Juliet

She is doing great. She is a happy baby and we love her.

She got her first tooth just the other day. I didn’t even know she was teething.

She is starting to sit up for longer periods of time, but isn’t a full sitter yet. Her growth has slowed, so I ended up with a small baby after all. After she was born 1 ½ lbs bigger than Jack I thought she would always be on the bigger side, but she was stuck in the 12 lb range for several months.

She and Jack now share a room, and they are doing pretty well with it. Jack didn’t want her to sleep in his room but after we made him let her, he now prefers it.  

I love sleeping babies. I was having a really hard time getting her to nap for longer than 40 minutes at a time, and I have high expectations when it comes to sleep, so I knew she could do better. When I put her on her stomach she sleeps for 3+ hours at a time. Usually I’m waking her up because she’s been down too long and needs to eat. Luckily she has never had a problem staying asleep at night on her back.

Juliet was born with a tongue tie, which made it hard for me or any of the nurses to get her to latch in the hospital. The lactation specialist got her to latch on the first try. I now have a lot more respect for those specialists! Even though we got her to eat fine, we ended up getting her tongue clipped because we didn’t want her speech affected in the future. She took the procedure like a champ, and can now move around her tongue more.

She is a thumb sucker! Jack never was, I think it is adorable. Many people say that I need to get her on a pacifier, or break her of the habit, or they tell me she’ll have braces, but I don’t really care. I’m fine with it and think it’s great that she can calm herself down without us needing to do anything. Once she’s older we’ll worry about stopping the habit.

We went on a lot of walks soon after she was born (and before to try and get her to come), she has been pretty much living in this suit.

She loves her brother and Jack likes playing with her, although ‘playing’ is what he calls covering her head with blankets or laundry if she’s laying on the floor, or throwing dirt on her outside. “I threw dirt on Juliet!” Great. Thanks.

The kids and I were laying outside on our grass (that itself is a huge accomplishment to me, I’ve tried so hard to achieve a good lawn, and laying on it for the first time was pretty great) and I had to go inside and get the camera and came back to this.