Madeline and Molly,
You are FIVE MONTHS old today! What?!? Adjusted for prematurity this makes y'all about three months old, but to think that y'all have been here for five months just makes my heart skip a beat. It's gone by so quickly! And I know these next few months will be filled with exciting milestones so I'm holding onto all the newborn baby y'all have left in you. We love y'all!
The most common question/comment we receive is "How do you do it?" or "You really have your hands full!" Our answer is always the same, "Yes we are blessed but they are truly the best babies. They are taking it easy on us!" and that's the truth. Your brother is ten times more work than the two of you are put together! And y'all are always so happy and content; I'm almost waiting for the ball to drop and for y'all to figure out that you could makes things a little more difficult for us. I thank God everyday that y'all are so calm, happy, and easily pleased.
Our days still look pretty similar to last month, although it's now usually Madeline that wakes up at night and y'all are almost sleeping completely through the night. Not much longer now and we will be able to drop that early morning bottle! Our day pretty much looks like this: Madeline wakes up somewhere between 4:00am - 6:00am and we bottle feed you and put you right back to bed. I wake y'all up around 9:00ish and I tandem nurse you and y'all hang out in your swings for awhile. If you don't fall asleep we will do some tummy time and lay around on your activity mat. You eat again around 12:00ish, hang out in your bouncers, more tummy time, and down for your long nap around 1:00pm. This time y'all will sleep as long as I let you, and I typically wake you up around 4:30pm. By then Daddy is home and I either go run errands with y'all or Carter Man. We try to keep y'all awake but you usually sneak in a cat nap while we are eating dinner. I nurse y'all for the last time at 7:00 and put you to bed around 7:30pm.
Madeline Kate,
You are still holding the title as the more "picky" daughter, as you have started letting your opinions be known. You want to be in our arms as much as possible (rotten) and always want to be rocked to sleep. You take more work to put down for a nap and almost always are the first to wake up. You "talk" non-stop throughout the day while you are awake and are free with your smiles and songs.
You have decided that you dislike bottles and give your Daddy the hardest time at night when he is trying to feed you. You do great nursing, but we will stick with that nightly bottle a little while longer. You also started rolling over this month! You can roll over both shoulders, from back to belly and back again. You have always hated tummy time so I knew this was coming soon for you. Now I can't keep you on your tummy for even a minute! You just roll right back over to your back! You do fine at naps and night while you are swaddled and sleeping in your rock-n-play, so hopefully we can get a few more weeks use out of that before we move you to your crib.
You are still our "bigger" baby, although we only recently moved y'all out of newborn clothes. You absolutely HATE bath time and scream louder than I've ever heard a baby scream when we bathe you. Your hair has thinned out and the new hair that is coming in is light like Carter's. I think we might have another blonde baby! Your eyes have stayed a dark blue color and you have the smoothest skin and squishiest cheeks of any baby ever. You are beautiful!
We love you sister bear, Maddy Kate, Mads Pads. To the moon and back.
Molly Ann,
You make us look like rockstar parents! You so rarely cry and are always so happy that people always comment with how good we've done. The truth is that you have done it all! We've loved you with everything we have, but you just seem to be so calm and happy everyday naturally. You are happy in the car, in your swing, on your tummy, and new this month, watching your brother run around like a crazy man. He loves to lean over and talk to you and you just eat it up! I love watching y'all interact with each other.
You are such a great eater, which makes us wonder how you are so much smaller than your sister. You will take as big of a bottle as we will give you, and nurse as long as I let you. You do still spit up when we put you on your tummy, but it's very minimal. You have rolled over one time, from your back to your tummy, but only once. You love being on your belly so I think as soon as you master that skill you will be a stomach sleeper, just like your brother. You have be a rock star in the sleep department this month, taking stellar naps and sleeping in longer stretches at night. You are no longer the one who wakes up at night and now we are following your sisters schedule.
We always said that you looked just like your daddy, but now I'm starting to see more of me in you. Your hair has come back in very dark and your eyes have stayed a blue/grey color. I'm anxious to find a baby picture of me to compare to and see if I'm right. We've been battling the eczema on your face and legs, although I'm inclined to say it's getting better. We just can't believe how cool and collected you always seem. You still have a very shrill cry, but reserve it for times when you are really mad. Otherwise you let you sister do all the fussing while you just sleep and smile. :)
We love you sister bear, Molly Ann, Molls Balls. To the moon and back.
Madeline 5 month Stats
Weight: 12ish pounds
Length: 24ish inches
Eating: nursing 4 times a day with one breastmilk bottle overnight. Typically 9am, 12pm, 4pm, 7pm, and 5am
Bedtime: around 7:45pm
Awake: around 9:00am
Naps: 10:00am, 1:00pm and a catnap around 5:30pm
Diapers: size 1 Huggies
Clothes: 0-3 months
Favorites: being held, your Daddy, smiling, sitting up and "talking" to us
Development: holds head up when pulled from back to sitting position, puts hands, paci and clothes in mouth, plays with toys in front of you and pushes with legs to reach toys, possibly teething, rolling over
Milestones:
6/23- first nap in crib
6/29- first time in church nursery
7/8- rolled over from tummy to back
7/13- rolled over from back to tummy
Molly 5 month Stats
Weight: 11ish pounds
Length: 24ish inches
Eating: nursing 4 times a day with one breastmilk bottle overnight. Typically 9am, 12pm, 4pm, 7pm, and 5am
Bedtime: around 7:45pm
Awake: around 9:00am
Naps: 10:00am, 1:00pm and a catnap around 5:30pm
Diapers: size 1 Huggies
Clothes: 0-3 months
Favorites: baths, being on your belly, your paci, watching Carter
Development: holds head up when pulled from back to sitting position, sticks tongue in and out, rolling over
Milestones:
6/23- first nap in crib
6/25- first solo outing with Mama
6/29- first time in church nursery
7/13- rolled over from back to belly
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