Life with E and M

Saturday, June 22, 2013

7 months!!

Weight: 17lb 3oz (~57 percentile)

Size Clothing: She's wearing 9 month sleepers now. We switched from 6 to 9 month sleepers around 6.5 months. She wears 6-12 month or 9 month dresses, onesies, and pants. Mostly because I was tired of the 6 month stuff and wanted to pack it all away together. Love shopping for a girl!

Milestones: She hasn't started crawling yet, but seems like she's on the verge of it. She pushes off with her legs to get somewhere and is starting to lift her stomach more off the ground. She is able to shuffle backwards by pushing off with her arms. We haven't baby proofed yet but we need to! Found the girl digging into diaper cream the other day! oops! Shes starting to make new sounds, like Mmmm and growling noises. She's laughing alot more now although she only thinks something is funny the first time. When we try to get her to do it again she just looks at us like we're old news. She also started solids at 6 months exactly. She did NOT like it for like the first couple days. Now she tolerates it.

First taste of solids!

Schedule: The only change this month is that we added solid food meals to her schedule. So a typical day at home looks like this -
7am - wakeup (altho she has really been awake since 630 and just talks to herself while mama gets the energy to get up). then 7oz bottle
8am - fruit! about 1.5 oz of puree fruit
9-11am - nap!
11am - 6oz bottle
12pm - veggies and fruit. about 1.5oz
1230-230pm - nap!
3pm - 5-8oz bottle depending on how hungry she is
4-5pm ish - catnap!
5pm - dinner 1.5oz of veggies and fruit!
7pm - 5-8oz bottle, bath, sleep!

on daycare days, exchange the 2 hour naps for maybe 3 catnaps throughout the day. that girl loves to play too much to nap.

Sleep: she's still going strong with sleeping through the night. sooo thankful!! don't know how i'll survive with a newborn in the future. i love my sleep. i sleep about 8-9 hours. The husb is always like, why r u so tired in the morning, u sleep like 9 hours! its true, i've always had suspicions that i have sleep apnea tho so i don't think my sleep is a very deep sleep. anywho, her naps at home are great, her daycare naps are getting worse. but the teachers don't say anything about it so i figure we'll have to make do. we're doing better with sleeping outside the house now. i think part of it is that she can stay awake about 2 hours now before fussy city so that helps. also i've been using a snooze shade to put over her stroller or carseat so she can fall asleep better when we're out. i still try to time things around her naps tho, don't wanna mess with something good!

Her favorite things: daycare! the girl loves going to daycare. i noticed it in the beginning of the month where i'd drop her off and she'd look at me, then look away and start playing with the toys! i think she's saying "okay bye mom, pick me up later!". she's always smiling at her teachers and friends when she gets dropped off. the teachers comment that she loves to smile at her friends. so i'm so happy with our decision to send her there so early. she also loves being on her stomach now. girl will flip over anytime we put her on her back. she also loves her blankie! i introduced it a couple months ago just to help her sleep outside the house. these days we just leave it in the crib and she always grabs it before sleeping and sucks on it like a paci! i don't think she needs it to sleep but i think she likes it as a comfort item.

Her normal sleep attire and blankie!

First time swimming over Memorial day weekend!

We think she liked being bundled up better!

Street fair! Dad loves to hold her like a sack of potatoes!

Introduced the sippy cup! She knows how to drink from it altho she's not that interested in doing it

Her cheese face! Hi Auntie Kar!!

Love how her hair is longer now and we can put it in ponytails!

CHEESEE

San Diego County Fair!

First Fathers day! Not sure if he's trying to feed her to the duck... JK!

First time sitting in the shopping cart-not impressed

pigtails and cheeseface!!

Friday, May 24, 2013

6 months!!

OMG my baby is 6 months?? when did this happen?

