Leighton has decided to show me with full force that she's getting older! She's doing so many new things, eating new things, playing with new things. I really really think these next 4 months are just going to FLY by..were having so much fun with our little mover, life just couldn't be any sweeter!!
Weight/Height: I really have no clue! I know she's still gaining pretty large amounts of weight. Im worn out by the end of the day! ha! But she doesn't go back to the Dr until next month, so we will see them! We have officially moved to size 4 diapers for the day, and size 5 diapers for at night! We have given most of our 6-9 month clothes to our little cousin Hollyn. Size 9 is what fits best..and I've even been grabbing some size 12 month...which is by FAR THE CUTEST yet! Thats the "toddler" section at Target! :)
Motor Skills/Development: Last month I wrote "she is SO close to crawling I'm sure by the time I write this next month she will be all over the place"....well...i was right!
This child is everywhereeeeeeeee. She is like lightning! The other day i went to the store and left her with taylor. When i got home she was in her exersaucer. I asked Taylor why she was in it and he said "she's all over the place i can't handle it" haha! little did he know babies grow up and start moving! just wait till she's walking babe!!
Speaking of...she is really good at walking! She will hold our hands and walk through the house. Its so adorable. I really think she will be full out walking by 11 months. We will see ;)
She can feed herself now. Its pretty funny to watch. Sometimes she grabs everything off the plate in two fists and tries to shove them both in her mouth at the same time. And sometimes she uses her little pincher fingers like a little lady.
Were still working on the straw cup. Her problem is she doesn't want to sit still love enough to drink all her milk..so I'm just going to do one bottle a day with the cup and hold her in my lap...once she's got that down we will do 2 bottles a day in the cup, so on and so on.
Food/Diet: This and sleep have been our biggest changes this month! Following Babywise around 8 months is when babies move to a 4 hour schedule and drop their last nap. Some do it sooner, some later. We've just begun this phase. Right now she's taking a bottle every 3 1/2 hours to 4 hours, and eating 3 meals a day with one snack.
Snack is usually puffs, yogurt melts, or chunks of banana. Im making some pasta bites and beans for her to snack on too!
This month we added yellow squash ( which she is in love with! ) zucchini, plums, and we tried apples again, no reaction this time!
She's still not a big fan of fruit. Like this morning we had banana cinnamon oatmeal, and zucchini haha! BUT i did buy some of those organic squeeze packets of food at Target, i got all fruits, and this afternoon she ate a whole packet of peaches! SO those might be our best bet at getting her to eat some fruit!!
This month were going to do carrots, brown rice, pasta, beans, blueberries, and mango :)
Sleep/Independence: What a mamas girl i have here! I can't blame her for her dependence on me, we are together all day every day! She has a little anxiety when someone else holds her. Were working on it. She's also been fussy due to teething like crazy and ear infections! Poor kid.
So now what were doing the 4 hour schedule this is what I'm AIMING for every day to look like..some days were off give or take 30 minutes or so..but its getting there! And theres so much more free time during the day!
7:00 wake, eat bottle and solids
9:00 nap
11:00 wake, eat bottle and solids
1:00 nap
3:00 wake, eat bottle and snack
5:00ish eat solids and water
7:00 bottle and bed
Now that we have all this free time in between naps and at the end of the day I'm looking forward to lots of walks, "swimming" in the kiddie pool, visiting aunt erin at work, playing with our cousins, more trips to Target :) sorry babe! ha!
Speaking of walks I really want to get a jogging stroller so we can go for runs! In the perfect world we would get the BOB jogger...but we don't exactly have $500 laying around! SO i think ill be happy with this one ...
You know how i put the blow up bath tub as one of Leightons favorite things a couple weeks ago? Well we've outgrown it already, she climbs out of it haha! So we picked up this bath mat at Target yesterday and were officially taking big girl baths now!
Oh my baby is growing so fast! The month after next will be double digits! and THEN we will be in full time party planning mode :)
Im taking Leightons pictures this weekend, I have to have an "assistant" now..she won't stay in one place long enough to get a shot in! HA!
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