Lucy is EIGHT Months!

I am EIGHT months old!

 

I like: moving around, trying new foods, when we make all the sounds at her, being in the middle of her sisters craziness (they love to run around and she likes to be in the middle of that)

I dislike: Being put down when she's not tired, when she's being left along too long

I am now: still in 6-9 months clothes

A Typical Day looks like: 

We usually wake her up around 8, she's GREAT at sleeping in until then!

 

7:45-9:30 - I give her her probiotic, change her bum and give her a 6.5 oz bottle. After she finishes that I'll put her down to play with toys and scoot around.

9:30-10:45/11  nap time in her crib. Still loves having the binky.

11:00 - diaper change and the next 6 oz bottle. Around 11:30 we'll do lunch and give her some baby food and finger foods

11:30 - 12:30 play time (sitting, scooting, walker, etc.)

12:30-2:30 nap time.

2:30-4:15 - next 6 oz bottle and diaper change then play time

4:15 - 5:00/5:15 nap time. If she wakes up early I will hang out while daddy works out with the older girls

5:15 - 5:30 - Play and hang time. She no longer needs a bottle at this point.

5:30 - 6 we do dinner. She gets baby food and maybe tastes of our food haha.

6-7 doing whatever for the night (aka free/play time)

7-7:45 we start our show for the night, at 7:05 she gets her last bottle of the night (I make 6, sometimes she'll eat the whole thing, sometimes it's just a few ounces. depending on how much food she ate at dinner time) and just relax at this point.  If it's bath night (Sunday and Thursday for her), that starts at 7:30 ish

7:45 get ready for bed. We change her diaper, put Vaseline on her dry spots, put on pajamas, take her upstairs, read a book, lay her down and give her the binky. I usually let her pick her binky (one with the monkey stuffed animal or one that's by itself).

This Month: Lucy finally became such a good napper and sleeper that my anxiety about having to put her down has completely disappeared. Not sure when that went away with the other girls, but Lucy really has been a harder one to gauge how she's going to be and I'm SO happy we got there still fairly early.

Update on last month's goals:

• Get her moving around more: this girlie scoots EVERYWHERE. And now that she's sitting herself up and used to scooting she's a MUCH happier girl
  
  
• Maybe take her vacation: We decided it's smarter to skip a real vacation this year and we've started a Staycation with her and decided next year we'll have to do something BIG (if I feel I can travel with - hopefully - 4 kids at that point haha)
  
  
• Get her used to finger foods: this is a big check! At lunch time we give her some puffs or other finger foods and she LOVES feeding herself. She seems to like eating real food more than her baby food. She reminds me of the fish at Thanksgiving Point, she sees food and her mouth immediately goes to a O haha.
  
  
• Work on getting her to say words: she says mamamama and other sounds like that and she loves when we tell her other words (baba, caca, dada, gaga, lala, nana, papa, tata, wawa, yaya...things like that).

Goals for next month:

• Work on crawling
• Work on pulling up and getting ready to walk soon?
• Get her used to the outdoors (if it's warm enough)
• Working on words and sounds
• Have a fund Valentine's Day