From A to Zig: October 2012

Almost 8 months...I tell you. It is killing me that they blocked blogger at work. And with 2 kids at home, it is nearly impossible to update as often as I would like. So here I am, blowing the dust off my blog. I actually wrote a majority of this post when she was actually 6 months, but will just combine the 2 months now.

Sophia is learning so much everyday. It is so fun watching her grow and I feel like if I blink, I am going to miss something.

At 6 months:

She weighed about 16 lbs. at her 6 month check up. I have how long she is written down, but of course I can't find it. She is pretty close to Emmy's length at this age. She is in the 50th for both, if I remember correctly.
She is in size 2 diapers, but they are getting a little snug. By the time we are done with this big box, she will probably be ready to bump up to size 3.
She is still in 3-6 month/6 month clothes. I forgot how weird the sizes can be. I think if it is "6 Month" it really is 3-6 month.
She sits up really well unassisted and is really close to pulling into a sitting position from laying down.
She is for the most part "crawling". She can go a few steps on her hands and knees and then resumes army crawling or plank crawling to get where she needs to go.
Since learning to crawl, she is into everything. She really like to explore things.
She talks a ton. We have gotten a few "mamas" out of her, but for the most part she babbles "dada".
She seriously NEVER cries. EVER. Instead she yells. She sounds like an old man yelling.
She is still eating about the same as last month, although she prefers solids over milk. I know that food is supposed to be for learning and not till nutrition until 1, but our doctor is ok if she cuts back on her milk and eats more solids. We are hoping to keep it to at least 20 oz. of milk a day. I bet she gets about that, but it's hard to tell since she nurses.
She eats 2 cubes (I made baby food so two ice cube portions) every day for lunch of what ever Steph chooses for the day. I made pumpkin, peas, mixed veggies, mixed veggies with brown rice, and she has organic bananas or organic apple sauce. She also eats smaller peices of whatever Emmy eats, like pastas, toast, etc.
She loves puffs and mum mums. She is still working on her pincer grip and making it to her mouth. She "chews" each puff and its adorable.
She loves to blow raspberries and click her tongue.
EVERYTHING goes in her mouth.
Sleep--Sleep got really bad a few weeks ago. I had surgery a few weeks ago (details for another post) and that seemed to really throw Sophia off. I was feeding her at 7, putting her down for the night and going in to top her off around 10 every night, in hopes to get her to sleep for a longer stretch. For several weeks this worked great. I fed at 10 and she would sleep till 6. Then after my surgery, Zig would have to go in with me and hand her to me to feed and it would wake her up a little more than normal. She would still go down ok, but she started waking up at 2-3 consistently. Sometimes she would wake at 12. And the only way to get her to go back to bed quickly was to feed her. Now, we can't complain. Neither of our kids have ever woken up in the middle of the night and stayed up. For the most part, they'd eat really quick or require a quick back rub and doze of again. BUT, Sophia is capable of going much longer stretches, than she has been pulling lately. So we started to do a modified Ferber and let's just say things are going much better.
As for getting to sleep, Sophia is a dream. I literally feed her, lay her down wide awake and she puts herself to sleep. No paci, no back rubbing, nothing. She means business when 7 pm hits.

At 7 months:

We haven't had her weighed since her 6 month appointment, but I am guessing she is in the 18 lb. range.
She is in size 2 diapers still. Man that box lasted a while! Thank you Amazon! We will move to size 3 here shortly.
She still fits in 3-6 and 6 month clothes, but we started packing those up and are transitioning her to 6-9 and 9 months with the change in the season.
She is a crawling MACHINE. She is all over the place.
She can pull up into a sitting position
She is the EASIEST baby. Seriously. I thought Emmy was easy, but Sophia is so calm and just goes with the flow.
She eats 2 full meals a day of solid foods. Still purees, but we are starting finger foods now. She eats steamed veggies, pastas, small pieces of meat, puffs and yogurt bites.
She still nurses in the am and pm and has 2, 4oz. bottles a day at school. I am guessing she really only gets between 16-20 oz.
She loves to growl and is so silly.
She sleeps all night. We usually put her down at 7 and she will get up between 5:30 and 6, but most mornings I wake her to eat. She still puts herself to sleep no problem, even now that she can pull into a sitting position.
She loves cords, remotes, dog toys and shoes.
She ADORES Emily. She loves to smile at her and laugh at her.
She babbles a lot and has the sweetest little growl.
Still no teeth!!

We are really settling in as a family of 4. Emily has been such an amazing help over the last month. She seems so grown up!

Sorry for the combined post. I am hitting post now. Last time I tried to save the post till I pulled the pictures off my camera and here I am, now 2 months later still waiting to plug in the SD card and dowload them. Pictures will be up this week. I will have to do an update on Emmy post here soon too! She is a total ham. A definite toddler, crazy, head spinning tantrums and all, but still my sweet girl.