8 Months!!

Kayleigh turned 8 months yesterday!!

Where has this time gone. In just four (FOUR!!) months she will be a year old. I have just started planning her birthday party so I will have some posts about that in the upcoming months.

This month was really just her getting a personality. She loves to throw temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way, especially when we are trying to change her diaper or get her dressed.
She is still crawling and pulling up and walking along things but now she tries to climb anything and everything. She has also gotten more vocal and seems to be connecting words to their meaning (mainly 'mama')

She gets eggs almost every morning for breakfast and sweet potatoes at night but we have been giving her small pieces of our food as well. But that is mainly out of necessity since she will throw a fit if we are eating something and she can't have any!
She still hasn't broke 15lbs and is wearing 3-6 month clothes although I can fit her into some of her 6-9 month but they are a little big still.

Now if only I can get around to editing her monthly photos! I am a few months behind on editing them and had to stop doing the one on the floor since she refuses to lay still. She's so stubborn, just like both parents...

7 Months

Kayleigh is 7 months old today!!

She has gotten so mobile this month! She had been 'crawling' for a month but it was more of an army crawl. She has gotten the hang of using her knees and now is going everywhere! Into everything too! We are currently looking for a new TV stand because if you give her two seconds she'll be over there pulling all the cords.

She also learned how to pull herself up as well!

She is constantly pulling up on anything and everything and in the course of a week figured out how to walk along things as well. I am thinking we might have an early walker.

As far as eating goes, she is still breastfed but does get a bottle of formula on occasion on the days I work. This is because I just can't seem to get the hang of pumping. I pump almost every single night but it seems no matter how hard I try I can only get a few ounces a night. Then, if I miss even one night I am back to starting over again! So at most she'll get just one bottle of formula three days a week. Its not ideal but it's better than letting her starve.

She is loving solid foods! She currently eats either Sweet Potatoes, Butternut Squash or Avocado every night. Most mornings she will get plain yogurt but she doesn't like that as much so I may switch it for something else. We also bought her some Gerber Graduates Puff when she started getting interested in feeding herself. They are little puffs, similar to Cheerios, but they dissolve quickly so babies won't choke on them.

She has regressed in her normally awesome sleeping habits this month as well. Normally, we would put her down at 7 and she would be out until she wanted to eat around 2am and then again around 6am. This month she has been a terror get asleep (she'll obviously be tired but refuse to sleep) and wake up every other hour or so through the night.

Last night I think was the worse by far. I tried to FIVE HOURS to get Kayleigh to stay asleep but she would wake up every half hour crying. At one point she was awake, screaming, for an hour straight. I broke down in tear and eventually woke Charlie up to calm me down. (He's such an amazing guy! I don't know what I would do without him!!) I finally did get her to sleep around 12:30am, though.

No teeth yet, either. We are hoping that all this trouble sleeping is caused by some coming in since Kay's poor gums do look swollen, but then again they've been looking like that on and off for the last three months so who knows.

Six Months

Half a year. Twenty-six weeks. One hundred and eighty four days.  (...yes, I may have had to look that last one up...)

It's hard to believe Kayleigh is six months already! It seems like we just brought her home not that long ago. In another six months we will be having her first birthday party. (which I may or may not already be getting ideas for...)

Kay is loving her solid food - she's up to about 3 ounces  (3 frozen cubes) a night. I have been toying with the idea of giving her some solids for breakfast too but just haven't started yet. So far she has had carrots, sweet potatoes, avocado and sweet peas. Carrots are by far her favorite.
On a whim one day I put a glob of sweet potatoes on her tray and she managed to pick it up and feed herself. Thinking it was a fluke, I tried again with the same result. It's still hit and miss but we are working on it!!

No teeth yet, although the one tooth is still making its way in. I keep saying it should be in any day now for the last couple of weeks but she is still all gums.

She can sit up with help and keep herself propped up for a while but she can't balance herself well enough to stay for a long time. She still can't sit up on her own. She use to try and try until she would get frustrated and cry but found out its easier to wiggle around, roll over and crawl over to whatever she wants to see instead.

She is starting to crawl! Last week she started getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. She army crawls all over the living room, heck on time I found her in the hallway when I left the room for a whole two minutes!

She is starting to have a favorite toy, as well!



Krabby is a crab stuffed animal that my cousin bought for Kay when she was born. Whenever Kay would get really cranky we would grab Krabby as a joke and say "A crab for the crab". It soon became the only stuffed animal that would produce huge smiles for her for the weekly photos I take and now, whenever she sees him, she gets a gigantic smile and wants to hold him. It's so cute! She enjoys chewing and sucking on his legs and playing with his eyes.

5 Months

It's hard to believe Kay is five months old today!

She rolls over like a champ now. She is also living up to her nickname - set her on the floor and just watch her wiggle across the room. This past week she has learned how to control herself and wiggle in the direction she wants to go.

We have been feeding her rice cereal during dinner for almost a month and she loves it. Saturday night we decided to try some pureed carrots and I don't think she wanted to stop eating them! Of course, she made a huge mess in the process. Wiggles has also started sucking her fingers - the middle and ring fingers. She'll take a pacifier still but prefers her fingers.

Kay has gotten better at sitting up. She can tripod on the floor for a while until something more interesting catches her eye and then she falls over and rolls to around. However, she is stubborn on the sitting as well - I will try to put her in the sitting position and she will fight it because she much rather stand and jump! Oh how she loves to jump! I went out to eat with her yesterday and that is all she did the entire time. It makes eating very difficult :)

I can't wait to see what this next month has in store!