5 Months!

 

Since Maisy turns 5 months old on Thanksgiving, I figured I’d better post this a day early.  Here is what our 5 month old is up to these days:

• She wears 3-6 month clothes, some 6-9 month pajamas, and size 3 diapers.
• She eats 4 ounce bottles every 3 hours during the day and a 6 ounce bottle before bed.
• She eats Stage 1 baby food twice a day, and loves every bite of it!  She has had rice cereal, carrots, sweet potatoes, bananas, pears, green beans, peas, and applesauce.  She seems to like it all!
• She loves to eat ice cubes and frozen bananas in her mesh teether and also loves to chew on frozen teethers.  She chews and drools a lot so I won’t be surprised when a tooth comes through.
• She goes to bed by 7pm every night and then wakes up anywhere from 3-6am to eat.  So she is sleeping from 8-11 hours at night.
• She is seriously becoming mobile.  She can get anywhere she wants by rolling and has even started putting her butt up in the air and scooting her knees like she wants to get moving.  My girl is in a hurry to get somewhere! 
• She HAS to be part of the action at all times.  She is perfectly content laying on a blanket or swinging, as long as someone is near, but if you leave her there she will let you know that she wants you to come back.
• Her hair has actually started falling out on the sides, which you can’t tell because the top is so long now that it covers it up.  But if you flip one of the sides up, it’s pretty bear under there!
• The best word to describe her from the day she was born to now is SWEET.  Her voice is sweet, her cuddles are sweet, her laugh is soooooo sweet.
• She reaches for everything and can grab her little toys now and chew on them.  Her favorite toys are her purse, her rattle, and her bug friend that rides in the car with her.  At Nana’s she loves to spend time in her activity gym.
• Her eyes light up when she sees someone familiar like Mommy, Daddy, or Ryder…it’s my favorite to see that we can make her feel so happy.

It wouldn’t be normal if big brother didn’t come crash our party! 

Look at Maisy’s faces in these pictures.  First she’s like “Ohhhh boyyy, here he comes, let me brace myself.”  Then it’s “Yayyy, he brought me my rattle”.  And finally “what the heck happened Mom, how does he always steal my spotlight?”