12 Months of Oaklee// Month 12

Weight: 17-18 pounds I'm guessing.

Diapers: Size 3

Clothes: She still wears 9 month jammies and some clothes, but she also wears quite a few 12 month items.

Sleeping: takes 2 naps a day that are usually 2.5-3 hours each. I doubt she sleeps that whole time, but that is about how long I have until I hear her making any noise. She goes to bed around 7 every night and usually up for the day around 7:30.

Eating: She gets a bottle when she first wakes up in the morning, and when she goes to sleep. She loves any an all table foods and will out eat all of her siblings. She's doing great drinking whole milk instead of formula. Some favorites are yogurt melts, pasta, chicken

Milestones: Walking. She is the definition of toddling. She has 6 teeth in total now. First time sitting in a shopping cart.

Likes: She loves to carry around toys every where she goes. For a while it was an old baby doll of Ell's but more recently it's whatever she has decided to latch onto for that awake period. Although, I think she likes carrying around the baby doll and the yellow duck the most.

Dislikes: She still hates getting her nose wiped, but overall that's about it.

November 2020

Squeezed in a late fall family bike ride on an unseasonably warm day.

Avery rode on the trail behind bike for the first time. Her feet couldn't really touch the petal, but she loved it nontheless.

We voted!

Ella's little bestie happened to be with us, and they were quite the sight to see.

Let's just say there was an office chair spinning session in the foyer while waiting for Taylor to finish voting.   

Hudson got his school picture back

I spent some time painting our piano.

My sister got the piano for a birthday in high school, and my parents brought it with them when they moved out here.

I went on a girls trip with some friends.

It was SO much fun!

We stayed at a hotel in downtown Salt Lake City for 2 nights while the husbands took care of the kids back home.

we ate a lot.

and shopped even more.

The back of my car was stuffed with all of our finds.

Lots of Christmas decorations, and a few presents.

We spent Thanksgiving with my family.

It was the first time I have had Thanksgiving with my parents since I graduated high school

We had dinner at my parents, and then we went to my brother's house for pie.

The kids had a great time pillow fighting after dessert. Poor Ella was gained up on by 4-5 boys unless the 2 year old girls decided to jump in for a minute.

12 Months of Oaklee// Month 11

Weight: 16ish pounds

Diapers: Size 3

Clothes: 6-9 months. Onesies are on the small side length wise in this size, but jammies still fit her great. I just pulled out some 9-12 month clothes so we'll see how those fit her tomorrow.

Sleeping: Sleeps 7-7:30 or 8ish at night. She has finally stopped getting up with the bigger kids at 6:30. She goes down for her first nap around 9 and gets up any time between 11-12 and then takes another nap around 1 or 2 and sleeps until 5-5:30.

Eating: We give her a 4 ounce bottle when she first wakes up in the morning and then before every nap, but otherwise she eats table food if she is hungry. There hasn't been a food that she doesn't like. Her favorites are yogurt melts, puffs, steamed veggies, chicken, any kind of pasta, and crackers.

Milestones: She has had another 2 teeth come in with another one halfway in, and one more that has just poked through. She stands without holding onto anything for long periods of time now. She also stands up without hold onto anything ( like in the middle of a room) FIRST STEPS. He record is 3 steps, so she still has a ways to go before she is actually walking. 

Likes: Food, walks in the stroller, sensory poppers, standing, her blanket when she is going to sleep.

Dislikes: Getting her nose wiped. She's not a huge fan of grass. She has a limit that she will reach with Ella playing with her and then she's just done and will yell at her.

Ella time is just about all the time.

One of the kids took the picture of her in the lemon sleeper, but I love that it's her taking in the scene of her crazy siblings.

She's kind of been getting her butt kicked by hives lately.

This was one of her worst times with new ones popping up every day for a couple of days.

We still have no clue what is causing them, but thankfully they still don't seem to bother her.

12 Months of Oaklee// Month 10

Weight: Almost 16 pounds. Her weight at her 9 month check up put her in the 6th percentile.

Diapers: Size 3

Clothes: 6-9 months

Sleeping: Since moving, she wakes up a little before 7 from hearing the other kids and sharing a room with Ella. Her first nap is around 9, and her second is usually between 1 and 2. She goes to bed at night any time after 6:30. Most of the time she sleeps through the night, but she occasionally wakes up before we go to bed if it has been too long since she has had a bottle.

Eating: Everything and anything. She drinks at least part of a 4 ounce bottle every 3-4 hours. Most of the time she gets too distracted and crawls away leaving her half empty bottle behind. She loves food and will grab a handful of cheerios before we even finish pouring them into her high chair tray. She is quick to beg for anything we are eating, and there hasn't really been anything she has tried that she hasn't liked.

Milestones: First tooth! One of her top middle teeth has come in. Mimics sounds all day long. First Easter.

