The Prices Write: All About Aubrey: 8 Months Old

Happy 8 months Aubrey! I can't believe how quickly you are growing and changing...you're becoming such a big girl. We love you so, SO much!!!

Firsts: sitting in a shopping cart and a high chair in a restaurant, prescription, eating Gerber Mum Mums, sitting up in bed after a nap.

News Headlines: 5-year-old boy was held hostage in Midland, AL for several days in an underground bunker. He was finally rescued by FBI!

Mommy’s Favorite: When you bob to music and clap your hands

Daddy’s Favorite: When you kick your legs like a dolphin and get really excited right before you eat.

Milestones: pulling up on Mommy’s fingers to a standing position, picking up small things (like Cheerios) using a pincer grip, you can drink out of a sippy cup all by yourself and are great at it!, you go easily from a sitting position to laying down, once we found you in your crib after a nap sitting up!

Measurements: You are wearing size 6-9 and 9 month footie pj’s. Most of your clothes are 3-6, but they some seem a little snug and some 6-9 month clothes are starting to fit. You are in size 3 diaper at night and during the day as soon as we finish up a few more size 2’s. You weigh 16 lbs. 3 oz. based on our home scale and are about 26.5 inches.

Funniest Moment: I can’t think of one particular moment, but you are so much fun to watch! Everything you do makes us smile and laugh. We love watching you bounce in your jumperoo, listen to you talk really loud in public places, the fact that you go after everything with your mouth wide open, and its even a little funny when we take something and you get really mad. This won’t be funny later, but for now it is a little bit because you’re so little and you have such a strong opinion about things.

Memorable moment: Not necessarily a wonderful moment, but memorable nonetheless! You had been having a little, um, issue with constipation…Poor babyL You had gotten pretty miserable. We’d called the doctor, made a visit, and called back, We tried peaches, pears, prunes, oatmeal, and even a stool softener, but to no avail. The final call lead us to buy some glycerin suppositories. We called Steffani to come over and help us. Let’s just say it was quite an experience. I have basically never seen so much poop in my life! Let alone coming out of someone so tiny. Hopefully you are feeling much better now!

Challenges: Your constipation issue…sorry kid! It has been so frustrating and I feel like we’ve tried everything. We’ve eliminated foods such as bananas, all cereals because of the iron, and even apples. We’ve given you prescription stool softeners and juice everyday. The medicine started gagging you and making you throw up everything you’d eaten. We are still working on this one.

How we spend the day: You wake up about 8:30 most mornings (occasionally 7ish if you’ve only woken up once during the night). Daddy gets you up and changes your diaper and then mommy nurses you. We play, eat a little breakfast, and then you go down for a nap about 2 hours later. During the day we play, read, run errand (aka go to Walmart…), go for walks, and play some more! Hard life! Some days we will go for a real adventure to Prattville so we can go to Target and grocery shop at Publix! You eat dinner around 6:30 and then start your bedtime routine around 7:30 or 8. You get a bath, take your vitamins, get on your jammies, Daddy reads you a story, and then Mommy nurses you and puts you in your crib.

Feedings/Eating: You have done much better this month and are gagging much less. You nurse about 5-6 times a day (depending on how many times you wake up at night), about every 4 hours. You eat yogurt, cheerios, and juice for breakfast and some kind of fruit and veggie for lunch and dinner. You don’t always eat three solid meals, but we are working on it.

Sleeping: You are (knock on wood!) sleeping a little better. You are taking a little longer of naps. You take about 2-3 naps a day and normally at least one is over an hour and only the 3^rd one if you take it is about 30 minutes. At night you were very consistently waking up about 12 and 4. Recently you’ve bumped the 4 o’clock feeding to about 5:30 and twice you’ve skipped the 12 o’clock feeding! I’m not getting my hopes up though because you are so inconsistent.

Personality: You have such a fun, silly, and strong personality. You have since the day you were born. It is really starting to shine through. You are so determined to get and do what you want and get mad and frustrated when you can’t. You love to laugh, and sometimes you just look at us and giggle like you’re just waiting for us to do something funny to crack you up. You love to play with your toys and you “talk” to your friends like Elmo while we ride in the car.

Likes: Mum mums, cheerios, puffs, yogurt bites, mommy’s fresh sweet potatoes, when we come get you out of your crib when you wake up, playing with your toys, playing in the bath, going for walks, riding in the grocery cart like a big girl.

Dislikes: avacados, sitting in the carseat, not being able to do something, having something you want taken away, when Mommy and Daddy walk away (you’ve started a little bit of separation anxiety recently)

Mobility: you are really wanting to crawl, but just haven’t quite made it yet. You will grab onto things and pull yourself across the floor. Recently you’ve gotten very fast and you don’t stay in one place for very long. You will push yourself with your knees, but you haven’t quite figured out how to coordinate everything yet. You are also love holding on to Mommy’s hands and pull yourself up to a standing position. You try to do this with objects, but are still timid and can’t pull yourself all the way up yet. You can go from sitting to laying down better now.

Favorite toy: shape blocks, Sophie the Giraffe, anything you probably shouldn’t have. You’ve recently start liking your paci, but not to suck on like a normal baby, you like to chew on the plastic part. It entertains you for a while and is great while we are grocery shopping because we can clip it on so it doesn’t fall.

Upcoming Events: Mommy’s birthday, GG and Big D and Madeline are coming o visit

Sounds: Same sounds, na na na and da da da we hear all day long. The new thing is that you have gotten so much louder. It’s really funny because you have a lot to say and you are so loud, especially in restaurants. You also mix them all up and can have quite a conversation now. You have the funniest expressions when you are talking to us.

Teeth: Your two bottom teeth are really coming in now and you’ve recently had one of your front top teeth cut through the gum.