Five Month Update!

Emily is now five months old! Wait, really? Five? Are you sure? You are? Sigh. Ok, fine. Boo.

 

At five months, Emily:

…is growing up so fast! She can roll from her back to her tummy now, and though she really prefers to only roll to her right, she can go to both sides. Stubborn little thing that she is, she refuses to roll from her tummy to her back yet. But we’re in no hurry for that to happen! This way, she rolls to her tummy and stops. I’m not ready to be chasing a baby around yet!

 

…weighs about 14.5 pounds and is 25.0 inches long. That puts her in the 50th percentile for weight and 75th for length. Still tall and skinny!

 

…has tried oatmeal and peas so far, and hated both. She didn’t really seem to be ready, so we decided to give her a few more weeks and then we’ll try the food again.

…still isn’t sleeping completely through the night, but has been doing better lately. We discovered that if she goes down to sleep earlier, she sleeps better (and longer!) and we all feel more rested in the morning. Most of the time she sleeps in her crib, but sometimes still needs her swing to help knock her out. Oh, how I love that swing! If there’s one piece of “baby gear” I’m glad we got, that wonderful, beautiful swing is it!

 

…squeals and screams at us like crazy! She’s really started to test out her lungs and see what she can do. If she’s happy, she squeals and screams. If she’s mad, she squeals and screams. If she’s stuck on her tummy and can’t figure out how to get back over, she just plain screams. This little girl has quite the set of pipes! It’s very cute, but oh, my ears! Miss Screamy-Pants is sure making her presence known around here! (Poor Monkey-Do.)

…can almost sit up on her own now! She still needs some support, but she’s happiest when we hold her and let her stand on our laps, or when she’s practicing her sitting. She has been trying to get her knees up under her while on her tummy also, which scares mama to no end. Crawling already? No thank you!

Five months have passed since Emily Marie made her way into this world, and I couldn’t be prouder. What a sweet girl she is! She’s made such progress this month! I feel like she’s starting to turn from a baby to a little girl already, and that’s both happy and sad. I feel like the next time I turn around she’ll be heading off to college. Yikes! I’m not ready for that!!

We love our little punkin so much and are so blessed that she’s in our lives!! I wonder what’s in store for us in the next five months…

Babies and Birthdays!

What a wonderful weekend we had! The three of us hopped in the car again and headed back over the pass to Spokane to visit the fam-damily. There were two big events this past week: Mom’s birthday and the birth of Baby Ryan!

On Sunday, September 5th, Auntie Rachel, Uncle Zach and cousin Hayden welcomed Ryan Marshall Brock into their family! He and mama are doing wonderfully. He is absolutely adorable, and such a great little snuggler! They had some professional pictures taken in the hospital, and they came out really well! I stole one:

What a beautiful baby. Now that Emily is getting older, Ryan seemed so small! He’ll surely take after his big brother though, and I doubt he’ll be little for long! Congratulations again, you three. :)

The other big part of the weekend was Grandma’s birthday! We had an AWESOME dinner of steak, potatoes and veggies, and Grandpa made his famous pineapple upside-down cake. Oh, my was I full! It was delicious. Mom opened presents and we all had some good laughs. Oh yes, we’re dorks.

The gang’s all here! Well, except for Zach the camera man.

Baby Ryan. See, Emily? THIS IS HOW TO DO IT.

Daddy and Emmie.

Playing with Mama!

 

Silly girl.

Taking a bath!

 

That’s a lot of eggs, Grandpa!

  

We had a chance to see a good family friend, Janice. Emily LOVED her!! I think Janice has a new best friend. :)

 

Smiles!

Grandma loved her new pillows.

And her rooster knives!

And her rooster dishes.

And her new purse! (Good job, Grandpa!)

We all laughed at the birthday cards, especially the one from my nephew Colin. Explaining it here wouldn’t do it justice, so I’ll just leave it to your imagination. Ha. :)

All in all, it was a great few days! Except for the whole Emily-doesn’t-sleep thing, we all had a wonderful time.

And, we’re going back in October for a whole WEEK!

HOORAY!

Give Peas a Chance!

 

 

 

Peas was the first real food Emily got to taste! Next time I think she’ll have the No Thank You portion though.

 

Photo Friday!

With Auntie Kimmy!

Reading “My Goodnight Book” with Daddy. It was my book when I was little.

 

Bath time!

 

All clean!

 

Smiley girl!

 

She is my Sunshine. :)

 

Big Stuff!

We’ve had a big week this week, and it’s only Wednesday!

Monday was our two-year anniversary, and to celebrate, Emily decided she would (finally) roll over! She can now go from her back to her tummy if she sees a toy (or person) she wants. The only problem is that once she gets there, she remembers how much she HATES being on her belly and hollers until one of us comes to rescue her. So now we’re really trying to teach her how to roll back the other way, too. Not that she isn’t cute stuck on her tummy like a little turtle, but I’d like to get more than three feet away without having to come turn her back over.

She did it twice for the camera!

 

And again!

Yay!

Now, as I’m sure most of you are aware, our sweet little Punkin is not a very good sleeper. We transitioned her to her crib about a month ago and she has just not been sleeping through the night at all. Heck, she’s not even sleeping through PART of the night anymore. For the last few weeks she’s been waking up three, four, sometimes five times a night. And mommy is about to lose her mind.

It was hard to tell if she just wanted to be up playing or if she really wanted to eat, because she nurses no matter what, but we determined she’s probably getting hungry in the middle of the night now. So, on the recommendation of many people (including her pediatrician), we tried out some baby cereal last night, hoping it would keep her full a little longer.

She did great! Well, mostly great as most of it ended up down the front of her, but she really seemed to like the cereal! We tried oatmeal and mixed it with breastmilk, and she thought it was just the greatest thing ever! She even seemed to get the hang of the whole open-food goes in-close- process.

(I’m a picture junky, what can I say?)

 

And after having a bit of a hard time getting her to bed, she slept from 10 pm to 5:30 am. HOORAY!!! Lets hope it wasn’t just a one-time thing. We’re going to try oatmeal again tonight and see what we get.

Now, if only she wanted to go to bed before 10 we’d be all set. :)