Baby girl is 5 months old!

I took her pictures a day early (again) on Father’s Day.  She was not interested in giving me any smiles due to her cold (can you blame her?), but she still succeeded in looking adorable.

This was our first attempt at 3-6 month clothes.  I think it was reasonably successful.  I don’t have real stats for her, but her 3 month clothes are still plenty big around, for the most part.  She is too tall for most of her sleep & plays, and is even starting to push it on the 6 month ones of certain brands.  The pants for her 6 month outfits are long enough, but h.u.g.e. around the waist…like an inch-plus too loose!  Skinny little bunny.  I’d guess maybe 12 lbs. now, 25-26 inches tall.

As far as diapers go, she is still in size 1.  We got a mailer from Pampers talking about how we might be ready to move to the next size, which means she can try out a different kind of diaper.  Apparently they are under the assumption that she is ready to move into size 3 Cruisers.  Sorry Pampers, Abby’s still in her size 1 Swaddlers, with the occasional Baby Dry.  And Luvs.  Once she is solidly at 12 lbs., she can move up to size 2.  So we have a ways to go until we’re ready for size 3…like another 4+ pounds.

Look at those big blue eyes!  Abby loves looking around at everyone and everything.  She prefers to be standing so she can see what’s going on.  She looks around with her eyes wide open (without blinking) like she can’t see enough.

Hands are delicious.  Have you ever tasted them?  Abby thinks they are fantastic and usually has at least one in her mouth, both if she can manage it.

Abby looks like such a big girl here.  What happened to my little baby??

Abby has decided that food is delicious.  She’s been staring at our food since she was about 6 weeks old (especially pizza and chocolate cake.  Girl’s got good taste).  She wasn’t too interested in the ‘first feeding’ mixing of the rice cereal, which I refer to as rice cereal soup…you know, 1 tbsp of cereal + ~2oz. of milk/formula.  It’s basically slightly thick milk.  She didn’t think that was worth eating, and if it was, it should be coming from a bottle.  She was a trooper, though, and didn’t spit it out.  Just cried like she was being starved.  On Father’s Day, we tried out some applesauce, which she loved.  I decided to work on thicker rice cereal for her, and she gobbles it up like a hungry, hungry hippo when it’s applesauce consistency.  She ate half a jar at dinner on Friday for David’s birthday!  (She was offered a kids’ menu at Red Robin.  I refrained from telling them that unless applesauce and rice cereal are on it, probably not.)  We tried out bananas yesterday at lunch, which were also a success.

Abby was a pretty princess on her actual five-month birthday.  Everyone at school thought she was so cute.  She stood up on the counter and showed off and all the little boys were looking at her.  Ha!

Excitingly, she decided to love her pacifier while she and I were in Fargo a couple weekends ago (to see Timothy upon his return to the U.S.).  I think she might be starting some early teething…the girl drools like crazy!  I think the real food is helping too.  So we’ll see when she starts actually getting some baby teeth.  It has helped her successfully make it all the way through church twice!  She usually decides that she should give her input during the sermon, which, while adorable, is not how most Lutheran churches operate.

“Nobody understands.  It’s so exhausting being a baby!”

Moral of the story…

Abby will be great at preschool games considering she is already a hungry, hungry hippo and a pretty, pretty princess.

Stay tuned for…

I got a free book in the mail!  So I will be doing a review of Robin Jones Gunn’s newest novel, out in July!

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