Lots of big things going on this month!
- 17 lbs., 9 oz. - 26th percentile
- Forgot how many inches, but I know it was the 86 percentile
- Wears size 3 diapers
- Wears any clothes from 6-12 months
- She got her first tooth this month right when we got back from Gulf Shores. It's the bottom right tooth, and so far it's just that one.
- She is crawling all over the place (not just army crawling, but crawling on all fours).
- She is pulling up on EVERYTHING! She is starting to cruise a bit. But she can't really get down (or thinks she can't get down) once she's pulled up, so once the novelty of standing up for awhile has worn off, she will start this little screeching noise "aka - someone come get me!"
- She is MUCH louder this month! HA! She makes a lot of fun little noises and babbles a lot, but she has also starting screeching or crying more if she isn't happy or needs something. And I think her little voice is pretty loud...a couple of times when we were at a restaurant this month she was SO LOUD. She was happy and they weren't cries, but it was still pretty loud to where I thought "oh my gosh, should I take her out?" HA!
- Which brings up this point...she does not know how to suck on a paci. She won't take one, and in those situations I wish she would!
- She's not a huge fan of the car these days (paci would be nice in those situations too!), but she can be distracted by trying to drinking out of her sippy cup or playing with little toys.
- She is starting to use a sippy cup a little bit.
- She is still nursing about 4 times a day...morning, lunchtime, after nap, and before bed. I'm honestly starting to get a little nervous about weaning her once she turns one, because when she's hungry she will seriously climb up on me and start pulling my shirt down and try to start nursing! OH MY GOSH! I don't remember that with Brynn at all, and it was so easy to stop nursing with Brynn. I was thinking the other day "why does it seem like Brynn wasn't so "into the boob" like Emory, and I think it's probably because I was still teaching full time and Brynn was so used to taking a couple of bottles everyday. Emory still will take a bottle, but she also has gotten pretty smart at knowing where the milk comes from! HA! Hopefully it will go pretty smoothly, and I'm not planning on weaning her until she turns one and gets cleared from her pediatrician to start drinking regular milk. But in the meantime, my family has all gotten a pretty good laugh during dinner time watching Emory climb up on me and try to find her milk. =)
- She's been sleeping later in the mornings, and wakes up between 8 and 8:30. (I get her up by 8:30 if she's not up). Then she usually gets about a 30 to 45 minute catnap (during the week it's usually in the car while we are out running errands) in the mornings, usually from 10:30-11:15. She naps in the afternoon from about 2-4:30, and then nurses around 8:30 or 8:45 before bed.
- This month she started eating table food. She still eats baby food, especially her oatmeal/cereal, but at every meal we are giving her little bites of our food and there have been a couple of meals where we were out and forgot her baby food and she ate an entire meal of table food.
- She's been to the water park, the pool, slip n slide with Brynn...she seems to love it all! She loves to watch Brynn and will start cackling when Brynn is being silly. It's really fun to watch how much they love each other and to watch then "interact." I pray they will always love each other and be the best of friends.
- She's SUCH A JOY to everyone and we are SO BLESSED AND THANKFUL to have her in our family. WE LOVE YOU EMORY!
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