Caroline Joy {10 months}

Better late than never.  Finally getting a free evening to get Caroline's 10 month post done.  At least it's done before she turns 11 months. (just barely!) ;)

You were in such a happy mood during this month's photo shoot!  You were all smiles and laughing at mommy doing funny stuff while taking your picture.  We love your fun personality!

Caroline Joy

{10 Months}

At TEN MONTHS you weigh approximately 20 pounds.  You are are wearing 6 months and 6-9 month clothing and size 3 diapers both day and night.  You seem to have short legs, Liner-bears, so the 6 month pants fit you great still! ;)  

At TEN MONTHS you are eating 3 to 4 bottles a day at 6 to 5 ounces at a time.  You have a bottle when you wake up around 7/7:30, again around 11:30/12:00, sometimes an afternoon bottle at 4:00ish, and then your bedtime bottle at 7:30/8:00 p.m.  You usually go about 4 hours between bottles.  Sometimes your morning bottle is 6.5 ounces.

At TEN MONTHS you eat all table food.  You love to eat and are all about feeding yourself - as fast as you can! You definitely want to eat all that we are and want to eat when we do too.  Some of your favorites this past month have been: sweet potatoes, baked beans, bananas, banana bread, strawberries, peaches, mangoes, muffins, mac n' cheese, toast with jelly, potatoes with ketchup, cereal bars, and yogurt.  If a food involves me having to spoon feed it to you, it won't last long.  After a few bites of it you just want to completely take over and have the spoon yourself.  Because of that I have given up and just focused on table foods.

You get a sippy cup of water with your meals and snacks.  You love your water and will drink a whole sippy during this time!

At TEN MONTHS you are continuing to be a wonderful sleeper at night!  You will sleep through the night for 12 hours.  If you do wake up in the night, you most of the time will soothe yourself back to sleep before we need to go into your room.  You usually get up around 7:00-7:30ish.  At the beginning of the month, you were wanting to wake up in 6 o'clock hour.  Glad that phase seems to be over...for now.  You were also getting in your second bottom tooth so that could be a reason for the early rising.

At TEN MONTHS you are on average taking 2 naps a day.  That's definitely what you need, but some days you will take one nap then for a longer time.  Your naps times seem to be all over the place.  A lot of your schedule depends on when we are home running the twins to and from school or errands.  Your morning nap is around 10:30ish and usually is a fairly short nap lasting only 45 minutes to an hour.  Your afternoon nap seems to be much longer.  You nap around 2:30/3:00 and on a good day will sleep for 2.5-3 hours.  I feel like the 2 to 2.5 hour naps are what you usually give me most days.  Some morning you seem like you just want to play, play, play with the twins and don't get put down for a nap until closer to 11:30.  Then you may sleep for 3-4 hours.  I like to have you still take 2 naps a day.  You seem to be more rested and I feel like it's a long time until bedtime.  Those one nap days you will usually go to bed around 6:15/30 p.m.

At TEN MONTHS you still love to sleep with your security size muslin blanket and lady bug toy.  You love your lady bug and always hold onto it's leg that has the heart attached to it.  Daddy and I love it when we come to get your from your crib and when you see us you then gather all of your favorite belongings from in your crib and wait for us to pick you up.  Like you need to get your "stuff" before you can leave. ;)

When you sleep you also like to have the sound machine noise and nighttime CD playing.  I just hope the noise is enough to drown all of the craziness of our house.  But you still seem to continue to be a 'light sleeper'.  So far we still do not have a nightlight in your room.  When you sleep you like to snuggle right up to the corner of your cribs either on your tummy or your back.

At TEN MONTHS you can now cruise around furniture.  You started doing this last month at 9 months.  Now we see you moving and grooving around furniture like a pro.  A favorite thing of yours to do it walk and push our dining table chairs around the kitchen.  We never know where we are going to find a chair in our kitchen!

At TEN MONTHS you also learned how to wave good-bye and say "ba-ba" as bye-bye.  It's the cutest thing!  You will just start waving to us at anytime time or if we or you go and stand by the door.  You love your new trick!

