11 Months Old!!

11 months old...one more month until the big first birthday...CRAZY!!!!

10 Months Old!!

2 more months until my baby girl turns 1...wow! This has been a long month I feel. We have had ear infection after ear infection with the two kids and finally right now we are ear infection free (let's hope it stays that way!) Sadie has been waking a lot in the night so that hasn't been fun or easy. I hope she gets past this phase very soon!! She is still a crazy girl all over the place and into EVERYTHING!!! Just last week she learned how to clap and it's sooooooooooooo adorable!!! She loves when people wave to her but she picks and chooses when she actually will wave back:) I love my little girl (even if she is a handful!)

9 Months Old!!

My baby girl turned 9 months old on the 11th. I cannot believe only 3 more months until she is 1! That's just CRAZY!!! Sadie is just as crazy as ever. She is walking along anything and everything and is able to stand without holding on to something for 10 seconds or more at times. A couple times she has even went from sitting on the ground up to standing by just pushing up off the floor instead of pulling up on something. She just amazes me in her movement considering Jonah wasn't even crawling yet when he was her age.
She is also babbling ALL THE TIME now!!! She hasn't said any real words yet, but she has conversations in her own language:) When she gets going with her babbling and yelling Jonah thinks it is hilarious so then it tends to get really loud in the house because he starts imitating her:)
She went to the doctor for her 9 month checkup and she is still just a peanut in her weight. She weighs just over 16 1/2 lbs and that puts her just in the 15th percentile. She is average height still though so that's cool. I would take her being taller like her papa instead of short like her mommy:) The doctor said in her development and everything she is doing great. The only bad part of the appointment was finding out she had a double ear infection...poor thing! She had been waking up in the night for several nights prior to the appointment, which she doesn't typically do, and I just thought she was teething. I am glad I had the appointment so he found it and she is now on medicine. So yeah...9 months old...I better start thinking about her 1st birthday party, right?:)

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8 Months Old!!

My baby girl is 8 months old. She is just as crazy as ever....pulling up on anything and everything! She always goes over to the stairs and yesterday she even tried climbing up the first step by getting her leg up there! I cannot imagine that she won't be walking in the next 2 months, but only time will tell:)

7 Months Old!!

My baby is now 7 months old. She is turning into such a big girl! She is crawling all over the place and she can even pull to standing! She can't stand for a long time because her legs aren't quite strong enough yet, but she can pull herself up and she thinks any toy set in front of her is to be used to help get herself to standing:) She is starting to "talk" a lot more now too! She is forming sounds including "dada". We call Micah "papa" so he is really working on trying to get her to say that instead;) She has been eating some food now (I am making her baby food). She has had avocado, pears, sweet potatoes, and peas. She didn't seem to like the avocado and didn't really care for the peas, but she did like the sweet potatoes and the pears. I can't believe another month has come and gone...time flies!!

6 Months Old!!

Sadie is 6 months old...halfway to 1 year...CRAZY!!! I really cannot believe she is already crawling at 6 months because her big brother Jonah didn't crawl until after he was 9 months. She had her 6 month checkup at the doctor today and he said she is definitely advanced in development because of her movement abilities. She weighs 14 lbs 11.5 ounces which is only up just over 1 pound in the last 2 months since her last checkup (this put her in the 25th percentile). The doctor wasn't too worried, but does want to do a weight check in 6 weeks just to make sure she isn't dropping down percentage wise too much. We have had a lot of feeding issues, partially because of all my thyroid troubles and my milk production not being so great because of those issues. Because of all this, we have had to give her a lot of bottles of expressed breastmilk and quite a bit of formula as well. She takes a bottle which is a good thing because at this age Jonah wouldn't even take a bottle of expressed breastmilk. The problem is she is very distracted when eating and it doesn't matter if we are in a dark room, just the two of us...she is still distracted! It is like she would rather be down on the floor moving around than eating. She doesn't take her whole bottle sometimes so this could be partially to blame for her slow weight gain between 4 months and 6 months. She does eat rice cereal now, sometimes once a day, sometimes twice a day, but we are starting her on more solids this weekend so hopefully she takes well to those like she did the rice cereal so we can get her some more food and calories to help her gain some more weight!:) Everything else looked great and she is still up there for length, in the 50th percentile, at 26.5 inches long. Hopefully she decides to start eating better for us and there will be no problems:)