Heidi-Rae Update: 8 & 9 Months

 I have to do 2 months together again! December was crazy busy AND full of sickness :(. It's so sad to watch my babies fight off sickness! Here goes. . .

Weight 

Contrary to that picture, Little Love is keeping a steady 18 pounds. She has a a thin build, like Jeremy.

Health

Impetigo

We battle a cold in early December. The cough still lingers. I'm thankful that her first real cold was at 8 months! Breastmilk for the WIN! Right around Christmas Heidi developed a rash on her skin. I thought it was an allergic reaction to some supplements I'm taking for increased milk supply (I'm trying to increase my supply to help a friend out.). Turns out it was Impetigo, basically a bacterial skin infection. it didn't bother her, she wasn't scratching. Just a little fussier then normal, which come to find out she was cutting 2 teeth! My poor girl! It was a bad combo! And her teething necklace needed to be replaced. Cheers to a healthy January!

Sleep

We hold strong to our 10am and 1:30pm naps. Bedtime is around 8pm, with feedings at 3am and 6am. She is usually up for the day around 7am. She is sleeping in her room, at the end of the hall! EKK! That was really hard for me to  do. In fact, I did it by accident, the first time. I was putting the older 2 to bed and out Heidi in the crib to play while I rallied Jeremy and Capri. I went get Heidi for our Bible story. . . she was asleep! And she slept until 6am! Sigh. . . I still bring her in bed with us in the morning for her feeding.

She has developed a love for tags!

Clothes

Hanging out at church in Mommy's favorite outfit!

Most of the 6 month clothes are put away. And I am struggling to find my 9 month bin from Capri! Arg! We have one that was 6-9. I am making that work but I am going to borrow from a friend!

Sleeping on Daddy's chest!!

Social

Visiting Daddy's station!

This little girl is proving to be a social butterfly, just like her siblings! Although, she loves to go places she usually only wants Mommy and Daddy! She really doesn't like to be help by anybody else. Well, most of the time she lets her Gigi hold her if I am around. I am not complaining ONE BIT! I LOVE having a Mama's girl!! The other 2 are very PRO Daddy! I am keeping my baby attached as long as possible!

Annual Christmas Eve party!

Brotherly/Sisterly Love

The love these 3 share is immeasurable! We love to sit back and just watch them interact. Jeremy and Capri can make Heidi laugh like nobody else can!!

Diet

My little girl LOVES to nurse!! I love it! She is so easy  going about it! Generally, she eats about every 3 hours. But, if I won't be around at he 3 hour mark, she'll go early or later. She just goes with the flow! We have given her a few things to chew on as teething toys: Jicima, carrots, celery, apples. I have given her apples in the fruit net thing. She doesn't like it! I have also tried smashed and chucked bananas. . . NOPE! We'll stick with breastmilk for now!

Milestones 

WHEW! Since my last post she has started SO much!! Where is all the time with my last baby going? It's flying by leaving a mama in the dust!!

• Crawling!
• Pulling to standing and walking along furniture
• Waving and clapping
• She loves her walker! 
• Mimicking more sounds: Mama, Dada, Hi 
• She got her toes painted!

Cutest little baby toes! Painted teal by my nail lady!

Personality

Easy going is the best way to describe Heidi-Rae. She doesn't mind going places or eating whenever I can get to it. She smiles at everybody! She LOVES to watch her brother and sister perform for her. She wants to be right next to Mama.

Post Pardum

I have decided to take this portion out. I just can't get back to the shape I want right now. And each month I come to it. it weights on me (no pun intended). At this point, I need to be content with the way my body is for my kids. I am able to keep up with them, most days I don't sit down until nap time and then bedtime. This is the body God has given me for this time in my life. Sure, I would pay for a gym membership and figure out a time frame that works with naps and all but at what cost? Missing time with my kids and paying an additional fee and stress of finding someone to watch them? It's just not worth it.

Capri Update: 8 Months*

With her "Tag" blanket in a pile of laundry.
Does life get any better?

This little girl melts our hearts every day! The speed at which she grows is incredible!

Weight/Health

Daddy was playing with the camera.
He was so proud to get a "winking" picture.

Capri still rocks the chunk! At her appointment this month she weighed in at 19 pounds 12 ounces! That's the 83 percentile. Height is 27 inches, 46 percentile. She is healthy! We are giving her shots slowly. We are not against vaccinations, but we only give 2 at a time because we believe her tiny chunky body only needs a few to process at a time. At this visit we also found out she has Eczema. The PA suggested we use Aquaphor on it. No more smell good baby lotion. Daddy's favorite is the lavender bedtime lotion.
We have had quite the week with sickness. Break my heart to see her sick! Here is the full story!
**Update (1/27 (2 weeks later)) We have cleared up the Eczema. Aquaphor worked great!

Sleep

Still nothing new to report on sleep. She is a great little sleeper!
She goes to bed around 8pm, wakes at 6am to nurse, back to sleep until about 8:30am. She naps for about 1/2 hour at 1030. Then down for a 2.5 hour nap at 1:00pm when Jeremy naps (how did I get so blessed?)! Another little 1/2 hour nap around 6pm. Bed at 8pm.

Clothes

Little Fashionista!

We have put all the 6 month clothes away. We have a few 6-9 month outfits still hanging. She is in 9 month comfortable! A few 12 month jammies. I just think it feels better when you sleep to be in something a little baggy!

Social

Playing at church! She still has an obsession with TAGS!
A collage coming soon with all the places she gets them!

We are always on the go and have people over or going to see someone! It's no wonder my kids have no stranger danger. On the fence if this is a good or bad thing!

Brotherly/Sisterly Love

They love bath time!

This boy is such a sweet big brother. He always lets us know if Capri is crying, spitting up, drooling! He's on the look out for anything she may be chewing on that he can choke on. We have had a few times this month that Jeremy has taken toys from Capri because he wants to play with them. He is learning patience with her.

Diet

Auntie Danielle gave her an orange to play with and chew on.
She didn't think that her sharp little teeth could bite through and get some!
So her first official food was an orange! She made quite the sour face!

We gave her cereal 2 nights in a row and she threw all of it up! I did some research to see what might be causing this and found that grains are actually quite difficult for infants to digest. Who knew?? Since her stomach seemed to be true to this we decided to go with Baby-lead weaning, loosely.

The first food she liked didn't spit up was avocado mixed with breast milk! I don't give it to her every day. Probably about 2 nights a week. Other then that she is 100% breastmilk.

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Celery on Christmas Eve

We have also let her chew on apples and pears in her Fresh Food Teether. I love this thing! She has also use celery and a carrot for teething.

Milestones

 Aside from the food introductions we have not much to report. We are SO close to crawling.

Don't let her lack of crawling make you think she doesn't move around! She does an army crawl, head launch! I'll have to video it!