5 months...

I feel like this month has been full of changes for our sweet girl!  She is really beginning to explore everything that she sees, hears or holds...I love watching her grow and experience all of her firsts!



Weight: No appt this month so I'm not sure
Length: Same as above
Size diaper: 2
Size clothes: 3-6 months, and 6 months
Eating: Nurses 5-7 times in a 24 hour period.  She is going 3-4 hours during the day.  At night we have started doing a dream feed, which is typically around 11:00.  After this she will go about 5 hours..she's pretty consistent waking up between 3:30 or 4 to eat.  The times that I haven't done a dream feed, she wakes up around 12:30 or 1, then again around 4...so the dream feed is the way to go for us right now.  I keep thinking I can skip it and she will make it through the night...but I have yet to be right on that one :)  We did start rice cereal this month, but we only did it a few days because of the horrible gas pains she experienced all night every time she ate it.  We then tried oatmeal cereal, but had the same experience as before.  So now we are off both and will try again sometime later this month.  She is SO ready to eat, though.  She stares us down when we eat and makes a chewing motion with her mouth as she watches us.  It breaks my heart because she LOVED the cereal as she was eating it...but her stomach definitely did not like it.
Sleeping: Takes most morning naps in her carseat...which I am so thankful she will do since we are rarely home in the mornings.  She takes another nap in the early afternoon, late afternoon, and usually a cat nap before bed.  She is pretty consistent on waking up between 7:30-8 each morning.


A *typical* day looks like this:
7:30 Wake up
8:00 Nurse
9:30 Nap
11:30 Nurse
12:00 Nap
3:30 Nurse
Sometimes a late afernoon nap
Cereal at 5
7:30 Nurse and bed
11:00 Dream feed
4:00 Nurse
Again - this is a typical day, but I'd say out of 7 days a week, only 4 at best are typical :)



Rolling ALL over the place...from tummy to back and back to tummy.  Its pretty impressive how quickly she can get from one point to the next just by rolling around.





Sweet baby had her first cold and fluid in both ears.



 

Emma still loves bath time.  She can be so fussy and immediately becomes content when I put her in the bath.



She still lights up every time Watson comes around.  It brings such a smile to my face to watch the two of them together. 





I love, love, love this smiley little girl and the JOY that she brings to our family.  I pray that even in these infant months that she is seeing an example of Christ in me as her mommy.  The weight of that hits it me at times...a lot of times, actually...and I am reminded of how THANKFUL I am for the grace of Christ.