I looked up and my kids are practically teenagers. I mean 5 months going on 15 at the rate these girls grow and change. Every week brings something new...a new skill they mastered or a cute new personality trait that is starting to show thru. Life with these girls is busy busy but we have lots fun. We have had quite a big month we got Baptized and celebrated Easter. We also got our cranial bands put on and hopefully in a quick 6-9 weeks we will be done with them. Yesterday on the day they turned 5 months we dipped our feet in the pool for the first time. The water was still a little cold but you can tell they were intrigued by the water and Sloan kept wanting to put her hands in and touch it. I can't wait to get these water babies all the way in the pool.
These pictures aren't the greatest but I try....I need two or three people really to do a proper photo shoot and we don't have that many extra hands around here.
Sloan: You are still a very happy girl but you have started to exert a lot more personality and you want attention! You love to be held but when we aren't holding you you are on the move....you roll every which way and on your activity mat you can pull yourself to the different animals. You love to sleep mostly on your tummy. You don't miss anything that you try and grab for and you are strong. You put everything in your mouth that even comes close to you. You can sit up for a few minutes at a time with the boppy around you to support you and you watch a conversation like a tennis match looking back and forth at whoever is speaking. You still are not a good napper but at night you seem to just have given up fighting going to bed and you are out like a light in less than 10 mins. You are still the voice we hear on the monitor at night though....sounding the alarm almost like clockwork anywhere between 3:15am and 4am. I am wondering when we will sleep train you not to eat in the middle of the night anymore BUT I feel like you make it for 8-9 hours without eating so a small 15 min session in the wee hours isn't going to kill me. (Yet....it may soon.)
Riley: You are a happy girl and for the most part very laidback. You seem to let your sister do most of the talking/squawking but at bedtime you like to let yourself be heard....you have been fighting going to sleep these last 2 weeks.....sometimes your dad and I have to go in there 3 or 4 times before you finally calm down. I think you are just mastering some new skills like rolling from back to tummy and trying to sit up so this may be making you a little more irritable lately. You are a good napper for the most part and still a good eater. You are so smiley and you love to talk on Facetime....you start smiling when you hear it dialing people. My Riley you are so sweet....and unlike your sister you will stay still and let me hold you for a while or you will fall asleep in my lap when I rock you.
Right now a typical day goes like this:
7am: I wake you both up to eat, I bring you into my bed and BF you at the same time and then we head downstairs.
7:45am-8:00am- You eat oatmeal like big girls.
8:30amish: 1st nap lasting anywhere from 30mins to 1.5 hours
10:30am: 1st bottle of the day usually consisting of 6-8 ounces
11:00am-11:30amish: playtime
11:30amish-1:00pmish: nap (becoming more difficult)
1:30pm: 2nd bottle 6-7 ounces
2:00pm-2:45ish: play, walk, tummy time
2:45pmish-4:00pm: Nap (never actually happens like this)
4:00pm: I BF you both again for anywhere from 10-20 minutes depending on how distracted you are but you seem to get a full feeding in a lot faster these days.
5:00pm-7:00pm: you usually take a quick catnap 20-45mins, fuss, play, and now with our new "fascinators" we take a bath every night
7:00m-7:30pm: Last bottle before bed consisting of 8 ounces and then we read a few books and its lights out!
Anywhere from 3-4am: you wake up to eat, we do this in the dark, we don't talk too much and we keep it very quick and boring in the hopes you will both grow out of this or just sleep right thru which you have a few times. Dad and I are just waiting for you to be ready to sleep all night consistently....these teaser nights here and there just get our hopes up. I think once you get closer to 6 months I may man up and try to sleep train you out of this feeding but for now I just can't bring myself to do it.
Likes: Johnny jump up, exersaucer, being held under your arms so you can stand up, blowing raspberries, peek a boo, chewing on anything and everything, bath time
Dislikes: evening (WHEN DOES THIS END?), being left alone for more than a few minutes, being bored
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