Augusta - 5 Months Old

Wow, Sister!  Five months.  The sweetest five months ever!  Daddy asked the other night if you knew how to talk, walk, and run yet, haha!  I wonder if you'll always be this sweet.

You got your FIRST, and SECOND, and almost your third tooth this month!!!  You can sort of sit up now!  If we get you balanced, you can stay sitting for a little while before you slowly fall backwards or sideways.  You want to crawl badly.  You can scoot yourself around on your belly, and spin in all directions.  Lately you've been doing this thing where you put your face straight down and grunt while pushing your butt up in the air using your legs.  If you could only incorporate your hands, you may actually begin to crawl!

You had a few nights this month that you woke up hungry through the night, but now you're already back to normal and sleeping soundly through the night.  It's heavenly.

You don't cry during baths, you don't cry in the car...you really don't ever cry out honestly.

You love to laugh.  It's such a loud and happy cackle.  You smile so big when anyone talks to you, you laugh when I kiss your neck, and you laugh when your sister talks and plays with you.  You really watch when we are eating foods, and you enjoy tasting food a little bit here and there!

That pretty much sums you up...you're happy, growing, and beautiful.  You've had a bit of a yeast infection but you never complain and you never even spiked a fever when any of your teeth broke through.

Oh, and you got your first school picture taken!

Three Year Old Farrah

I could literally go on and on forever about Farrah right now.



My favorite thing to see her do is stand on her tippy toes.  I don't know why, but it warms my heart so much.  When she's washing her face or brushing her teeth mainly, she stands on her tippy toes the whole time and she's so big yet so very little all at the same time.

I love that she crawls into my bed nearly early morning sometime between 3:00-4:00am (and I also love it a little bit on nights she stays in her bed all night long, ha).

Some days I just go with the flow and try to be kind and teach kindness.  And some days my heart aches with the way she is growing up.  I absolutely LOVE how great and perfectly she handles drop-off at daycare now.  It's no big thing at all.  There were several changes and somehow, the combination of them made things easier for Farrah.  We have a much shorter drive there, Augusta is also there with her, and she's one of the first to be picked up.  I am in awe of how our little tiny children are put into such big situations like daycare, and then kindergarten.  I am really so proud of them all.

Some things I want her to stop saying: 

McDonald's - old McDonald's 

Fly swagger - fly swapper

Twizzlers - Twiddles 

Oatmeal cream pies - oatcream pies

Carousel - Carlasel 

Accidentally - actually dently 

She got a big girl (twin size) bed this past month.  We got a full size bed from Aunt Jean for Kylie, and so Farrah got Kylie's old bed.  Farrah loves it and so do I - I can sit or lay down next to her instead of having to kneel on the floor, and she looks so big in it!

Farrah learned (from daycare) how to pump her legs and swing herself on the swing!  She was practicing one day at home and said, "Willa look at me!  I'm on the big girl swing.  Oops, I forgot to pump.  Mommy, you pump sometimes.  You pump milk out of your boobies.  Willa, look at me, I'm pumping my legs."

Farrah truly loves and adores Augusta.  She cannot wait for her to be big enough to play with her!  She is always saying, "I love my baby sister."  She calls her Augusty Poo.  She always asks to hold her.  Her face lights up and she gasps in delight when she sees that Augusta has awoken. She talks to her in a sweet high voice, tickles her often, and even lets her hold her Lambie.  The most adorable thing lately is how Augusta will bust out cackle laughing at Farrah.  Oh my heart.  💗

My heart has been feeling a lot of feels lately.  The way Farrah was SO genuinely excited for an entire weekend to give Ms. Crystal her birthday present we picked out for her, a blue glass candle lantern.  The way she told me that God was in her heart.  How she had pieces of seashells she hunted for at daycare and found on the playground tightly held in her hand when I picked her up.  She said she had something to show me while she held them behind her back beaming with pride.  When she laid in bed that evening 5 1/2 hours later (because picking up her big brother & sister, playing, supper, and getting ready for bed takes way more time in the evening that we'll ever have time for), she asks if we still have her seashells.  How I have saved those still, as a sweet and huge reminder to me that the small things to me may be huge to her and she deserves for me to recognize and celebrate those things with and for her.  How badly she always wants to help and do things herself.  How much my baby girl has grown into such a full-of-life child.  How I wish for more time with her as each evening sets in.  How I'll never stop thanking God for her and her siblings and her daddy.

One night before bed, she told me that I am a good mommy.  I asked her what makes me a good mommy and said said, "You let me watch my Nabi at supper tonight since nobody was eating with me.  You always let me watch your phone.  You let me sleep a few more minutes.  You let me get into my car seat by myself.  You let me wash my face.  You let me pick out three books all by myself."  She still asks if she can do every little thing, and I see such excitement in her face when I tell her yes to even the most simple things like washing her face before bed and dumping out her box of toys.

The world, and especially our world, is a much better place with Farrah Oakley in it!