9 months recap

It blows my mind that I am sitting here typing up Brynn's 9 month recap. She's been out as long as she was in! And sadly  I feel like time goes a million times faster on this side of it. This past month has been SO fun with Brynn. I think I say that every month, but life with Brynn literally keeps getting better and better!

This month we had a lot of adventures with Brynn. We took her to the aquarium for the first time. She was terrified of the fish and thought they would swim through the glass and get her! Thankfully she has grown to love it the more we go. We have also visited a few plantations which are not Brynn's favorite thing to do but we have to do them while we are still in Charleston!

We have done a lot of beach days! One of the best parts about southern winters is that they are warm enough to sit on the shore. I was interested to see what she would do with the sand now that she is capable of crawling. The first few times we took her she wanted nothing to do with it. She would just sit on the blanket and watch the waves. If her hand even touched the sand she would hold them up to me to wipe them off. That is not the case now. She will try to eat the sand and shells. Gotta watch that girl at the beach now. We bought her some sand toys for this summer but right now she just enjoys chewing on them!

Brynn this month has really transitioned herself to table food rather than her pureed baby food and it's been so fun to have her try new things off of our plates. The girl sure loves to eat.

She has also become more clingy this month. Honestly, this can be exhausting for me as I spend all day holding a baby and getting nothing done. But, that option seems better than listening to a baby cry all day and I prayed day and night for a snuggly baby so I got what I asked for!

We love our baby girl so much and can't wait to see what happens during her 10th month of life. We are hoping it brings her some new teeth!!

p.s. I apologize for the horrible picture quality. I always try to use random pictures from my phone on the blog because I feel like if I don't they will never be seen by anyone but myself and some of them are too cute not to share!

8 months recap

Wow I can't believe that I am sitting here doing a recap of Brynn's 8 months. That means I have a 9 month old and as Brad likes to remind me that means in 3 months we will have a ONE year old. Make time stop!

To celebrate Brynn turning 8 months we bought some puffs and let her try those. She LOVES them. In fact those puffs are what encouraged her to crawl. I would lay them in a line and make her crawl for them. Babies and puppies are very similar! :P

Speaking of crawling Brynn went from "baby twerking" as my dad called it to crawling on New Years Eve! It been so fun to watch her move around the house and get into things. I love when she follows me around and says "mama". It just makes me so happy that this is my life.

About a week after she started crawling she started pulling up on furniture and her toys. I'm so glad Santa brought her a walker because that thing entertains her for hours. She doesn't really walk with it but she loves to pull up on it and play with its attachments and take a few steps here and there.

Sadly 8 months also brought the worst illness Brynn has had yet. She got croup from one of her cousins over Christmas break. My heart broke for my sweet girl who sounded like Darth Vader when she breathed and would have the worst coughing fits. Luckily after the doctor gave her the steroid she improved quickly but it was still a really sad 2 weeks full of humidifiers and steam showers.

We can't believe how fun 8 months was and we are loving seeing her personality come out more and more! I've started writing little notes on my phone of things she does/likes that way I will remember it when it comes time to blog her monthly recaps.

7 months recap

I'm beginning to think I should blog more often just because Brynn changes so much daily and weekly that by the end of the month its hard to remember it all and she is at such a fun stage that I don't want to forget any of it.

The beginning of 7 months was hard. Girlfriend was testing me in the patience department. She regressed in sleep and would wake every 2-3 hours for a week straight. I know to many of you that is your every day and I am so sorry. Even as a newborn she would sleep 4 hour stretches so this was completely new to me and I thought I was going to die. Thankfully we all made it out alive ;) Even better than making it out alive was the fact that at 7 months Brynn started sleeping through the night consistently. Game Changer.

Still no crawling this month but getting closer every day. She began to really get on her knees and rock and has mastered crawling backwards. It is the funniest thing to watch but girl knows how to get to where she wants to be.

We spent a lot of time outside before it got too cold. Many afternoons we would walk to the park and swing and we even met some friends at the beach for a picnic. Have I mentioned that we love living in Charleston?!

