Emily: You are EIGHT Months Old!

Today is Wednesday, September 26, 2012 and YOU are EIGHT Months old! Today is also Nana's Birthday!!!

Wow, here we are again! 8 Months, Little Miss E! Wasn't I just pregnant with you? Oh yeah, I was! And yet, another glorious month in you sweet life has rushed by, with Momma still demanding time to stand still.

You have grown so much in the last month! You are now almost 20 lbs and now finally weigh MORE than NATALEE, who is 13 months older than you! You were weighed on Wednesday, September 12th and you weighed exactly 18 lbs. 

You have the biggest thighs, girlfriend and I hope your little itty-bitty feet can hold them up! I love everyone of your little rolls!

You love to eat and suck on your feet and toes! You are very flexible.

There is no denying that you LOVE to eat. You open your mouth as wide as you can for every single bite. You would eat all real food and have no bottles if I let you. There isn't anything that you don't like. You eat breakfast, lunch and dinner now. At least two jars at each meal, sometimes three!!!! Like I said, PORK-CHOP!

You are constantly giggling and smiling. You love to laugh and I love to hear you laugh.

You love that your highchair is next to the window and often you will stare out the window at the birdies and the trees.

You are a big drooler. You are always sucking on something.

You can find the tag of anything and you love to play with them on anything. Just like your Momma.

You are a great sleeper. You sleep from 8PM to 7:30AM. You take one nap from 12:30PM to 4:00PM. Sometimes I give literally FIVE minutes in the am if you are fussy and must have a nap (or if you happened to wake up really early!).

You are in size 4 diapers because of your big thighs!

You can wear almost the same size as your big sisters. You aren't as long, but you are growing like a weed! You can wear 9 month, 9-12 months, 12 months and even some 18 months stuff. Six months is pretty tight on you now and I have packed it all up. Your sleepers are all 9 and 12 months.

You have grayish-brown eyes and light brown hair. Your skin is beautiful! You have long eyelashes and perfect little pink lips.

Your two bottom teeth are ALMOST here!!!!!! Ahh! I cannot wait, but I will miss that toothless smile of yours.

You are still the most easy-going baby ever. Seriously, all babies should be as good and as easy as you!

You have really started to show a lot of interest in crawling. You get up on all fours and rock back and forth just like your sisters did. It won't be long until you are chasing after them!

You love to swing still!

You LOVE to watch the TV, especially in the dark!

You love your bathies!

You love your pink bear lovie and your paci.

We LOVE you so much, Ems! You are such a blessing to our family and we couldn't imagine our lives without you!

Emily: You are SEVEN Months Old!

{ Yes, I know this is very late, but I am posting it where it goes. And I somehow lost the "7 Month" sticker for her onesie, probably because I had it out for two weeks before I took the photos...opps! }

Emily June, you are SEVEN months on August 26th!

Once again, where has the time gone?! Seven Months?! 7! Geeze Em, slow down! I need my baby still and you are growing so big, so fast!

You are probably around 18-19 pounds.

You wear some 6 month clothes but your 9 month clothes fit you perfectly at the moment.

You are such a good baby! I swear everyone we talk to asks me if you are always so happy and so easy-going, and the answer is YES! You cry only when you gets shots, when you are not with your Momma and of course when you don't get your way! You hate to have a stinky diaper too and you will fuss until you make sure Momma knows something is not right!

You are very, very attached to your Momma. You won't even let Daddy feed you and will scream, but the minute I come to your rescue, you are all smiles and giggles. I kinda love it though because your sisters could have cared less if I was around and sometimes I felt like they didn't even really know their own Momma. But you, you girlfriend, you, KNOW!

You love to "talk" to us all the time and we love it. You are very, very vocal in the car now. You sounds like a little bird or monkey back there!

You sleep through the night in your own room wonderfully, from 7:30pm to 7:40am, every single night. You may wake up and turn over and cry for a minute, but you go right back to sleep. You still prefer to sleep on your tummy and you move all over your crib. You sleep with your pink bear lovie and your binki.

You can put your binki in your mouth all by yourself now. I can't believe it! You do it so quick and easily!

You grab for EVERYTHING! You want it and want to taste it! You love toys and anything that you can put into your mouth. You love eating and chewing on your hands!

You are an awesome eater! You eat everything and anything! I have given you squash, carrots, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, applesauce, pears, peaches and bananas. You love peaches and all veggies but you aren't the biggest fan of fruit quite yet. You also have oatmeal banana cereal each day. You are still eating Similac Sensitive formula.

You have been moved to a big girl car seat in the car finally when your big sisters got their new car seats!

You roll over a hundred times a day.

You are almost sitting up on your own. You can do it for about 30 seconds and then you fall to the side.

You are trying to push yourself up to crawl. You stick your butt up in the air, but haven't been able to figure it out quite yet, but I am sure it will take you no time at all when you do...and you'll be off!

You are the messiest and biggest drooler I have ever seen.

You hardly ever spit up anymore.

Your two bottom teeth are getting ready to pop through and they are causing you so much pain but with a little Tylenol, love from Momma and a cold teething ring, you are back to your happy self.

We call you Em, Emmy-Lou, Bay-boo, Emsie, Emmie and pork chop.

You are listening for your name now and as soon as you hear it, you turn your head to see where someone is calling you. I love it! You find me and then you give me the biggest grin ever!

Everyone says you have the smallest feet and it's so true! They better grow soon or I don't know if they are going to hold up your chunk-a-chunk thighs, girl!

