6 Month Photoshoot

Claire Merrilee Davies

- 6 Months -

Thank you to the amazing Talia Jensen for taking these pictures, we will cherish them forever!! 

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Month Six

6 Months Old

Nicknames:

Care, Care Bear, Clareece, Claireeeey, Clairey Merry, Clairnabumbas, Maurice (by uncle Britton)

Weight: 

16lbs 12 oz (70%)

Length: 

 27.75 in (97%)

Diaper Size: 

2 but we will probably be starting in size three in the next couple weeks! 

Clothes Size: 

6-9 months 

Sleep:

Sleep never has been a strong point for little Claire. It is probably mostly my fault. Because I wake up so early to teach piano lessons I get a little bit lazy when it comes to getting Claire back to sleep if she wakes up in the middle of the night. On occasion, I will just have her come sleep in our bed so we can both continue sleeping, plus I love the cuddles. I am afraid it has made a bad habit. We are working on having her soothe herself a little more and it is so hard! We have tried having her "cry it out" a couple nights and it is a little bit torturous. I think we are making some good progress though because lately she is just waking up maybe once a night but not needing to eat. I usually just give her her binky and she goes back to sleep. I hope this continues! 

Sleepy Babe

Always needs her blanky and her binks! 

Diet:  

Up until the middle of this month Claire was nursing a couple times a day and taking a bottle to supplement all other feedings. The nursing slowly started to dwindle and be less and less often. I felt like my supply just couldn't keep up and she was getting really frustrated eating on me. She bit me a couple of times out of frustration and I decided it might be time to stop. I was sad because I loved breastfeeding and the uninterrupted bonding time but I also realized it was causing me a lot of stress on me. With the schedule I have it just isn't realistic to feed her and pump. I'm so thankful for the almost six months I had to nurse little Claire! 
This month we also started Claire on a couple of new foods. She has tried rice cereal, apples, pears and sweet potatoes. She doesn't love any of it and doesn't really give it a whole lot of attention which is funny because she stares at other peoples food all the time. We have also given her bottles with a little bit of water and juice as well. Lately she has even had to have some prune juice mixed in with her formula because she has had some digestive issues.

Health: 

This month Claire braved her very first head cold. It started with a little dry cough that progressively got much more wet and icky! I took her in to the doctor and they called it a viral brochilitis. It was icky. She was pretty miserable with lots of snot and a cough that would constantly wake her up! We did get to try out the nose Frida which was. . . actually really satisfying to use. Very efficient! 

This month Claire has also had some pretty yucky digestive issues. She has been quite constipated going 5+ days without a poop. I think this is just a side effect of her not nursing anymore. I'm hoping to get it figured out because it is just the saddest thing to watch her push and push with no luck. 

Likes:

Playing Patty Cake

Being held and being in on "the action"
Baths and Showers
A soft blanket by her face
Mam binkies
Her giraffe Sophia
Sitting in her Bumbo
Sitting up (Almost all by herself)
Binky but only when sleepy
Table food
Rolling over from tummy to back and back to tummy 
Playing with toys

Dislikes:

Sleeping in her own bed. 
Getting Dressed 
Being constipated
Nursing covered.
Being held in so she can't see what's going on. 

Things I Don't Want To Forget: 

Conference Sunday at the Davies Cabin

Happy Birthday Jake! 

Finally getting a Snap Chat!

St. George for Spring Break

Little Fishy!

Claire loves swimming with dada!

Swimmin with Gram!

Date night to Pizza Factory!

Social Girl

Claire loves her dada! 

Claire is the most social and interactive little baby. She has always had great facial expressions and been very talkative but lately it has just been so fun to see her little personality come out more and more. I love it. She is a happy, smily, excited little thing! I can't wait to see her personality develop more and more. I love taking her binky and putting it my mouth, the second she sees it she immediately grabs it at pulls it out and puts it back in her mouth. It is hilarious. She loves playing patty cake and peekaboo. Every night before bed she gets a little "slap happy" and will have hilarious laughing fits. It's usually the warm before the storm because she often ends up in a breakdown shortly after.

Playing Piano:

Month Five

Month Five

Nicknames:

 Muffin, Clairece, Clairenabumba, Clairbunmba, Pumpkin Pie, Cyaire, Claire Bears. 

Diaper Size: 

We are wearing size two diapers and have had far less blowouts ever since we made the switch!

 Clothes Size: 
3-6 months 

Health: 

Claire has been so healthy! We feel so lucky! She has yet to get sick and is usually just a very happy smily baby! She is rolling from her tummy to her back quite often, she loves smiling and laughing and grabbing at her toys! 

Sleep: 
Sleep seems to be getting a little better but we are still up a couple times a night to put her binky back in or to rock her for a few minutes. Hopefully things will continue to get better and better.  Claire is still waking up about 3 times every night. Usually I will just nurse her for a couple minutes and she will fall back asleep and go down pretty easy.

Diet:  

Right now Claire is still breastfeeding half the time and taking a bottle the other half. She drinks about 6ish ounces every 3ish hours!

 Things I don't want to forget: 

Easter:

Cousin Time: 

There are three cousins all the same age! Katie's daughter Grace was born on October 14th, Claire was born Halloween and then Jenny's cute little Ellie was born on New Years Day! It's funny because Ellie and Grace are my first cousins and then Claire is second cousins with both of them. I know they will be the best of buddies all growing up! 

Playing with Grandpa Matt: 

First Pony Tail: 

Claire's hair is just a funny situation all around. She was born with lots of really dark hair. It has since lightened up quite a bit but it just grows like a weed but only on the top. She has a nice bald patch in the back and the rest of her hair just does whatever it wants. She has one really big cowlick in the front and we are worried for what that little guy might have in store for her in the future. She has two REALLY long hairs on the sides of her head by her ears that we affectionately call her Smeagol hairs. If you look really close in this picture on the right side of her head, you will see one of these Smeagol hairs sticking straight up in the air.