5 months old

We don't have another doctor appointment until her 6 month check up. So we are not sure how much she weighs these days (but she feels heavier when we pick her up out of the crib).


Here are some of Kaitlin's MILESTONES this month:
- Rolls from back to stomach (and most of the time gets stuck)
- Holds the bottle and tries to put it back in her mouth (needs help getting it back in most of the time)
- Does a push up to her hands and is trying so hard to crawl
- Started cereal and other solids
- Found out she's ticklish
- Still pulling out the paci and trying to put it back in (isn't successful though)
- Making progress towards sitting unsupported
- Does a 180 in her crib some nights
- Laughs when you play peek-a-boo
- Overall more alert and tracks sounds better
- Prefers standing over sitting
- Wearing mostly 3-6 month clothes (can still fit into some 0-3 month items)
- Wearing size 2 diapers


SLEEP:
- Some (rare) nights she will go down at 7pm, wake up once between 1-3 am and wake up for the morning between 6:30-7:30am
- Most nights she wakes up 3-4x per night
- Naps 2-3x per day
- Sleeps with a little doll which has to be touching her face
- Most mornings greets you with a smile when you come to get her

what is this thing?

This past weekend we headed to Racine to celebrate Grandma

and Aunt Kelly's birthdays. Kaitlin was checking out Gavin's toy

dinosaur (which moved and made noises). She wasn't quite

sure what do think of it.

i love tacos

If anyone knows me well, they know that I love Mexican food. We received this bib as a gift for Kaitlin and it was perfect! And since Kaitlin isn't quite ready for Mexican she had to settle for rice cereal. We tried cereal again last week and she has been eating it 1-2x per day.

Here she is a before picture.

I meant to take an "after" picture before I cleaned her up but I forgot. So here's a video of her eating. You can see she really got into it (and got a little messy).

long ride home

Bryan is headed out of town this morning for work. When Yellow Cab didn't show up, we had to pack Kaitlin up and drive daddy to O'Hare. When I pulled into our driveway this is what I found in the backseat. She fell asleep holding her toy that is attached to her car seat.

Let's hope that Kaitlin is good for mommy all week. Bryan doesn't come back until Friday night. Then we have a packed weekend next weekend with family.

our irish cutie

She loves to stand!

holding her own

Kaitlin has decided she wants to be more independent by holding her own bottle. She still doesn't have a handle on it all the time, nor can she put it in her mouth by herself but it's a start!

rice cereal

On Tuesday we decided to give Kaitlin some rice cereal to see how she did. She ate about 4-5 spoonfuls and really tasted each bite. I think we will wait a few more weeks before we try the cereal again. Before we know it she'll be eating solids!