5 Months Old!

Can you believe she's already five months old?  Just look at that face! I can't handle how cute she is. Even on the rare occasions when she's driving us crazy.

I had brilliant plans to do this month's photo in the chair in her room because she's getting pretty good at sitting up (especially if she's leaning on something...don't judge - her head is SO BIG!), but the plan quickly dissolved:

Sliding...

Sliding...

Flip! and going for the light!

I love lamp!

This all happened in the span of about 8 seconds.

So then I thought - oh! we can prop her up against the poof in her room.  It worked well for the Halloween pictures!

This is the look of a baby planning something big...

Sliding...

Sliding...

Flip!

And so, in the end, we went back to what we know.  Lying on the floor next to bunny.  Of course, she didn't hardly hold still.  I think she learned this pose from all the yoga I did when I was pregnant.

We didn't do an official five month appointment at the doctor's this month, so I don't really know her stats.  I'm sure she's taller and her head is bigger.  When we went in for her ear infections she was just under 12 pounds (a slow weight gain from her four month appointment, but with her being sick, she hasn't been eating normally).  She's now pretty much out of her three month clothes completely and, as you can tell, NEVER HOLDS STILL.  She's developing quite the personality - laughing a lot, especially at us (like when I shout "OUCH" when she bites me...or if I swear when I stub my toe on something).  She has fully grown out of her hatred of the car (thank God!) and loves looking out the window when we drive places.  She's at such a fun age, especially because, aside from the sliding and the flipping, she isn't quite mobile yet.

Check out the progression!

 

See how she's rubbing her toes together? She uses them like hands and even grabs things with them.  Funny enough, someone else in this house also does this with their feet.  One hint - it's not me!