Sutton my heart explodes when I sit and think about you! I couldn't love you anymore. Just thinking of you when I go to sleep at night fills my heart with such joy and love. You are at the sweetest age. You are always reaching for me to pick you, you cry when I am not near you, and you hold on to my left arm extra tight when you think I might be leaving you. I love you sweet snuggles and the way you play with your right ear when you are tired while sucking your first two fingers on your left hand! You are my sweet baby girl. I love you so so much! You are crawling and pulling up on everything! You love this little activity center and stand and play there every day. You also love pulling up on your Y bike and trying to push it all over the place.
- Stats:
- Weight: 17.25 lb (20%)
- Length: 27.5 in (45%)
- Eating: Well the middle of last month I got a really bad GI bug/reflux episode and it knocked me out bad. I got really dehydrated and unfortunately my already weaning milk supply suddenly vanished. I couldn't really salvage it. Luckily, you didn't seem to mind at all. I still had milk for a few weeks but you seemed uninterested and seemed to really prefer the bottle at this stage. It was a tough few weeks for me to wrap my head around the end of our nursing journey. However, you are healthy and happy and now enjoy 4 6 ounce bottles a day of the nutramigen formula. The doctor said we could try regular formula now since I have experimented with yogurt with you and you have not had any reactions. You also eat solids 3-4 times a day (about one hour after your bottle). I also give you 2 ounces of milk in a sippy cup after your sippy cup. You eat solids pretty well. You prefer puree to whole foods and still seem to get choked on just about anything I try to give you. I need to be better about giving you real food so that you can figure out a) how to feed yourself and b) how to get those bigger pieces of food down your throat. You seem to really like sweet potatoes and everything else you seem to like okay.
- Sleeping: You are my angel sleeper. I hope we don't jinx it now. You go to sleep between 7:30-8. I can keep you up later and we like the flexibility if we are out. You always sleep through the night and since daylight savings you have been sleeping until 7:30-8. You never wake up in the night and I just remember having times when Craw would wake up here or there so having you sleep through the night all the time is truly amazing. You have very predictable naps as well. You take a nap around 9:15 until 10:45 and then another nap around 1:30-3. You sometimes take a cat nap around 5:30 for 30 minutes as well.
- You wear size 3 diapers
- You wear 12 month jammies
- You wear 6-9 month clothes.
- You are always on the move. If I set you down for a second you are immediately a) looking for something to put in your mouth or b) pulling up on to something.
- Your favorite toys are your activity table, y bike, and the remote.
- You suck your first two left fingers and it is adorable
- You love when Craw plays with you and you just laugh at him. He can play so rough and you just love it.
- You do this clicking sound with your tongue and anytime we do it to imitate you, you will just keep doing it non-stop --you are so proud of yourself!
- You love watching people play. If the cousins are all playing you are so entertained.
- You don't seem to like the stroller or the shopping cart like your brother did.
- You love yogurt melts and don't really like puffs.
- You still love bath time. However, you are mobile now and want to stand and grab everything now. You love sucking on a wet wash cloth. It is your favorite
- You can climb the stairs and love darting straight towards them.
- You still only have two teeth.
- You can say "daaa daa" quite clear. However, I don't think you know it means dad. I think it's the first sound you came out with. You can say "naaa naa" which almost resembles nana.
- You can reach for us now which is my absolute favvvvorite
- At night we do bath time and then let you crawl all over the bed and laugh. You take your bottle and then we just lay you in the crib.
- You still do so much better in the car which is just amazing!
- We always give you a toy to play with in the car and you will play with it and babble.
We love love love everything about you. I love that you have nana and papa who take care of you every day. You just light up when you see them and it makes my heart so full knowing that you spend your days with them. Papa still normally watches you while nana runs errands or plays with craw.
