8 months.

i’m going to need my sweet pea to slow down on this growing up thing!!

our sweet girl is already 8 months old!

i don’t have an official height & weight but she is seriously getting so stinkin’ big!

avery is:

• SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!! sorry, i know i just posted this a few days ago but we are seriously excited about it!! the only stinky part is that before, she would only wake up once for about 10 minutes and then would sleep until about 7 or 730. now she thinks she needs to get up between 530 and 6. occasionally she will sleep later but that’s really early on the weekend!
• wearing a size 3 diaper.
• wearing a broad range of clothes. with girly clothes (and especially dresses), i have found that they last a lot longer than boys clothes did. avery can wear 18 month clothes but will also still wear 9 and even some 6 month outfits.
• eating like crazy! she loves when i give her table food so we do as often as possible.
• she has 2nds fruit for breakfast, 2nds fruit and veggie for lunch, and 2nds fruit and veggie for dinner. i have also been mixing in some 3rds meats/veggies at dinnertime which has been going pretty well.
• taking 5 bottles a day- one when she gets up, one around 9ish, one around 1ish, one around 5ish, and another before bed. she is only on formula as of a couple of weeks ago. she has been doing great with it which helps with my mummy guilt for sure! each bottle is usually between 5-6 oz. she wasn’t drinking very much and we switched her nipple on her bottles to a faster flowing one which helped tremendously!
• napping twice a day – once in the morning around 10ish for about 30-45 minutes and once in the afternoon around 130ish for an hour or two.
• still just rocking along with her 2 bottom teeth.
• crazy in her bed! we had to drop her crib down a notch this month because she can somewhat pull up. it’s always fun to look at her monitor and see where she’s gotten herself.
• still suffering from her mummy complex but has gotten much better about it since i have gone back to work. i hope that daycare will help with this some too when she starts on monday.
• so close to crawling! she can get her  knees under her but scoots backward. it’s really just a matter of time though. yikes!!
• loving to make noises. her favourite is still snorting. she gets going and it cracks us up. the other day in the car, she was snorting like crazy. evan turned to her and said “siser, no piggie!” haha!!!
• a professional sitter but she has decided she prefers to stand and will lock her knees if you try to sit her down. stinker! holding her up gives us quite an arm workout though so that’s a bonus!
• making a few more sounds. she was only saying “dadadada” but has added “mamama” in every now and then. she also likes to figure out how to make strange noises with her mouth and will do them constantly once she figures them out.
• staying with stacia until next monday when she will start daycare. i love the daycare but am missing her terribly. i want my days with my munchkins back please!

i wasn’t lying when i said my heart would hurt when i went back to work. i am questioning if i made the right decision but hope that being away from me will help her to get over her separation anxiety a bit. we love this little chica so much and can’t wait to see what she gets into in the next month!!

taking pics with the bear is a little more challenging!
throwing her bear on the floor.

undressing her bear.
 
“what? i didn’t do anything. i don’t know how her shoe came off.”
 
“i’m just going to get down now. i’m done!”



“get out of my way bear!”

& brother’s turn…”cheeeeese”…ball!

“he is so weird!”

“i’m so much cooler. look what i can do!”