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@Adira: @ALV91711: @QueensBee: @Smurfette: Thank you ladies. She did take the bottle they said. I think she must have been hungry enough to take it and want more. But IDK how much dripped out since she was in a different outfit again once I got home.

@jodyblair: I give K some meat like shredded, mashed up, or pureed. I you have an Asian market, they have really thin sliced meat (called Shabu or Sukiyaki). We had Shabu (hot pot soup) last week and the bee was just really thin slices boiled in soup. The past few days I've just been giving her some of the meat broken into small pieces with a ork. It's my avorte way of giving her meat so far.

@Adira: Is Xander taking more puffs today? K loooves her puffs!

@QueensBee: Baby kisses are THE BEST! OMG I love that report card! Please post as much as you can and I'm going to grade K myself!

@Smurfette: Poor R! Why did they need to pick her feet? I must have missed that news. Don't worry about her stats. She sounds REALLY close to K's stats! 27.4" L and 16.2 lbs. She also hadn't gained in the month or so since her last doc visit. I think it's because our girls are both so active and busy moving all the time. I read it's really normal, to lose weight even, when they start crawling and walking. I need to start introducing yogurt too. The doc did mention that and more protein. I've been working every day on giving her some protein.

So.... K's more frequent night wakings (like 3-4 instead of 2) lately we figured was due to teething. At last Friday's ped visit, he said he couldn't feel or see any top teeth coming in. K won't really let me check her top teeth - just sucks or wants to chew on my fingers if I try to look. Well, the maid was over today and making K laugh during a diaper change and I saw a new top tooth has broken through!!! No wonder for the excessive drooling, chewing, and wakings the past week. BUT - it's so weird... it's a top left tooth! Only on one side so far! And NOT the middle front teeth! It's either the one next to the front, OR a fang tooth (IDK what they're called), OR she's got really crooked teeth. lol. It's 5:40pm and she had 1 (29 min, nap) and on her 2nd nap of the day now. The maids are here cleaning though - so I'm hoping she can stay asleep through all the banging for at least an hour...

Hi Ladies! Keep forgetting, but I wanted to get addresses for holiday cards! Wall me if you're interested I exchanging. I'd love to "see" all the March babies on our walls! Also, re: the FB thread, I'd love to be FB friends too if you want!

Hoping our cards arrive today!!!

@shopaholic: I would love to do cards but I have to see if I have enough. I ordered 75 and I think I should have got 100. I will wall peeps this weekend once I know how many I have left.

I would be in for a card exchange, but I'm out of pictures, cards and probably time.

We did the walk through of our new place today. I love it so much. Monday we go to the lawyers to sign paperwork, Tuesday we get the keys and then Wednesday we move! I'm so excited. I even have a spot for our tree picked out!

@ALV91711: so exciting! Glad you already have a spot for the tree. Very important!

@travellingbee: Glad to hear he is feeling ok. Hopefully the sleep consult goes great, I'm sure all of you could really use some sleep. I think that nanny sounds great, I like that she has a baby the same age and they could play together.

@Smurfette: This is the closest to Christmas that I've ever left decorating.

@Adira: I'm excited, and the best part is we have movers, so all we have to do is finish packing.

Last night was amazing, Isaac slept 6-6, only getting up once at 2:15. He didn't have an afternoon nap and was so tired yesterday. I tried to get him to nap for almost 3 hours.

This morning he had a 10 minute morning nap. He woke himself up rocking back and forth on all fours. He just had a great afternoon nap, so he is happy now.

@Smurfette: Isaac was never tested for iron. I also find it interesting as our ped has never told us how much or how often to feed solids or anything. She asked what types of foods he was eating and if he was still nursing and then we talked about whole milk.

I'm glad to have the bee to figure these things out.

@shopaholic: Naps are hit and miss. He'll have a couple good days, followed by a couple not so good days. Once we are moved we are going to work on this some more.

@Adira: That is so adorable, DH must of loved that. Whenever DH comes home Isaac gets so excited and flaps his arms and pants. I guess it is a good thing we have the bee to figure out this food thing.

I can't believe Isaac pulled up to his knees in his crib today. Guess we will be lowering it for sure when we move. I was thinking he may not be ready for the push walker one of his Grandma's got him for Christmas, but it looks like he will be pretty close.

@Adira: Xander is ahead since he is crawling. I have a feeling Isaac will be crawling soon though. I just hope he waits another week.

