5 Months Old

Wow! Kirksey, five months ago you were born! You have changed SO much since then. It has not always been easy to see the day to day change, but looking back it is HUGE.

Back then...

And today

So, what are you up to these days?

You still wear some of your 0-3 month clothes, but are starting to fill out more of your 3-6 month outfits. You are a petite little girl. I have so much fun putting little dresses on you, you always look so adorable in them. I love seeing you in the little smocked dresses!

You wear size 2 diapers. You are getting really good at having blow-outs too. It is funny how you don't miss a beat when you are eating to completely fill up your diaper. (You get that from your daddy!) Needless to say, we go through our fair share of laundry stain removing spray!

You have been sleeping so good the last couple of weeks. I don't have to feed you in the middle of the night anymore. Most nights over the past week you have even slept straight through to the morning! You usually get nap in the morning that last anywhere between an hour to two hours. We are still working on getting a good nap in the afternoon though. You like to take little cat naps later in the day.

You give the BIGGEST smiles and I absolutely LOVE them! You really do smile with your whole face and your eyes can light up the room, along with my heart. I mean, just look at you...

You are getting pretty good at sitting, but you still need support. You have started to use your arms to help prop yourself up.

You are getting closer to crawling. You will hold your top half up with your arms and start moving your legs, but you can only really get one end moving at a time so far. Don't worry though, you will be crawling around in no time.

You still love to be held while we are standing up. Somehow you have always known when we sit down and you immediately let us know that you want us standing instead. We have tried to trick you lots of times, but it never very rarely works.

You really like to stand up too. Your little legs are so strong. I think you are going to be athletic. You have so much fun the the baby einstein exersauser.

You have found your feet and toes. You like to get them up to your mouth...you like to get everything up to your mouth these days.

You are starting to reach for anything I happen to be holding or walk by. You have also started to reach out to your daddy and I when you want us to pick you up.

I think you are much closer to getting your first tooth. You are always sucking on your fingers, drooling a lot, and just over the past few days you have started to "grind" your gums. However, no teeth are in view yet.

You have been eating rice cereal once a day for about the last month. We are slowly adding in a second feeding of rice cereal everyday now. Soon we are going to try your first "real" foods!
You love music. It can almost always soothe you.

You are starting to laugh, and I mean belly laughs. It is definitely among the sweetest sounds in the entire world! We have only gotten you to laugh a few times. Daddy has gotten you to laugh by tickling you and sweeping the patio with a broom. I have gotten you to laugh by shaking a garbage bag. You keep us on our toes to figure out what will make you laugh next! Here's a little video clip from just the other day of you laughing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxKGGNkxCKg

We love you SO much! We are overflowing with the joy you give us each and every day. We love all the little moments we get to share with you. Your daddy and I talk about how fast you are growing up and how much we love the stage you are in, then you change a little and we say the same thing all over again!