11 Months

Madelyn, I am a few days late, but here is your 11 month update!  You are all over the place right now - crawling and cruising!  You will stand for a few seconds by yourself, but you aren't quite there or ready to walk, but that is just fine with us!  You are getting into everything these days, so basically anything could be your favorite toy at the moment.  Our iPhones are one of your favorites to try to grab though, as well as remotes.  You do love toys that you can shake and make noise with.  You are quite the talker and will imitate us.  Mama & Dada are frequent words, and I'm pretty sure you know which is which.

You still sleep from 7:30 a.m. - 6:30-7:00 a.m. and take 2 naps a day; one in the morning, and one in the afternoon.  You have your bottom 2 teeth, and your top left tooth poked through this past Friday!  We are down to giving you about 26 oz. per day of formula, and you eat about 3 meals a day plus a snack.  Normally oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, a veggie and school food for lunch, a veggie in the afternoon, and then mac and cheese, sweet potatoes, squash or yogurt for dinner.  You eat graham crackers and goldfish for snacks.  Eating is still a challenge with you, you don't like too many foods and just don't seem interested in food.  Hopefully this next month will go better.

January and February brought us 3 more ear infections and an upper respiratory infection, so we are going to the ear, nose and throat doctor tomorrow to see what he says about you getting sick.  This was a tough month with all of your sickness.  You have missed a lot of school, but luckily Mellie, Abuelita and Aunt Kathy have been able to help us and take care of you when you've been sick.  You and I took a trip to DFW over President's Day weekend, and we drove up at night so you could sleep the whole way, and it worked great.  The drive home was a little tougher, but not too bad.

We think you are at such a fun age, and it is so cute to see you learn new things every day!  You love to explore and climb, and I know you are going to be a little firecracker!  We love you Princess!

11 Month Stats:

Height: ??

Weight: 21 lb. 2 oz.

Clothes: 12 month some 9 month pants

Diapers: Size 3 (Size 4 at night)

10 Months

Madelyn, you are 10 months old!  Your Daddy and I can hardly believe it!  Time is flying by and sometimes we wish we could just stop time!  You are now ON THE MOVE!  You really started crawling the week before Christmas and you now love to go go go!  You especially love to try to get cords, the dog bowls, the tv stand, pretty much anything you're not supposed to touch!

You are such a talkative little cutie!  You love to say "dada" all the time, and sometimes it sounds like you mimic things we say.  You like to make noise/scream to get our attention if we aren't paying attention to you.  You have many fun new toys from Christmas, like your kitchen, music table, laptop, shapes block and others that you play with.  Remotes, Iphones and the Ipad are your preferred toys, but we don't let you play with those if we can help it!

You are still sleeping so well from 7:30 pm until 6:00-7:00 a.m.  You take 2 naps a day, one short one around 9:30 a.m. and a longer one around 1:30-2:00 p.m.  We are trying to transfer you to solid foods, but you still eat 4 bottles a day of about 30 oz.  Sweet potatoes are still your favorite as evidenced by your orange nose!  You are eating lots of new foods, and even eating some "real" food.  You haven't quite gotten the swallowing down and still choke on some solids.  Even more exciting, is that your first TOOTH is breaking through!  Today was the first day we could feel it!  You were fussy last week, but have been pretty good the last few days.

We celebrated your First Christmas this past month with celebrations in Fort Worth and Houston.  You mostly loved the wrapping paper and bows.  You had fun playing with your cousins Elizabeth & Tucker too!  You are such a joy to us and we love your smile!  Your laugh is soo cute and you are such a little goober!  Your personality is coming out and I can tell that you are going to be strong willed like your mommy and daddy!  We are in for it!  We love you so much Princess!

10 Month Stats:

Height: ??

Weight: ??

Clothes: 9 month and 12 month

Diapers: Size 3

9 Months

Madelyn, you are 9 months old!  The time is just flying by and you are such a joy to be around!  You love to be the center of attention!  Just this week you started crawling for real - more than just a step or 2!  You don't really like to do it though.  You prefer to "cruise" around the furniture.  You are VERY good at cruising and can almost stand by yourself, but for now you just lean against the couch.  You love to play and talk and chew and grab.  You have learned to clap this month and you still love to wave too!  That pretty much sums up your days! 

