Amber 6 month

 

Happy 6 months already!? 

Little one, you are such a sweetheart.  We love you!

We love to play peek a boo and listen to you squeal like a pterodactyl!  Emily has started imitating you, too.

You love to dance and move and be swung and twirled.  Sweet little thrill seeker.

My darling daughter, you love to be attached to someone.  Always.  No alone time for you-you are a social butterfly and always want to be included in the fun of playing with toys, eating dinner, making meals, washing clothes, brushing sister's teeth-just keep holding you and you are good to go!

Guess who is starting to sit up!  Wow!  It was almost overnight and you are sitting without help for 10-20 seconds at a time!

Watch out world, this girl has 2 chompers!  They seem to have caused you lots of pain in the last few weeks so hopefully you can have a little break before the next ones pop through.

For as crazy sleep as we have had over the last month (read: up every 1/2 hour...2 hour stretches at the most with 2-3 feedings a night), we have all benefited from the last few nights of you sleeping 7:30pm-5:30am....then a paci and you're down again until 8am.  Ahhhh bless you 6 months!

We love you.  You are such a precious part of our family.  Mommy loves you.  Daddy loves you.  Savannah and Emily adore you.  Happy 1/2 year!!

Amber 5 month

Happy 5 months old! I can hardly believe it!

What a sweetheart you are.  You love to be right in the middle of things and would love it if mom could hold you all day long.  Your favorite thing in the world is going on a walk in the bjorn.  You squeal and kick and squeal and we love it.

Your favorite entertainers are you sisters.  They have become more in tune with what you need and love to help!  Emily runs to find you a paci at the first hint of a cry.  Savannah likes to prove that she can entertain you without giving you a paci.  Most of the time you are happy with either option, as long as someone is clued in to just you.  Really, the world revolves around you.  :)

We were all sick this month and you were a champ through the clogged nose, cough, spit up, and sleepless nights.  Except that one night you only slept from 2-4am.  That was a long one.  But we are all better and happy to be healthy!

You are such a cutie playing with your toys.  You love to roll right onto you tummy as soon as you are on the ground and play with the toys we put in front of you.  Your favorite is a taggie blanket.  It's perfect for the carseat, too, because it stay right on your lap and doesn't fall out.

You had a bite of rice cereal a couple days ago.  You did great!  You loved it and gobbled it down!  And you are finally sitting in the bumbo for 5-10 minutes so we can actually feed you.  You are a doll.

Sweet girl, we see you so often during the night.  You are back on your pacifier and up ALL night for it.  Every hour or two...and sometimes more.  Are you teething??  Do you not want to be swaddled anymore?  We wish we knew what we could do to help you, and us, sleep through the night again!

Love those cute rolls. You've got some great thighs and your chubby arms are just so squishable!  Mommy's favorite are your wrist rolls.  You're such a cute chunky baby!

Love you, little ladybug!  Happy 5 months old!

Amber 4 months

Happy happy 4 months to you, dear Amber!

You have grown so much this month!

Your sisters were so excited to have you sit in the bumbo.  You still need a little neck support so they sat in it for you.  What sweet sisters ;) 

You started waking up a lot in the night for your paci so...you are now paci free!  All night!  You have slept a handful of nights from 7:30pm-8am.  Every couple nights you still wake up to eat and that's ok.  We'll enjoy the middle of the night snuggles while they last.

You love to laugh!  You look for any excuse to giggle.  At dinner, you sit in the swing and stare at daddy's back until he turns around to say hi and then you squeal and squeak and laugh and giggle and he can't resist picking you up and smothering you with love.

You were a trooper as mommy recovered from gallbladder surgery at the beginning of the month.  I don't think you appreciated the no-fat diet I had for a week and your sleeping reflected that but all is back to normal now.

You've started enjoying looking at books.  You like to sit on my lap and bat at them and lick them.  Emily loves to pick out books to read to you and Savannah likes to have you listen in when she gets read to.

You can hold a few toys!  It's so cute to watch you play and grab things on your new playmat.

You love going on walks forward facing in the bjorn carrier.  It's quite the world out there, isn't it?

We love you so so much.  You are the answer to every toddler quarrel in our house.  You are the one everyone wants to get to smile.  You are a ray of sunshine and we are so happy you are in our family!

Amber 3 months

Happy 3 months, sweet little Amber!

You are just the most content little baby around.  You only fuss a little when you are hungry or tired.  You are on a 3 hour schedule: eat, up for 1-2 hours, nap for an hour (or 44 minutes), repeat.  Mommy loves her schedules and you are enjoying it, too.

