This month has seemed to be a month of lots of change for the girls. They are seeming so grown up to me lately. I'm just going to list lots of boring facts about them so I can look back and remember....sorry readers!!
Zoe this month you:
-started trying to crawl! We have gotten a few legit lunges forward but you mostly just rock on your knees, or stand up on your feet with your booty in the air. It's pretty cute.
-started sitting up from a laying position. All of a sudden you just popped up from the floor onto your bottom. Again, pretty cute!
-started lots of babbling. You now love to repeat "mamamama" over and over again. I know you don't have a clue what you are saying but I love the sound of "mama". I've been hearing a ton of different consonants this week from you. You will be an early talker I'm pretty sure!
-started loving the sound of your loud shrill scream. You will sit and scream a joyful little screech until you are red in the face and have to catch your breath and start again. It usually scares your sister or at least makes her jump.
-started for real sleeping through the night. I actually can't pinpoint when you really started sleeping through the night but I also can't remember the last time you woke up at all. You are a great little sleeper.
- you usually sleep from 6:45-7 or 7:30. Sometimes you wake up at 5:30 for a bottle and then go back to sleep until 7ish. You are a superstar sleeper.
- you still love to be rocked to sleep and after you spend about 30 seconds fighting going down for bed or naps with ALL your might at all your high decibel glory, you relax and are out cold! Sometimes I swear you are in the exact same position we left you in 13 hours later!
- you have pretty much started only taking 2 naps a day. If we happen to be in the car at just the right time you will drift for a minute. But regardless of how much you nap or don't nap you still go to bed around the same time. You are a predictable little baby.
- you play appropriately with your little toys and are starting to grasp cause/effect. Is fun to watch you spin your little spin toy and wait for it to stop and spin it again. It's fun to watch you discover your little world.
- you take a while to wake up from sleep. You have the most tired little face when you wake up and the pinkest little cheeks. However, the second we walk into the living room and you see your sister you come alive and know its playtime. You smile and wiggle for me to put you down to play with sissy!
-you are extremely distractable. This was a huge problem when I was nursing and now is a big problem with the bottle. It's like you are on speed spinning your head in all directions, turning to any little sound, straining your head to look out the window, or at sisters toy, or the person talking in the kitchen. We pretty much have to let you sit completely upright and we have to just follow your head around with the bottle. The process is not fast! Its mainly a concern on the few times I am not with you. You have to take 2 bottles a week from other people and you don't make it easy on them!
-you are kind of "whatever" about solid food. I think you can take it or leave it. If I put a spoonful of food up to your face you will eat it. But I don't see much of a love for food yet.
-you are taking 5oz sometimes 6oz bottles about 5 times a day and eating a couple times a day. But I can usually only get you to really eat solid food about once a day. You would rather chew on the spoon, or the tray or turn your head to look at the pattern on the high chair or look out the window.
- you are pretty much over the paci. We still put it in your bed, but you mostly use it as a teething toy and chew on the back of it. I'm not going to force it, I'm hoping we are one of the lucky few who seamlessly part ways with the paci.
- your current favorite activity is to just crawl around and explore your toys. You are in more of an independent phase lately and seem to want to spend more time exploring your toys and environment than being held in my arms at all times.
- you continue to be pretty leery of strangers. Just today you got swarmed at the hair salon and had a bit of a breakdown. I could see it building but couldn't get to you quick enough to stop it. You are overwhelmed by crowds at times and loud noises. Not to the point of freaking out or anything, but your daily life is pretty calm and you aren't around a whole lot of kids.
- you are still big, I think about 20lbs, and are in 9-12 month clothes!
- you are happy and content about 99% of the time. Lately when you get overtired you just get quiet and very calm. Not a whole lot of screaming.
Nora this month:
- you started sitting up from laying down. Your sister did it and you did it about 5 hours later.
- you are finally up on all fours but aren't quite crawling yet. You somehow get around though! You can fly all over your crib with you crafty little scooching and rolling! It's funny and spastic looking.
- you have become LOUD....you alternate from screaming, to growling, to babbling to laughing. I was trying to describe you to your daddy one day and said you were a "scrappy little spaz!"
- you seem to be all over the place lately. Constantly bouncing in your bouncer or swatting at toys. You just seem hyper to me.
- you have a VERY chipper demeanor about you. You are just so happy to be alive. You love being in the middle of the conversation, love an excuse to laugh or smile and seem to just be waiting for the opportunity. You are SO smiley!
- unlike Zoe you bounce up on all fours the second I come in to get you from your nap. If you are laying down all I have to do is whisper "Nor-Nor" and you flip over and pop right up with the biggest smile on your face and start flapping your arms for me to pick you up. Once I do you are usually so thrilled you start shaking both legs and bouncing up and down. Also unlike your sister, you would be held all day. The way the two of you trade off personas each month is interesting. You continue to change and flip flop on who does what.
