8 Months

Height: 27.5"

Weight:

Likes:

Walking

Eating (especially yogurt melts and Ritz)

Drinking water from her sippy cup

Noisy toys

Pacifier

Dislikes:

Mommy walking past and not picking her up

Being left behind in a room (major F.O.M.O)

Miss Emberlee is eight months old and is just as sweet as can be. She had found her voice more and is babbling and screaming (yes, screaming not squealing) all the time now! Anytime she's grumpy all I have to do is stand her up and walk around with her and she's just super happy and will walk and walk until your back feels like it's breaking from bending over to help her haha. Still has just the 2 teeth, and her hair is starting to come in more and more! 

6 Months

Height: 26 1/4"

Weight: 16.8 lbs

Likes:

Sleeping on tummy

Books!!

Watching Blake

Singing time

Mealtimes with family

Dislikes:

Being encouraged to crawl (aka putting her toys too far away for her to just reach out and grab)

Finishing her bottles 🙄

Emberlee is six months old! Half a year! So crazy that we're already halfway to one year old. Emberlee is wearing 9 month clothes and we can still squeeze her into size 2 diapers but she's needed size 3 diapers for nights for a while now. She LOVES sleeping on her tummy and does it for almost every nap and nighttime now. Emberlee likes solid foods more and more, so far her favorite seems to be pear. She also has enjoyed the teething wafers we got for her. She's trying to start crawling, she inches around a bit here and there so we'll see what the next month brings. It also looks like she's got two teeth coming in! 

5 Months

Height: 26 in

Weight: ~16 pounds

Likes:

Rolling front to back

Rattles

Elephant toy 

Jumping

Talking to everyone

Mommys food (no matter what it is)

Dislikes:

Eating from a spoon (she's much better now) 

Being held by strangers when she's tired or hungry

Emberlee is now in 6-9 and 9 month clothes! She's getting so big! She can be quite the social butterfly when she wants to be and will give you the biggest smiles. We went on a trip to Utah these past 2 weeks with her and she had a lot of fun with cousins and aunts and great grandparents! She slept basically the whole way there but on the way back she was a lot more awake but she still did really good and only started getting cranky when we were like 30 minutes from home. She's tried oatmeal, peas and banana and so far likes the oatmeal the best (unless I let her naw on my whole banana instead of mashing it up for her). When Emberlee is really concentrating on grabbing something she purses her lips out it's so adorable! 

2 years old!

Height: 3ft

Weight: 31.6 lbs

Blake is 2!! I can't believe my baby is 2! He is such a joy in our house. He's happy 90% of the time and is always up for laughs! He loves to play chase or hide and seek (mostly we hide behind a wall and then jump out at him and he loves it). Trucks and cars are his FAVORITE and he loves to watch them drive by. He's talking more and more finally and hopefully it continues! It is so fun to see him grow and learn new things. This year has been full of change for Blake becoming a big brother and all and it was hard for him at first but he's come a long way and I'm so proud of him! 

He's also already got 2 of his 2 year old molars, so we only have 2 more teeth to go and then we are done until he's 6-ish 🙌🏻 Blake still takes a nap in the afternoon which is so nice. He still loves loves loves his little Racoon lovey and sleeps with him every nap and night time. I just seriously can't believe it's been 2 years already!! We love you Blakey Boo and can't wait to see all the new things this year brings for you. ❤️

Hiding his eyes while we sang 🙈

Blake did NOT want to take pictures! But we eventually got some non screaming ones. 

"Cheese!" 

4 Months

Height:

Weight: ~14.8 lbs

Likes:

Bath

Lion toy

Songs

TV

Her swing

Dislikes:

Being tired and hungry 🤣

Emberlee is a happy little girl! I remember Blake was a lot like this as well where basically the only time he cried was when he was tired or hungry and Emberlee is exactly the same! It's a blessing to have such happy babies that's for sure. She loves singing and squealing; she's definitely gotten louder this month! She has figured out how comfy her crib is and takes 2 solid naps in it as well as sleeping a lot better at night again.