You're five months old and even though time is flying by, I am doing my best to hang on to each moment with you as you are now. You are such a sweet, sweet baby. Our friends have commented on how perfect you are, so it's clearly not just me. :) Really, though, you sleep well (last night from 7:15-6:30), you rarely cry, and you are quick to smile. You smile with your whole face - a big, gummy, open mouth smile I LOVE!
You started solids this month, and probably could have started sooner but we were getting settled in our new place. We're taking it slow, but so far you've had rice cereal and oatmeal and you are a CHAMP. You know how to lean in for the spoon (and try to grab it from our hands, of course) and you can down some serious cereal. The first day you tried it you ate almost three tablespoons!
We started doing a bedtime routine for you (read a book, pray together, sing a song, and put you down awake) and you do so great with it. You pretty much always go to sleep with minimal fussing (maybe 1-2 minutes) and you're out for the night! You suck on your left thumb and roll over to your tummy to sleep. I still feed you one last time before I go to bed, but I think it's getting to be more about me than you; I don't think you really need it because you don't usually nurse very long. But I am not ready to stop, especially because I am hyper protective of my milk supply (you're still on breastmilk only (no formula), and I'd like to keep it that way as long as possible!).
Developmentally, you're doing great. You roll both ways, changing position and rolling across the floor; you can pick up toys and bring them to your mouth or shake them; you can babble some sounds ("ba ba" this morning - I'm trying to get a "Mamamamama" out of you but Daddy is of course sabatoging my efforts by flooding you with "Dadadadada"). Best of all, you can sit up! Unassisted! For significant periods of time! You still have to concentrate really hard to play with a toy and sit up, but you can do it. And when we lay you on your tummy, you've started pulling yourself all the way up to hands and knees.
Your favorite person is still Eden, by a long shot. If she is anywhere near, you are smiling and squealing and trying to get her to pay attention to you. And then grabbing a fistful of her hair and trying to eat it. Thankfully she's being very patient so far!
You're such an easygoing baby. This month you've been fighting a slight fever and the only way we can tell is that you're hot - you are just perfectly content. Turns out you have a UTI, poor baby, and you're not even really bothered by it! (Except the medicine - you like to spit it out. You have to stop that, seriously.)
All in all, you're pretty awesome and Daddy and I (and Eden) love you so much! We are so, so happy you've joined our family and made it complete.
Love,
Mommy
2 comments:
LOVE that cute picture! she looks so much like you! can't wait to kiss her in a week :)
precious.
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