Lucky 7! Samantha is the sweetest, cutest, most lovable 7 month old baby girl that ever was!

Maxwell at 7 months…

and Spencer at 7 months…

All happy and all precious! She’s a great baby. She’s sleeping all night – from about 7:00 pm to 6:30 am. I love going to get her up in the morning because she’ll just bust out the happiest smile as soon as she sees me! No better way to start the day! She takes 2 naps – one around 9am and one around 1pm. Naps usually go just fine but we’ve had a few rough ones that past two weeks thanks to some teeth that must be making their way in. She’s been doing a lot of chewing on everything these days!

That said, she’s handled any pain like a champ and is still too sweet for words.

She’s nursing 4 times a day and has been loving all the fruits and veggies I’ve been feeding her. Carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, bananas – everything has been a hit! She also loves to chew all over an orange slice…it keeps her happily entertained while we eat dinner!  🙂

She’s a happy little thing and is always entertained by her brothers. She can get going on the cutest little giggle and and still smiles with her entire mouth wide open! She’s a healthy little thing too – lots of fantastic rolls on those legs and arms… and don’t even get me started on her cheeks!!  I probably kiss them 100 times a day!

Hanging with Honey Bunny!

I still don’t know what color her hair is. It’s got some red in it in certain lights but I won’t be able to tell for sure until it gets a little thicker. We’re still working on that bald spot in the back and the hair on top definitely likes to curl up in the humidity!

I just stare at her and can’t believe how perfect she is.

My sweet, perfect, wonderful Baby Mantha!!

Oh I love her so! Happy 7 months sweet baby girl!

My sweet baby girl is 6 months old! Half a year…we made it. She’s squeezable, lovable, and basically a dream come true every single day.

Maxwell at 6 months…

and Spencer at 6 months…

She’s still about the same size as Maxwell was at 6 months. I think she still looks more like Maxwell but she’s got some Spencey in her too! She’s a happy, happy baby and smiles with her entire mouth. I mean…she opens her entire mouth as wide as she can when she’s smiling. It’s precious!

She’s a great sleeper during the day. She naps at 9:00 and around 1:00 and sometimes still gets a 3rd nap in the afternoon. She loves to sleep on her belly and has several lovies and pacis all around her! All pink of course!  🙂  Night time sleep is…getting there. She’s still getting up once a night. Although, last night she did sleep all night – 7:00pm to 6:30am! But, I think that might have more to do with the 6 months shots she got and the Tylenol I gave her before bed! I know I likely just need to let her cry when she wakes up at night but it’s easier to just go in and feed her and get her quickly back to sleep. We’ll get there eventually. Right, Samantha?

Ha, right.

She’s still nursing 5 times a day and then again in the middle of the night. We actually gave her a little bit of baby food for the first time yesterday. Bananas! She liked them but was more interested in the playing with the spoon than eating the food.

She’s now a master at sitting up. Pretty much any toy she can get her hands on goes straight in her mouth and she still loves playing with her feet for sure!

She’s got the most kissable, chubby cheeks and a sweet little mouth and I can’t keep from squeezing and kissing on her every time I pick her up!

I mean…look at this face…

Hanging with Honey Bunny!

I am so grateful for this baby girl and still cannot believe she’s mine. What a fun half a year it’s been!

We love you Baby Mantha!!

Samantha is 5 months old! Now that she’s got a little hair, we thought it was time to accessorize the monthly photo outfit! 🙂

Maxwell at 5 months…

Spencer at 5 months…

I don’t really know who she looks like now. She definitely doesn’t look like Spencer. But she doesn’t necessarily look like Maxwell either. She just looks like the sweetest, cutest baby girl in all the land! 🙂

She’s chewing on her fingers – and everything else! – a lot these days. She’s had a few fussy naps the past few days and I’m wondering if there’s a tooth coming in.

She’s just a happy baby. She’ll cry but that’s just because she wants to be picked up and loved on! She’s getting chubbier and more squeezable every day and I could literally eat her up. I nibble on her cheeks all the time!!

She’s the luckiest little girl too because she’s got two big brothers that love her like crazy. Maxwell is super sweet with her and can’t wait to get his hands on her every day. Both boys always have to give her a little kiss before nap or bedtime and they just think she’s the greatest thing in the world. They call her Baby Mantha about 95% of the time…and now Robert and I do too!

She’s starting to talk more and more and makes the funniest shrieking noises like a Pterodactyl! She still spends most of her time just wide-eyed watching her brothers run around her though! There’s always a lot of action in the house and she just takes it all in!

