Lexi is going to be 9 months old on the 29th so I'm just thinking up some ideas for her 9 month photo shoot. I was going to try and incorporate Valentine's day and possibly get a few shots with both girls. Scarlette is NOT into photos anymore so good luck to me. Lexi is honestly such a different baby from Scarlette. It is like night and day. Scarlette was always such a puzzle to me. Other people's babies were doing things that I couldn't get her to do if my life depended on it. Like eat. I always felt like such a failure when it came to the eating scene. To this day, I have no idea how she survived. She still is an extremely picky eater and doesn't eat much in a day. She won't go near fruit unless it is mixed with whip cream, she never eats veggies, her diet basically consists of toast, yogurt, muffins and kraft dinner haha. She also wouldn't have very many bowel movements as a baby and once she started drinking homogenized milk at 1 years old she was ALWAYS constipated. I finally had that DUH moment and realized that she has got to be allergic to something in milk. Once we switched her over to strictly water and diluted juice she hasn't been constipated once. Poor experimental first child haha. Lexi on the other hand is such a BIG eater. She will eat anything that is put in front of her. She eats every little crumb she can find on the floor and often she will eat 2 cans of baby food and a bunch of ritz crackers in one sitting. I am buying baby food almost every week with her and I think I did two hauls of baby food in 6 months with Scarlette (Again, how did she survive??).
On the sleeping front they are also very different. Scarlette and I co-slept for the first year. She was always an awesome sleeper in my bed and would hardly wake up but once we put her in the crib she would wake up multiple times a night. She napped perfectly well in her crib for 2-3 hours in the afternoon so don't ask me why she wouldn't sleep there at night. Lexi co-slept with us till we finished our basement and for the past 2 months was waking up like every 45 minutes ( I almost lost my marbles). First night in her crib she was down for 8 hours with a quick snack and back to bed for another 4 hours. Since then she has slept for 12 hours every night. AMAZING. She was SO ready to be out of our bed. Scarlette has been sleeping in her big girl bed for the past few weeks but she comes upstairs around 3-4 am every night and says "Mummy, we cuddle?" ...I cannot say no. She is just so CUTE.
Personality wise, I haven't quite figured out Lexi yet. She is always happy when she wakes up and her needs are so easy to distinguish, I know exactly when she is hungry, tired, needing cuddles etc. I don't know if that is just a second time mom thing or what. She is very active and I can tell she is much more adventurous then Scarlette. She started crawling at 7.5 months which isn't too terribly early (Scarlette was 8 months) but a week after starting to crawl she was doing the stairs, pulling herself up on things, getting into trouble!
Quick side-note/hilarious story---Scarlette and I had gone grocery shopping one evening and she requested a burger, when we got home she was eating it on the stairs as I hauled the groceries in. I thought she ate it all but she had left a small bite at the top of the stairs. The next day (when I thought Lexi was only crawling) I was editing some photos, Scarlette was playing in her new big girl room and Lexi was playing at the bottom of the stairs. All of a sudden I hear Lexi choking, I knew there was nothing to choke on at the bottom of the stairs so I booked it over there to find her at the top of the stairs eating Scarlettes hard-night-old burger. hahah. Mom of the year right there.
Lexi is around 20lbs, at least that is what she was a few months ago and I feel like she is still around the same. She has leaned out since starting to crawl. She got her two bottom teeth around 7 months and her one top tooth just popped through this week, the other looks like it will follow right away here.She isn't drinking out of a straw yet which is annoying because Scarlette figured that out at 6 months old. Both my girls REFUSED to take a bottle or soother. So it's still hard to go anywhere for a lengthy period of time. I am counting down the days till she is one and I can be done breastfeeding. It's definitely something that I am so grateful I am able to do for them and also that it saves us lots of money haha but I wouldn't say I love it. It just isn't something that I will miss doing haha. Anyways, Lex is a great baby, I can't believe we are headed towards the first birthday already. She loves putting her little arms around your neck when you pick her up and giving a little squeeze. She plays with Scarlette like a dream! The two of them just play with the toys for hours. My toy room is heaven. They also would play in the bath together all day if I let them. Something they have in common for a change!
Scarlette is almost 2 and a half and this is by far my favourite age! She is a hoot!!! She has way too many words to list now and we are currently working on her connecting words like " Can I have juice please?" as opposed to "Juice please!" or "I want to watch cars please" as opposed to " Mom watch cars please". She has known her colours and numbers for a long time now but we are working on identifying what a 6 looks like written on a page or what word corresponds with the colour, if it's light pink or dark pink etc.. She is getting really good at identifying shapes but those dang rectangles always look like ovals to her haha!! She now counts to 25 and sings about a billion different songs. She is definitely my child. Such a performer. I do feel however, that she is quite a bit behind what other kids are doing physically at her age. She runs and plays but she is scared of everything. She won't go down a slide without someone with her. She doesn't climb or get adventurous at the playground. She definitely is a wall-flower at nursery and is very passive when playing with other kids. It's kind of a catch 22 because I would love for her to get more involved with the kids around her and socialize a bit more but at the same time she is so sweet with kids that are younger then her, especially with her sister. I have never once been worried about leaving them alone together. I run around the house doing chores as they are playing downstairs together. Scarlette is definitely a shy and sensitive soul but when it's just our little family she comes out of her shell and is really quite funny! I love both my girls to death! They are just my dream come true!! I couldn't ask for better kids. Anyways, here is a few photos of us at my cousins wedding.
