Adeline"s 10th month

Adeline turned 10 months old on August 9th.

Sleep: Adeline is consistently sleeping through the night. We generally have one last feeding around 10:30 and she can make it to 7am. Her morning naps are only about 45 minutes and afternoons naps are about an hour and a half. If sister isn't home making noise then Adeline has slept longer for her morning naps. I love watching her sleep on the monitor and she has fallen asleep sitting up lately. 

She also sleeps with a little blanket animal and she loves to snuggle it

Eating: sweet baby loves food. I nurse her five times a day and she gets solids for at least three meals but I wouldn't say a full meal of solids. She loves meat but is definitely more of a picky either unlike Lillian was. Ever since we started solids she has had trouble going poop. It's so heartbreaking to watch. We tried pear juice and it only sometimes helped but we would still have to give her a suppository every few days which was painful for her. Now we sprinkle Miralax on yogurt or pour some in a bottle of water or pear juice. The Miralax has been very successful. 

She started crawling this month and not long after she started pulling up on things. 

Lillian is always hugging on Adeline and now Adeline is starting her plan for payback and Lillian loves it.

This pitiful face started this month. It is almost a fake cry that starts when she is hungry

Adeline got her first tooth this month and then her second one soon after. I love baby smiles with just the two bottom teeth. 

she made this face a lot while she was teething

Adeline's 9th month

Adeline turned 9 months old on July 9th. Which also happens to be Daddys birthday

I didn't write things down this month to remember so this post just mainly has pictures that happened this month.

My favorite picture of my loves!

She loves to stand up while she is eating.

The night we got back in town we decided to start cry it out since Adeline was still waking at least once a night. After just three nights of some CIO success! She continued to do awesome the rest of the month except for occasional nights she woke up screaming, not just crying but screaming unless I nursed her so I would only nurse on one side and that seemed to help. She sleeps on her side and towards the end of the month she also started rolling onto her belly and can't roll back so she starts fussing for help.

U-Pick Flowers

There is a Daniel Tiger Neighborhood episode about doing something nice for your neighbors and Daniel gives sunflowers to everyone. Well Lillian loves to go up to me or Kevin and say "i have a surprise for you, its.... a sunflower!" so this morning we went and picked some sunflowers.

I posted about picking peaches at a local orchard and this morning we were able to go pick our own flowers at the same Orchard. It was not the super fun picture taking morning I had in my mind. I had Adeline in the stroller (trucking through flower beds) and Lillian throwing dirt clots. However, it was a fun different experience and we got some beautiful flowers out of it.

Some of our neighbors met us there and Lillian was much easier to manage with friends around.

poor Adeline just had to sit in the sun the whole time so we picked one for her to hold

flower power stance

Our 5 gallon bucket that only cost us $10

I was able to fill 4 vases with flowers when I got home.

Adeline's 8th Month

Adeline turned 8 Months old on June 9th. Here is what she was up to during her 8th month of life.

Sleep: I'm not sure what happened but the week after she turned 7 months old she started waking in the middle of the night again to eat. I felt like maybe my milk supply was decreasing as well and she wasn't getting full feedings. I decided to pump a few times a day to help my supply and also be able to see how much she was drinking. It was a long month but luckily it turns around next month.

Eating: She was eating more solid foods this month. We do a hybrid of BLW and purees. A friend let me borrow her Infantino Squeeze Station which gave us some options of food if we were on the go or when I don't feel like cleaning up a huge mess from BLW. This thing is pretty awesome. I made these pouches out of two small sweet potatoes and 5 carrots. It was time consuming to boil the vegetables but nice to know what exactly she is eating. It took her a few times to figure out how to actually suck the food out so I'd squeeze it a little but now she is a pro. It came with a little spoon that attaches to the end too that you can squeeze the food onto.

 Some solids we do are chicken and most fruits. She hasn't truly choked on anything yet and gagged only a few times. She does better with more solid foods now. She wasn't a fan of bananas at first and had a hard time working them around her mouth. She is a pro at eating chicken and its funny to watch her. She looks like a cow or horse chewing on grass. I have noticed that the skin on the blueberries will sometime get stuck to her tongue so once she is done eating I just check to make sure no more food is in there.

Switched her out of the infant carrier to a convertible seat. I have to admit its a lot harder to get her in this seat than her carrier. 

More swing fun. I think she likes it. 

Side sleeper

pool time

Adeline randomly broke out in this rash one day this month. It only lasted about two days and looked worse when she was overheated. 

We got a new paci clip and I love it. It is made out of chew bead necklace instead of fabric. The only compalint is the clip is plastic and super strength Adeline pulls it off all the time. She especially loves to do this in the car and throw it down between the seat and door. 

Loves baths

and the pool