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.

October 2020

We kicked off the first weekend in October with Ella's birthday weekend.

We went to the U-pick Red Barn with the kids and my parents.

It was an absolutely gorgeous October day.

Ella turned FOUR!

We had her two little besties over for a mini birthday party.

We had our family pictures taken on a perfect evening.

Hudson got dumb and threw the apple remote at the tv one afternoon, so that really sucked.

I took the photo of us a few days after he broke the tv to prove that he was still alive.

Avery found an open jar of Nutella while I was working downstairs in the office.

Going to the dentist looks a little different these days.

No toys in the waiting room, waiting in the car if it's too busy, and face masks on until they're ready to start working on you.

Ella had another dance recital.

She did this session of dance with her besties, Hayling and Brielle.

I love how much she loves to dance.

Their dance teacher. 

We were finally able to go back to church for the first time since March.

We started out only going once every 3 weeks and only for sacrament meeting.

We carved pumpkins with the kids the day before Halloween.

I volunteered in Hudson's class to help with their Halloween party.

Hudson's costume included a fake mustache, so I couldn't resist adding it to his facemask.

It was fun to see him in his element at school.

We went as a circus for Halloween this year!

Taylor was the ringleader.

I was the popcorn seller.

Hudson was the "strong man"

Ellas was our tightrope walker

Avery was a clown

And Oaklee was our ferocious tiger

We had a Halloween get together/party with our friends.

We had soups for dinner and the kids decorated sugar cookies.

After our bellies were full, we all went out trick or treating together.

It was a really fun evening, and our neighborhood definitely showed up for the holiday.

12 Months of Oaklee// Month 6

Weight: 13-14 pounds

Diapers: Size 2

Clothes: 3-6/6 months

Sleeping: 3 naps a day. Sleeps 7-7ish at night, but wakes up once a night for a bottle. I'm sure I could do more to get rid of the night time feeding, but I figure with her weight gain troubles I want her to get all the calories she can. She only takes her binky when she is going to sleep. She still sleeps on her back.

Eating: She eats 4 ounces of formula every 3ish hours during the day, and has a bottle when she wakes up at night. We haven't given her any sort of solids yet. Mostly because I forget to buy any, and I don't have the time to make them

Milestones: Rolls belly to back. She scoots backwards when trying to get to something in front of her while on her belly. Rolls across the room. She's all over the place these days, and to be honest I'm not exactly sure how she gets where she does. Found her feet. Planks in an effort to move. First Thanksgiving. She is starting to hold her own bottle. She doesn't last a whole feeding before she drops it, but she can go a few minutes holding it.

Oaklee is still a long ways from sitting up on her own which is kind of new for us. She continues to be slower in her gross motor skills than any of the other kids were.

Likes: Grape teether. Jumparoo, Being held. Play mat.

Dislikes: baths still aren't her favorite thing, but she didn't totally dislike being washed in the shower the other day.