5 months

Whew, Lil!

It was a long day today with you. I enjoyed it all, but you are still trying to get it together (as am I) from your first Christmas!

In addition to your first Christmas, you also turned 5 months old! You are SUCH a big girl. My favorite thing you do now is lean towards me and Daddy when you want us. You have started to lean towards other people, but you faithfully lean to us when we walk in the room. You are still a momma's girl... which is fine. Sure, it is tiring at times, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Our big project with you right now is your sleeping habits. We are trying to get you to sleep through the night with only one feeding. Our first step was to get you back in your bed! You had gotten used to sleeping with us (due to my laziness) and had to be weened from our bed. Then you weren't able to sleep unless you were being held or in your swing. So we moved your swing into our room. You spend the night half and half. Then, we started putting you to sleep in your crib. The first time you woke up, we'd move you in bed with us. We decided to not rely on the swing anymore. And, actually, that works well now. Before you thought when you were in the swing you had to sleep and would cry if you weren't tired. Now, I can put you in it and you be happy while I get ready in the morning. We have always had 8 o'clock as our goal for your bedtime. And you usually got it about right. But the more scheduled your naps are during the day, the closer we get to 8 at night.

You are on baby food and rice cereal right now, along with nursing. I nurse you during the night, when you wake up, before bed, and any "in between" times. For lunch and dinner you get baby food/cereal. It is exciting to see you get better at eating from a spoon, but sad, too. You aren't going to be my baby for long! (Well, you'll always be my baby... but you won't act like one!)

You can sit up pretty well now. You are getting much more mobile. When on your stomach, you roll over, and are now starting to scoot sideways and backwards. We used to be able to sit you reclined in the highchair, but not so much anymore! Now we have to watch you pretty closely as you like to lean forward too much.

TV is pretty awesome for you! You looooove to watch it! Your favorite videos right now are Baby Mozart and Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. We love to watch you watch them! You can be calmed immediately. They keep you entertained at least enough for me to do a load of dishes, laundry, or for me to shower!

Some days you just like to be held and to spend time with me. I love it. That's the kind of day we had today. The house was a wreck after this past weekend's events. Dishes needed to be done. Laundry, too. I had TV shows I wanted to catch up on, along with emails and blogs. But you had another idea that I liked much better. You wanted to snuggle and watch Finding Nemo. And that was OK with me. I wanted to snuggle with you, too. Because I know you won't want to much longer.


I love you very much, Lillian.

Love,
Momma

Weight: approx. 15 lbs (I weighed you with myself on our home scale today)
Height: ? We'll get updated for sure at your 6 mo. (!) appointment.