Likes: Getting into everything, trying to drink from her bottle sitting up, food, binkies only when going to bed, using anything and everything to stand up, her siblings

Dislikes: Getting her diaper changed- being still is the enemy.

12 Months of Oaklee// Month 9

Weight: 15-16 pounds

Diapers: Size 3

Clothes: 6 months

Sleeping: Oaklee takes 2 naps a day. She goes down for her first nap sometime between 9 and 10 and sleeps for 1.5-2.5 hours. I usually try to put her down for her second nap whenever Avery takes her nap so sometime around 1-2. She goes to bed between 6:30 and 7 and wakes up for the day around 7:30-8. She takes her binky to sleep, and she loves to play with her blanket as she falls asleep.

Eating: She eats 4 ounces of formula every 3ish hours during the day. If she is still hungry after a bottle, then we put her in her high chair with some finger foods. She is really loving cheerios, waffles, puffs, pizza, pasta

Milestones: I don't think anything major has happened this last month. She is really working on her pincer grasp, but hasn't mastered it yet. She continues to crawl all over the house.

Likes: food, food, and food. Getting into Macey's food and water bowl. 

Dislikes: Getting caught when she's in the dog food, 

She's as happy as can be and pretty darn easy, and I am so so grateful for it. She get s asmidge fussy when she's tired or hungry and that's honestly about it. She spends her days wandering around the house, and I just check in on her every so often to make sure she doesn't choke on anything or fall down the stairs. She's really content to explore, but she also loves when her siblings interact with her. 

12 Months of Oaklee// Month 8

Weight: 14.something pounds

Diapers: Size 3

Clothes: 6 months

Sleeping: Most days Oaklee takes 2 naps a day. Her first is usually around 9 for an hour and a half or so, and her second is at 1 and usually lasts 2+ hours. She goes to bed between 6:30 and 7 and wakes up for the day around 8. However, this morning she didn't wake up until 9:30!

Eating: She eats 4 ounces of formula every 3ish hours during the day. We've fed her purees a total of 4 times maybe? We are much more into baby led weaning, so she eats whatever we eat for dinner, occasionally some of my lunch if she is awake for it, and then mostly puffs, rice rusks, or cheerios during the day if she's feeling snacky/I need to entertain her to get something done.

Milestones: This has been a huge gross motor milestone month for Oaklee. She has completely ditched army crawling and inch worming and now crawls on her hands and knees full time. She has gotten fast at it too. She has finally decided that sitting up is not the worst thing. It seemed like overnight she became a pro at sitting up. She can sit herself up from laying down. She also now goes from sitting to crawling without her belly ever touching the ground. She is starting to pull to stand and is starting to do some cruising.

Likes: FOOD, exploring the house, Ella playing with her

Dislikes: Being hungry, the baby puppy (darn thing is just the right size to pounce on Oaklee and is way too young to understand that it shouldn't), teething

12 Months of Oaklee// Month 7

Weight: 13-14 pounds

Diapers: Size 2. Size 3 at night.

Clothes: 3-6/6 months

Sleeping: Oaklee usually takes 3 naps a day. Her last nap is really short because we have to wake her up by 6 to make sure she goes to sleep when the other kids do. She sleeps 7-7:30ish at night, but almost always wakes up once a night for a bottle. She continues to take a binky to fall asleep, and that is the only time she will take one. I think she still sleeps on her back, but she is almost always on her stomach when we get her out of her crib.

Eating: She eats 4 ounces of formula every 3ish hours during the day, and has a bottle when she wakes up at night. Oaklee has had purees only a handful of times, and she seemed to like them. I just don't like the time they take to feed her, so we tend to wait until she can have things she can feed herself. She's had cut up steamed carrots and a few bites of our dinners.She has also had puffs and rice rusks.

Milestones: Oaklee is doing a mix of fast inch worming and army crawling these days. She mostly does inch worming though. When she is in hands and knees crawling position, she is starting to lift and move one of her hands. Pro at holding her own bottle. First Christmas and New Years.

Not so much a milestone? but Oaklee got pink eye for the first (and hopefully last time) Thankfully, the drops cleared up her eye by the next day.

Likes: Rise rusks, jumping, mirrors, sitting in the high chair, her siblings talking to her, moving around on the floor

Dislikes: She is starting to dislike being held if your sitting because she would much rather be on the floor moving. She just squirms to get out of your arms. Sitting up. She will forcefully push against you at least half of the time if you try to make her sit up unassisted.

Overall, Oaklee is a pretty happy baby. She's content to just explore the room. She fusses when she's tired and hungry, and that's really about it. We're more than ready for her to stop spitting up all over everything all the time, and we can't wait to watch her get more and more mobile and see more of her personality come out.

She rocked her 6 month check up. She went from the 4th percentile to 10th percentile for weight!

darn pink eye.