32 Months

-She is a great jumper and loves to bounce around the house, for a while she did this all the time, and she found that jumping on her bed is really fun. 

-"Thank you for________", tells me thank you for almost everything I do or give to her. Like, "thank you for lifting me into my car seat", or "thank you for getting me an apple", just everyday things, love it!
-She eats her pizza upside down.
-Loves riding her bike and is getting better at cruising around, we went to Grandmas house today to pick up the stroller, and she biked all the way there.
 -Loves her "chocolate raisins", she always has a handful of raisins in the morning for breakfast, and then she was liking the craisins for a while. Well, one day after putting some craisins on her plate she told me, "No Mommy, I want the chocolate raisins", meaning just plain old raisins. I just think it is funny that she calls them chocolate raisins.
-"Hi, Mommy, and "Bye Mommy", she will go into another room and tell me bye.
-Talking non stop, if she is not talking to me she is talking while she is playing.
-Some of her sayings, "I am going to go in the front room and be quiet"
"I need an eskimo kiss before we go", so I give her one and she says, "Thanks"
and then she says "Daddy needs an eskimo kiss", yes, Julie I think he does.
"I will be in the front room in a minute, I need to put my milk in the fridge"
-Lots of pretend play - sometimes I just love to watch her play and have her little people talk to each other and I love to hear the conversations that she has with them.
-Gets things in the fridge herself. She loves to get her milk out of the fridge and anything else she thinks she needs.
-"Tip-Toe-Tip-toe", walking really slowly and every time her toe hits the floor she will say, "tip" and the next foot she will say, "toe", and so on.
-Loves watching Baby Signing Time, had stopped watching them, and is now watching them again, and really is getting into it a lot more, which means she signs a LOT more now. She loves signing shoes, and socks.
-Took Julie winter shopping to find her some pants and shirts, and we had fun trying on all different kinds of pants. I wanted her to be with me since I wasn't for sure what size would fit her. She didn't last long trying on all the pants, but it was fun. She loved the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse sippy cups that she found and this little phone. I went back later to get them as rewards for using the potty(which hasn't worked yet).
-Um, potty training, HATE it, so HATE it! We tried for a day or so and then quit, and I think we messed her up. She is now holding her poop in(I know, probably two much info) and so she will poop all day long, every time she needs to go she will hold it but just a little will come out, and that little bit is making her bum RAW, which makes for a nice wrestle match to get her cleaned off every time I need to change her. Gah, and then right after I change her she goes just a little bit more, so frustrating. They say you have a child that is just like you, and right now, I guess that is true.

-Julie was staring up at me while I was washing her in the tub, and she is looking intently at my face, and says "Mommy, you have a piggy nose", oh thanks Julie.
-Hardly eats anything, she can be such a good eater some days and then other days, hardly touch anything.

-She did eat part of this cupcake at her cousins birthday party, which was a shocker since she doesn't eat cake.

She likes to play by herself, when everyone was over watching Matthew open presents, she decided she wanted to swim.

Giving loves to Melanie, she is doing better at not pestering Melanie so much.

My cuties!

Nap Time

 Julie will sometimes want to take a nap when I lay Melanie down, and so she will get in her bed. She will be very quiet and will stay in there for a little while and then come out. The other day she fell asleep and was asleep for about an hour when Melanie started to make noises, which woke her up. It was nice! More often lately she has been falling asleep in the afternoon, so I need to get her on a routine of taking a nap again.

Ha, and then just to illustrate her need to take naps, I needed to change her diaper and she didn't want it changed so she went and hid behind the couch. So, I went into the other room to get something and came back out to find her completely zonked. Yet another one of her crazy nap time pictures.

 At least she had a kleenex under her face to catch the drool.

Lets add another one from today. Watching a video while I was getting ready, and falls asleep before lunchtime even.

 I love nap times when they both sleep at the same time.

7 Months

-Is now able to lift her head and body off the ground and stay up there without it looking like it takes so much work. And can move around in a circle on the floor.

 She usually has her legs off the ground as well.

-Loves to scratch at things

-Grabs at my hair, usually have her facing outward and she takes her right arm and reaches back to grab whatever she can.

-Arches her back to look up at us while on our lap.

-Is now on a 4 hour schedule, 2 hours awake(the last half hour is usually hard to keep her happy, because she gets tired), and 2 hours asleep or 2 hours in her crib(doesn't always sleep the whole amount of time, but she is in her crib for the 2 hours).

-Still not sleeping through the night, longest stretch has been 7 hours(Sept 18). Mostly 5-5 1/2 hours. Gets up one to two times to eat.

-Content, I think the reason why she is where she is at developmentally is just that she is content. Rob says she got that from him. She is just content to do what she can do, like she doesn't want to put forth the effort to try something new or work her muscles when she fine where she is. She is making lots of progress though, we put her on the floor a lot more now and that helps a ton.

-We still use the rice bags to position her so that her left side of head is off the ground, but I think that is becoming a lost cause since she is always on her left side when I go in to get her.

-Still is not eating solids, we have tried oatmeal, zucchini, avocado, banana, and some puffs. Not interested at all.

-Is drinking about 5 ounces at each feeding now.
-Cannot sit on her own, but it doing better sitting with some help. We borrowed an exersaucer from my sister in law, and although it mainly just takes up space, she is doing a lot better in it now and will play and is a lot stronger. Her torso fell a little backwards in the seat the other day, and she was able to use her strength to get back forward.

 Instead of just flopping forward in it like this:

She is now lifting herself up.

-So, she now has 4 teeth, two on top and two on bottom. The two on top are coming in at the same time.

 -She loves to rock, if we put her on our lap facing us, and we hold her hands, she will rock her body back and forth, with pretty good strength, fun to watch her do this.
And one last one, since sleeping babies are just so sweet and cute.

-Loves to be outside, it will calm her down instantly, and usually keeps her happy that last half hour before nap time. Love this little gal!

Tired

This does not look like a comfy place to take a nap.

 She was asking me to "Hold her", which I knew meant that she was tired and wanted to snuggle. So, I was hurrying to finish cleaning up lunch and put everything in the dishwasher. And by the time I was done, which didn't take too long, she was out, laying on the hard tile floor. I did move her onto the couch, where she could enjoy her nap a little bit better.

Routine and a new tooth!

 I changed Melanie to a 4-hour feeding schedule. Even with her eating 3-4 ounces at each feeding, sometimes she just wasn't wanting to eat after 3 hours. So, we are on a 4 hour schedule and so far seems to be working just great. She has been drinking more now also, we are up to 5 ounces at each feeding. She wakes and eats and is awake for 2 hours and then she sleeps for 2 hours, and that cycle continues until we put her down at 8-8:30. Her longest stretch of sleep is still around 5-6 hours, and will wake about 1-2 times to eat during the night, although I should let her cry for a bit before going in to feed her.
And today, I was playing with her on my legs, and noticed something new in her mouth. She has her top right tooth that is just ready to pop, not swollen and not really bugging her. She just rolls that tongue around in her mouth constantly feeling it, so 3 teeth, and we think we can see the other front tooth coming also.
She is doing better at moving around on the ground also.

She has rolled from her belly to her back once.