5 months!

Yeah! I am five months old! Can you believe it? At five months I am learning everything and loving everyone more each day! Let's see, my resume...

I can smile and laugh and I'm a little ticklish (mainly under my chin), I have mastered the roll over- both ways-, I have accomplished forward propulsion (not to be confused with crawling, but definite forward motion) I can sit up when supported and I can swallow food when my hands don't get in the way. I make sounds like high pitched squeals, ahh and bbbb and like to roll my tongue around in my mouth- I still snort when I'm mad.

My favorite things to do are jump in my jumperoo, play on my activity mat - which is getting smaller everyday with all my movin', watch my puppies, play in my excersaucer and go for walks- any walk will be fine- bjorn, backpack or stroller.

I prefer butternut squash and apples to anything else, but as long as you don't come near me with rice cereal and you mix any other fruit or veggie with the preferences listed above, I will be happy to put them in my belly.

I can confidently say that at 5 months I am living large, super happy and loving every minute!

Pulling Teeth

Mommy says it is like pulling teeth to get daddy to take a picture of the two of us...and in fact, Marlena took this, not daddy. We asked daddy and he picked up the camera and took one silly shot and thought that would do. He needs to learn that girls need choices! Luckily, we had extra help to step in and get a good shot.

P.S.- For those of you who haven't seen mommy in a while, yes she got all her hair cut off. Apparently it is what all the mommies are doing these days because we saw a few weeks ago that Noah's mom cut hers too (and it looks GREAT, by the way)! My mommy said a few less inches wasn't a stretch after I pulled most of it out...cutting it shorter raised the stakes, but don't worry, I can still get my sticky little fingers around it! So mommy keeps threatening it cut it even shorter but daddy keeps threatening divorce...so we'll see what happens ;-)

Big changes

We got together this weekend with some friends of ours Andy and Marlena. One of the last times we were all together was the Jimmy Buffett concert (above) when mommy was eight and a half months pregnant and Marlena was only about 8 or 9 weeks pregnant (She made a really good non-drinking partner at the concert...although Andy and Daddy partied it up in true Buffett style).

Here we are six months later, Blayne in my arms and Marlena about eight months pregnant! Pretty crazy! Luke Daniel is scheduled to join us on Thanksgiving Day, the 22nd of November! We can't wait to meet him...that's all Blayne needs is another boyfriend.

Gone Fishin'

I caught one!

One of Daddy's friends at work, Pam , bought me this super cool caterpillary thing to play with! I was having a lot of fun kickin' it and pulling on it until...I got caught! Even Mr. Pineapple Man couldn't save me. Eventually the caterpillar and I made up and are on good terms again, but for all those babies out there with caterpillars, watch out- if you're not careful- they'll get ya!

Apples, Bananas and Pears, oh my!

I have been having lots of fun trying new foods! I have pretty much exhausted the list of foods for babies about six months old. We borrowed a Cworkbook -compliments of Aunt Peggy and Uncle Luke- and mommy has been having lots of fun cooking baby food.

By about five months all the baby books say that you should start to really see my personality develop. Well, I don't know about that, but I can tell you that the one thing I am is independent, and I have been since day one. It is no more blatantly obvious than when you feed me.
Many of you probably remember how at a mere 9 weeks, I was feeding myself a bottle at night, well just because we're now involving a spoon doesn't mean that anything has changed. No, no, I prefer to do it myself. Try and feed me, I dare you, and I will grab the spoon with my left hand, shove it in my mouth and proceed to grab the food out of my mouth with my right hand and shove it back in. That way I am sure to get a change of clothes after every meal.

What- gone? It can't be- I'm not completely covered yet! More, please!

The Roll-over: Not so fun for mom

Ah yes, this is what nap time looks like now. After much struggling with the whole napping thing, Blayne and I had finally reached a point where I would lay my sweet baby down on her side and she would quickly shut her eyes and fall asleep. Not anymore. There is too much to see and do. Nap time has somehow been replaced with acrobatics and gymnastics of all sorts to ensure that no sleeping will be done. It is a great time to practice rolling over and even attempting some forward motion. If and when she does fall asleep, there is no telling where she will be when she wakes up!

Mirror mirror on the wall...

who is the cutest baby of them all? (We had to replace the word fair with cute...without doing that I would have never had a chance!)

I do enjoy this cute little baby...I hope she comes over to play more often!