Sutton 6 months

• Oh sweet girl you have turned a corner this month. You have become soooo much happier! We have loved watching you change over the past month because you went from a super fussy newborn baby to this happy, sweet, busy girl! You are so much better in the car and that has been life changing! We love your smiles and your laughter. You brighten our mornings and warm our hearts as night as you suck your fingers and drift off to sleep. I just can't get over what a sweet age this is. I love everything about it. You want to be held and loved on and you give the best smiles and I just adore you. We are sooo thankful for your health and that your fussiness has subsided.

• 6 Month Stats:

• Weight- 14 lb 5 oz (12%)
• Length- 26 in
• You drink between 5 (one of those feedings is just nursing) 5-6 ounces bottles. You still nurse every morning, then depending on my work schedule you take bottles for the rest of the day. My supply was not keeping up with your demand so we bought some Nutramigen (for milk protein allergy) formula. You always drink the breastmilk first then we will fix you 2 ounces of formula if you are real stiff and rigid and fussy. At night you always take a 3-4 ounce bottle of breastmilk then I will nurse you after that. It is our new routine and it seems to work well with helping you get full!
• You sleep from 7:30ish to 6:30ish (you are an amazing night time sleeper. I remember your brother waking up here and there in the night but you are a solid night sleeper)
• You wear your jammies then we put you in a zip up sleep sack we lay you in your crib and you went from having your paci to only sucking your fingers at night. You are going to be just like your brother with those fingers (except yours are on your left hand and it's your pointer finger and your middle finger)
• You generally sleep on your back or side. You have slept on your tummy but not very often.
• You wear 3-6 month clothes. You still wear size 1 diapers but we bought size 2 and I think you are definitely ready for some bigger diapers
• You are a great napper-- You take 3-4 naps. One nap around 8:30 (that one lasts 40 min to 1.5 hours), your next nap is around 11:30-12 and it usually 1.5 to 2 hours long, the nap is around 3 (it can last anywhere between 45 minutes to 2.5 hours), it is that nap that determines if you will take a cat nap before bedtime. It is about 50% of the time that you take one. If you don't take a cat nap you go to sleep closer to 7, if you do take a cat nap you go to sleep closer to 8.
• You have discovered your feet (you like to play with them when you can grab them)
• You still roll over to your tummy just fine but you aren't that great at getting back over
• You don't sit up unassisted yet
• You do not like stationary toys (ie the exersaucer or jumperoo --you last maybe 5 minutes before fussing)
• You seem most content if we lay you on the bed or floor and entertain you from above or around you. You also are just happy being carried around.
• You aren't the biggest fan of riding around in the stroller. You will be okay for a little while but then you want to be carried.
• You have a favorite toy and it's a Purse teether (you just love chewing on it and it does a great job keeping you happy)
• You love to put anything in your mouth! Any toy or object you can get goes in your mouth!
• We tried solids just once or twice when Aunt Cat was here and wanted to feed you. We bought some vegetable baby food and have just started you on carrots. It made a mess and stained everything and you seemed to like it just fine. We also tried sweet potatoes and you liked that as well. You eat it but don't seem too interested other than trying to grab the spoon and chew on it.
• You rub your eyes when you are tired
• You will sit in your bumbo but can stretch for things and could probably get out of it so we have to watch you closely.
• You loooove bath time. You are so relaxed and content during bath time.
• I think since you can grasp toys and hold on to them you have begun to like your car seat more. It seems like I can hear you playing with a toy and that has been a huuuge change for us. You used to scream the second we put you  in the car seat so we are so grateful for this change!
• You celebrated your first Thanksgiving this month and got to hang with Ryan, Hayden, and Blake (Ryan just adored you and wanted to help with everything)
• You also went on a road trip to Atlanta to Stone Mountain and you did sooo well in the car. You took naps both ways and didn't scream at all. It was amazing! You don't nap well if you are not at home so you didn't sleep much while we were there. We just entertained you in between feedings and you did really well.
• You slept in your pack and play in Atlanta and napped in it and did surprisingly so well.
• You still take your naps in the mama roo and we swaddle you and give your paci (you are seeming to outgrow this whole process so it will be interesting to see if your nap routine changes next month)
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-- Weight: 14 pounds 5 ounces

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Sutton 5 months

Sutton at 5 months

You are starting to realize who we all are. Your eyes will follow me all over the room. You like to be close to us and you carried when possible. I love your sweet smile you give me when I say your name and you turn to look at me. Your eyes are this beautiful blue and I love how they twinkle when you smile.

