Dearest Katherine,
How are you five months old already? This month has marked quite a bit of change.
We started off with a cold, croupe than another cold with led to us spoiling you quite a bit. We broke you of the paci then gave it back. We let you sleep in a bouncer. We created a baby that was waking up almost every hour asking for her paci back…. so the end of this month, we introduced tough love. I am so sorry honey – trust me, hearing you cry is not easy on us. It feels awful. But in 3 days you went from waking up hourly, to sleeping 7 – 2 without a peep. A bottle then, and you went until 5:30 – it was fantastic! So I think we will all be happier and well rested now.
You have been teething all month long with not much to show for it – the top teeth have ‘descended’ but not come through – the bottom ones might be breaking through, hard to tell, but they aren’t there yet. Teething seems to be more than a month long process which really is not fair to either you or us.
While we knew you had rolled over once, because we found you on your back when left on your tummy – you demonstrated multiple times back to tummy starting on New Years day. At first it was only once or twice a day but now its a fun play thing – I’ve found you under the table having rolled there. And yes, now you go back to tummy and tummy to back – but usually only one direction. This means sometimes we find you sleeping on your belly too but stuck against the side unable to roll back.
On New Years you also clearly giggled at daddy and definitely giggle more and more. You giggled quite a bit for Nonni the other night which made her day. You are a happy happy baby, and you really do light up the room.
We introduced rice cereal and pears – we couldn’t take you sitting there drooling and sucking your lip while we ate. It was pitiful. Took about 2 days and you now love eating which shouldn’t surprise anyone (did I mention you are 95th on weight and 40th on height?). The last two days we even fed you rice cereal for breakfast – I am amazed at how well you have taken to it.
And probably my favorite thing is watching how you are starting to interact with your sister Amelia. Probably your favorite activity is watching your sister. I’ll end this with a video – without prompting Amelia was telling you about baking a cake for dad and you were hanging on every word – of course once I got out the camera I had to promp Amelia a bit, but its still cute.
We love you baby girl,
Mom