Sidda Lee | 5 months | Tater Baby Tres

The girl is 5 months. I don't even know where the past 5 months have gone. She's the absolute most perfect angel baby and I'm so blessed that she is ours.

Every month, on the eve of her birth day, I always tell Taylor; "do you remember what we were doing 5 months ago?" And he always says something along the lines of, waiting for sister, etc...While I'm more real about it..."I was FREAKING out and crying and panicking about wanting an unmedicated birth and being induced since she stopped growing!" And then he calls me dramatic, and we move on with our life and look at this wonderful little girl that we would do anything for.

She's 5 months and is still exclusively on mamas milk. She's had a spoonful of oatmeal mixed with mamas milk and then a spoonful of frozen yogurt; but that's it. We typically do a baby led weaning approach when it comes to food and try to avoid purees for the most part, but we may do them sporadically. BUT...babies don't need 'real food' yet. Food before 1 is just for fun, and we plan to slowly start introducing some fruits and veggies and I know she is SUPER EXCITED! We both get really excited to start food, but we don't want to rush anything.

She's wearing 3-6 month clothes, rocking her size 2 diapers, and is growing like a weed. Everyday I swear she gets a new fat roll and they are the CUTEST!

She's loving tummy time, can roll from tummy to back and back to tummy. She really enjoys kisses from Henry, snuggles from Shepherd, and slobber kisses from Norman. She's (for the most part) a very easy going baby. She goes with the flow. She goes to the gym with me, to work, to the store, to shower, EVERYTHING, but I really don't mind it.

Her hair is marked by 2 distinct cowlicks; thank you Taylor Skelton. Her hair sticks up. No matter what. Ain't no helping it, and we are okay with it. There's no telling right now, but we *think* her hair may end up being strawberry blonde and she may have dark eyes. The boys eyes were blue at birth and have gotten more blue. This girl. Her eyes get darker daily, but she's BEAUTIFUL.
And we adore her.

She squeals. She talks. She's perfect.

Some nights she sleeps. Other nights she's up every 3-4 hours. But she rarely fusses. So we are okay with it.

Sidda Lee is PERFECTION.

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Sidda Lee | 3 Months | Tater Baby Tres |

My sweet little angel girl is 3 months, and it's been a good, fun three months.

She eats, she sleeps, she giggles, she farts, and then she eats some more.

I know we've pretty much had 3 kids in as many years, but if sweet Sidda had been our first or second; we'd probably have about 6 babies by now, she's that sweet and perfect. It's so hard to think that she had such a rough start in life and now she's here and amazing and absolutely perfect. I adore her. I mean, I flipping adore her. I cannot even think about my life without her. I'm not going to lie, when she was first born and put on my on chest after that slow labor/quick birth, I looked down at her and ... didn't feel anything. She didn't look like my other babies. She was tiny. But her face and brow were so swollen; her eyes were bloodshot, she wasn't what I was imagining my baby girl would look like. She wasn't cute. She wouldn't latch to my breast. She wouldn't urinate. She couldn't maintain her body temperature, her bilirubin was way too high. It was hard. But after a few hours, and seeing all the struggles she was going through and knowing she was going to struggle for the first few months, my mama gene kicked in and I loved her. I wanted to hold her and protect her and snuggle her. I wanted and needer her to be okay. After 5 days in the hospital, plus numerous visits after discharge, we are finally 'normal,' if that's even a thing!

She is loving mamas milk and can eat for hours on end and then can go hours without eating. No 2 days with her are the same.

She has the gummiest little grin, and the silliest little laugh. She rocks her turbans and topknots like no one else. She's an amazing little blessing and I'm super happy that she is mine. The boys adore her. If she's crying, they come over, 'it's okay Sidda, I here' and they will grab her hand and kiss her. I don't really know why or how I got some of the sweetest big boys on the planet, but I am thankful. Since day one there hasn't been any jealousy about sister Sidda or ANYTHING. There's plenty of jealousy between them (insert eye roll), but it never involves her, they just love her. And I love them even more for how the treat her.

She's a trooper. She's been all over to work with me and really hasn't complained about it too much. I guess she'd rather be with me than have to take a yucky bottle from daddy! We are still working on her bottle skills and she really doesnt care anything about a bottle. If it's a bottle from daddy, she's a bit more receptive, but if it's from anyone else, she will fight it. I think at this point she's had maybe 2 bottles and prefers the breast. I'll be honest, I do too; anything is better than having to pump.