Weight: 16lb 10oz (60th percentile)

Height: 24 3/4'' (10th percentile)

Head Circumference: 43.7cm (87th percentile)

Size Clothing: She's still wearing 6 month sleepers! I had to retire some of them (the pink sock monkey sleeper! :-( ) but she still is able to wear a couple of them. I started buying 9month and 6-12 month pj's and clothes but haven't started using them yet. As far as onesies, shirts, and pants, she still fits in 3-6 month.

Milestones: She started pushing up on her arms when she's on her tummy so like a mini pushup. she also doesn't stay put anymore. she doesn't exactly crawl, but somehow she maneuvers herself a couple feet. i think by shuffling or spinning alittle? i haven't really seen it in action, i just know that when i put her down she isn't gonna stay there! she is sitting up better but still needs to be in the right position or else she'll tip (i blame her big head, no offense baby!) but shes getting better at it. still has to lean forward a bit to balance but if in the right position she can stay sitting for a long while. she's also alot better about aiming things into her mouth. she can hold her paci's and get them in her mouth.

Sophie time!

Schedule: so her schedule is a little different this month. we dropped a feeding so she takes 7-8oz every 4 hours. so she eats at 7, 11, 3, and 715 ish. then she naps from 9-11, 12-2 ish, and 4-5 on a non daycare day. on a daycare day... well her naps are about 45min to 1 hr and she takes about 4 of them. the daycare teacher says shes just too curious about what the other kids are doing! they had to cover part of her crib bc she'd wake up and look at the other kids playing. super cute tho! this new schedule hasn't eliminated her fussy time but it did push it back a bit. so its only really 6-7pm ish.

Love seeing this happy face in the morning!

Sleep: we're back to sleeping through the night after the diarrhea fiasco! she sleeps from 730pm to about 7am. she actually wakes up probably around 640am but she's awesome and lets me keep sleeping while just playing with her blankie. she still naps alot, like i said before. about 5 hrs on a non daycare day and 3-4 hours on a daycare day. while this sounds awesome, it's proven to be hard to go out for longer than 1-2 hours! girl does not like sleeping anywhere besides a crib and can't fall asleep in the bjorn or stroller very well. she does fall asleep in the car but only when shes really really tired. so if we try to go out longer than 2 hours she gets cranky fast. so going out takes alot more planning these days so we basically have to go out right when she wakes up. on the same note eating out has been proven to be hard as well! girl has a 10 min attention span and needs to keep moving. so hopefully this gets better when she can eat with us. starting solids later this week!

Girl loves this thing!

Her favorite things: she's in the midst of teething so she loves sophie now and the raz paci. she also loves the feeder paci. we've only put ice cubes in there but she loves it! we'll start putting fruit when we introduce it. she loves being on her tummy now. she can only stay on her back for about 5 sec before she attempts to flip. diaper changes have turned into alligator wrestling. shes playing with her jumperoo more now. instead of just looking at everything she's spinning things and jumping in it more. its a good distractor when i need time to do work!

First hot day in awhile! Romper season!

Her blankie. Not sure if she cares for it but I see her smell it when shes trying to sleep!

Lion!

Showing us her bff Sophie!

Her first pigtails!

My first mothers day gift!

First mothers day!

Love this girlie!

Dad trying to get her to laugh. She says ehhhh

love!

Mom I move so fast now, just try to take a picture of me

Thursday, April 25, 2013

5 months!

Weight: 15lb 4oz (~51st percentile)

Size Clothing: Wearing 6 month sleepers still although some are fitting perfectly right now so i know we're onto 9 months soon. As far as regular clothes she still wears 3-6 month. Some pants are still too big for her because her legs are short!

Milestones: Rolling over from back to belly pretty consistently now. Because of this she's started sleeping on her side now. I hope she doesn't roll over by mistake in the middle of the night though and need me to turn her over! <ETA: she JUST did it as I was writing this post!! gosh. she fussed for a couple min then seems to have fallen asleep on her belly. Hope its that easy> She's also sitting by herself better and can do it for longer periods of time as long as she's in the right position. She's also alot better at grabbing objects and putting them in her mouth. She plays with her toys alot more now, especially the ring links.

