Charlotte turned five months old on May 23, 2012....just 3 days shy of celebrating our 11 year wedding anniversary.
Happy Anniversary, babe!
It felt soooo good to put a little effort into getting dressed up and going out for a nice date! Mat and I went for sushi, to a chocolate bar, and then a movie.
She continues to be such a blessing to our family in so many ways. At five months, she is now rolling both from belly to back and back to belly. She doesn't really do either all too often though. She is quite a laid back baby...content to just lie on a blanket and play with a few toys, swing away in her swing, or play on her activity mat. She seems to like to be upright more and more either sitting in her jumperoo or in her Bumbo seat. I guess it's a whole new view on the world sitting upright! She really seems to like to be outdoors. I'll bring her outside and sit her in the grass in her Bumbo and she'll just look around and watch MJ play. It's as if she's taking it all in. She's quite verbal-loves to giggle and coo. She reaches for your face or mouth a lot when you talk to her and gives absolutely huge smiles! She's such a happy little girl. She naps 2-3 times a day still. She always takes a morning nap after being awake only an hour or so, a nap again in the afternoon time, and sometimes a short nap in the early evening hours. Night time has been a bit more inconsistent lately. She goes to bed around 7:30 and will often sleep until around 5AM when she'll wake up to nurse, and then go back to sleep for a few more hours, but many a nights she also wakes up much earlier, around 1 or 2 to eat, then again around 5:30 or 6...obviously those nights lead to a bit more tired mama in the morn. Overall, it's still pretty good for 5 months old, but she had me quite spoiled by sleeping a consecutive 12 hours so early on, that regressing backwards has had it's challenging moments. Overall though, all is going well. She's falling asleep on her own in her crib unswaddled now. She's sleeping in a sleep sack. For nap times, she's still being swaddled and snoozing in her swing.
Of course, one of Charlee's biggest fans continues to be her big brother. He always calls her "his baby". He can make her giggle like nobody's bussiness. Case in point...
I just had to share this series of pictures, because it was so cute and so typical. Charlotte has hit that stage of trying to fit everything into her mouth including our hands and fingers. While trying to snap a picture of her and MJ together, she was way more interested in gnawing on MJ's arm, and he just thought it was the funniest thing ever!
nom, nom, nom
mmmmm
you're yummy
nom nom nom
Ah, finally a good one! :)
Charlotte's biggest change is that she's now been joining us at the dinner table. After a week or so of her giving us the stank eye while we were eating, we felt like she was ready to try to some solids. I was leaning towards waiting until she was six months old, but she was showing sings of readiness, so we gave it a try, and began with whole wheat oatmeal.
Daddy gave her the first bite
Not too sure about this stuff quite yet
Hmm...
Mommy and MJ's turn to feed her a few bites
She decided she loves this cereal, stuff. Gimme more!!
We stuck with the cereal for the first week and she ate every single drop each night. Just last night we began trying avocado. She doesn't seem nearly crazy about that, but we'll stick with it for a few more feedings. As for now, she's just having one solid a day-usually while we are eating dinner.
More updates to come soon on some of Charlotte's "firsts" as we've begun some fun family summertime adventures lately!
1 comment:
The words, the pictures, the videos...all just priceless!!! I love seeing it all. It makes me smile, laugh and shed a few tears all at the same time! Where has the last 11 years gone? Or, for that matter, the last 30+ years? It seems like you and Jeff were just "my babies". It is just wonderful that you have been able to document all of this!
Love,
Mom
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