11 months!!!

Stats:

Hair color: Light Blonde

Eye Color: Medium Blue

Clothes: 18 months/24 months

Shoes: barefoot

Diapers: cloth diapers, but when we are out and about we use disposables in a size 3 (barely! next box will be 4s!

Eating: finally her bottom two middle teeth have broken through!!! She now chews and drools on everything and anything so beware! Her favorite foods are...anything Kenzie is eating. She puts out both hands and grunts until you give her whatever Kenzie is noshing on. Her most favorite foods are raspberries, pizza, bananas, and teething biscuits. 

Sleeping: 7 pm - 5 am and back down until 8 am. 

Sleeping style: on her side, covered with a light blanket. I've come in to get her and she's been standing up holding on to the railing of her crib lately. 

Likes: Standing up to play at the toy kitchen, her bucket of toys or the toy box. She just stands there and pulls every toy out that she can reach. She is into everything and anything she can get her hands on. This includes the freshly painted treat bags I made for her party :( 

Dislikes: when people don't share their food, when she can't reach her toys, 

Milestones: two teeth buds, cruising furniture, climbing up stairs unassisted (but attended), standing to play with toys, walking with her walking toy

10 Months!!

Say what? It's birthday party planning time??? Ohhhhhhh yea!!! Honor will be having a Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday party!!! Courtesy of some heafty pinteresting, this is going to be an AHdorable birthday! Hard to believe time is still flying by! We skipped her 9 month well visit, so I don't have the medical stats for you but can catch you up on the rest!

Stats:

Hair color: Light Blonde

Eye Color: Medium Blue, almost grey now!

Clothes: 18 months

Shoes: barefoot

Diapers: cloth diapers, but when we are out and about we use disposables in a size 3

Eating: this girl will mow down an avocado half in a heartbeat! She is now eating cereal and fruit for breakfast, puffs or crackers for a snack, fruit and veggies for lunch, some of Kenzie's afternoon snack, and either what we are eating for dinner or her own concoction of a starch and veggie. She really isn't a fan of being fed so she mostly eats whatever she can pick up and gum down. Still no teeth or signs of teeth! 

Sleeping: FINALLY sleeping for a longer block of time. Typically 7 pm to 3 am, and back down until 7-8. I'm starting to feel more human each day.  

Sleeping style: She rolls over onto her belly mostly, and has her A+A blanket on her lower half. She sometimes sits up in the middle of the night and backs herself into a corner, cries for someone to lay her back down and then goes back to sleep. Now that she's more comfortable crawling, she's all over her crib. Today's nap, she woke up on her knees reaching to stand! Big girl!!! 

Likes: Puzzles, especially the big wooden Melissa and Doug ones, balls or anything she can throw, etc. Her newest obsession is the remote control. Seriously, if you are ever over and she is crying, just give her a remote! 

Dislikes: when Kenzie sits on her, gets in her face or lays near her. She will squawk until Kenzie gives her some space. Needless to say, they are developing a strong love-hate relationship. She now is content playing pretty much on her own, I can even leave the room without her crying! Success!! 

Milestones: crawling, pulling up to knees (not quite standing yet), playing more independently, moving from room to room, waving "hi" on command, and giving kisses (makes cute smacking sounds with her lips!).

She is a doll. I am so smitten by our two beautiful girls!!! Life is grand!

Honor 8 & 9 months

My goodness time is FLYING by! I can't believe I missed an entire month!! To make up for it, here are some cutesy pics of our baby girl looking not so baby-like anymore!

Stats:

Hair color: Light Blonde

Eye Color: Medium Blue

Clothes: 12-18 months, she even wore a 2T pj shirt to bed the other day

Shoes: barefoot

Diapers: cloth diapers, but when we are out and about we use disposables in a size 3

Eating: still eating us out of house and home. She's such a big eater that we appropriately chose her birthday theme: A Very Hungry Caterpillar. She did try some cheese stick today for the very first time. Not a huge fan but she ate it. No teeth, just gums everything down! 

Sleeping: sometimes she still gets up at 11, but most of the time she sleeps from 7 to 4 am, eats and goes back down until about 7-8 am. I long for the day she goes straight 7-7 without a peep! 

Sleeping style: still has her bottom half swaddled. I don't want her piggies getting cold, but we don't do socks around here. 

Likes: anything Kenzie does, until Kenzie is too rough that is! She LOVES her new Garden Play center, balls, anything she can chew on, but so sweetly loves her baby dolls. She mostly loves a raggedy looking doll, that desperately needs a Lily Shine wardrobe to spruce her up! 

Dislikes: Being on her tummy, loud noises, getting buckled in her car seat

Milestones: starting to "crawl" or at least she can get to where she wants to go. She goes from sitting, falling forward to a type of crawl position, she flattens out on her belly, pushes back up to sit and repeats. If only she would figure out how to crawl normally, she'd save herself a lot of time and effort! I have a feeling we are only moments away from her just taking off!!

