8 Months old

I thought I should probably write this post since she is almost 9 Months old. Yikes! Where does the time go....

Lillian is getting so big. She seems so smart to me. I am probably just a little bias since she my baby. Since I waited so long to post this I'll just put up some updated pictures, no stats.

Bath time fun!

I cannot believe how much she has grown. She is such a big girl!

Sleepy baby

The other night while eating dinner and listening to Christmas music (I love Christmas music!) we look over at Lily and see her eyelids getting heavy. After a few moments she was completely out (for about 30 mins). I would have never thought one of my babies would fall asleep at the table. Too cute!

7 Months

Sweet Lily is 7 months old. She is growing up way to fast. And I am falling more in love with her everyday. She is so precious to me. I love watching her fall asleep at night. Watching a sleeping baby is definitely a little peace of heaven here on earth.

7 month stats:

• CRAWLING everywhere! She is even starting to pull up on things. We had to lower here cib mattress because she was standing up trying to look over the edge.
• Loves to eat. She can handle solids/textures much better than Nolan could at this age. She loves munching on Cheerios. She doesn't like applesauce very much but eats about anything else.
• Wears size 3 diapers.
• Moving out of 6 month clothing right on into 12 month. I am not ready for this, time is flying by too quickly.
• Loves Nolan & Kaiya. Tries to follow them everwhere.
• Goes to be around 7:30-8:30 and normally wakes up twice. We need to work on this. Wakes up for the day around 7:30 a.m.

Catching up!

It has been so long since I have posted new pictures of sweet Lily. She is getting so big! These are from when she turned 6 months old. Nolan wanted to help out w/ the pictures. Goodness, I have the cutest kids.

Bink-less!!!

Since we have been having such a hard time getting Lily to actually sleep at night, I decided to take away her binky at night. Well that turned into taking it away for good. It has almost been a week since she has had her binky. And she is happier! The only time I think that she really wants it is when she is getting sleepy. I am so proud of her. I was worried it would be harder with her than it was with Nolan. I was wrong!
She is doing better at night, but still no go with sleeping all night. Oh well. :)

6 Months Old

I cannot believe Lily is six months old. She is getting so big. I love watching her grow and develop. But I think I need to have a talk with her. She is a few days a way from crawling. She rocks and rocks on her hands and knees. She is army crawling across the floor, and normally can make it across the livingroom within minutes.
She loves to eat. She enjoys trying new flavors. But isn't very fond of peas. But really, who is? She is very impatient when I sit her in her highchair. She knows food is coming and she wants it right then.
So here are Miss Lily's newest stats:

• Weight: 15 lbs. (30th) Height: 27 inches (90th)
• Wears anywhere from 3-6, 6-9, and even a few 12 months clothing
• Still in size 2 diapers
• Has tried bananas, carrots, peas, and butternut squash
• Loves her exersaucer, she can sit in it for a very long time (as long as I am in the room with her)
• She is now aware and gets very upset when I leave the room. But, unlike with Nolan, I now have someone to stay in the room with her while I have to leave. Most of the time she is satisfied with just Nolan being with her.
• I would say that she is unoffically crawling
• At six months she was waking up at least 2 times a night but usually about 5. Now a few weeks later it is normally just 2. I'll take what I can get!
• She naps wonderfully!

New pictures to come soon!

New pictures

Omaha Zoo

We made a weekend trip to Omaha to visit the zoo. We had so much fun. Sleeping in a hotel w/ two babies isn't the most relaxing but we managed. :)

The zoo was great! There were so many things to see we didn't make it through all of it. We rode the train, and the Skyfari. The Skyfari was fun but it stressed me out a bit. We couldn't ride together, so I took Lily. We were really high in the air and all I could think of was how unsafe it was. But on the trip back I took Nolan and it was a little less stressful. Nolan really enjoyed the trip! I think his favorite thing was seeing the "Nemo" fish, which were the very first thing we saw. He also liked the tigers, which were the last animals we saw. He wanted to give them a blanket and some water because they were sleepy. Lily loved it too, she didn't cry once.

