Month: June 2013

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Babies

Zach: Thirteen Months

Gah! Time is flying by. How’s it a week past his month day? Or 13 months since the arrival of my lil guy?!

Zach has flourish this last month! Verbally, socially, developmentally & in size!

Mama & Dada are the most hear words, but he says baba often too. Does it mean bye-bye? Bottle? His tongue wagging/thrusting cracks him {& us} up.

Socially, Zach’s begun to assert himself more with Lucy- pushing, hitting, smacking Sister. This has led to us separating them & taking away toys. And praying they’re sweeter to each other in public {aka daycare}.

He’s not quite as quick to smile these last few weeks. Because he’s serious about walking! Within the last month, Zach went from bravely cruising/throwing himself a step or two, to walking/running. I’d say within the last week, walking had become his main mode of transportation at home. Seeing this lil guy walking around is so cute. He chats & likes to have his hands full & out in front while traveling around the den. Falling doesn’t phase him; he’s learned to get up hands-free & keep going. We have tons of videos of him these days because it’s such a joy to see him learning & discovering to walk!

So last monthday update, I mentioned Zach was around 16.5 lbs. I weighed us last weekend dressed & he was 19.2 lbs. Yep, you read that right. Almost 3 lbs in a month. Growth spurt much?! Goodbye 6 mo clothes, see ya 6-9 clothes he maybe wore once, & really it’s not looking like all the 9 mo clothes I’ve been collecting will last long. Thankfully, I remembered I’d bought a lot of Jenny’s Toby’s 12 mo summer hand-me-downs so Zach won’t have to go naked later this summer. 😛

How’s he packed on the pounds? Loving table food. He eats everything we give him. Like an entire homemade waffle on weekend breakfasts {plus fruit}. We haven’t found much he’ll scoff at. Plus he’s nursing with me in the mornings, getting 3 breast milk/formula sippy cups at daycare & typically another 8oz split before/during/after dinner/bedtime.

Happy {mommy’s sorry for being belated} 13 months Zach!

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Babies

Lucy: Thirteen Months

Oh Lucy girl has developed & shown off quite a personality this month. Always our serious baby, she was the outgoing one flirting & smiling at strangers at Costco two weekends ago.

She’s our wild child. Throwing herself into our basket of books. Speed crawling our of the den & down the hallway into their bedroom before you can turn your head. Shutting doors. Grabbing our cell phones or remotes when she knows she’s not supposed to have them & giving us the I’m-being-devious smirk.

She’s also ridiculously sweet. She loves to cuddle ~ her head fits right into our necks. She will pick up Zach’s wubbas & hold them out to him. Lucy get so excited to see him ~ sometimes a bit over-excited. She might’ve horse-collared his pjs last night in an attempt {we hope} to give him a from behind hug.

Lucy’s still our big girl. I weighed us on our scale & fully dressed she was just over 22 lbs. I’ve began retiring all her 9 mo clothes to daycare & consigning. 12 mo Carter’s & children’s place fit her well. We sadly had to put away these precious 9 mo ruffle Oshkosh skirts & a 6-12 mo baby Gap jean skirt last week. Oh & she’s moved up to the toddler area of Target clothes. {I’m still getting used to walking to that section!}

I’ve been online consignment & sale shopping for 18mo clothes for Lucy for the end of summer /fall. I think she’s tall enough that she’ll be in 18mo pjs before too long.

We put a variety of one sized cloth diapers on her for daycare {bless them for continuing to let us bring in cloth!}. At night & while we vacation, she wears size 3 disposables.

Speaking of sleep, Lucy still is a bit of a challenge some nights to get down & then typically wakes at least once. She requires a mix of nursing, cuddles, walking, bouncing, & nursing {again} to get her to sleep. So she’s usually up hanging out with me in the evenings.

Lucy *loves* blueberries. She loves all fruit {except grapefruit} but blueberries are her jam. She’ll eat them my the handsful {shoving them in as quick as possible into her cheeks with her right while holding one gingerly in her left}. It’s hilarious until we have to cut her off so she doesn’t turn into a berry!