She's rocking 3 month clothes and we are still in size 1 diapers; apparently pregnant me stocked up on A LOT of them, and we are trying to use them all before moving up to size 2. She's still lean, but her belly and thighs are FAT and beautiful and perfect. Her arms and legs are short; she's a cute little disproportionate thing. Her ears stick out more than either boys did, and one is lower than the other...it's the strangest thing, but so cute! We didn't even notice it, our doctor pointed it out and now I think it's adorable. She recently found her hand/fingers and parades them around like she's the only person in the world who has them. It's the cutest.

She's not much of a crier. She can throw down if she's gassy or tired, and daddy is the master of getting her to go down if she's fighting sleep. As of right now, every night is different, but she's a decent sleeper and I am eternally grateful for it. Henry was a decent sleeper as a baby, but Shepherd was HORRIBLE. He didn't have ONE night of sleeping through the night until he was 11-12 months old. We were expecting the same with Sidda, but she's just an all around different baby.

I do a have *trick* for making things easier with a newborn. Lower your expectations. For real. We've already had 2 pretty rough newborns, add to the fact they are exactly 12 months apart, and things can't get much harder. With Sidda, we just assumed she would be an ass of a baby; not sleeping, crying all the time, or God forbid, a colic stricken NIGHTMARE like Henry. Once you've experienced that, and God gives you a break in the form of a cute yet disproportionate angel, you can handle ANYTHING. And even when she does that occasional bad night, I look at her and think, you're all mine. And I love it.

         

Some iPhone snaps from the past month:

First night in her room. In her crib. She did great. I didn't.

After nursing snuggles 

Red Robin trip!

Real quick...which brother does she trust more?

Happiest little angel

The boys built a fort around Sidda 

All three in one photo, it can be done!

We are loving having Sidda around. I asked the boys if they remember what life was like before Sidda, and they said nope! Same guys, same.

Sidda Lee | 2 Months

My sweetest of sweets, my angel, my little rainbow is 2 months old...and life is GOOD.

She's such a joy to be around!
She's learning her voice, but will only talk for me...Daddy tries and she starts looking for me instead. We think, in her mind, Daddy is called Beard, and I am known as Milk and Titties 😂

She's not a fan of mama not being around. She's taken one bottle when I was at a wedding and did okay at it. The other night, for our Valentines/my birthday, we went out for dinner and were maybe gone for 2 hours TOPS...she refused her bottle and screamed until mommy came home 😢

It's amazing knowing that I am sustaining her; that I am her food, her comfort, her everything. But then, it's EXHAUSTING. Utterly exhausting knowing that I am her everything. I adore this girl; I have prayed for her and over her too many times to count, but sometimes, mama needs shower that lasts more than 3 minutes, or to eat a meal with BOTH hands, not nursing a baby while eating or eating cold food.

Motherhood is amazing, but also it's exhausting. And that's okay. It's supposed to be. It's all encompassing. And I wouldn't trade a thing about it.

This sweet love goes down about 9:00PM and here lately, has been sleeping till about 4:00AM, waking to nurse, and then back to sleep until 6:30...mama ain't mad ya girl, not at all! I'm already dreading that 4 month sleep regression; it hit both the boys so hard, but it was also coupled with the time change so it was an absolute cluster. Here's to avoiding a cluster!

 Sidda girl is rocking 0-3 month and 3 month clothes and size 1 diapers. She's about 11 pounds of sweet kisses and giggles and has the most amazing expressions.

When I find the time between workouts/working/nursing sessions, I plan to do a 'life lately' update and give y'all a glimpse of what our daily routine looks like. As for now, enjoy the Sidda spam!

Sidda Lee | One Month | Tater Baby Tres

The sweetest littlest blessing of our family is now one month old...and dare I say, it's been GREAT.
She's sweet. She's cute. She cuddles endlessly. She (sort of) sleeps.

At one month old, all the blood that had filled her eyes during delivery has FINALLY reabsorbed, and we can see the whites and also her sweet baby blues.

She's wearing newborn and 0-3 month clothes. The newborn clothes don't fit her anymore length wise, but she still can't fill them out 'fat belly wise.'  She wears size 1 diapers most days; it really just depends on where we are and what size we have available. She's tiny, but I'm trying to bulk her up! Donuts 4 life.

The first month with sweet Sidda has been great. We are excited to watch her grow!

Sweet Sidda Lee, it's been a marvelous month with you in our lives. We are so blessed to call you ours!