5 Months Old

4-23-19 to 5-23-19

5 Months Old

Eden 5-1-19

Started growling talking today

Noticed your feet and now have a fascination with them and trying to get them into your mouth

Still not rolling from back to front

Sometimes you will roll from front to back

You love talking and laughing. 

You are a stubborn laugher and it takes a lot and you have to be in the right mood to get you to actually laugh, but you love to smile big open mouth smiles

5-11-19

You rolled over for the first time from your back to your front while we were at Brian and Brittany's house.  Sam witnessed it and I was bummed I did not see it for the first time.

5-19-19

You are no longer really growling, but you are definitely getting more of a little personality and love to make your disappoinemtns and happiness known to us by grunts and squeals of glee as well as anger squeals haha.  Those are the best.

You are making sounds like a horse starting the last few days.  I realized that I didn't get your growls on camera as much as I would have liked, so today I videoed your horse sounds.  Love them so much!

You are now so free with your laughs.  I don't know what changed, but you especially love to just sit there and laugh at me when I am given you a bath. 

The bath is definitely one of your happiest places.  

You love your feet and love grabbing them and sticking them in your mouth.

You are now getting really great at rolling from your back to front and now you front to back.  You are also moving your body around better to see things and moving the front of you to face what you want to look at.  You are not great at it yet, but it is coming.

You love kisses on your cheeks and love when I kiss your neck.  You laugh and I love the noises you make then I tickle your neck and upper body.:)

You are officially wearing a size 3 diaper 

Wearing 6 Month clothes, but I probably could move you into a size 9 Months.

You are not great at sleeping through the night, but you are great at going to bed in your crib/pack and play when you are tired.  

At night we have a pretty great routine of me feeding you around 7 and then you going down in your room until you wake up around 12 or sometimes sooner.  The hard part is how many times you wake up during the night and getting you back to sleep where you don't loose your binki, because then you cry and fuss over not having your binki.  I have to figure something out because I definitely need to sleep through the night again.  You have done it quite a few times, I am just not sure what I can do to make it happen every night.  You think I would be a profession at this by now.  You love sleeping in your sleep sack and love your blanket by your face when you sleep.  I love watching you play with the quilt strings off the blanket in your crib.  So fun to see you using your fine motor skills.

You are wanting to eat food so desperately now!  I know it is time to start feeding you, but it's hard for me to want to start because I know it just means more time work, and mess.  But this morning I decided I am going to start feeding you rice cereal with us in the mornings when we eat then I will start adding on from there.  You loved it and wanted to eat again at lunch.  

Your silly dad has given you several licks of ice cream and popsicle and you loved it of course, and almost hurt yourself when you got a hold of the popsicle stick with your strong grip and grab and almost shoved it right into your mouth, but luckily sam stopped it because that would have hurt you.

To say we all love you is an understatement.  Evelyn wants to be holding you every second.  So do all your sisters.  They love when you wake up and see you for the first time in the morning, it's everyones favorite.  WE all get so excited we start shouting your name to get your attention just to get you to smile at us.  We live for those baby smiles.

I am totally smitten and obsessed with you and your squishy little body and face.

I call you my squishy and I love you so much!!