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@oliviaoblivia: Oh yay, congrats!!!

@Raindrop: @Radish: I was not so secretly hoping it was a girl.

@oliviaoblivia: YAAAAAAY! Congrats, mama!

I want some updates on the LOs! @Mrs. Blue: IG post made me wonder what all these babies are up to these days.

Age:
Fine Motor:
Gross Motor:
Verbal:
Sleep:
Personality:
Other:

Age: 7 months 1 week

Fine Motor: Picks up her puffs and feeds herself. Holds her own bottle, and attempts to stack her stacking toys.

Gross Motor: Crawling everywhere and taking supported steps after she pulls up. I'm not ready for a walker. I can barely find shoes that are her size.

Verbal: Lots of gaga/baba/dada and I've verified with five people that she says "hey" and that DH and I just weren't going insane. Not sure if that counts as a first word but...lol

Sleep: I still wake her for a dream feed but she sleeps from 6 or 7 until 6 am. The other day she slept until 9 and it felt like a dream!

Personality: She is very loving and happy around adults. Very shy around babies who are the same age but kids who are years older or months younger, she adores. It doesn't help that she's gotten run over twice now at library story time She can play alone for a while without needing any attention which is nice when you need to get things done. She's super easygoing.

Other: No teeth yet. Eats solids twice a day and she's still a a little person lol

@namaste: lol, I swear B says hey sometimes as well! On the plus side with walking you can let them play outside more without getting hands and knees filthy.

@oliviaoblivia: Lil' miss super baby just shooting through all her milestones. She must have known she would need to be on her game to be ready for a little sister. You are totally giving me baby fever, btw. I'm basically a pendulum swinging between 2 or 3 constantly.

Age: 6.5 months - wow where has the time gone!

Fine Motor: Grabbing things like a ninja! He took a strawberry out of my hands and put in his mouth when we were at a picnic with friends. We haven't even tried him on strawberries yet, luckily not allergy symptoms. Puffs are for crawlers but he loves them and puts them in his mouth and they pop out again and he pushes it back in with his hands.

Gross Motor: He is still just rolling and pushing up with his feet... does not get that he needs to be on his knees to crawl. He still has trouble rolling right even though he's a master at rolling left. It's pretty cute when he gets stuck because he's trying to roll right to get unstuck but just gets mad and cries.

Verbal: He talks a lot! Just nothing I can understand right now. It's very cute to hear your ladies say your LO is saying a lot of words! Especially hey and hi.

Sleep: Pretty good sleeper now from about 9pm to 8am. He still wakes up in the middle of the night around 1-2am but if you stick a bottle in his mouth he will just sleep drink till it's all gone.

Personality: He was a pretty grumpy baby till probably this weekend? I had no smiling pictures of him till recently. But it seems with each passing day he's smiling more which is very cute.

Other: 2 teeth only still but he's drooling like a water fountain.

Age: 6 1/2 mo.
Fine Motor: sometimes uses a pincher grasp, but mostly still picks things up with his fist. He can get little food in his mouth, but he has to work at it.
Gross Motor: crawling, pulling up, will take steps if you're holding his hands.
Verbal:lots of dadadada, etc.
Sleep: hit or miss. At him in his crib, he often sleeps from 7:30 or 8 until 5 or 6. Anywhere other than his crib and he will wake up multilple times. He's a man of the status quo.
Personality: He's sooo happy all the time. Bye still only cries if he's hungry (or any of the million times a day he gets a bump, from either moving faster than he actually can or just from surviving two 2-year old brothers.
Other: It's crazy how different itms been the second time around. This poor kid has to just sleep when and where he can and are a buscuit as his 4th or 5th good.

@oliviaoblivia: Totally just got up-to-date on this thread! Glad to read #3 is another girl and healthy and that you're having a good pregnancy! Is it looking as though it's going to be another big baby or will they not be able to tell until the anatomy scan (which I suppose is in Sept.)?

@Radish: I'm also in the 2 to 3 kids place right now. I think I'll have a third most days. But I think I'll wait until early summer next year until TTC/NTNP again. My hubby is really the one who really would like 3 and he used to say he only wanted 2

Here's our update:
Age: 7 months

Fine Motor: Getting there. She getting pretty good at getting food into her mouth and she's a pro at grabbing hair

Gross Motor: Not quite crawling yet but her little booty is up in the air a lot these days so I'm guessing it won't be too long. (And I really hope she gets it figured out soon because she is constantly annoyed and frustrated that she can't do it yet).

Verbal: Loads of sounds but no talking yet.

Sleep: Hmm we've had everything from sleeping through the night to three wake-ups in the last 7 days. So it's all over the place.

Personality: She is one determined little kid but also really smiley still and stranger danger is not really her thing. She still had the biggest grin on her face when her big brother is around and even more so when he acknowledges her.

Other: She still has no teeth! We started her on solids pretty late since wasn't really putting anything to her mouth herself yet but nowadays she basically grabs at everything on our dishes. It's just hard giving her BLW style solids when she can't chew anything.