She’s had pizza, fish, more veggies, turkey breast, chicken casserole & peanut butter sandwich for the first time at home. Daycare does breakfast & she’s had nutragrain bars, frosting-less poptarts & muffins as well as chicken nuggets, grilled cheese sandwich & turkey pepperoni at daycare. So far, she likes or at least tolerates everything we put in front of her.

But her most excited faces still appear when I snap on the brown brestfriend nursing pillow. She’s become quite the acrobat while nursing, but she’s happily drinking from me before & after daycare & all weekend. I think getting her to wean might be a challenge, but luckily for her, we’re not quite there yet.

Sorry this is a week late, but happy 13 months sweet Lucy girl!

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Babies Food Motherhood

Moving Up

I’m feeling sappy this morning after just dropping Lucy & Zach off in their new daycare classroom. They’re transitioning to the toddler room. But it appears they’ve done well enough the last two days to be there all day today.

I left them sitting in lil chairs up against a lil table eating cheerios. Like big kids, y’all! What happened to my babies?!

This new classroom does sippy cups. So that means we are now a bottle free household {except for ones for me to pump into}. That is so weird after months & months of having bottles all over the sink & counter, to see sippy cups there now.

Sippy cups
Our boon grass drying rack taken over by sippy cups {& pump flanges}

Zach’s made the transition to sippys well. Lucy & her nursing-loving self hasn’t taken to them quite as easily {she’s still EBF’d other than daycare}. We bought out a local Walmart’s Nuby sippys with the bottle-like nipples on Sat as we found that’s what they’ll use the easiest & it meets the “sippy cup” definition.

daycare sippy cups
Wednesday’s sippy cups. Daycare ready!

Seems like these changes are rolling off Zach & Lucy’s backs pretty easily. But I teared up in the van on the way to work thinking about how grown up they’ve recently become!

The big change up next: adding in whole milk. We might start that on vacation next week. Someone hold me!

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Motherhood

Power of the Post

I post about the hardness of marriage & parenting. And boom. In the last weeks, things have been great with Zach & Lucy, and much better with the husband. We’ve enjoyed lots of playing as a family, & thanks to Cici & Pops babysitting, J & I had a day lunch & movie date last Sat!

Then I post an update on breast feeding where I note Zach might be weaning. And boom, he’s gone back to nursing great overnight & in the morning {much easier for us}. He cut a new bottom right tooth Sun am. Maybe pre-teething was part of the strike?!

In the same post, I noted I was a little stressed about making the transition to sippy cups for daycare with them. So we tried it this week at daycare’s strong suggestion, & boom, they do great! They’re up to two sippy cups of 1/2 breast milk & 1/2 formula & 1 bottle. The bottle just in case they need to use it if they refuse the sippy & because I wasn’t prepared & we don’t yet have enough sippys yet.

I shouldn’t doubt the awesomeness of the kiddos. & just how great {even better than their momma} they roll with changes. Nor the awesomeness of the husband & our marriage.

And/or really, maybe it’s all due to posting? To putting it out there? Maybe there’s real power in the post{s}?!

Anybody have something going on I need to post about so it can be fixed for you?! 🙂

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Babies Family/Travel

Water Table Fun

Lucy & Zach love their water table! It was a birthday gift from their CiCi & Pops who were down this past weekend to watch them playing with it in person.

We’ve found that late afternoon is the perfect time to play on our back deck – it’s then shady & cooled off some while still warm enough for water play.

Two weekends ago, Lucy {my bath time splasher} discovered water table splashing! She & her outfit got soaked while Zach & I remained dry. So I thought I’d smartened up yesterday. I put Lucy in a bathing suit & swim diaper, but I left Zach with a cotton short-all on.

water table fun

Guess who discovered splashing?! LOL! Next time, bathing suits for all! 

Also note, a rarely seen in the wild serious Zach. He’s serious about his water play. Not a fan of too many toys in the water. Nor a fan of sharing his side of the table with his sister. Water table also equals lessons in sharing for our household!
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