Audrey - 10 months

And we finally have a tooth!!! I read somewhere that the longer babies go without getting teeth the harder teething is on them and I would surely agree with that one. It’s been so sad watching our sweet happy baby hurting and be in so much pain.

Sleep:

With Audrey teething she has also been really snotty and can hardly breathe at night so we have taken a back seat to the whole sleeping through the night. I have even slept with her most nights. I just feel so bad and she sleeps on a better incline when I’m holding her. But that doesn’t mean we’re not tired. I’m exhausted and just want her to start to feel better soon. But now that we are done breastfeeding I am drinking a lot more coffee.

Eat:

We are officially done breastfeeding and I’m hoping that my freezer milk will last us to a year. I went a little longer than expected but I just could not give it up. We started the month only feeding her twice once in the morning and once in the evening and then we went to just the morning and by the end of the month we were exclusively on bottles but if I felt full and she was fussy I would cave every now and then. She is also off of baby food and eating table food. She loves green beans, strawberries, blueberries, meatballs, hummus, almost everything. She takes 5 bottles during the day and eat 3 meals with about 2 snacks. Her favorite snacks include graham crackers and little teething biscuits. We also try really hard to include a fruit, veggie, and protein for every meal.

Development:

Audrey has excelled this month in her development. She can say mama, dada, and bubba (which is my favorite and just melts me). She is officially crawling with her stomach off the floor. I absolutely adore her crawl, she does the bear crawl. This girl is going to have killer legs. She can also stand against furniture and move about. She can eat with her fingers and move food and objects from one hand to another.

She is the biggest mommas girl and I just eat it up. She will be crying and as soon as I hold her she just stops. I hope we will always be best friends, I just LOVE her so so much.

May Recap

Boy was May a fun month but also a busy one. We are entering a busy time in our lives, are plates are overflowing but we are also trying to stay grounded and focused.

As I mentioned we are putting our house on the market so we spent the better half of May getting our house ready. Our house officially went on the market in the middle of May and we have been staying busy keeping it clean. It never fails though that we have a showing of the day we leave a few dishes out, etc. We also had 2 open houses back to back Sunday’s so that was a lot of fun (NOT)

Cinco de Mayo is probably one of my favorite holidays lol. We have had people over the best few years and I believe it will be an ongoing tradition. I made one of my fav meals (the burrito bowls I mentioned in the weekly meal plan last week). As well as some flautas, and churros. It was probably one of the best dinners we have had in a while which amazing food and great company.

May was extremely hot but we got in all the outdoor play time we could normally in the early morning hours before it got too outside. We also got our pool out for the first time and sister LOVES it! While we were playing in the pool one day Grady needed to go potty and since I was a little lazy and didn’t want to track water in the house I told him to go outside in the grass. For about a week that is the only place he would go. He would say “pee grass” and then when we were outside he would just strip down. It must be a boy thing to love being naked. And as far as our neighbors, pretty sure they are glad we are moving. Lol

There is a neighbor in our neighborhood that owns horses and during a walk one day we went to go see them. We went back later that evening and the sweet owner let us feed the horses with a treat. Grady was in heaven.

We got to dedicate Audrey on Mother’s Day and you can read about that here. Also I started to wean Audrey from breastfeeding. My goal was May 1^st and to be done before we left on Vacation but like I mentioned before I just couldn’t give it up so I was pumping while in Mexico which wasn’t too bad if I say so myself. We are so fortunate to go on vacations and to have grandparents who are more than willing to watch our babies while we are gone.

Grady got to swim in a big pool for the first time this season. I have had major anxiety about pool and water that this was a HUGE baby step for me.

We ended the month with Memorial day weekend which was pretty low key and exactly what we needed. We are so ready to move on and to get our house sold. We love and adore our house but it is time to share it with another family.