For the first time yesterday, you ate 3 full meals of baby food!  You are still eating 40oz. or so per day of formula around 7, 10, 1, 4 & 7.  You eat oatmeal with fruit for breakfast and then sweet potatoes for dinner.  Yesterday I gave you some oatmeal at lunch with prunes.  This week we also started mixing new baby foods into your sweet potatoes.  You have eaten: apples, pears, sweet potatoes, prunes & a butternut squash/apple/grain mix.  Anything else but sweet potatoes makes you gag, so it looks like we will have to mix/dip every new food in sweet potatoes! Still no teeth, but that's
alright!

We celebrated your first Thanksgiving this past month, and took you to DFW again.  You still do really well in the car, but sometimes you get fussy at the end of the trip.  You still sleep from about 7:30p.m.-6:30-7a.m.  Your naps are sporadic, but normally a short one in the morning and longer in the afternoon and hopefully at least 2-3 hours total. 

In the past month, you have had 2 ear infections.  You got your first one over Thanksgiving and Daddy and I had a hard time trying to get you to take your medicine, but we finally figured out to just squirt a little at a time in your mouth and that was the trick!  Your 2nd ear infection came on last week, and Daddy took you to the Dr. and got you all fixed up with medicine and took care of you.  You were up and going the next day though.  Hopefully no more sickness for a while! 

You are so much fun to be around and such a cutie!  You are currently a momma's girl, but you love your Daddy just as much!  We can't wait to celebrate your first Christmas next week!  (I'm sure you will just like the wrapping paper!)  We love you sweetie!

9 Month Stats:

Height: 28" - 65th percentile

Weight: 19lb. 4oz. - 57th percentile

Clothes: 9 month, 9-12 month - some 12 month tops!

Diapers: Size 3

8 Months

Madelyn you are 8 months old!  You are just so unbelievably adorable!  You are learning to crawl, and are much more motivated if we put the tv remote out for you to crawl to.  You are also cruising along the sofa and ottoman, and you LOVE to stand!  You like your exersaucer more and are starting to learn how each of the toys on it work.  You love to chew on Sophie the Giraffe or anything for that matter.  You are such a happy baby!  

You still do not have any teeth, but we are fine with that.  We keep thinking it will be any day now, but who knows!  You still eat 40+oz. of formula every day.  And you still only like oatmeal and sweet potatoes, but we have started sneaking apples and pears in your oatmeal!  You sleep great through the night and wake up between 6:00-7:00 a.m.  Your napping is pretty sporadic, but normally a short one in the morning and a long one in the afternoon.  Surprisingly, I haven't been too strict on your nap times, I figure you will sleep when you need to.  

We dressed you as a ladybug for Halloween and you were too cute!  You went trick-or-treating at Aunt Meg & Uncle Andrew's.  You started talking in syllables this month and we have heard "dada", but no "mama" yet.  Oh and you recently started screaming for fun.  Sometimes you sound like you are trying out for a Tarzan movie.  We can't wait to celebrate your first Thanksgiving on Thursday!  We love you sooo much Princess!

8 Month Stats:

Height:  ??

Weight: ??

Clothes: Mostly 9 month, a few 6 month

Diapers: Size 3

7 Months

Madelyn you are 7 months old today!  The days are just flying by, and I swear you get cuter every day!  You are still mostly just eating oatmeal, although we are going to try some sweet potatoes today.  I'm not in any hurry for you to eat food, and your doctor said you don't really need it until you are 1, and clearly you are not wasting away!  haha  So we will just take it slow.  You eat 8 oz of formula every 3 hours during the day.  You are still sleeping through the night from 7:30-8pm - 6:15am.  It does make for early weekend mornings though!  Over the last month we have been to NYC and to Mellie and Granddad's house.  You are a great little traveler!

You have lots of favorite toys now, you especially like this bumble bee teething toy.  You really aren't picky though, you will try to put just about anything in your mouth.  In the last month, you have mastered sitting up without support!  You love to roll around and are starting to scoot/trying to crawl.  You will be crawling in no time!  You love to watch Sammie and Fred, and they love to try to lick you.  You are quite the little talker, not surprisingly.  We haven't seen any teeth yet, but that is fine with me!  You are a very happy, easy baby, and we love you more and more every day!  

7 Month Stats:

Height: 26.5" - our guess

Weight: 17 lb. 3 oz.

Clothes: 6 month, 6-9 month, some 9 month - You have a VERY long torso like your mommy!

Diapers: Size 3 as of last week