hallie is 2 months old!
it's amazing to see and experience the changes in a baby in one short little month. since the beginning of june until now, hallie has gone from just beginning to sleep consistently to (praise the Lord!) now sleeping 9 or 10 hours at night and taking several good naps during the day. sleep is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
hallie's baby acne is finally gone, and she still has a good head of hair. i think she has lost a little of her hair, but her brother and sisters were almost bald by this point... so i wonder if she'll just start growing more now or if she's just late in losing her hair.
hallie sure is smiling and cooing now. it's so precious to see her smile when she hears her sisters' voices or sees them in front of her (especially caroline). i have yet to really capture her big smile on camera... but i almost caught it here.
and then i panned over to the right to snap a shot of her entertainment... how could you not smile at these two silly things?! :)
they sure do love their baby sister. they have not stopped marveling over her every time she gives them a huge grin or "talks" to them.
here is hallie with her three biggest fans...
her "floppy airway" still makes hallie quite a squeaky baby, but i think the squeakiness is getting quieter and not so often. her doctor said the cartilage would harden by 6 months or so, so maybe it's beginning to harden. (i probably learned about this during grad school, but umm... 10 years and 4 babies later, no recollection!) it has also been at least a couple of weeks since she's gotten choked up during nursing (and then losing her lunch all over me!), which i think is related to the squeakiness...in my--ahem--professional opinion! all that to say, my baby's growin' up, not throwin' up!
(updated 7/11/12: we just got home from hallie's check-up, and the doctor said the technical term for her "floppy airway" is tracheomalacia. it goes away when you put her on her tummy... interesting! her projectile vomiting has nothing to do with the tracheomalacia. just in case y'all were wondering. and it may be a year or 15 months before it goes away. so why did he tell me 6 months before??)
ok, moving on... hallie has found her thumb, as i mentioned recently. this is a monumental occasion in our family. our kids are apparently wired to be thumbsuckers-- we could see their hands by their faces in almost all their sonograms. and frankly, it's fine with me! i have nothing against pacifiers, but my babies usually don't care for one once they've found their thumb. the perk of the thumb? it is always available and ready for soothing. i can't guarantee its level of sanitariness (is that a word?), but i never have to run out to walmart at midnight to buy another thumb! i agree that ridding a child of a pacifier is probably much easier than stopping thumb sucking, but that's really not my concern with a 2-month-old. so just let me enjoy my baby enjoying her thumb! :)
besides thumbsucking, hallie's favorite pasttimes right now are watching the ceiling fan and swatting at her toys in her gym. a quick poll: have any of you had a baby who did not lovingly gaze at a ceiling fan? just curious because my babies have all loved their friend the fan.
this past month, hallie had her first trip to the beach and
first out of town trip to see family. here she is with two of brian's precious aunts.
with two months under our belt, i'd say that we are in a pretty good routine with hallie at home. the kids do their best to be quiet while she's napping, and she is the center of their attention when she's awake. some days she requires more attention than others, and we just go with it. some days we get some (catch-up) school work done, and some days we don't. some days i get some house work done, and some days i don't. i usually don't accomplish a lot of both in one day! but what is always guaranteed is a busy home full of little people learning how to love each other and their Lord... and lots of snuggles from this scrumptious doll! God is good!
now that hallie is sleeping so wonderfully, i can move on to other goals... like taking more pictures and video of her and bathing her more often. yes, such is life with the 4th child!! (and seriously, is she really all that dirty? well, she is definitely the least dirty member of this household!) i really will be back soon with pictures from ethan's birthday and the 4th of july!
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Emily I must say I really love reading your blog!! I know I get to see you in person and this is usually for friends away, but this is too precious!! Love the pics of Hallie! Maybe (one day) I will post my blog for all the world to see. =)
She's absolutely adorable and looks just like Ethan to me especially that mouth!
I've always loved a thumbsucking baby! And it's so true, you never lose that thumb!
Does Hallie have larangomalacia? If so, our Bennett has it and actually the louder the squeaky sound is the better it's getting! Bennett is 15 months old and finally starting to grow out of it. Hallie is so precious!
leah, we just got back from her check-up, and the dr. said it is tracheomalacia. i suspected it was either that or laryngomalacia... but i didn't want to quote dr. google. ha! he said her projectile vomiting had nothing to do with that. oh well, i was 1 for 2. :) i need to videotape her squeaking before she grows out of it, but it sounds like i have plenty of time!!
I love that Hallie and the monkey pretty much have the exact same expression on their face in that first pic!
You mentioned that all four of your kids are thumb suckers...did you have to break the older ones of the habit or did they just stop on their own? I'm curious because Brayton is a thumb sucker and I have NO IDEA how long he will be doing it!
page, we totally had to break them of it. it is definitely not an easy thing to stop a child from sucking their thumb!! there are different ways to go about breaking the habit... for ethan and caroline, we slowly "weaned" them from it during the day... starting with no thumb sucking while we were singing at church (also wanted them to be ready to participate if they knew the song), then no thumb at all during church, then no thumbs in the car (a hard one!!), no thumbs while watching a movie at home, things like that. we were in the middle of moving when we were doing all this, so we chose to not fight the thumbsucking at night... just decided to choose our battles. and really, are they going to be 21 sucking their thumbs to go to sleep? i really don't think so. (but i could be wrong!!) so our goal was no thumbsucking during the day... only when you went to bed. that has worked well for us, though i do catch caroline every now and then when she's super tired and we're watching a movie. we didn't ever do the tape/bandaids on the fingers or socks on the hands, or any of that stuff. mostly because i didn't want to mess with all of it! we can chat more if you want about it. but i think i (overly) answered your question. :)
thanks emily! yeah, i'm thinking i'll have to cross that bridge sooner or later, but for now i am about to start potty training so it will probably be much later! i just never know when is too long, you know? thanks again... i appreciate the advice ;)
oh yes, potty training trumps stopping thumb-sucking in my book--- big time!!
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