Umm, can you believe my baby girl is already five months old? I kind of have a hard time believing it myself. It seems like we've had even more new and exciting things happen this month.
Can you believe I'm 5 months old already?!?
Henlie is still wearing her 0-3 month clothes (and the one 3-6 month onesie that's on the small side), but most of them are seeming to fill out. I did retire one small onesie of the 0-3 collection, but everything else still fits for the time being.
She has gotten much more interactive. She reaches for toys and grabs at stuff (including hair if you give her enough time to latch onto it). The other day, I had her in her play pen while I gathered up stuff to leave. She rolled to her side and grabbed at one of her toys and was playing with it. Naturally, I just had to give that toy to her in her carseat while we went to Grandma's house.
Along with hair, she has also started grabbing at noses, lips, and mommy's bowl of food. (We discovered that recently while having dinner at Grandma's house. She was fussing, so I picked her up and stood up. However, I was trying to eat dessert and had to keep switching hands in order to eat and then keep the bowl out of her reach.)
She still isn't a huge fan of being on her tummy, but she seems more content there than she used to. Lazy, almost. She rarely will roll on her own now, but just lay there until she gets upset enough we roll her over instead. Although, if she is going to roll, it's pretty instantaneous from the moment you put her on her stomach. So it's either roll immediately or hang out. She still hasn't made it from her back to her tummy, but she will roll to her side. Usually it's because there's an interesting toy she wants to check out :)
Who me?
Getting to this curiosity stage, she is enthralled by the puppy. Sometimes she'll watch the bird, too, but the puppy is the one usually around (lonely and saddened that she doesn't get the attention she wants).
Air guitar!
She still jabbers sometimes, and she has added a few new sounds to the repertoire. She still isn't really using any consonant sounds, though.
This month, we were treated with her first laugh! She and I were playing peek-a-boo, and she gave me three "heh" noises in a row. Before then, we would ocassionally get one "heh," but I consider those practice laughs. Three in a row, though, is legit laughter :) Since then, we have even gotten her sort of giggling. It's fun to hear how her laugh has developed already.
Other new discoveries - her tongue. She has stuck out her tongue before, but it was always within the confines of her lower lip. This month, her tongue broke free. I think she realized it is its own appendage. This has entertained me quite a bit.
TOES!
Lately she has become seemingly super hungry. She is enthralled with people eating. She even surprised me one night by sitting up in her Bumbo seat instead of falling forward in it. I guess my little girl is trying to tell me to let her have a go at solids. We have given her a couple of things on a one-time basis so far, but nothing really to say, "Here, Henlie. Let's see if you can actually eat this. If not, that's okay. We'll practice again tomorrow." More like, "You keep staring and reaching.... okay, here's a little bit of mashed potato you can attempt to suck on." (I got so messy....) So, next week I'm thinking we'll venture into the realm of solids. Wish me luck. Maybe little girl will be more pleasant after that ;)
Mom, why are you taking pictures? I'm stuck!
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