On the sleeping front they are also very different. Scarlette and I co-slept for the first year. She was always an awesome sleeper in my bed and would hardly wake up but once we put her in the crib she would wake up multiple times a night. She napped perfectly well in her crib for 2-3 hours in the afternoon so don't ask me why she wouldn't sleep there at night. Lexi co-slept with us till we finished our basement and for the past 2 months was waking up like every 45 minutes ( I almost lost my marbles). First night in her crib she was down for 8 hours with a quick snack and back to bed for another 4 hours. Since then she has slept for 12 hours every night. AMAZING. She was SO ready to be out of our bed. Scarlette has been sleeping in her big girl bed for the past few weeks but she comes upstairs around 3-4 am every night and says "Mummy, we cuddle?" ...I cannot say no. She is just so CUTE.
Personality wise, I haven't quite figured out Lexi yet. She is always happy when she wakes up and her needs are so easy to distinguish, I know exactly when she is hungry, tired, needing cuddles etc. I don't know if that is just a second time mom thing or what. She is very active and I can tell she is much more adventurous then Scarlette. She started crawling at 7.5 months which isn't too terribly early (Scarlette was 8 months) but a week after starting to crawl she was doing the stairs, pulling herself up on things, getting into trouble!
Quick side-note/hilarious story---Scarlette and I had gone grocery shopping one evening and she requested a burger, when we got home she was eating it on the stairs as I hauled the groceries in. I thought she ate it all but she had left a small bite at the top of the stairs. The next day (when I thought Lexi was only crawling) I was editing some photos, Scarlette was playing in her new big girl room and Lexi was playing at the bottom of the stairs. All of a sudden I hear Lexi choking, I knew there was nothing to choke on at the bottom of the stairs so I booked it over there to find her at the top of the stairs eating Scarlettes hard-night-old burger. hahah. Mom of the year right there.
Lexi is around 20lbs, at least that is what she was a few months ago and I feel like she is still around the same. She has leaned out since starting to crawl. She got her two bottom teeth around 7 months and her one top tooth just popped through this week, the other looks like it will follow right away here.She isn't drinking out of a straw yet which is annoying because Scarlette figured that out at 6 months old. Both my girls REFUSED to take a bottle or soother. So it's still hard to go anywhere for a lengthy period of time. I am counting down the days till she is one and I can be done breastfeeding. It's definitely something that I am so grateful I am able to do for them and also that it saves us lots of money haha but I wouldn't say I love it. It just isn't something that I will miss doing haha. Anyways, Lex is a great baby, I can't believe we are headed towards the first birthday already. She loves putting her little arms around your neck when you pick her up and giving a little squeeze. She plays with Scarlette like a dream! The two of them just play with the toys for hours. My toy room is heaven. They also would play in the bath together all day if I let them. Something they have in common for a change!
Scarlette is almost 2 and a half and this is by far my favourite age! She is a hoot!!! She has way too many words to list now and we are currently working on her connecting words like " Can I have juice please?" as opposed to "Juice please!" or "I want to watch cars please" as opposed to " Mom watch cars please". She has known her colours and numbers for a long time now but we are working on identifying what a 6 looks like written on a page or what word corresponds with the colour, if it's light pink or dark pink etc.. She is getting really good at identifying shapes but those dang rectangles always look like ovals to her haha!! She now counts to 25 and sings about a billion different songs. She is definitely my child. Such a performer. I do feel however, that she is quite a bit behind what other kids are doing physically at her age. She runs and plays but she is scared of everything. She won't go down a slide without someone with her. She doesn't climb or get adventurous at the playground. She definitely is a wall-flower at nursery and is very passive when playing with other kids. It's kind of a catch 22 because I would love for her to get more involved with the kids around her and socialize a bit more but at the same time she is so sweet with kids that are younger then her, especially with her sister. I have never once been worried about leaving them alone together. I run around the house doing chores as they are playing downstairs together. Scarlette is definitely a shy and sensitive soul but when it's just our little family she comes out of her shell and is really quite funny! I love both my girls to death! They are just my dream come true!! I couldn't ask for better kids. Anyways, here is a few photos of us at my cousins wedding.
