Oh how time flies when you are having
fun. Kaitlyn is now 8.5 months old and she has learned to do a lot. Her
personality is really laid back and therefore her motivation is lacking. She
has not figured out how to crawl yet, but she will roll to get where she wants
to go. She can sit up on her own, and she loves anything that she can jump in. She
is a little girl, might be 14 pounds now. We actually took her in to see the
Doc because she just had not gained any considerable weight in 4 months. She
did get pneumonia at 5 months and has battled off a few colds since then, which
did not help her in the weight category. When she is sick she loses what little
appetite she has. Sickness has plagued us since Hunter has been in school. The Doc was concerned with her weight aswell and he told us to
chart what she eats and add whatever we can to get the calorie intake up. This
has all been recent and in the last 4 days she has eaten about double to three
times as much as she was before. My analysis of this is, she is so complacent
and calm that she would only let us know when she was absolutely famished…not
just hungry. Now that we feed her on a schedule she is eating a lot more and we
add olive oil to increase the calories. She is getting about 300-500 calories
in olive oil alone now! I think this little scare is over and I think she will
be gaining weight just fine now. She eats, sweet potatoes, squash, peas, apples,
bananas, avocado, egg yolks, and mommy’s milk, which is still her favorite. When
she eats she will take a bit and then go for her two middle fingers on her left
hand. Just like Hunter did with his left thumb.She still is working on teeth, she has none thus far.
She
loves to jabber and say da,da,da,da,da,da…of course she is talking about me!
She liked Christmas time, but did not
really open any of her presents…that’s what big brother Hunter is for, which happens
to be an expert in the field. Kaitlyn on the other hand just preferred to chew
on the ribbon.
She is our “bumper girl” when we lay her
in her crib the first thing she does is go for her crib bumper. She loves to
snuggle with it. We tried to give her a blanket instead, but she was on to us
and still went right for her bumper. She basically uses it as a body pillow!
Well that about all for now, who knows
when I’ll get a chance to do this again.
