well, another month has passed and i can honestly say that not much has changed. finley is still very much a baby. she is not crawling, pulling up, walking, growing teeth or any of those other signs of change. however, i know that her delays are because none of us put her down paired with the fact that she is content with not being put down. she is very capable of doing everything that she "should" be doing at this stage; she just chooses not to do those things. secretly, or not so secretly, this makes me very happy. i get to hold on to her for a little longer. i get to pretend that she is still an infant even though the months nearing that first year mark are closer than i would like to admit. even the doctor commented that she "sure is clinging on to her infancy!". in the past week she has made giant strides. she has started to role over to her belly and scooch up to her knees...mostly this is done in an attempt to get to either kyle or myself, but it is done. she responds to her name and she will give kisses. she has become much more playful and because of that she is much more excited by the kids now. it has only been in the past week that we would let harper take finley with her to another room. mostly because finley has just started sitting up steadily enough to not make me afraid that she would fall over and bust her little baby head. at this stage with jack, harper was dragging him around like a little rag doll. harper was crawling at 7 months and walking at 11 months, calvary was crawling at 6 months and walking a little over a year, oliver jack was rolling everywhere at 5-6 months and crawling at 7 months and walking at a year...and then there is finley...oh, sweet baby, i know that one day all too soon you will break free from my arms and take off. but for now it makes me smile to know that you have let me hold you so long. thank you for that.
harper at 6 months:
weight 14lbs an 14oz
height 25.5 inches
harper at 9 months:
weight 15lbs and 10 oz
height 27 inches
calvary at 6 months:
weight 16lbs and 2oz
height 26 inches
calvary at 9 months:
weight 18lbs 4 oz
height 28 inches
oliver jack at 6 months:
weight 18lbs
height 27 inches
oliver jack at 9 months:
weight 21 lbs
height 28 inches
finley rose at 6 months:
weight 15lbs 7oz
height 26 inches
finley rose at 9 months:
weight 16lbs 2 oz
height 27 inches
she is still my living doll. it is a statement only to be proved true when i take her out in public. just the other day i had only her with me at the grocery store. (it seems i am always buying groceries for this crew) and at the check out line the cashier, the lady behind me, and two different ladies that had already checked out were standing in a circle ooing and ahhing at her. they were touching her clothes, her hair, and cheeks. i loved that they loved her but i also wanted to get home and disinfect her.
in all of the sweetness that is finley i must admit that all of this holding has not come without a price. it would be unfair of me to only point out all of the wonderful things about her without also balancing that with the reality that this rose does indeed have a few thorns. it is true harper, calvary, and oliver jack! she sometimes has a little temper on her. mostly this happens when she is either tired or hungry but she can let loose at other times as well. she has also been my most difficult to sleep train. she still wakes up once after we put her down for the night and sometimes kyle can get her to go back to sleep but most of the time i have to feed her to get her to settle back down to go to sleep. it is difficult not to respond to her first cry at night because not only are there 3 other children sleeping in the house but there is 1 child sleeping in her room. and that child has school.
oliver jack and calvary love her so much. harper tells me all the time how much she loves her. we are so grateful that she is ours.
1 comment:
didn't realize she was hard to sleep train...makes her even MORE like emmi baby. :0)
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