Our girl is growing FAST!!! So fast in fact that she looks like a totally different baby from just a couple of months ago! Sometimes I really think she goes through major changes in the matter of just a few days. The biggest milestone she has accomplished this month is that she is now mobile!!! She still does the army crawl, which her daddy thinks is just great 
She’s getting pretty fast at it and of course wants anything she’s NOT supposed to get into. But she does at least stop and look at me briefly when I tell her no so I guess that’s good for now. She tries very hard to keep her tummy off the ground and will rock back and forth a few times but she always collapses back down to the floor before she moves. She is also trying to pull up now but I think we’ve got a little while before she masters it.
In the pictures below, Jaida is wearing the same dress Graceyn wore on her 1st birthday!!! Our youngest girl is no longer skinny…I think solid food has been good for her. It will be so interesting to find out her height and weight when we go for her next checkup. That’s not until later this month though so I’ll have to post those stats another time.
She has started eating 3 “meals” a day most days…I think her favorites are acorn squash and pretty much any fruit. She also eats oatmeal, avocado, plain yogurt, carrots, and peas. I’ve also given her a pureed form of Shepherd’s Pie when we had leftovers from dinner. We’ve discovered that her little tummy can’t handle bananas any more than once a week. And she’s eating 22 oz of formula per day.
Jaida already loves reading books and playing games together. She especially loves peek-a-boo and sitting/standing on daddy’s hand. For those of you fortunate enough to have NOT witnessed this event, I’m sure I’ll get pictures of it eventually. Daddy is very excited to see glimpses of daredevil in our girl. She has a great “skydiver” pose as he says…usually because she wants someone to pick her up. She also likes it when we sing songs and clap her hands for her.
Her daily routine is fairly similar to last month’s except that we’re into a pretty full schedule in the mornings now (Bible study on Mondays and PMO Tues/Thurs) so many of her morning naps are only an hour now. I try to help her make up that time in the afternoons but it doesn’t always work. It’s so hard for me to compromise the amount of rest she gets during the day but she’s still getting a total of about 14 hours. And if she’s fussy in the evening we just put her down early. She’s gotten into the habit of waking up during the night…sometimes fussy and sometimes playing…but I can usually just leave her to fall asleep again on her own. I think she’s probably trying to get more teeth.
Her Daddy loves it when she scrunches up her nose!