Sweet sleeper beeper!  You have been pretty consistent at a 4am feeding and a 9am morning wake up  We have enjoyed a couple sporadic  all the way until 6:30am and once you slept until after 8am! You like to go to bed between 8 and 9pm.

We love your smiles!  You recognize how fun and energetic your sisters are and you always have big smiles and giggles for them.  You are the happiest when you are in the midst of all the playtime and noise going on in the living room or the kitchen.

It was fun to have a first Christmas with you!  Savannah and Emily love all your presents and were more than happy to open them all for you.

Your little neck has so many folds.  You started smelly stinky winky under there and we've had to be very diligent about wiping your many chins dry multiple times a day to keep you smelling like the fresh little baby you are.

Those baby blues are still as blue as ever.  Mommy's dream!

Love you, little sweetie.  Keep growing and smiling!

Amber 2 months

Happy 2 months, sweetheart!

You have the most adorable and contagious smile!  It lights up your whole face and starts right in those darling blue, blue eyes.  And you dole out smiles for anyone who will give you any attention.

You are a wonderful sleeper, just like your sisters.  We can usually count on 8-10 hours of sleep in a row, followed by another 2-3 to finish the night.  What a blessing!  You were especially wonderful the night that mommy had a gallbladder attack and you slept over 10 hours-that was a tender mercy.

We all enjoyed a beautiful blessing day with you.  All your grandparents came, plus your Poulsen cousins and Caroline.  We had a fun lunch on the front lawn and everyone thought you were so darling, which of course you are.

Emily loves to call you Amber Bamber.  Savannah has nicknamed you Poof Poof.

Thanksgiving was great fun meeting so many cousins.  The girls formed a line on the couch and waited their turns to get to hold you...and then cycled back to the end of the line.  So cute.

We love you so much, sweet Amber!!  

Amber 1 month

Happy 1 month, Amber!

Wow time has flown by.  You are such an easy baby and we are just so in love with you!

Highlights this month:
*You are sleeping from 7-8 hours a night, waking up to eat and back to sleep for another 3-4.  You are a dream, literally.
*You have given us a few smiles and wow does your face light up!  You smile with your eyes more than your brain is telling your mouth, too.  Don't worry-it'll come.  :)  You dole out the most smiles to daddy.
*You look a lot like Daddy and Savannah.  Even mommy can see it, which is hard for her.  And random strangers comment on it, too.  That's a little weird.
*You are a champion nurser.  I love you.
*You have had only one dr appointment.  That is a record for the babies in our family.
*Your sisters love you love you love you.  Emily reads you stories and loves to show you the pictures.  Savannah likes to ask your opinion about everything.  It's a good thing she can read your mind because she tells us what you want all the time.  Emily lets us know immediately if you "spit paci out!"  I think she might have some fond memories of her paci of days gone by.  Savannah loves to pick out all your outfits, every day.  Sometimes she picks out your jammies for the night by 1pm.

Can't wait to get to know you more, dearie!

Emily is 1 year old!

Oh sweet Emily, happy happy birthday to you!

You are the best eater!  You try everything.  You like everything (except plain cheerios).  You are such a clean eater...no food on your glasses and rarely in your hair.

You are a sweet sleeper.  Seriously, it is the sweetest thing to see you curled up in your little footie pajamas surrounded by a million pacifiers and your little hands up by your face.  Mommy and Daddy love to go in and watch you before we go to bed.

You love to say banana!  And mama...and now dada.  You like to point to our noses and mouths.

You LOVE your glasses.  You get so excited when mommy picks them up to put them on.  You don't take them off or even play with them and if they slide, you whimper and look at mommy until I fix them.  I've been so surprised and so happy!  You also love your bows.  You like to point them out whenever we are in your room and you proudly smile when we put one on you.  Cute girly girl.

You have 6 little teeth now...finally!  Those top four came in all together at the start of this month.

You are taking STEPS!  Hooray!  You like to push the trash can, the hamper, and the stroller all around them house.  On your birthday you took a few steps on your own!!! Here we go, little almost toddler!

You love to be flipped.  You have loved it for a long time.  This month you started flipping your body backwards in a sort of trust fall *trusting* that we would flip you over.  You did this when mommy and daddy were both in front of you and we both lunged to catch you.  You silly girl. Mommy also caught you "flipping" backwards onto a pillow while you were looking at a book by yourself.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SWEETHEART!  We are so glad you have been in our family for a whole year and love you with all our hearts!