At TEN MONTHS you now have two teeth.  Last month, at 9 months, you got in your bottom, right front tooth.  You have been a constant drool bucket.  I can see now it looks like you are working on 4 more teeth that could pop through anytime.

[those baby blues]

You continue to be such a happy baby and so easy going.  You are happiest when you can be right in the mix playing with Matthew and Katherine.  If you're not by me, I know to look in the twins' room as you'll be playing right next to them.  You can see in your face how much you adore them!  

Some of your favorites are: playing with remotes and phones, playing in the bath water, looking at your animal cards and books, playing in the pantry and now in my cub boards, being tossed around by daddy, peek-a-boo, riding in the car, going for stroller rides, bouncing in our arms, babbling, 

You love to 'talk' and making lots of noises all day long!  I think you just love to hear yourself and the fun noises you can make.  It does sound like you say 'mama' and 'dada' and then you also imitate some of the noises we make to you.

Nicknames at TEN MONTHS: Caroliners, Liner, Liney, Liner-bear(s), C, Lil' sis, Liner-Biner, Biners, Liney-Biney, and a new one given by Grandpa Dufel - Diesel (because of her former nickname of Freight-liner).  

And big brother and big sister go in on the picture action too!

Happy TEN MONTHS, Liney!!  We really couldn't have asked for a better baby.  We are thankful for all of the joy you bring to our family!

Caroline Joy {9 Months}

Miss Caroline turned 9 months on April 7, 2015.  I don't want you to turn a year in just a quick three months!!  Oh Liner-bear, you need to slow down a bit. ;)

 

At NINE MONTHS  you weigh 19 lbs and 8 ounces (77th % tile) are 27.25 inches (34th % tile) and your head circumference is 17.75 inches (82nd % tile).

 

At NINE MONTHS you are wearing size 6 month, 6-9 month, and 9 month clothing.  You are also wearing size 3 diapers.

 

At NINE MONTHS you now eating 4 bottles a day.  I worked these past few weeks on cutting out your 5th bottle - the one around supper time.  You have a bottle when you wake up at 7/7:30ish, again around 11/12ish, an afternoon bottle after your nap at 3/4ish, and then your last bottle at bedtime around 7/7:30.  You are taking either 5 or 6 ounces at a time.  

You can see your first bottom left tooth in this picture!

 

At NINE MONTHS you have been eating all types of table food.  You've become more interested in table food rather than us feeding you baby food.  You see us eating and want to eat too or have a bite or ours.  For breakfast you like jelly toast, pancakes, muffins, yogurt, bagels, or cereal bars.  Some of your favorites at lunch or supper are baked sweet potatoes, bananas, peaches, and mangos.  You aren't as much of a fan of vegetables but you will eat them if nothing else is put in front of you.  You seem to like pieces of vegetables you can pick up rather than vegetable purees.  You seem to eat anything and can't seem to shove all of what's on your tray in fast enough and all at once.

 

I have been giving you a sippy cup of water at meal times in your highchair and you are doing great with drinking out of it!  I have to make sure the twins' sippy cups aren't left around in your reach because you love to try and drink out of anything you can get your hands on - especially their cups that have juice.

 

At NINE MONTHS you have been such a great sleeper!!  I can now say you do great at falling asleep on your own in your crib.  I can put you down awake and not have to go back into your room to help soothe you to sleep.  Such a great milestone!!  There were a few weeks last month where you kept waking up crying several times in the night.  I took you to the doctor and found out you had your first ear infection.  Since then you have been doing great.

 

 

At NINE MONTHS you have been sleeping through the night most nights.  You go to bed in the 7 o'clock hour and wake up the next morning around 7:00-7:15.

 

At NINE MONTHS you are now taking 2 naps most days.  A few weeks ago I started having you drop your third nap, the one around 5:00, because you started sleeping longer in the afternoon.  You go down for your morning nap around 9:00 and will sleep for an hour to an hour and a half.  Then you'll take a longer nap in the afternoon around 2:00 for 2 to sometimes 3 hours.  But...you still have days here and there where you take very short naps lasting only 20 to 30 minutes long.  Those are days when I will have you take a third nap so you can make it until bedtime around 7:00. 

