- Sweet baby girl, you are a tiny little thing! This month you managed to drop down from 12 lbs. 2 oz. at your 4 month check-up (which was actually at 4.5 months) to 11 lbs. 11.9 oz. at your 6 month check-up (which was actually at 6.5 months). You grew 1/4 of an inch to 24 and 1/4 inches. First percentile all around! They checked your thyroid levels at your 6 month check up to make sure there was no cause for concern....and there wasn't, PTL!
- You're still in size 1 diapers and 3 or 3-6 month clothes (3 month stuff fits best, but you're even in some 0-3 and some larger newborn stuff still, ha!)
- You nap ~3x/day, usually in your swing.
- Developmentally you are PERFECT! Dr. Schauer was amazed at how strong you are.
- You're sitting up so well now. You can catch yourself sometimes when you get off balance, but sometimes you still topple ;)
- You still don't like having your picture taken by professional photogs. Poor Cade had to come back a second time to try to get your 6 month pics!
- Still no teeth but some days I could've sworn you were teething.
- You still roll to your left side to sleep.
- You LOVE to eat (you've had all kinds of things: bananas, peaches, blueberries, pears, oatmeal, chicken, white bean chicken chili, sweet potatoes, chocolate ice cream, peas, green beans, carrots, squash, avacado, apples...)
- You still love jumping in your jumperoo, especially when you're upstairs with daddy while I'm at work.
- I think you could've easily gotten out of your Bumbo if you'd really wanted to, so I only put you in it when I wasn't leaving your side (even when you were on the floor).
- You turned over from you back to your tummy this month, but you only do it when you want/need...and rarely when you have an audience.
- You'd gotten quite good at passing your pacifier from hand to hand and even getting it back in your mouth by yourself.
- You also started talking more than even, throwing the occasional consonant in the vowel mix! You're also laughing all the time. You get tickled so easily and have trouble stopping once you start. We couldn't get enough of it!
- Some of your favorite things this month include:
- eating!!
- your Sophie (the giraffe)
- your "Life is Good" dog
- your jumperoo
7 Months:
- You're still in size 1 diapers, wearing 3 month and 3-6 month clothes. 3 months footed pjs are starting to get a little short but they still work best overall for now.
- You're still sleeping like a champ (for the most part). You nap 2-3x's a day for 1.5-3 hours each time.
- You're still nursing but we were supplementing more with formula and you were beginning to eat more baby food.
- Still NO TEETH!
- You'd perfected finding your plug (pacifier) and putting it back in!
- While Lottie, Palo, and Aunt Catherine were here for Thanksgiving (you were 6.5 months...in your 7 month of life...which gets quite confusing!), you tried out your high chair for the very first time and were a huge fan. I think you liked being on everyone's level for a change. Of course, you demanded that I feed you the entire meal. I guess I should thank you for slowing me down and causing me to eat less than I likely would have otherwise! You had your first bite of dressing at Thanksgiving dinner!
-We celebrated Daddy's 30th Birthday this month! We successfully threw him a surprise party...well, you actually stayed with Katrina and the boys while we partied...but you were here for all of the prep ;)
- You started reaching for us when you want someone or when you want to be picked up.
- Not too much had changed this month...you just kept getting better and better at the things you're already doing (i.e., sitting).
- You have started grunting though...it's super cute! You even grunt back when we grunt at you.
- Some of your favorite things include:
- your "Life is Good" dog
- your jumperoo (especially the one with the frog on it in Daddy's office)
- grunting
8 Months:
- I'm guessing you were around 12 lbs. 11 oz. and 24 and 1/2 inches still. You stayed so little for so long!
- We began to transition you to size 2 diapers, mainly because you started drinking more and they were able to hold more liquid which translated to less accidents at night :) They were still a little big at first, but they worked so much better at night.
- You were still wearing mainly 3 and 3-6 month clothes though some of your 0-3 month still fit and some 6 month pj's worked. I never dreamed we'd get so much use of your 0-3 month outfits!!
- This month (actually when you were around 7.5 months old) we celebrated your very first Christmas! SO. MUCH. FUN. You were the absolute center of everyone's attention. Mrs. Rhonda Harvey sent you such a sweet Christmas surprise that was waiting on us in Springhill...your very first Christmas dress...red and white with hand embroidered holly on the collar...so sweet. You, my dear Landry, are so very loved. I pray you grow up realizing just how loved.
- You tried your first lemon at our annual family dinner at Jack Binions....and you LOVED it! We thought it'd make for a funny video and keep you entertained for a minute, we never thought you'd really like it. Ha!
- Papa Mac had a good time letting you taste all of his desserts while we were home...you had lemon icebox, coconut, and chocolate pie just to name a few ;)
- You started freaking out anytime you see someone else eating when you are eating. I mean completely FREAKING OUT.
- While we were home for Christmas, you started reaching for me ALL THE TIME. I LOVED IT!!! You turned into such a Mama's girl....crying when I would leave the room, reaching for me...heartbreaking and heart filling all at the same time!
- You've also started to dance (or move..especially your head and shoulders) when you hear music!!! I think dance lessons are in our future!!!
- Some of your favorite things include:
- grunting back and forth with us
- your jumperoo
- your "Life is Good" dog
- your new bath toys and your little light up/noise making teething toy
- your Louella Louella ladybug book
- our phones, remote, iPad...anything that isn't actually a toy
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