This one is all about my little Reese, the forgotten one lately. No, we don't really completely forget about her and she gets plenty of attention, however, her siblings tend to require much more of my time and energy. I forget how good of a baby she is because she just goes with the flow. I hold her much of the time for her own safety, but mainly just because I like to hold her. Every time I pick her up she grabs my face with her chubby little hands and proceeds to give me lots of kisses. When she is scared or upset she simply touches my face. She loves to play with my hair and hold my hand. Who wouldn't want to hold her all day. I ma totally turning her into a momma's girl. Oh well.
After I put her newborn picture in a frame earlier this year, a small child broke it. It took me 2 months to buy a new one. I recently put out her 6 month picture. Somehow a sticky substance got into the frame and ruined her picture. I spent 30 minutes this morning peeling off her little body from the glass. It seemed so wrong. I will protect her next picture. I swear.
I love 8-month-olds. It is such a perfect age. They start exploring new things. They are a little more content playing by themselves and are just so innocent. Reese spends a lot of time chewing on toys, books, and paper. She crawls like an inchworm. She does not seem quite as eager to be mobile as my other 2 did. I am ok with that. She loves jumping in her jumper and watching her siblings play.
She recently dropped a feeding and takes a bottle 4 times a day. She loves baby cereal with cinnamon. Every morning I am surprised she continues to eat that stuff. She loves eating Gerber puffs and can now feed them to herself. I love the independence! She will eat baby food, but is not a huge fan of it. I'm not ready to actually have to prepare food for her.
As you can see, her hands are in her mouth much of the time. She is a very slow teether. Her bottom two teeth have been making their way through the skin for about 2 months. Guh. I also had to take a picture of her little rolls. We are all about chubby babies in this family!
Reese is a very inconsistent sleeper. And like the other two, she doesn't require as much sleep as most babies her age. She could drop her morning nap and it wouldn't affect her much. If she sleeps in the morning, it is usually only for 20-30 minutes. She takes a 2-3 hour afternoon nap. At night, she sleeps from about 8:00pm- 5:30am. I feed her a couple ounces and she will sleep until about 7:30. She wakes up in the middle of the night a couple nights a week for no apparent reason. When I put her to bed, she crawls up to the side of her crib, pulls the bumper down, and smiles as I walk out of the room. That little face peeking through the rails makes my heart melt every time.
I am so thankful for that sweet little girl. Our family just wouldn't be the same without her.
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