• Weight- 13.5 pounds (15%)
• Length -- 25.5 inches
• You are still wearing size 1 pampers diapers.
• You wear size 6 month sleepers and size 3-6 month clothes
• You are sleeping from 7:45 to about 6:30-7 (until daylight savings happened a few days before you turned 5 months old) ** you sleep straight through the night without waking up and we feel so grateful for that**
• You take usually 2 2-2.5 hours naps and then 2-3 45-1 hour naps I would say that's a good average of your nap schedule
• You nurse always in the morning at 6:45-7 then depending on my work schedule you either nurse or take a bottle the rest of the day. You eat at 10:30, 2ish, 4:30ish, 7:30ish. You take 5 ounces of milk and at night probably 6 ounces. You could probably take more so I am working on trying to build a better milk supply
• Your fussy time is usually when you are a) hungry or b)sleepy so usually around nap time you start rubbing your eyes and then when you wake up you are usually pretty fussy and hungry
• You still hate the car. You are so wonderful once we get to our destination but the actual car rides are generally pretty miserable. They have to be timed exactly right. You need to have a fully belly (but not have just eaten).
• We stay pretty close to home other than running an errand while your brother is in school. You will tolerate the car usually once a day for running an errand with me.
• You have tried out your exersaucer, door jumper, bumbo and you are content for a few minutes in each but get pretty bored fast.
• You are always either sucking on your fingers or your fist or trying to put anything else in your mouth. Your poor hands are always either cold or wet.
• For naps you are still sleeping swaddles in your mama roo. You just seem to really get comfortable and cock your head to the left and suck on your paci as your  rock away.
• For bedtime, we feed you a bottle first then I nurse you and then put you in a sleep sack and lay you in your bed. You will either fall asleep right away after finding those fingers or you squirm around until you get comfy on your side and then you are out. You usually still sleep on your back with your head turned to the side. Every once in a while I see you on your side and just a few times you have dosed on your tummy.
• You can roll from your back to your stomach and push up well but I don't see you roll back over often. You can but it takes a lot of effort and you usually get too frustrated before mastering it.
• You always want to be either bearing all your weight on your legs standing or sitting completely up right, or flat on your back. You don't like being carried like a baby and anytime you are in a reclines position you are trying so hard to lift your head completely.
• I am still doing a dairy free diet to protect your tummy and you haven't had any stomach issues this month that we can tell.

We just love to see your smiling face in the morning. You come with me wherever I go. You love your nana and papa who take care of you every day. You think your brother hung the moon. You could be so upset but if he starts playing around you just watch his every move and are so content. I just love watching you grow and change each day. You are my little angel and we love you so much!



October happenings

October happenings:

 

There is nothing more fun than dressing Sutton up and taking her on errands with me!

 Craw likes to do his own thing but every now and then he says let me take a picture with baby Sutton and it melts my heart.

It looks like the days of the paci are a thing of the past. Sutton has found her two fingers and she LOVES them!

 Sutton doesn't ever fall asleep outside her normal "schedule." However this morning she was up earlier and she was snoozing next to me in my bed.

 

Brad and I had an amazing anniversary date day. We went to lunch, to the mall, I got a massage, we had wine on the rooftop of Sip, and then dinner where we had our rehearsal dinner (Rick Erwins). It has been an amazing 6 years! 

 

Saturday morning errands at Target.

sweet girl dressed up for game day

Thomas has his 1st birthday party at the Runway Café. Craw and Ainslie ran around all over the place.

Sutton hung out in her carseat and was a doll

 He does the silliest things! He's our little ham!

Craw is attached to dadd's hip. I mean I can't break him away from him at night. Brad will be grading papers or watching football and Craw says I don't care I just want to be by daddy. Lately, he has been falling asleep jus like this. I can only imagine how much it warms Brad's heart!

 Picture day for Craw....running errands with mommy for Sutton.

 Above--Craw plays some games under Nana and Papa supervision.
Below- Sutton sleeping like an angel

The day after Halloween we woke up to a few inches of snow on the ground. It was so crazy. It wasn't even that cold on Halloween and the mountains were expecting snow but we had nooo idea we would end up with this much snow on the ground!

Novemeber 1st-- snow on the ground and Brad and Craw pulled out the Christmas tree

Brad cooking

 

Brad is so amazing with the kids. He took them to the children's museum on a Saturday when I was working.