Audrey - 3 months

Audrey has been a little slice of heaven and a blessing to our family. She is the sweetest most content little baby girl. Good thing to because big brother is BOSSY.

Sleep: Audrey still sleeps fairly well. Most nights she will wake up only once around 1:30. The other night she gave us a whopping 7 hours!! When she does wake up she eats and goes right back to sleep so no complaining here about her waking up. She sleeps in the rock n play at the moment and we plan on switching her to her crib during naps this month and then full time next month. Wish us luck!!

Eat: At our 2 month appointment our doctor diagnosed Audrey with thrush.  Which is an abundance amount of yeast in the mouth, it makes their mouths sore which means a shallow latch. It’s been a little painful and annoying to say the least. Her medicine is 4 times a day and we have to wash and sterilize everything that goes in her mouth once a day. I’m hoping it will get better and go away for good. She also has acid reflux and will spit up a ton! Some days I’ll go through 3 shirts and I’ve learned to not put my work shirt on until after she is done eating. Audrey is taking 3.5-4 ounces from a bottle at daycare, she is a tommee tippee baby and will only take their pacifiers and bottles. 

Development: Audrey hates tummy time so she has only rolled over from tummy to back a few times. We’re trying to do more tummy time but I’m a sucker and will pick her up when she starts to cry. She is starting to grab things and wanting to sit up. She is growing too fast, but I also can’t believe she is already 3 months old. Wasn’t she just born yesterday?!?

We started daycare this past month and Audrey is doing amazing! Our babysitter called her a dream baby which makes me so happy. I sure do miss my time with my babies but it makes it 100X better when I know she’s in good hands. We are so thankful for our babysitter.

Grady - 23 months

We are in full birthday party mode! The invitations are out, items are orders, and momma is trying to hold back the tears. Where has this year gone! This past month we enrolled Grady in swim lessons and to my surprise he hated it!! He loves bathtime and I thought he would love swimming but nope he’s scared to death if he can’t touch or if water gets in his face. The first night was a total nightmare and then I learned by the second night to stocked up on some suckers and bribe him! After that he learned that if he does a good job he’ll get a sucker. So now I carry suckers around with me everywhere we go!

Development:

I know probably every parent says their kid is smart but seriously we have a genius on our hands lol. Grady is putting more words together and is starting to say sentences. My sister got him some flash cards with shapes and colors on them and we have been practicing our colors. He is so good and sometimes will resight the colors and sometimes gets distracted by something else.

We’ve been really bad about reading to him at night but he used to LOVE this animal book and we would have to read it to him every night. Well the other night when we were chilling in his room he grabbed the book and starting pointing out the animals and saying what they were.

Play:

Grady does really well with playing by himself sometimes it makes me sad but Chad reassures me that it’s a good thing and its part of him developing into a smart little boy. He is still obsessed with cars and being outside. My parents let him play in their car and now I can’t get him out!! We have to adjust the settings every time we need to go anywhere. People have asked me what to get him for his birthday and I just say seriously nothing this boy loves to be outside! But maybe some suckers, for bribery.

We also celebrated Grady’s 2^nd Halloween. I love Halloween and really get into little kids costumes. This year we decided to dress Grady up as a Golfer. He’s been into golf ever since we took him put putting in the summer. He was the cutest little golfer, the little golf ball was pretty darn cute as well if I say so myself.