 

 

  The silly faces of Caroline - she loves to stick our her tongue!

 

At NINE MONTHS you love to sleep and snuggle with your security size muslin blanket.  You still love to rub the satin trim on your fingers and against your face.  When you sleep you have your sound machine and nighttime cd playing.  We don't use a nightlight in your room still because you seem to sleep better in the darker room.  Your favorite sleeping positions are on your tummy or left side.  You have been moving around in the crib a lot more in your sleep.  Many times I see you sleeping tucked in the corner of crib. 

 

At NINE MONTHS you now have one tooth!  At 8 months your first tooth came in.  It's your bottom left front tooth.  The one right next to it is very close to popping through any day now.  Hence the drool all over your shirt in these pictures.  You are a drooling, teething machine these days!  Which I think might have some to do with the nights you wake up in the night.

Just {love} that smile!!

 

At NINE MONTHS you have a new skill - pulling yourself up to the standing position!!!  Daddy first learned this after putting you in your crib and when he came back to you and you were crying, standing there, holding onto the railing in your crib.  Daddy quick lowered your crib down a notch before putting you back down for your nap.

 

You love pulling yourself up on anything you can.  Toys aren't safe now that you can reach on the coffee tables and couches.  Your favorite is to reach for the T.V. remotes or our phones.  The twins really have to make sure they put their smaller toys in a safe place not within 'Caroline reach'.

 

At NINE MONTHS you are now a quick littler crawler who moves all around the house!  You go to tummy to sitting position like a pro but really love to play laying on your side in the 'side pose' (similar to the one pictured below) :)

 

Matthew wanted to help take pictures of Caroline, too.  He's been really into taking pictures and videos.  We might have a little photographer on our hands.  Love that he's so interested in it! :)

 

At NINE MONTHS you babble all of the time!  You are one vocal baby!  You make sounds like sound like "ma-ma" and "da-da".  You also love to growl.  We can be in a different room than you and can hear you coming by your constant growling sounds. 

 

At NINE MONTHS you definitely have a hard time separating from me when I am in the same room and someone new tries to hold you.  You also love to be held by Mommy or Daddy and will come to our feet and reach up with both arms to let us know you want up.

 

At NINE MONTHS you have become such a happy baby who rarely cries.  You seem so easy going and enjoys just watching the environment around you.  Your favorite is playing with Katherine and Matthew.  You will follow them to where ever they are playing and join right in - definitely love to be around people.  And you have started really playing with a lot of their toys.  You seem more interested in doing what your big sister and big brother are doing.

Some of your favorites are: being held, bath time, family dance parties, jumping in the Jumper-roo, being tickled, crawling or 'pig piling' on top of us, putting everything in your mouth, play in the pantry with the plastic cups and napkins, car rides, sleeping in the car, crawling after the bottle of carpet cleaner (which we use a lot because you still spit up!!), playing with pieces of paper, stroller rides, and playing peek-a-boo.

Things you don't like are: getting your hands and face wiped off, laying still too long to get your diaper changed or get dressed, and wiping your runny nose.

 

At NINE MONTHS you nicknames are: Liner, Liney, Liney-bear, Liner-bears, Freight, Freight-liners, Lil' Sissy, Lil' Sis, Sister-bear, Liner-Biner, and Caroliners

 

I can't believe you have blessed our lives for 9 months already.  Feels just like you just entered the world.  Daddy and I say many times a day how we think you are just the best baby!  You have the biggest smile and a fun personality that is starting to emerge.  Happy Nine Month, Baby Girl!



8 Months {Caroline Joy}

[happy 8 months, miss caroline]

At EIGHT MONTHS you are wearing size 3 diapers and size 6 months and 6-9 month clothing.  

