Nick Names: Baby baby, Smush
Height: 27.5 inches (Estimated)
Weight: 20 pounds (Measured at home)
Head: 17.5 inches (Estimated)
Special Outings: Lake Winnipesaukee, Parlee Farms, The Richard’s
Visitors: Our neighbors
Loves: Water, Climbing Stairs
Hates: Sleep, Eating
I’m not sure if it’s too much to say, but this might be your hardest month yet. You hit a sleep regression HARD, at the same time separation anxiety peaked. Suddenly you’re fighting sleep, you’re screaming, and one night you were up from 9pm until midnight. It wasn’t fun. We’ve mostly moved passed that, but you’re still not as “easy” as you were a month ago. You want to be walking, but you can’t yet. You want to explore but you also don’t want to be out of our arms. And you cry at daycare drop off now. So it’s been a rough month. We’ll get through it, of course.
And you make up for it in other ways. One of your favorite things to do is give kisses. You lean in with your whole mouth open and give the wettest, longest kisses ever. Over and over. You especially love kissing your siblings and climb all over them. No one can make you happy like they can. Tom had to tell them to give you a break in the car the other day, because you were laughing so hard and needed to take a breath.
You’ve had some big experiences this month too - you went on your first out of state road trip and experienced a lake vacation for the first time (and you did awesome on the car ride!). You’ve learned to climb stairs and can stand up on your own now without holding on to anything. We’re all watching you to see when those first steps will come - I have a feeling they’re going to be sooner rather than later.
You’ve also learned how to wave, and it’s the coolest thing when you start waving when you see me through the window at daycare pickup. You still take a while to warm up to people, but it makes it so much more rewarding when you do let someone else hold you. You have the biggest stink face, the loudest shrieks, and when you don’t want to be contained you are impossible to hold. No teeth yet, which means you still have the cutest gummy smile - when you do smile of course.