I just logged on today to see what you ladies and your babies are up to, love the updates!

Age: 7 months 1 day

Fine Motor: great with using the pincer grasp to pick things up; can get puffs into her mouth about 50% of the time that way, other times she just mashes her hand in her mouth and sort of sucks the puff out

Gross Motor: Crawling all over the place, and so fast! Pulls up on everything, and thankfully has figured out how to fall/sit back down without hurting herself. Yesterday she climbed up the two steps on our deck like she'd been doing it forever. "Walks" if you hold her hands.

Verbal: Lots of gibberish, with some "dadadada", and recently started saying "kah" when she chases the cats.

Sleep: 2 naps and sleeping from 8-6:30 most nights. Sooo thankful she's sleeping so much better, we had a rough time for a while.

Personality: Very happy and smiley, but she's started getting whiny when I'm not paying attention to her. And she's so mischievous - she loves to get in the pantry, so if the door is open she books it over there, then just turns and smirks at me. She's going to be a handful!

Other: Started going to the gym last week, and putting her in the gym daycare while I workout. Thankfully she likes it - my mom is the only other person that has ever watched her, so I was nervous about how it would go.

p.s. wasn't there a FB group you all are in? can I get added?

@Pumuckl: my dates are based on a ten week scan so there's really no way of knowing if the baby is measuring ahead because she's big or if their dates were off. I imagine she'll be big too. DH and I were both over nine lbs. so it's unlikely we'll make any peanuts. Regardless of her size my doc wants to do a RCS at 38/39 weeks to avoid any contractions because of the short interval between births. I'm at a much greater risk of uterine rupture this time. kinda scary.

@HappyBaker: @oliviaoblivia: eeeeck climbing. Sounds like guys have your hands full.

@oliviaoblivia: Hope everything will go well with #3! I'm sure you'll be taken well care of by your docs and that baby was just meant to be!

I am so ready for her to finally figure this whole crawling thing out. She is so cranky when she can't get what she wants

Does anyone else have a LO with no teeth? What do you give them to eat (besides purees)?

@Raindrop: I never exclusively pumped but I could totally understand if you quit at 9 months. Don't be guilty about it!

@namaste: That's what J does but then sometimes she can't get it small enough to fully eat it I'm a lot less worried about the chocking as a second time mom but still it's always hard to see them do that. And her big bro had 6 or 7 teeth at the same age so he could chew!

We're having crappy nights here as little miss is up every 3 hours at night and then sometime between 3-4am she wakes and doesn't go back to sleep (she often ate just an hour earlier so it's not hunger related). I do believe it's because she trying to get a hang of the whole crawling thing so hopefully when she finally has that down our sleep will get better again. Tired doesn't even half describe how we feel

@Raindrop: Haha, you know I've been quilting. My mom has been here for the past 10 days and it has been nice to focus on me and also get a lot of little things done.

B has changed so much in even the last week. She was clapping the other day and she is army crawling like a pro now. She got over her grumpiness and is much happier lately. We went swimming in a pool for the first time today - I think she may be my water baby. LO1 sure isn't.

@Radish: Haha yes it's you! But also mrs paintbrush is a major quilter too. Good update. Clapping, that is so amazing!

@SleepyMonkey: Yay second tooth! I'm so glad to hear yours isn't crawling either because everyone else seems to be crawling. I mean I hope yours crawls soon I'm just glad I'm not alone! LO#2 is way more talkative than LO#1 but I think LO#2 is more serious because when he does talk it sounds like complaining. Haha.

I'm so behind! Things have been crazy around here, but it sounds like everyone's babies are doing awesome!

We had a scare with bad croup last week, ended up in the ER all night. E woke up with a crazy bark-y cough and couldn't breathe well, her face was getting all red and splotchy from gasping for air. There's a hospital right around the corner, and it took all 3 of their croup treatments to get her out of the attack--steroid shot, cool mist treatment, and epinephrin mask. It was the saddest, but it only happened that one night and she's been on the up and up since.

She also cut two teeth that same week, which makes 4 with about 4 more on the way (they look so painful, poor thing!). She's getting better at grabbing puffs and peas and other little things to eat, but she can crush a Mum Mum cracker in a second. Ha!

Not crawling quite yet, but so so so so so close. She gets really mad now that she can't do it, and so is working hard on it every day. She's really mobile, with the scooting and the rolling, so she gets where she wants to be, she just gets ticked that she can't do it how she wants.

Newest trick is getting to sitting. This morning when she woke up, she just sat right up in the crib! She's been doing that at her sitter's since last week, but it was so funny to go in and see her like that when we went in to get her.

@Pumuckl: @mfa_lady: So sad to hear about your babies having bad times Hope things keep improving!

So we're paci weaning...and it's going about as well as I expected it to.

@Pumuckl: Only 30 minutes to go down for a nap. D: UGH lol it'll be worth it...

@namaste: I'm sure it'll be totally worth and you got me seriously considering weaning both of them at the same time... Hmmm, we'll see.