- your are doing much better with night sleep. But I can count on two hands the amount of nights you have slept through the whole night, and that number is 7, ha! You will often sleep from about 8-4 and then eat and go back down until after 7. But you will more often get up around 2am for a bottle and then sleep until morning. You are by no means a bad sleeper, you just don't have it mastered quite like sister. Which I also want to add that I have heard SO many moms allude to the fact that babies sleep or don't sleep based on the parenting style. Not in our case. Zoe was sleeping through the night at 4 months and never needed help with it at all. We have had to WORK to get Nora not to wake up 5x a night. Our 1 night waking now is serious progress!
-oh and most nights it takes you a good amount of crying or just talking to yourself to go to sleep. I tried my hardest not to let you cry, but I truly can't figure out how. You just seem to need to unwind or something. However, due to this you have been officially relocated to the guest room. It's really sad because the nursery was SO cute, and now your crib is missing. But it's on my to do list to make your new room cute and cozy too. I actually really like having more space in the nursery to fold laundry and such and we are in the process of making the study a guest room which will be great and it's much farther away from babies so now our guest won't have to walk on egg shells, afraid to unzip a suitcase!
- you are a pretty super napper though. You nap from about 9-10 or 11 and 1-2 or 3.
-we are in a funky place with you at night. You don't want to go down for a third nap, but are a grump without it. We are just in a transition phase right now, which is making the hours of about 5-7 not a pretty sight. We also can't quite figure out your bedtime. If we put you down at 6 you scream like it's too early, but if we keep you up until 7 or 8 you are in rare form. Between 7-8 seems like your natural bedtime, but we are still trying to figure out a way for you to be more of a happy camper up to bedtime. Because unlike your sister who just gets really quiet and observant, you scream and flail around!
- your favorite playtime activity is jumping all around in your jumparoo. It seems to give you so much joy!
- you love love love eating. You are thrilled when we put you in your highchair and the only food you have protested so far is peas. You bang your little hands on the tray and pretty much are opening your mouth for your next bite before you are done with your previous one. I think it's safe to say that you much prefer solid food to formula, which is probably because you are on a revolting hypoallergenic formula. Poor baby.
- I think your eyes are officially brown. And your hair is definitely very dark. Your hair is also starting to curl up when it gets wet. You definitely stand out as having your own look among your sister and cousins who all seem to favor each other with their bright blue eyes, fair skin and light hair. You get to be unique with your darker completion!
- you weigh exactly 19lbs as of yesterday at your ear infection follow up appointment. However, you seem tiny to me!
- you are also over the paci and just like to play with it too. You have finally taken to your lovie which is good.
- you take four or five 4oz bottles a day. This month you are none to interested in having anything to do with a bottle. I think it slows you down too much and I don't think you love your new formula. Unless you are starving it takes us a couple tried to get you to finish a bottle. Which probably attributes to you still waking up at night to eat. It is an even bigger task for someone else besides me or lance to give you a bottle. You spend a total of 8 hours away from us each week and the bottle report is never good for at least half of the time!
-I would say you are happy 90% of the time, with the 10% grumpy revolving around bedtime. Hopefully this next month will bring some more predictability in your sleep needs!
-Nora you are a little ray of sunshine, with a permanent smile!
One new, unfortunate development this month has been illness. NO exaggeration, the day after the girls first full day without breast milk they got colds. It started with Nora, then a week later went to Zoe, then Zoe ended up with an ear infection, then Nora ended up with an ear infection, then Zoe's ear infection didn't respond to the antibiotics and she ended up with a double ear infection and a sinus infection. This all started the day of their six month appointment and we just got the all clear on the ears and sinuses 2 days ago. Then when I felt like I could finally breath a sigh of relief that night Zoe woke up with diarrhea and 102 temp and then Nora followed with projectile vomiting. This was just yesterday. So if you are doing the math it has been a straight month of illness. To say I regret stopping nursing them would be the understatement of the century. And for all you mommies who beat yourselves up because your littles get sick from daycare....don't! It happens to stay at home kids too! Mine are a prime example!! It has really been tough. And I have felt pretty guilty about stopping nursing. But I suppose it's now or when they turned one and everyone who hasn't yet been sock gets sick. But I am praying that this month we have healthy babies!
But we are happy and loving life in our little corner of life! It gets better and better each day!! I think I'm finally to the point of wanting the freeze time! They are at such a fun age and we are truly blessed!! :)
Bundled for the cold! Cuteness I must say.
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