Amber 11 months

Happy 11 months!

You are a champion crawler.  You race off to wherever you want to go.  New favorite places: the tub (definitely #1), the toilet (good thing your sisters are good at closing the lid), the recycle (what a variety of fun toys), the shoes.

You love to bang.  Your favorite is an empty formula canister that you carry over to the tile and bang! bang! bang!  And your smile is priceless.

You have become a girl who always has toys in her hand.  You crawl around with at least 1 toy in each hand...sometimes two in each hand and another toy in your mouth.  This is just the cutest thing ever.

More and more and more and more teeth.  You have 4 all the way through and a couple more in the works.  Since you are such and agressive teether, you are now weaned onto a bottle.  You don't seem to mind and I much prefer you teething on that bottle!

It's finally getting cooler and you are enamored by the new toys outside.  Grass!  Trikes!  Push toys!  Chalk!!! You have gotten way dirtier but your smile is so big.  So fun!

We love you love you love you, sweetie pie.  Happy 11 months!

Amber 10 months

10 months!

Highlights from the month:

Teething.  And sleepless nights.
Joined your sisters in their room-3 girls, 3 bed, 3 dressers.  It's a party.
Playing with more of sister's toys.
Crawling from one room to another-with an obligatory stop at the shoes to taste all the new germs.
Those baby blue eyes.  Love.
Finished traveling.  You were a trooper all those hours in the carseat!

Love ya, baby!

Amber 9 month

9 months old, Miss Amber!

You have been all over the west this month, visiting and meeting lots and lots of family.  A Sexton family reunion at Bear Lake to meet all your aunts, uncles, and cousins.  A Whatcott family reunion to meet great grandparents, great aunts, great uncles, 1st cousins once removed and 2nd cousins.  Great Grandpa who is almost 99.  Sea World.  The beach.  The cabin.  Sailing.  You are a world class traveler.  You were the best sleeper at night and the happiest camper in the car.  Even with scattered naps you came alive in this last month and have been such a happy girl.

You occasionally like to play peek a boo.  You always like to crawl to a paci or phone.  You are crawling 1-2-3 crawls at a time, combined with lunging to make it to toys.  A whole new world is opening up to you!

You sure love daddy.  No one can make you squeal like daddy can!  You also like to play shy and bury your head in a shoulder while squealing.

You have started imitating. When the girls squeal, you squeal.  When we cheer, you make a cheer.

You love all the food we are introducing you to.  You haven't turned away from anything yet.

You love to play with books.  You put them in your mouth a little, but mostly you just scrunch them and turn them over and over in your hands.

You and daddy do high fives and it's the cutest thing.

You are starting to take notice of your sisters and you love to be included in their little games.

Happy 9 months, sweetie!  We love you!!

Amber 8 months

Happy 8 months, sweetheart!

You love:
chewing on your toes.  and mine.  always.

playing peek a boo.  only when you are well rested.  and fed.  for a minute or two.

being held and walked around. 

getting up on your hands and knees and rocking back and forth.

every food we feed you.  you just want more.  "they" say babies will stop eating when they are full but we have yet to find your "full"

snuggling.  for less than 2 seconds.

mommy. 

being teased by daddy.

patting savannah's back.

giggling at emily's antics.

being tickled.  you are so ticklish!

sleeping.  champ.  15 hours a night all last week.  plus 2-3 hour naps.  best.

startling/gasping/flailing.  dr says probably reflux.  mommy and daddy say please stop.  it's kind of scary.

your paci.  all day everyday.


We sure love you little one.  You are over 17 lbs and growing like a weed.  Excited to take you on lots of adventures to meet lots of family this summer!

Amber 7 months

Really!? 7 months??  We sure love you, Amber Bamber!

You are a rolly polly now.  I set you down and you just roll and roll.  We have tried to clear all the little toys out of our toy bins since you are pretty well set in the eating everything phase!

Fussy fussy teether.  I'm pretty sure you have 2 more teeth on their way because you have been all kinds of out of sorts lately.  Let's hope they pop through soon.

Champion traveler!  You were not so much a fan of being held the whole 6 hour flight to and from Maui but you were a great sleeper in your carseat around to all our adventures and at night.  You had the easiest transition to the different time zone, for sure!

You have followed after Savannah and love all food we give you, even the green baby food!  You eat anything and everything soo good.  The trick to those greens is serving them cold-for whatever reason you love them cold from the fridge much more than room temperature.  We finally bought a high chair for you and it's fun to see you getting so big!

You love to sit up!  You are good for a few minutes by yourself and think you are pretty neat stuff to play with the big girls.  Emily loves to point out that you are "growing up!"

Love you darling!  Happy 7 months!!

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!