Scarlett Kay: 5 Months Old

Weight and Length:  12lbs 4oz, didn't measure length

Diaper: Size 2

Clothes: 3 months to 3-6 months

Eating: 5-6 BFing sessions a day, no solids yet

Sleeping: Sleeps 8-9 straight through

Our petite Scarlett is only one month out from being alive for half a year!  Man this is just going by so much quicker than with our first baby.  Scarlett is just so sweet and loveable.  This month her personality is really starting to shine through and we love seeing little glimmers of her sweet self.

This month she made a lot of leaps!  She mastered (like a champ) rolling onto her tummy!  Now she won't hardly lay on her back, it's so funny.  She flips over onto her belly so quick.  She's grabbing items better and shoving them all into her mouth.  She can also sit up for a few seconds at a time alone, so we're slowly getting stronger to finally be able to sit on her own.  When she's on her belly she's also started using her arms to spin around.  Not quite crawling but the beginnings I think.  She cooes and laughs at us when she's happy.  She always smiles when you smooch her cheeks, so we do that often.  Lastly, she found her sweet little fat feet!  It's just the cutest.

We're still exclusively breastfeeding!  It's been pretty hard at work to find time to pump 3 times in a 12hr shift but I'm making do.  She's still smaller than our pediatrician would like so I added a ounce to each bottle she gets at daycare and even a teaspoon of olive oil to each bottle for the extra calories.  Strange right?  I've never heard of that but I really like our pediatrician so we're trying it out.  We are holding off on solids until she's 6 months old, so just a few more weeks until that!

She sleeps through the night but getting her to sleep has been a battle.  She's such a light sleeper since we aren't swaddling her anymore.  Her startle reflex is still pretty strong so when I lay her in her crib she startles awake every time and then it's a cry it out/rock it out battle for a while after that.  Exhausting, but once she's down she's down for the night so that's good at least.  She is still napping twice a day for about 1-3 hours at a time.  This month we transitioned her out of her swaddle and it was the hardest thing so far.  We started with just unswaddling one arm for 2-3 nights, then went to both arms out but her waist still swaddled...and that took about a week to get used to.  Now that she rolls like crazy she refuses to sleep on her back.  Ugh, drives me crazy! Haha

1 arm in, one out!

Miss Scarlett loves her big sister.  She sucks on her cheeks and Norah just thinks that is the funniest thing.  Norah pats her on the back and says "Calm down baby, Norah's here" and "i love you baby" and "Mama, she gots my hair!"

Scarlett loves being outside.  She loves to people watch too and just laugh up a storm.  She loves peekaboo, when we sing or read to her, this yellow duck toy and bath time.  She loves when we hold her above our heads and this earthquake game we play with her.  It's even cuter to see Norah mimic these games with her.  Always watching!

Scarlett just fits in our family so perfectly.  We all love her so much and we count our blessings daily.  We're lucky parents!

Some of our favorites from the last month!

First Easter

Grabbing her feet!

Scarlett Kay: 4 Months Old

Weight and Length: 11lbs 9oz and 23.75 inches long

Diaper: Size 1

Clothes: 3 Months

Eating: 15-20 min at a time about 5-7 times a day

Sleeping: 12-14 hours straight, naps 1-2 times a day for 1-3 hours

Four months old!  We just love watching this one grow and develop.  This first year is just our favorite!  From here on out this is all new for my husband who sadly had to miss this part with our first baby.  He didn't live with us from 3.5 months old - 10.5 months old.  He missed the rolling, crawling, sitting up and cruising stages.  I'm so excited for him to see it all with me for our sweet Scarlett!

This month we were pretty low key since I finally started work again after a 2 year hiatus to complete nursing school and enjoy some maternity leave.  This month was Scarlett's first at daycare.  Thus far she's doing great!  She takes her bottles (which is always the biggest hurdle with breastfed babes) and even drinks my frozen stash!  She doesn't nap super well there yet, but it's a work in progress.  Her caretakers are amazing.  I don't know how we keep lucking out!  They say that she's hardly ever fussy, that she gives them loads of smiles and giggles and really is an easy baby.  I hope so!  My husband says he loves picking her up at the end of the day because when she sees him she kicks, smiles and screams with joy.

Pics from her teachers!

She is getting SO close to rolling from her back to tummy which is great, but also means no more swaddling.  Unlike Norah, this girl LOVES to be swaddled at night.  We never had to transition Norah, we simply just stopped swaddling her.  Scarlett I'm afraid will be a different story.  We're trying some new transition swaddles, hope they work for the whole night.  So far we just use them at nap time and they work ok.  She's got one strong startle reflex still so I'm hoping that fades over the next few weeks.  She still sleeps 10-14 hours at a time at night!

This month she's really starting to do new things.  She can grasp a rattle now and bring it to her mouth to chew.  She is continuing to roll from front to back more smoothly.  She's even became strong enough to sit in her chair without her head falling forward.  She loves to stand up on her legs and really enjoys sitting and looking out.  She loves snuggling faces with her sister in the mornings and really enjoys it when her Daddy and I talk to her.  She loves nursery rhymes with hand motions and still loves to be rocked to sleep at night.

We had a check up and shots this month.  She's dropped down to 5 percentile in weight so we're going to try some rice cereal in her milk and strict no caffeine/dairy for Mama until we can figure out what's causing her to spit up so much.  I think if she didn't throw up so much she'd be a little chub like her sister.  We'll see, wish Mama luck!  12 hour hospital shifts with no coffee won't be fun, but it'll be worth it to see if it helps!  Other than that she's perfect!

It's so hard to believe she'll be trying solids here in a few months.  I can't believe how quick this first year of her life is going!  We really do love having two children and sometimes catch ourselves already thinking of another.  If they weren't so sweet and cute at this stage then we could help it!

Picture from this past month of our sweet Scarlett Kay.

Starting to be able to use her chair!

Giggles!!!

Aunt Jenna

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No more insert needed!

Sassy thing on our hands?

That tongue!!

I made these two <3

She's suddenly not looking so tiny next to Norah

My good eater!

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Scarlett's happy tongue!