, playing with anything that isn't a toy (somehow they always know!), tupperware, walking with her daddy and doggies, making people laugh.