At EIGHT MONTHS you are still drinking 5 bottles a day.  The morning and nighttime bottles you take 6 oz but the other three during the day (around 11 am, 2 pm, and 5 pm) are 5 oz.  You wake up and drink your first bottle anywhere from 6:45 to 7:30ish.  All depends when you wake up.  You will drink your nighttime bottle somewhere in the 7 o'clock hour and then fall asleep shortly after.

At EIGHT MONTHS you are finally getting the hang of eating baby food and finger foods.  And YOU LIKE IT!  I think you prefer to feed yourself rather than me feeding you with a spoon.  You love to pick up Cheerios, puffs, little banana pieces, and broken pieces of crackers and put them in your own mouth.  You do pretty good at getting at least 60% of what you pick up into your mouth.  And I think you just like the taste of the real food so much better.  When you pick up food to feed yourself you use your left hand most of the time.  Your favorite baby food is bananas.  You gobble it right up!  Right now you have some kind of fruit or yogurt in the morning and a vegetable in the afternoon.  You eat about a half of a container at a time.  Some new foods you've tried are: Greek yogurt plain and mixed with fruit, smashed sweet potatoes, pumpkin, spinach....

At EIGHT MONTHS you are a CRAWLER!  You started crawling at the end of 7 months.  You went from army crawling to all of a sudden crawling on all fours.  We had to now officially get serious about baby proofing because you can crawl from room to room.  You look so happy moving all around the house!  You have the biggest grin - looking so proud and excited for what you learned!  Your favorite is following around the twins.  You love to be in the same room as them and playing with what they are playing.  And so it begins!

At EIGHT MONTHS I have found you in the sitting position all by yourself.  You don't know exactly how you got into that position but by chance move into that position.

At EIGHT MONTHS you take 3 naps a day.  You usually take your first nap around 9/9:30 and it will last 45 minutes to an hour.  In the afternoon you lay down around 2ish and can sleep from an hour or two (or longer if I am lucky...really if the twins are quiet!)  You still take a third nap around 4:30/5ish but this nap is very short.  Sometimes just 30 minutes.  I am thinking about trying to drop this nap but some days you need just a little rest to hold you over until bedtime.  Maybe it will be easier to drop once you sleep a bit longer in the afternoon.

You still love to sleep with your security sized muslin blanket.  While you fall asleep you calm yourself by rubbing the satin of the blanket on your fingers and face.  When you're sleeping we put you in your sleep sack and turn on your sound machine and nighttime music.  You don't have a night light in your room.  You seem to sleep better the darker the room.  When you sleep you are usually laying on your left side or on your tummy.

 You talk and babble a lot.  Feels like even more now that you are mobile.  I think you're just loving life as a mover!  You make babbling sounds like sound like "maa maa" and daa daa".  You also let out some loud yells or babbles.  And sometimes you just talk away that it sounds like you're having a conversation with yourself.

At EIGHT MONTHS you love: your mommy, jumping in the jumper-roo, being held, playing with the twins' toys, being around people, sleeping or riding in the car, observing what's around you, being tossed up by daddy, putting things in your mouth,

At EIGHT MONTHS you still don't have any teeth.  They are so close to coming in.  I can see the white area on the bottom two where they will be popping through very soon/any day now.  You have been drooling a lot and chewing on anything you can.  You also have been sticking out your tongue over and over feeling your lower gums.  Think you can feel those teeth that are about to come in. 

Your nicknames at EIGHT MONTHS are: Liney, Liner-bear or Liney-Bear, Liner, Liner-Biner, Captain, Freight, Freight-Liner, C, Baby C, C-Line, Lil' Sis, Sister-bear

At EIGHT MONTHS you continue to be a very good, happy baby.  You are very calm, curious, and watch the world around you.  The two big times when you get upset are when you're wanting your bottle or are getting over tired.  You don't like to be separated from me when you're in a room full of people you don't know.  Definitely a mommy's girl.  You love to play with Kate and Matthew and will play in a room just the three of you for long periods of time.  I think you already think you're one of the big kids. :) 

this big, wide mouth smile of yours brings me so much {joy}

Love you so much, Liner-Bear!  

-Happy 8 Months-