Brynn has become even more of a talker/grunter this month. Her voice is a little deeper than what I thought it would be but I'm kind of glad because I can live without the high pitched squeals that little girls are known for. She cries for mama now and it really just pulls at my heart strings.She has become quite the mamas girl and it's no secret that I love it. I can be the baby hog whenever I want because she likes it! haha.

Brynn also met Santa two times this month and we never had tears! Woohoo. She was a little hesitant but we could always get a few smiles out of her. Her Honey also did an advent calendar with Christmas books for her that she loved unwrapping every single day.

We are already 13 days into her 8 months and we can't believe how much she is growing. It makes us so sad to know we are closer to her year mark than we are to the day she changed our lives but we wouldn't trade one single day. We love you to the moon and back, baby girl.

we've made it half a year already?!

I can't even believe I am sitting here doing a recap of Brynn's 6 months. I can't believe she is already half a year old. Time please SLOW down!!

At 6 months Brynn weighed in at 14lbs, 11oz (23%) and was 25.75 in long (44%). She is our petite baby! She also got more shots at her 6 month checkup and they were by far the worst ones yet. She was miserable the rest of the day as well as the next day.

Brynn kicked off her 6 months with a tooth! The pediatrician told us to expect for her to cut all 4 within the next month. I thought we were on a roll because a week after that she cut her second tooth. However, it stopped there and she hasn't gotten any others yet. But at least the drool has slowed down.

We got to celebrate her first Halloween and all the fun festivities that come with it. We did a family costume and she was the star of the show as Rapunzel while Brad was Flynn Ryder and I was Mother Gothel. Why are holidays a million times better with babies?!

This month we have also discovered that Brynn is a baby that thrives on a schedule. Take her off it and whoaaa we have a monster. She is her mothers child when it comes to that. She knows when she should be eating real food, taking a bath, and going to bed.

Speaking of eating real food, Brynn LOVES food. I'm really paranoid about choking (for good reason) and allergic reactions but I love how excited she gets to eat food and I'm trying to be brave and give her new foods with different textures.

Brynn isn't crawling yet but wants to be so badly. She will go from sitting to laying on her tummy and will inch backwards occasionally. She still thinks she can fly places like superman. We will get to crawling eventually but for now I'm grateful that she isn't into everything yet!

She is a major talker and will talk all day long. She also "sings" to herself and it is the cutest thing ever. Before we put her to bed I will rock with her and sing while she drinks her bottle and it's cute to hear her sing to herself once we put her in the crib. Her new thing is to sing/talk really loudly in the car for about 10 minutes and then crash. It's hilarious.

We can't wait to see what 7 months has in store for Brynn. So far it's meant being a mama's girl and becoming more aware of strangers. We are thinking she will probably start to crawl this month, and I'm hoping sooner rather than later she will start to sleep all the way through the night...wishful thinking maybe?! Only time will tell.

5 months recap

Remember how in my last blog post I mentioned doing the monthly updates at the end of the month? I decided that is how I would do them from now on that way I remember what she did when she was __ months old. So it's like a little re-cap of the month and what Brynn learned/did that month.

At 5 months Brynn really learned to sit on her own. Before that she was a supported sitter but she really mastered sitting by herself. She loves it because she can reach down and hold her toys or play in the fountains at the pool, or splash the water in the tub.

Brynn discovered her toes this month and she loves to touch them and sometimes try to eat them (ew). It's funny because she tries to use them like she does her hands.

We walked the Ravenel Bridge with some of our friends, crossing it off of our Charleston Bucket list. We can't wait for their baby boy to come in December to make our adventures even more fun (and adorable)!

During her 5 months she took TWO road trips to Georgia. The first trip we spent with my parents and my niece, Zoe, who was visiting from Utah. We had such a fun time going to the zoo, playing chalk, and blowing bubbles. It was so fun to see Zoe and Brynn start their forever friendship as cousins. The second trip was due to evacuating for Hurricane Matthew. That trip was really eventful and Brynn got spoiled with so much love and attention from her Honey and Dude since I was busy taking care of her daddy.

