The Hargrove Home

Holy moly. We're in the double digits people. Baby girl is 10 months old and growing SO fast. At 10 months old:

• Wearing mostly 12m clothes
• Claps
• Waves
• Still only says mama, dada, and bubba but has been trying to say bye bye and milk lately
• Laughs so much and even has a fake laugh now
• Cruises either while holding onto something or pushing her walker
• Loves to "dance" (Bounce up and down or move her head back and forth)
• Still co sleeping
• Taking 2 naps a day
• Wakes twice during the night to nurse
• Eating lots of new foods
• Signs more, all done, and milk
• 7 teeth total (Following in her brother's footsteps, he had 8 by this age)
• Loves to talk and yell
• Tries to be brave and stand on her own but usually falls on her cloth diapered booty

This past month Abigail had her first Thanksgiving. She had turkey, some roasted green beans, and some cranberries. She loved it and had so much being around family. She was hardly ever put down, everyone just wanted to hold her. We are traveling out of the state for the first time next week to see Kaleb's stepdad's family for Christmas. It will be interesting to see how this trip goes with 2 kids. Pray for us! 

I am posting this update right before I type up her 10 month one because I am SO behind. #secondbabyprobs

At 9 months

• 4 teeth
• Pulling up on things and doing baby squats
• Nurses like a newborn still
• Found her own sleep schedule and has been taking great naps
• Still sleeps in our bed
• Wearing 9-12m clothes
• Still in size 3 diapers
• Finally fitting into 3-6m shoes
• Loves to jibber jabber all day long

I know my sister already shared all of the engagement photos I took for her and Emlen but I wanted to share a few of my favorites on the blog and kind of expand on what you may have seen floating around on the album info/other pictures I have posted. Shooting Emlen and Charlotte's engagement pictures was actually one of the top three reasons I wanted to buy a camera in the first place. Many years ago when Kaleb and I were sitting in our last apartment in San Angelo with our nine month old son he shared with me his deeply rooted desire to make a documentary and to expand even more, just his passion in general for filmmaking, videography, and editing videos. It wasn't something new at all. Kaleb did theater in high school and if you've sat and chatted with him for a while than you know his ridiculous amount of knowledge about films, The Oscars, directors, producers, cinematography, etc. To accomplish his passion he would need a lot of equipment starting with (obviously) a camera. I casually mentioned how I would love to learn about photography and thus a dream was born.

Eight. Months. Old.

• Still only has 2 teeth on bottom but has 2 more trying to break through
• Crawls
• Tries to pull herself up (has succeeded a few times) but she is mostly wobbly right now
• Sits herself up and has great balance there now
• New foods she has tried-Corn, chicken, black beans, eggs, cheese, nectarines, mashed cauliflower
• Foods she has actually enjoyed-Nectarines and eggs
• Yells all day long
• Favorite word is Bubba
• Laughing more
• Nursing still allllll day
• Wakes 3 times at night usually to nurse, has at least 1 four hour stretch of sleep
• Seeing her chiropractor every other week now
• Size 9m-12m clothes
• Sticks her tongue out when she smiles

This month marks her first round of "holidays" even though Halloween isn't really a holiday I guess. Still so fun and can't wait to see her in her ladybug costume! Abigail's aunt sissy just got engaged so in a few months she will also be a flower girl! So many fun things happening over these next 6 months. Since she's already pulling up I thought I would bring out her walker soon but I just can't bring myself to do it. I don't want her to take her first steps yet. My heart wouldn't be able to handle it. She's getting so close to a year old that it almost hurts. I can't believe how quickly everything is moving lately-her development, age, milestones. It's all coming on so fast and I'm just begging time to slow down even for a moment. 

At 7 months our sweet girl-

• Has 2 teeth on bottom
• Finally sleeps without being swaddle but still has crazy movements
• Has somewhat of a rhythm she has set into with naps and bed time but still doesn't sleep in her crib so a lot of it is me laying down with her and sneaking away when she falls asleep
• Scoots backwards but hasn't figured out how to move forward yet
• Gets up on all fours but hasn't started crawling yet
• New foods she has tried-Ground beef, cauliflower, sweet potato, dry waffle
• Doesn't seem to care for food very much. She loves to play with it and try it but after a few minutes she's just completely over the whole thing
• Loves her exercauser
• Nurses round the clock still and through the night
• Only has to see the chiropractor every other week now instead of every week
• Wearing 9m clothes and a few 12m
• Size 3 diapers still
• Baby chats all day long and when there is a lot of people talking or her brother is being loud she HAS to be heard so she will yell at the top of her lungs
• Sits up on her own very well now and can move from sitting to being on her tummy but hasn't figured out the vice versa yet
• Still hardly laughs but when she does it's the best 30 seconds of our life

I guess it's time for that half a year post. The one that breaks my heart only second to the one year post. Half a year is such a mile marker. It means we're now inching our way towards a first birthday and it reminds me that time doesn't stand still even though I'm demanding it over and over again. I look at Abigail and I see me. Elijah has looked like his daddy since day one but Abigail is my claim to myself. She is me made over and while I love discovering the quirks and facial features we share as she grows I hate that she is not this tiny thing swaddled perfectly in my arms again. She is, in fact, half a year old. And at half a year she-

• 15 lbs 12oz
• 25 in
• Rolls all around 
• Scoots backwards
• Sits up for long periods of time but I'm still not comfortable leaving her sitting up by herself yet
• Has started BLW (Baby Led Weaning) and has tried avocado, banana, and mango
• Laughs more now but still not as much as we'd like
• Me and Elijah get the most laughs out of her which is probably because we try all day long to do it
• Size 3 diapers
• Size 6m clothes and fits in a few 12m rompers
• 0-3m size shoes
• Can say mama and is working on dada and bubba
• Still nurses round the clock and through the night, all night
• Does not sleep in her crib but that's about to change (Hello round 2 of CIO)
• Has 2 teeth on bottom that I can see but have not broken through the gum line yet