She takes a morning nap from 9:00 to around 11:00 and then an afternoon nap from around 1:30 to 3:30. Sometimes she’ll still need a 3rd little 30 minute nap around 5:30. I’m still swaddling her for naps but am planning to get rid of that any day. She gets a bath every night at about 6:15 which she LOVES. She can kick kick kick those legs! Then she gets kisses from her brothers before going to sleep! I put her in her crib awake at night and she’ll fuss and talk in there for a little while but then drift off to sleep. She still gets up once in the night to eat – anywhere from 1:00 to 4:00 am – but then goes right back to sleep until around 6:30 or 7:00. As much as I’m tired of getting up with her in the night, I do like that she’ll sleep until 6:30. I’m afraid when she drops the middle of the night feeding that she’ll then be up for the day at 5:00 am!

She eats 4 times during the day and then the one time at night. Can’t wait for her to start trying some baby food soon! We’ll get those cheeks even chubbier!  🙂

She’s finally learned to roll over! When I went to get her up yesterday morning, she was on her belly. She rolled over during the night. Go baby Mantha! Once thing’s for sure, she definitely loves playing with her toes!

Hanging with Honey Bunny!

I still cannot believe that I had a baby girl and that she’s this perfect. I mean…look at this face!

It just doesn’t get any better than her.

Happy 5 months sweet, sweet baby Samantha. We love you so much!!

My baby is 4 months old! She is the sweetest little baby that ever was. Seriously.

Maxwell at 4 months…

and Spencer at 4 months….

Several people have commented that she looks like Spencer but I say, no way. She looks so much like Maxwell at this age. Whoever she looks like, she sure is cute!

She wasn’t much into smiling for our photoshoot. Both of her big brothers were in the room too and I think she was just trying to keep up with them…and maybe a little scared by their rambunctious behavior! ha!

Case in point…brother photo bomb! 🙂

Samantha is loving her hands these days and chews on them a lot. We recently got out the jumperoo and she has a blast rocking back and forth. She’s trying hard to roll over but can’t quite get past her side yet – that bottom arm just gets stuck!

Sleeping is going good. She takes 2 or 3 naps a day – one at 9am, one around 1:30 and then sometimes a (very) short one around 5:30. I feed her and get her into bed around 7:30 every night. I’m still swaddling her at nap time but recently stopped swaddling her at night. Just a few nights ago, we sort of let her “cry it out” and she screamed for about an hour. That was no fun but she’s cried less and less each night and I’m sure will be down to no crying soon. While she has slept through the night a few times, she more often gets up once somewhere between 2 and 4am. I feed her and then put her right back to bed where she will snooze away until around 6:30 or 7:00. It’s very manageable and I’m grateful for that!

Samantha LOVES her big brothers. They are always entertaining her, loving on her, and giving her kisses and hugs. She’s quite a lucky little sister.

Hanging with Honey Bunny.

This little girl is just the best. The BEST.

I am one lucky momma. We love you Samantha!

Guess who turned 3 months old yesterday?! This little bundle of love…

Oh, I love her so! She’s smiling and cooing and basically being the cutest baby on the planet every day. Here’s her brothers at 3 months…

Maxwell at 3 months…

Spencer at 3 months…

She’s still definitely looking much more like Maxwell in my opinion!

Samantha is a fantastic daytime sleeper. I’m following the Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child book and only keep her up about an hour and a half. If I get her down within that window, she’ll just happily lay in her bed and go right to sleep! She takes a morning nap for about 2 to 21/2 hours, an afternoon nap for about 2 to 2/12 hours and then usually a little 3rd nap that is only around 30 to 45 minutes. A dream of a napper for sure!

Nighttime is still a different story that we’re working on. There is something about the first half of the night that she just doesn’t want to sleep in her crib. I’ve tried putting her to bed early. I’ve tried feeding her. I’ve tried rocking her for 2 hours. No matter what I do, as soon as she gets in that crib, she starts crying and won’t stop until I pick her up. As a result, the past few weeks she’s slept either on me in the rocking chair or the bed or in between Robert and me in the bed until she eats around 2:00am. After that feeding, I can put her in her crib with no problem and she’ll snooze away until around 7:00am.  It’s a work in progress and I’ve actually enlisted some professional help…more on that later if it helps! But, I really don’t mind the sleeping issues because…well, look at this face…

I am 100% obsessed with this little girl. Even when she doesn’t want to do the monthly photoshoots…

and starts to get fussy…

I can easily calm her down with a little paci time….

and then…Boom. The best little smile ever!

With our friend, Honey Bunny!

She’s starting to stare at toys a little and kind of wonder how to play with them. Her head control is getting really good…but that big ole head still gets heavy sometimes!

She’s got the most kissable cheeks…

and the sweetest dimples…

and yes, oh yes, I’m pretty darn sure she’s got some red in that hair! 🙂

Happy 3 months Baby Mantha!

We love you so much!

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