Nine Months

Nine months.  Crazy to think you've been in this world as long as you lived inside of me. You're personality has really been emerging lately and it is so fun to see.  You love to go, go, go and make plenty of noise while you are at it.  Sometimes you can be a little whinny and want me to carry you everywhere, but most of the time you are just happy as can be.  You love to explore.  You're smile and giggles melt my heart and I treasure nursing you to sleep each night, watching you as you sleep so peacefully and content in my arms.  I love you more each day.

Height: 29 inches
Weight: 20lbs

Likes: Chasing the kitty around the house and pulling her tail, chasing the puppy and stealing his bones, trying to eat the dog's food, playing in the animals' water dish and spilling the water all over the floor, chewing on velcro, pushing your walker, crawling up stairs, pulling up on everything, unrolling toilet paper, eating paper, eating whatever mom or dad is eating, airplane rides, playing in the fridge, being tickled, babbling up a storm, playing patty-cake, mommy!

Dislikes: getting your diaper changed, getting told no, waking up from a nap

New foods: flax seed, cantaloup, quinoa, barley, blueberries

Sleep: You were down to getting up only twice a night until this last week when you got a double ear infection and you started getting up every 2 hours or so.

New skills: pulling up on everything, cruising along furniture, pushing your walking, crawling fast from room to room (usually chasing the cat), throwing temper tantrums when you don't get what you want (this starts already?!), taking hour naps sometimes, saying dada

Eight Months

Eight months! Can you believe it! You've learned a lot this month.  You started scooting the second week of December and then gave us a great Christmas present when you started crawling on Christmas Eve.   We were so excited!  It is so neat to see what you are interested in.  You've also continued to be quite the flirt and are definitely a social baby.  You get cranky if we stay home all day.  When we go to the store you smile at the cashier and then hide in mommy.

Weight:  20lbs!

 Likes: You love the kitty, chasing her, and pulling her tail.  You love to play with the dog food and water dish (not that I let you).  You're a huge fan of applesauce, sweet potato and cheese, although there really hasn't been one food you don't like.

Dislikes: Sleep.  Seriously kid, time to sleep through the night or at least for 6 or 8 hours straight every night.  You don't like getting your diaper changed most of the time.  Baths have become hit or miss these days too, which makes me sad because you used to love them (and you still do sometimes).  You got a bubble maker for Christmas from you aunt Kris and each time I turn it on you start crying.

New foods:  Egg, cheese, broccoli, oatmeal, and more I'm forgetting.
Sleep: Three 30 minute naps a days and then 7pm-7:30am at night (although you get up 3+ times)

Mad Skills: scooting, crawling, pulling up on the couch

Love you more each day goo bear!

Seven Months

Seven months snuck up on me somehow. I'm not really sure where the month of November went in general. Somewhere in there you tried a bunch of new foods, visited you nana and papa, hung out with your aunts and uncle, "played" with your cousins, celebrated you're first Thanksgiving (with squash! which you loved),  and never napped (seriously kid, time to sleep for more than 15minutes).  You're also working on getting your four top teeth.  

Six Months

 Weight: 18lbs 2oz
Height: 27 1/2 inches

Likes: Mommy tickling your tummy, Hans or any dog really, singing songs, bath time, your exersaucer, grabbing the cat's tail, sucking on your thumb (so adorable)

 

Dislikes: taking naps during the day, getting your diaper changed when your tired,  long car rides

Foods: sweet potato

Mad Skills: sitting by yourself (mostly), rolling over a ton, moving toys from one hand to the other, screaming (seriously kid, you can be LOUD), saying different consonants, popping two teeth

Sleep: you've been a pretty bad sleeper when you were getting your teeth, but the last week has been better.

Half A Year

I'm joining Emily today and embracing the camera with my little man.  I blinked and then somehow he turned six months old.  It's hard for me to believe he's already been in our lives for half a year.  Kinda hard to remember life without him...what did we do?  Glad to have this goo-bear in my life.

Little man got his first taste of food on Monday.  He at some pureed sweet potato.  I pretty sure he was just as excited about the spoon as he was about the food.  I think he liked it though. 

 Since it was Halloween yesterday,  Isaac dressed up in his tiger jammies and looking pretty cute as usual.

5 Months

I can't believe that in just one short month you'll be half a year old.  I'm holding off on feeding you big people food till next month, though I know you'd be happy to start today.  I seriously can't believe that we are out of the new baby stage and you're turning into your own unique person.  You're discovering the world around you and you're itching to explore it.  I know you'll be crawling before I know it.

Weight: 17lbs

Length: 27 inches

Clothing: 6-9 months.

 Likes: You love your dad and his silly antics to make you laugh.  You also love watching him play video games (much to my dismay).  You like watching Hans and you really want to play with his toy.  You like trying to pet him and the cat but they've learned to keep their distance. 

 Dislikes: You've gotten really good at rolling over from your back to your stomach in the last week, but you hate being on your stomach.  You will roll over, cry until I roll you back over on your back, and then repeat the whole process over and over.  Time to practice rolling the other way!  You starting to realize that there is a whole world around you and you want to go, go, go and explore but you don't know how.  I think you get upset a lot because you can't do what you want. 

Special talents:  Drooling like no one's business, rolling over from back to front, sleeping without the swaddle, waking up right when mom's about to fall asleep at night, grabbing and eating your feet (love this), sitting up with a little help, learning to drink from a sippy cup.

Sleep: You've been getting up 2-3 times a night to eat.  Sometimes more.  A few nights last week you only got up once...can't wait for this to be a nightly occurrence!

Loving this tv add...

While I don't use disposable diapers, I love this add.  I definitely feel like the first mom in the commercial but am becoming more like the second.  I hate the feeling that I need to be covered up while nursing in public.  We're not doing anything scandalous and let's be honest, some women show more when they're NOT nursing (not that I think they should, just saying).  I really hate nursing covers and rarely use one anymore.  Maybe someday I'll be brave and like that second mom...hey, a baby gotta eat right?