Honest to goodness!
I have no idea where the last 6 months have gone.
Elliotte is SIX months old today.
SIX.
That's halfway to her first birthday!
My baby!!!
Goodness gracious!
She was and still is an unbelievably good baby.
She loves to eat, sleep and laugh at her big sister.
Honestly.
She is beyond good.
She naps at least three times a day,
with one LONG nap at the same time as her big sister.
(Usually 2-3 hours!)
Thank you Elliotte!!!
The other naps are squeezed in between
waking up and bedtime,
because those things are very tiring!
Bedtime is a dream.
Since she usually takes a little nap while I put her big sister to bed,
she wakes up around 8:15pm to start her own bedtime routine.
This includes some milk,
a clean diaper
and then her pajamas.
It takes about 20 minutes to do all of that,
then I take her in to her crib and to put her to bed.
This last part is tricky.
Essentially you have to stuff Elliotte's left arm through the arm hold of her sleep sac
immediately after you lay her down.
This is because as soon as her back touches her mattress,
she sticks her left thumb into her mouth
and rolls over onto her side to go to sleep.
Just like that.
Voila!
She is seriously my reward baby
after having Piper who didn't without a fight for her first year!
Little Elliotte is usually asleep before I walk out of the room...
and stays that way until 7:00 or 8:00am.
I promise I am not telling lies.
Because, to be honest, if someone told me that their baby did this
while I was still trying to sleep train Piper,
I would have said they were lying for sure.
No baby can be that perfect.
But yes they can!!!
Miss Elliotte Paige.
I would like to take this moment to personally
thank you from the bottom of my heart
for being such a wonderful sleeper.
And Piper,
thank you for giving me the experience to
really appreciate how great a sleeper Elliotte is,
and also the ability to empathize with sleep deprived new mothers!
To both of my girls,
I thank you
and I love you!
xo
xo
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Here's the halfway birthday girl today! She knows it's only six more months until birthday cake!!! |
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Our little pork chop weighed in at 17 lbs 6 oz today! |
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And here is a pic of her big sister on her halfway-to-first-birthday day! |
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I know we all remember Piper as being so tiny and laugh at Elliotte for being so chubby, but would you believe that Piper had practically caught up to Elliotte's weight by this point? At six months, Piper weighed in at 16 lbs. 6 oz. Only a one pound difference from Elliotte!! I was shocked! |