Henry Francis :: Twelve

I can't believe this is already the last 12 months of Henry post! Henry turned one last week, and he is so much fun. He is army crawling everywhere, and is finally starting to stand. He's a bit behind on the whole walking thing. We think he might have something called joint hyper-mobility in his hip joints (basically it means he's super flexible in his hips, and low muscle tone can come with it too), which can delay walking. It's also genetic and his cousin has it. I did bring it up to his doctor, but he said it's hard to really tell when they are so young. He said there is nothing we would do differently at this point anyways, but to keep encouraging him to stand.

Henry got three new top teeth all at once last week, is working on the fourth, along with two more on the bottom. Ouch! He had a few rough days, but overall has been his same smiley self. 

He LOVES to play with his big brothers, especially (big) Legos! He loves peek a boo and clapping his hands.

He has consistently been sleeping through the night for a couple of weeks now, and is an awesome, very flexible napper. You kind of have to be when you have three older and active siblings!

He weighed 19 lbs, and was 28.75 inches long at his appointment last week which puts him at 15% on the growth chart. It's the highest he's ever been, aside from his birth weight, so we are very happy about that!

Overall he is a very chill, easy going baby. Although, he can definitely be loud and crazy when he needs to be.

Here is Henry at 12 months old!

Will at 12 months
Sam at 12 months
Charlie at 12 months

Henry Francis :: Eleven

Well, I never did get around to posting Henry's 10 month update (life man), so we're just going to skip right to 11! 

Henry sure has accomplished a lot since month 9. He is now sitting, and army crawling everywhere. It's so adorable. He claps his hands, does "so big!", and will give high fives. He is not interested at all with walking/standing. He is such a sweet, content, smiley baby. He still doesn't want much to do with solid foods, but we're working on it. 

There is this one thing about Henry I keep forgetting to write down, and I want to remember it. With all my other boys anytime I would try and sing to them while rocking/nursing them to sleep they would immediately get distracted, stop nursing, and grab at my mouth. But Henry has been different. Even when he was a newborn he would calm right down when I would sing. I just love that about him. 

Now, because I missed out on posting pictures at month 10, I am going to make up for it in this post. There were just too many cute ones to choose from! Here is Henry at 11 months!

Sam at 11 months.
Charlie at 11 months.

Henry Francis :: Nine

Henry is 9 months old! He is perfecting the art of sitting, starting to make moves by pivoting around in circles, and has this screech that is soooo endearing.

He had his 9 month check up a couple of weeks ago, and weighing in at 16lbs 6oz he is finally on the growth chart; 4% baby! That might not sound very impressive, but with all the struggles we've dealt with we are, as Charlie would say, super duper excited about this.

He still isn't eating much solid foods, since he keeps getting a bad rash when he does. I've yet to take the time to do a process of elimination to see what food exactly is causing it, but for now he is content with supplementing with formula and breastfeeding.

Here is Henry at 9 months old!

Sam at 9 months old
Charlie at 9 months old

Henry Francis :: Eight

Henry is 8 months old! He's still a little sweetie pie, and gets cuter every day! He's getting closer to being able to sit on his own, and will pivot around in circles on his tummy. He just had his first two teeth pop up, and you'd never even known he was teething. He is sleeping pretty well. He usually gets up only once during the night, but last week he slept 12 hours straight through the night for the first time!

My DSLR camera is still broken, so I had to resort to cell phone pictures this time. But, alas, here is Henry, albeit a bit blurry, at 8 months old!

Sam at 8 months
Charlie at 8 months

Henry Francis :: Seven

Henry is 7 months old! He is such a happy baby! He moved out of mommy and daddy's room a few weeks ago, and he has been doing so great!

He's just starting to eat a little bit of solid foods. He's not a huge fan, but we keep trying a little bit here and there. I normally wouldn't push food on him, but since he's still so underweight I'd like him to get as many calories as he can. He's so close to rolling from his back to tummy, and loves playing with anything paper or plastic.

Here he is at 7 months. I didn't get many pictures this time. In the middle of our little photo shoot my dslr camera decided to stop working. Womp. Womp. But here are a few of my smiley boy.

Sam at 7 months
Charlie at 7 months

Henry Francis :: Six

I can not believe that Henry is already 6 months old! He's still a tiny little thing, but is happy and healthy! He is by far my most smiley baby yet. You are pretty much always guaranteed to get a smile out of him; it's the best!

Sleeping has been going pretty well. I can't almost always count on him taking at least a good, morning nap. A second nap and nighttime are still a crap shoot. But we will be putting him in his own room VERY SOON, so I'm hoping it will help us all get better sleep.

He still hates tummy time, but has been putting up with it more. He can roll from tummy to back, and is getting closer to rolling from back to tummy. He is not even close to sitting on his own. Ha! Oh well! Every baby has their own pace. He goes to the doctors next week, so we'll see where he's at with growth.

Here is Henry at 6 months! I can't stand his cuteness!

Sam at 6 months
Charlie at 6 months