Brynn also took her first trip to the Georgia National Fair where she got to also go to her first circus and get her first taste of sno-cone. I know, we are such horrible parents! I promise we feed her nutritious food.

This month she has really loved Butternut Squash. We really focused on all of the yellow/orange veggies but on her last day of being 5 months we gave her a taste of green beans. At first she liked them but then she started spitting them out. I think it's going to be a battle to get that girl to eat her greens.

I can't wait to catch you all up on what 6 months with Brynn looks like. It's been my most favorite month with her so far and we are only 5 days in!

Just like that she's four months!

I'm starting to confuse myself because I'm thinking maybe I should recap the months at the very end instead of the beginning. And if we are being honest I am over 10 days late posting about our sweet girl turning 4 months old anyways. I need to get my act together.

Brynn turned 4 months on August 17th. That same day she had her 4 month well check. Poor thing got another round of shots and I think it was harder on her this time than the last. She is only in the 4th percentile for her weight and had actually lost weight from the 2 weeks prior. So the doctor has us supplementing with about 5oz of formula a day. We do 2oz in oatmeal cereal (half we give in the morning and the other half at night). Then for her last feeding we mix 2 oz of breast milk with 3oz formula.

Because of her weight loss we had to go back for a weight check a week later and thankfully she had gained 8oz in 7 days. So she is now in the 6th percentile. Her doctor told us to continue what we were doing because it's working.

Although she is really little she still amazes me with how strong she is. She can do the tripod sit, and can stand if she is assisted. She is still a rolling machine, especially when we put her in tummy time. Sometimes I worry that she will never learn to crawl because she always rolls out of it. However, she is starting to put her knees under her when in tummy time and can inch forward a little bit.

She is still chewing on everything and is a drooling machine. I can't wait for those teeth to finally come through because I'm praying that will make the drool come to an end. Her clothes are always soaked.

This month she has become more clingy. She only wants her mama to hold her when she is tired. I secretly love that she knows I am there to comfort her. We were blessed with such a happy that really only cries when she is tired. Brynn is such a perfect baby and always makes me feel like I'm doing something right because she gives out smiles frequently. I can't wait to see what the next month brings and how much our cute little thing grows.

Our Brynn Baby is 3 months

I'm way behind on posting about Brynn turning 3 months! Time seems to be flying and I don't like it one bit. I'm thankful she is still a tiny little thing so that I still think she's my itty bitty baby I left the hospital with.

Brynn may want to kill me for the double chin picture one day but it cracks me up! 

A week before Brynn turned 3 months she came down with a little virus. Thankfully it only lasted about 2 days. But at her sick visit she weighed 10lbs 8oz, We just weighed her on Friday and she weighed a little over 11lbs so I can't wait to see what she really is next month. She is sporting her 0-3 month clothes, size 1 diapers, and occasionally some of her newborn clothes.

Cow Appreciation Day & The 4th of July

This past month Brynn has become quite the talker. She loves when we lay next to her on her playmat that way she can tell us about everything. It's one of our favorite things to do with her and she gets quite excited about it.

Brynn's first pedicure

Her Daddy has also gotten her to chuckle a few times. Baby laughs are the sweetest sound in the whole world. We are so thankful for such a happy baby. She spends the majority of her days giving the cheesiest smiles and the sweetest coos. Although she isn't perfect and will definitely let us know when she is hungry or tired.

River Dogs Game & Post Bath Time 

Brynn loves to be outside. When she is being really fussy we will go sit on the patio with her because it calms her right down. We go on lots of walks and she always ends up falling asleep. A sweet friend gave us a baby float for the pool and Brynn loves it so much. She fell asleep in it and probably slept there for a good 35 minutes.

She is also becoming quite the thumb sucker despite her Daddy's efforts to keep them away. She will pull her pacifier out in order to put her thumb in, sometimes both! haha. I also gave Brynn her first pedicure. It was so hard to do but it's the cutest thing...and of course I had to make us matching! ;)

We can't wait to see what this next month brings. I'm pretty sure it will include consistent rolling over! It's so fun to watch Brynn discover the world around her. We are so thankful to be her parents!