Emily, I love you more than you will ever know! You are such a blessing and such a miracle to us! We don't know what we would have done without your sweet addition to our family! You have totally completed us.

Emily: You are SIX Months Old!

Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 6 months old

{ Stats }

Weight: Probably around 18 pounds, dr. appt Wednesday and we will know for sure!

Height: 26 inches

Brown Hair

Brown Eyes

 Size 3 Diapers

6 Month, 6-9 Month and 9 Month Clothes

Size 1 Shoe

{ Sleep }

Sleeps in her new big girl crib in her room (thank you Grammy and Grandpa!).

Sleeps from 8pm-8am! :)

Started sleeping through the night after three CIO nights about 2 weeks ago! Way to go big girl!


Sleeps on her tummy; goes to sleep on her back but always is sleeping on tummy!

Takes 2 naps - 15 min nap at 10:30am and naps from 12:30PM to 4:00PM, sometimes longer! :)

{ Food }

Drinking Similac Sensitive

8 ounce bottle at 8:30am
3.5 ounce of a veggie at 11:00am

8 ounce bottle at 12:30pm
 Has about 1 cup of Gerber Banana Oatmeal Cereal with 4 ounces of formula at 5pm (takes 5 to 10 minutes to eat!)

8 ounce Bottle at 8pm

I didn't give her any veggie or fruit until Thursday, July 26th. She had peas and ate the entire container. Today she had green beans and once again ate it all!


I also have started giving her water during her two meals and she loves it!

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Rolls over all the time.

Loves to play on floor mat or be in exersaucer.

Loves to giggle and laugh! 

Loves bath time. Loves to kick and splash and read her bath books.

Everyone says how happy she is!

Loves to smile and blow raspberries.

Such an easy-going baby!

Loves to watch her sisters.
"Talks" all of the time.
Has great head control.
"Swims" all over her bed!
Loves to stare at the TV now!
Starting to scoot and back-up!
Loves her feet and to chew on her fingers!
Is constantly drooling!
Loves her binki, pink lovie and her bed toys, which include her glow octopus!

We love our little Emmy-Lou! She is such a blessing to our family!


Just for fun..here are the girls at 6 Months.

Em's First Oatmeal!

Over the weekend I gave Emily banana oatmeal cereal for the first time and she did awesome! She has had it each day now, in the evening and is LOVING it! I swear, she is such a great eater and so much better than the triplets were at the same age!

And then I decided to take a little video of her eating too...and then when I uploaded it, it deleted itself!! Err!

Wordless Wednesday: Sweet BIG girl!

Emily, You are FIVE Months Old!

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 5 Months Old!


I cannot believe you almost a whole half of year old! Ahh!

You are such a blessing in every single way, Em! We love you soooo much!

{ Stats: }

Weight: BIG - Maybe around 15-17 lbs. She was 14 lbs about 2.5 weeks ago..so, she is surely 15 lbs or more.

Height: 25 inches

Blueish Grayish Eyes

Brown Hair

Size 3 Diapers

Size 1 shoes
Similac Sensitive

Mostly 6 month clothes, but you can wear some 3 month, and some bigger clothes like 9 months!

This month you did A LOT of new things!

You rolled over from your back to your belly on Wednesday, June 2o, 2012 for the first time. Then you proceeded to do it one hundred more times! You go girl!


You love to blow raspberries and giggle.

You are laughing and smiling so much! Everyone always says how good and laid back of a baby you are!

You met your Great-Nan and two of your Great-Aunts this month in PA for the first time! They looooved meeting you and soaking in some love!

You also went on your first long (2.5 hour) road trip to PA! You did great and slept almost the whole way!

You love to grab on to everything that we give you and love to pull on all your toys on your jungle mat.


You are so good at letting me know exactly what you want. I know all of your cries.

You are eating about 8 ounces every four hours during the day, and it takes you maybe ten minutes at the most. 

Your sleep schedule is still a little random at night, but I shouldn't complain too much because you do pretty well. You go to sleep at about 8pm, after drinking your last bottle and normally you will sleep until somewhere between 4-6am. Not too bad. You sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to eat and then will sleep a little later before your next bottle. If not, then you drink your bottle anywhere from 4-6am and then back to sleep right away until sometimes as late as 10am. You get up, drink 8 ounces, play, and then usually drink about 4-6 more ounces before you go to nap at 1pm until 4pm. Sometimes you sleep even later than that. You are a pretty good napper. Then you drink 8 ounces, play, have a bath, swing, bounce...ya know, the life of a 5 month old...and then to bed it is. You can fall asleep great on your own. I am so glad you also don't depend on me to fall asleep. What a blessing that is! 


You LOVE your baths and love to kick and splash just like your crazy big sisters!


You can hold your head up so good now and look all around.

You love your binki and your pink bear lovie. You also love your pink glow-octopus that plays lullabys.

You also have noticed the TV this month and love watching it with your sisters.

We also put you in the exersaucer for the first time this month and you LOVE it!


You love sucking on your tongue and making funny sucking noises.

You love chewing and sucking on your fingers.

You can grab your feet now and love it!

You are constantly cooing and talking. It's by so far sooooo sweet!

You still love your swing so much and Natalee gets soooo jealous!


We call you, Emily, Em, Emmy, Emmy Lou, Emmy Lou Lou...along with so many others.

We love you more than you could ever imagine! You are such a blessing to our family!


Momma and Daddy and your big sisters love you so much!


Happy 5 Months Emily!