Five Months

I know.......I never got around to posting a four month post. I'm mad at myself for that, but February was C*R*A*Z*Y. To be honest though, there wasn't much of a difference in her between the 3rd to 4th month as there has been in the 4th to 5th.

There was debate on what day she actually turns 5 months old since February only has 28 days. I decided that since the 30th is usually the last day of the month, to just use the last day of the month for her 5 month birthday.

With all that being said, here's what our baby girl has been up to this month...

~At her 4 month checkup she weighed in at 15.5 lbs and was 26 inches tall. She is still in the 82nd percentile for her weight and the 95th percentile for her height. It's funny because when people see just her face, they always comment that she's a "chunky thing." The only thing chunky on the child is her cheeks, she is tall, skinny, solid muscle and strong.

~She got not only one, but both front bottom teeth came in this past month. Both teeth came in within 24 hours. Her toothy grin is so stinking cute, but she has yet to let me get a picture of them. She likes to cover them up with her tongue all the time and her fingers are always in her mouth.

~Olivia can now roll over both ways. For the longest time she could only roll to her right, but now she's got both sides covered. She still has yet to master rolling from her stomach to her back. She is getting ready to crawl. She can get her little butt in the air and her feet going, but she cannot quite figure out what to do with her front half. We're pretty convinced that she's going to walk before she crawls because she always wants to stand up.

~She has just in the past week started drinking a 6oz bottle every 3 hours. She has accomplished cereal now, but she only eats it with applesauce, bananas, or peaches in it. Her pediatrician says she wants me to keep only feeding her solids only once a day and to move her up to twice a day next month.

~She is still getting up through the night. On most nights when we had a good day (i.e. meaning we stayed home and got good naps in), she goes down at 7pm, sleeps till 1-2 am, and then sleeps till 7am. But unfortunately, we have one or two days a week that we just cannot be home all day and she doesn't get good naps in. On those nights she gets up several times a night. I don't feed her every time, but I do go in there and check on her. We're working on the sleep training, but this child is proven to be very stubborn. I have come to the terms that I cannot just let her cry all night. Call me weak, but I don't have the will power. I personally feel like she's still too young to let her do that. When she can fully move herself around (i.e. sitting up, rolling over and back) then I will feel comfortable enough to just leave her alone for the night.

~She has suddenly become fascinated with the dogs. She loves biscuit, but of course, biscuit could care less about her. When they come around she just stops and stares. When they start to wrestle with each other, she thinks it's the most hilarious thing in the world.

~As you can tell from most of our pictures, she loves the jumpy john bouncy thingy. She will sit in it for up to an hour at a time. When she's not sitting in it, she tries to make whatever she sitting in or standing on into a bouncy thing. We've started calling her Tigger. In the past month, we've noticed her really starting to play with her toys. She loves anything she can put on as jewelry. She hasn't taken to her walker yet, but she is loving her exersaucer now that she can play with the toys.

~She's a talker. She's always got something to say. When you say something to her or ask her a question, she will always respond back. We might have no clue what she's saying, but she looks at you like she knows just what your talking about. She's a very observant baby and always observant of whats going on around her. I love watching her soaking things in. Her pediatrician called her a "very advanced baby." Sorry, I had to brag.