Naptime

The kids have started pretending more and more lately. The newest thing is "naptime". The throw pillows in the floor and cover up to take a nap. This keeps them entertain all afternoon as long as one doesn't take the others blanket. Or act like they might even be thinking about taking the others blanket. If this occurs "naptime" is over because the eventually forget which blanket was their own and want both of them.

But when there is peace I am able to capture sweet moments like this:

Turtle!!

Nolan loves the Ninja Turtles. He is constantly talking about them. Of course Tyler loves this. He has found ever turtle book at the library and is sometimes even more excited than Nolan. We have action figures, we have movies, and my mom has a closet full of turtles that Tyler hasn't got to bring to our house. I have a feeling it won't be long before I am overwhelmed w/ two boys playing w/ their turtles.

Nolan likes to dress up as a turtle and sing "Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!" He puts on his elbow and knee pads and a Cerner ribbon around his head and he is set to fight the "bad byes". Oh and whenever it is clean he has to eat out of his turtle bowl. Sometimes the turtle even helps him eat his food. :)

Camp out

I am really falling behind on blogging. I hope to catch up soon. But that may be unrealistic due to the fact that someone constantly needs my attention. :)

Tyler and Nolan had a camp out in the living room floor about a month ago. Nolan loved it. We set up his tent Nan bought him for his birthday last year. It is so big he rarely get to play with it. I filled it full of blankets and pillows and even a battery operated lantern. He thought it was so neat.

We also taught Nolan how to dunk oreos in a glass of milk. But that all ended when he misunderstood me when I said "dunk it", he thought I said "dump it". Boy, he enjoyed that! He is such a boy!

5 Months

Goodness, time is going by so quickly. I love sweet Lily more and more every single day. I am trying very consciously to be thankful for every moment I have w/ her. The multiple middle of the night wakings mean more snuggles from my baby. The times when only mommy can console her will passes too quickly. So I am going to squeeze her, and kiss her and love her as much as I can.
She is starting to really interact w/ Nolan. Her eyes follow him around the room. Normally he doesn't take much notice of her. But there are some precious few moments when I see them actually playing together and it just makes my heart melt. And then as quickly as it started it is over and Nolan is off doing something else. I don't know what it is store for them as the grow but I pray that they become best friends. I hope that they are able to depend on each other and always stay close.
5 months! Let's see what she is doing these days:

• Started cereal for breakfast and just recently introduced it for dinner too. She is eating a mix of rice and oatmeal.
• Rolling everywhere. In the time it took me to go to the kitchen and make a piece of toast she had move across the entire living room. She has been pushing up on her hands and toes lately. It's impressive, I don't think I have arm muscles as strong as hers.
• She is still in size 2 diapers.
• I really don't know what size clothing she is in now. It seems like she can where somethings up to 12 months and other things as small as newborn. I would guess 6 month clothing.
• She wakes up a lot at night. Sometimes to many to count, but usually about 3 times a night.
• Bedtime is around 7:30 or 8:00
• She sleeps pretty good during the day. Takes about 2 or 3 naps. Ranging from 1-3 hours.
• Has good control of her hands when reaching for things. Is starting to really like playing w/ her toys.
• Loves her binkie! And she really likes blankets too.
• Weighs 14 lbs.

She was not a happy girl when she was getting her pictures taken. It was way past her bedtime and she was letting me know about it!

Cereal, already?

Lily has started eating cereal. I am not sure she is a fan yet. She is so messy. I finally was smart and took her clothes off. This made it a lot less stressful. I think she would rather eat her bib than the cereal so I had to take that off of her too. Nolan decided tonight it would be fun to help feed her. I have to admit, he did a better job than I did. :)

Update

Another weight update: 10lbs. down from pre-pregnancy weight! I am SO excited. I wish I was this dedicated to losing the weight after Nolan. I never realized that nursing a baby would be such an amazing weight loss tool. But I have a feeling I am going to have to start putting more effort into losing the rest.

So big

When I put Lily in her exersaucer I thought that I would at least have a few more weeks before she would actually enjoy it. Wrong. She looked so big, but so small playing it. I love the picture of her looking up at Nolan. She has figured out that he is pretty interesting. She loves to smile and laugh at him.