Schedule: We kept the same schedule up until this week. I'm trying to drop a bottle feed and increase the amount in the bottle. Partly because her last two bottles were too close to each other (5 and 7) where she wouldn't eat her last bottle. So the last couple days we've been doing 4 bottles at 7, 11, 3, and 7 ish and so far so good! she eats each bottle and i don't have to fight her to keep drinking. i'm hoping it helps that fussy period from 5-7 but we'll see...

Sleep: Her beautiful night sleep was disrupted for a couple days this month cause of a virus she got. Diarrhea city = diaper rash. I think it was the rash that woke her up and she needed to be changed. She went back down fine but after just a couple days of that mama was soooo tired. not as easy when they're not a newborn anymore. she got back on track a couple days later but that was not a fun week. Now she's starting to wake up a bit earlier than before (7am instead of 730am) i think because we've been putting her to sleep earlier. but i think this is better because girl is FUSSY at night. so i know she wants to go to bed earlier.

Her favorite things: she loves those ring links that hang. she's always tugging at them. she also loves when people talk to her. she's starting to smile alot at strangers (well strangers to her... our friends tho). she has no hesitation in giving someone a big gummy grin if they're smiling at her. she does get alittle shy and rubs her head in our shoulder but then she'll look back at them and smile again. she loves being in the sitting position and looking around. no longer are the days where she can just lie in the boppy for long periods of time. girl needs to see everything!

Having fun on Easter weekend

Easter Sunday at Auntie's house!!

Little thumb sucker... She stopped doing it lately though

Master at tummy time now

The cutest sleeper I know

Love her gummy smile

Having fun at my friends bridal shower!

Daddy time!

Her first time in her high chair. Can't wait for solids next month!!

Too small

Sunday, March 24, 2013

4 months!

Weight: 14lb 2.2oz (51st percentile)

Height: 23in (5th percentile) the doctor commented on this but said she wasn't concerned. she said now that her weight is good she'll start growing lengthwise more. i feel like shes getting alot taller tho bc her 6 month sleepers are starting to fit!

Head Circumference: 42cm (88 percentile!!) big heads totally run in the family

Size Clothing: Switched to 6 month sleepers. She wears 3-6 month clothing. The sleeves are alittle too long. For pants she still fits in 0-3 and 3 month sizes since her legs are so short!

Milestones: I feel like she had a big mental growth spurt the last week of this month. Starting last weekend she started holding toys (or my hair!!) in her hands and putting the toys in her mouth. She also started laughing! Daddy makes her laugh the most! She's also starting to find her tongue, she's sticking it out all the time now.

Bathtime Fun!

She's rolled over from tummy to back 4 times now. She doesn't seem interested in going the other way though as when she's on her back she doesn't move much. Her head is a lot less wobbly now and doesn't fall all of a sudden anymore.

Schedule: Our schedule is the same as 2 month except she naps a tiny bit less. She started this witching hour the last month and at about 6pm she cries/fusses for an hour. The only way to avoid this is to go out of the house shopping (girl loves target!) or to get her to catnap, which has been hard these days!

Sleep: Her night sleep hasn't changed. She's still sleeping through the night for about 11-12 hours. On days at home she naps about 5-6 hours. She did start daycare two weeks ago. Her naps are of course worse there but she still sleeps relatively well which is all i can hope for. She sleeps about 3-4 hours in about 4 naps. Not the best but I think thats the best I can expect.

Her favorite things: She loves the winkel, i think because its easy to hold. She does NOT like her pacifier anymore. She always pushes it out with her tongue. I guess the days of instant silence are gone (haha that sounds terrible, but I hope you know what I mean). We got her the rainforest jumperoo and I think she likes it. She likes being in the upright position and she looks really comfortable in there. But she doesn't play with any of the toys. She'll look at the lights but thats about it. She's starting to love bathtime more. It's easy to get her to smile in there and she's always kicking her legs. She likes being held in a sitting position now versus laying in our arms. She'll fuss until we put her upright. She mostly loves the voices we make at her, that makes her smile and laugh!