I guess you just have to find an alternative with close to the same nutrients as possible and then make them up with other foods? And you will be comparing the taste to milk, at least he doesn't know what milk tastes like.

I think with three meals and two snacks the whole day is going to be revolved around eating and sleeping.

It was so cute, the other morning DH was having some yogurt, Isaac had just finished his breakfast and was on the floor playing. He kept watching DH, so he gave Isaac a bite. Isaac loved this and just kept opening his mouth. Feed me more. It was his first taste of strawberry.

@Adira: WOW 12 hours? That sounds totally amazing! Yay for AF (haha you are the only person I know that would be excited for that!) hope you can get KU'd soon now if that's still you're plan! For the record I don't do dairy and I've had nearly every type of non-dairy - almond milk is great! (I like coconut milk too but I've tried the coconut milk yogurt and I thought it had a weird consistency)

@jodyblair: I can't settle on a theme either - it's bad because I keep scouring pinterest and blogs and seeing amazing ideas so I just can't seem to make up my mind. I am super excited to start putting together decorations!

@shopaholic: I know I even told myself that I should start planning when L was 7 months old. But I just put it off and now he's nearly 10 months! Sometimes I wish he had been born during a warmer month because it seems so much easier to think of outdoor locations and ideas! We will most likely end up doing it at our house rather than renting something out but it will certainly be super cramped if all the people we invite show up (we will probably just invite family and handful of close friends but we have a lot of extended family that live relatively close). I have seen some of the parties you've posted on IG - they look so fun and fancy! I was looking on some blogs the other day for ideas and all of a sudden I realized 'Damn - these parties are fancier than my wedding was...'

@Adira: I looove how his pictures turned out! Yay for 12 hours - AWESOME! And haha - yay?! for your AF coming back? lol. I just got mine again and it was the worst yet since pre-pregnancy. And I was totally PMS'ing for a few days without realizing it. Then afterwards I could tell DH that PMS was why I was being such a B*. heheh.

@dojo: Yeah they are some fancy parties around here. I was telling our family yesterday that everyone does details down to the personalized water bottle labels and that I have to do the water bottle labels at the very least. lol. I mean... I should have started a few months ago....

Right now I'm thinking a Rio: Carnaval theme, based off the kids' movie, since it's K's favorite. But it's so much blue colors and I don't want it to look boy-ish... We'll see.

So R took great naps all weekend! I wish she would do it during the week. Separation anxiety is in full force. She freaked the F out on Friday night with my Mom here. DH and I were in our room getting dressed and she wouldn't stop crying. I left in tears. Mom said she drank 2ozs before she fell asleep. My mom stayed the night and the next morning still was only ok with her when she could see me. Then today did the same with my sister.
She went to town on some avocado abs guacamole for lunch. Didn't have much interest with the ground beef. Tried tortilla shell and ate that. Then wouldn't eat bread, carrots, and sausage for dinner. DH is putting her to bed cause I was starting to get frustrated. So tired from having to do everything and keep her out of stuff.
She is obsessed with the Christmas tree now. She also has been talking a ton this weekend. She let go of something a lot more to stand by herself unsupportive this weekend.

@Smurfette: 40 is a lot of people for a party! Is the weather nice where you are in March. Sadly we will never be able to have an outdoor party in March, there is usually some snow on the ground still. I hope the anxiety gets better soon.

@Adira: That is good that he is putting the food to his mouth and tasting it. Soon enough he will be eating it up.

It is crazy with the sleep because the night before he only got up once.

Isaac is pretty much refusing baths. 3 of the last 4 nights, but not in a row, he won't sit down. He stiffens his body the best he can and even tickling won't relax him. It is almost like he just wants to get to bed. So I just hold him and DH gives him a quick wipe down. Usually he loves to splash in the bubbles and play with some tupperware.

@Adira: I really don't think it was that she doesn't my Mom. Mom picked her up from day care that day I was sick and last saw her two weeks before that. I really like think it was cause we were at home and she picked up that we were leaving.

@Adira: My sister babysat in Sept and R started to freak out, so she took her outside and they walked around out back. Came back and we were gone, said R was fine. but I guess R is smarter now, cause it didn't work. Heck, she even stayed the night at their house, a month ago, and was totally fine. My parents are coming out on Saturday so we will see how it goes cause we are going somewhere outside the house with them.