Honor Rose- 7 months

Stats:

Hair color: Light Blonde

Eye Color: Medium Blue

Clothes: 12-18 months (there was no use for her 3-6, 6-9 month clothing which now sits in baskets in her room)

Shoes: barefoot

Diapers: cloth diapers, but when we are out and about we use disposables in a size 3

Eating: every 3-4 hours, eats a fruit at breakfast, veggie at lunch and a veggie with cereal for dinner. She has recently tried spaghetti squash, spinach, mango, and kiwi. Licks the spoon clean each time! 

Sleeping: 7-11 pm, 11pm-7 am. Lately she has been waking at 11, eating and then taking forever to go back down- she will cry hysterically if I set her down. It's like she just wants more momma lovin and how can I be mad at that??? I do secretly long for the day she goes 7p-7a though! Soon, it will happen soon, right???? She has also started to move around quite a bit while sleeping. I have positioned her facing one side of the crib and she has woken up facing in the opposite direction. There are also times where she gets stuck in the middle of her crib and is so tall that her feet and head touch both sides. She's not a super fan of that! 

Sleeping style: wrapped waist down in the swaddle or in her A+A sleep sack (which is awful in the middle of the night changes because of the silly zipper! oye.)

Likes: playing with big sis, sitting up to play, going for jogs in the stroller, tummy gummies (blowing on her tummy), taking baths, jumping in her bouncer, snuggling with mom

Dislikes: being left alone in a room,  

Milestones: sitting up independently, scooting backwards in her walker, squirming around on the play mat and in her crib

She's our baby doll and I cannot love her enough!!!! I love seeing her grow and achieve new milestones, but it is a little bittersweet knowing that she won't be a baby much longer! 

A Mother's Day Poem by Kenzie Mae

My mom's name is Cassie

I love my mother when she makes me breakfast

My mother gets mad when I disobey

I know my mom is mad when she I don't know, say it for me! Mom, please say it for me! 

My mom likes to sleep

My mom likes dad to do I don't know

My mom likes to go to fishing

My mom is I don't know, 10?

My mom weighs 40  pounds 

My mom works hard when she gets here

My mom is like a dolphin

I like my mom when she I'm too sleepy to do it

My mom needs to sleep

My mom hates to go

My mom does take me to the playground best 

Happy Half Birthday Baby Honor!!!

This is a half of a post for Honor's half birthday! We still need to go to the doc for her 6 month well baby visit but we've had so many visitors that we are running a little behind. No biggie right???

Hair color: Light Blonde

Eye Color: Blue

Clothes: 12-18 months

Shoes: size 2

Diapers: size 3, we started cloth diapering a few months ago (she wears mostly Sunbaby size 2) but she wears disposables while we are out an about since I am not a fan of carrying around soiled diapers all day!

Eating: every 3-4 hours

Sleeping: 7:30 pm to 3/5 am. We've had so many visitors that our routine is by the wayside but that's completely a good problem to have!!! We will get back into our regular routine of two naps a day and a hopeful overnight sleep! 

Sleeping style: She was wearing her swaddleme swaddles with the arms out but now has been moving around too much so she just wears her sleepers. She usually sleeps on her side with her thumb in her mouth. She is able to put herself to sleep quite well, but sometimes wants extra cuddles before bedtime. 

Likes: her big sister (she laughs constantly at Kenzie), grabbing for food (watch your plate!), bananas, playing with toys, hanging out in the Ergo, swimming

Dislikes: tummy time, applesauce, being left alone in a room 

Milestones: rolling front to back, bouncing in her bouncer, swimming in the pool and ocean (Mimi even dunked her underwater!), wearing sunscreen, eating food (bananas, yogurt, oatmeal, cereal, olives, peas, edamame, toast, applesauce, shaved ice), nomming on her toes, swinging at the park

T is for Tent, C is for Color

I'm playing catch up buy I had snapped several pics from our homeschool adventures so I thought I would share. I know quite a few of my SAHM are trying simliar things so I thought they might want to adopt some of these ideas.

 We built lots of tents inside the house. Kenzie played with her babies, she made pretend lunch and even took a pretend nap!

 With some convincing she event talked me into allowing her to have a lunch picnic under one of her tents. 

 One of her favorite activities in her tent was "star gazing." We shut off all the lights and used a flashlight to project cut out letters (t, x, z, g, a) onto the top of the tent. Kenzie and I took turns being the flashlight holder and the star watcher. 

 I think she loved making our house into a bunch of tents!! 

For C week we did lots with colors! One of my favorite ideas was to use our egg carton again to sort buttons by color. First, Kenzie went through our foam letter stash and picked out the letter "C" from each color. 

Then she sorted all of her buttons by color. I didn't have a white "C" or a purple "C" so those buttons were sorted on the lid. We had just watered her garden, hence the dirty finger nails! Ooops!! 

Some other things we did:

T- we sang lots of Twinkle Twinkle, made the letter T with sticks and yarn
C- we used water color paints to mix colors. I would paint one color and Kenzie would paint the other and then we'd mix together. I used this printable.