5 Months

Oh my goodness, it's that time of the month again. Sallie Rose's month birthday. She woke up the same as she has for the last couple of months, smiling as big as she can and so excited that someone had come to reach in her big, white crib to take her to eat some formula. However, this month she is upside down in the crib with the bottom half of her pajamas off. She wears a sleep sack to bed and when I get her out of it, her pajama legs are completely off. She moves so much during her sleep now. Either that or she gets too hot, takes off her sleep sack, unbuttons her bottom half and zips her sleep sack back up. She is smart, but don't know that she is that smart.

She changes so much everyday and is growing so much. She officially rolled over onto her stomach the day before her 5 month birthday. The "books" say that rolling from her back to stomach would be the most difficult, but she can do that and can't figure out how to roll back. She rolls over in the middle of the night and cries for us to come roll her back over. Darn kid. It's kind of cute watching her on the monitor trying to roll back over. Kevin worries that she will not be able to turn back over and harm herself trying. She'll figure it out one day and I can go back to sleeping all night.

Let's see what else is new this fifth month??? She is beginning to be able to sit up on her own. She eats rice cereal and is now on Mom's homemade butternut squash. Next will be sweet potatoes. I swore I wouldn't take the time to make our own baby food, but after a few great suggestions from Kam and Teri and giving it a good ole fashion try, I decided to do it. It was not that time consuming and I really enjoy cooking and making my family healthy meals. It makes me think that I am making my Grandma Rosa proud by being somewhat of a housewife. She always wanted to know how many times a week I cooked. Uhhh, none. Not anymore. I cook about 3 or 4 nights a week. Wooo hooo, housewife of the year!!!

Sallie Rose loves her tot rider, kindermusik, laying in the park with Mom, hanging out with Aunt Susan, playing with Nana and Pop Pop (Kevin's parents), and practicing walking with Daddy. I took her to the playground on St. Patrick's Day and she loved watching the kids play. She absolutely loves other kids. Other than that, she is a great baby and is giggling more and more everyday. Kevin and I both feel that every night when she goes to bed she wakes up the next morning having grown and developed so much over night. I am beginning to get that feeling of her growing up too fast already. This is the point where she goes from needing to be rocked and held to not wanting to sit still and we can't get a good 5 minute rock in. I will definitely miss that long rock and quiet time at night before bed.

Sallie Rose, Mom loves you and is excited about you growing and becoming more and more of a little person. You are beautiful, sweet, fun, and an all around good baby. Happy 5 month birthday! Oh, and thanks for being a good sleeper most of the time. I am not good at functioning on little sleep.