8 months old
posted on 08/21/2009
Ok so the posting more often didn't quite happen, oops!
The girls were 8 months old on the 18th, and that evening after I put them to bed I looked back at the pictures we took when they were a day old and I cried. They have grown so much and are such amazing little babies! It also makes me so happy to know that they are so healthy and they are my little miracles!
at their 6 month checkup on June 24, Maggie weighed 17 lbs 3 ozs and was 27" long. Harlow was 16 lbs 9 ozs and 26 3/4" long. Blair was 13 lbs 3 ozs and 26" long. They are all growing up so fast. Maggie is a chunk, but not a fat roll on her, she is just a solid little girl! She has 2 teeth now, sits up great on her own, can spin around and kinda scoot on her tummy if she needs to get to something. She rolls over at night now and I usually find her on her tummy in the mornings. She has the most beautiful blues eyes and fuzzy blonde hair :) Harlow is finally sitting up on her own, still doesn't have any teeth pushed through and has TONS of hair coming in, her hair is the darkest of all 3 and the thickest. She has the most beautiful smile and her little eyes really light up. She is still a cuddler:) Blair is a wild woman!! She flips over in the bouncy seat onto her tummy and then scoots out onto the floor till she is on her knees and then slides the rest of the way onto the floor so she can play! I really think that there will be many a trip to the ER for Miss Blair! She was the first to sit up and she has 6!! teeth now! She is still the runt, ever so tiny. Her hair is really blonde now which is funny since she had the darkest hair at birth.
They are really good babies and pretty easy going most days. I have them on a pretty good schedule so even though life is crazy its manageable :)
The big girls are doing great. Its been a long summer and I am just as ready as they are for them to start preschool. Alexis will be going 4 days a week and Hadleigh just 1 morning a week for now. I think they will both do great!
My life is chaotic and some days just downright overwhelming, but I love being a mama and am very lucky to have such a great husband that allows me to stay home. We don't have all the fancy material things but we have each other and in the end that is all that will matter. Most days I worry already about how we will pay for things when the girls are older, but I hope that my girls will be able to look at me and see that I was trying to be the best mommy I could by staying at home with them and that will be a good trade off for not having the fanciest shoes, ipod or Lord knows what by that time :)