5th month

 

Met her abuela!!

Met her cousin Aria from Spain!

First time celebrating Daddy's birthday

 

 First time in the nursery at church 

A beautiful day for the MS Walk 

Visiting Jackson's Bakery

Daddy graduation - getting his Masters of Social Work!

 

First Mother's Day - dinner at Uncle Chris and Aunt Annie's

·         Little moments:      

    * teething (little white bumps on the bottom!)

·        * becoming  ticklish

·         * doing a little better with tummy time (holding head up to 90 degrees at times)

·         * likes to play with my watch when she sits on my lap

·         * gets excited to see me – she tenses up and sometimes starts wiggling until I take her/pick her up

·         * all about grabbing things; moves her arm up and down like a crazy woman, grabbing my shirt, her carseat cover, etc.

·         * rolls over from her back to her stomach - hasn't figured out how to roll onto her back so this results in muffled cries/meows during the night when stuck on her stomach

·         * just starting to notice when she's handed off to someone new or someone she hasn't seen in awhile

·         * LOVES sleeping on her side

    * gets SO excited when she sees her bottle - tries to grab it and push it in her mouth

    * tries to "help" by holding her bottle

    * is anticipating more - watches my hands as they come close to tickle her
*  loves books...well, she hits the pages and tries to eat them...
* continues to be SUCH a happy baby...smiles all the time, but laughs are few and far between :)

5 months old!

4th month

 

Mommy's first day back to work - first day home alone with Daddy! 

Started going to Gramma's house when Daddy had class and his internship.

 

First pair of jeans

First Easter 
(church service at the Blue Cross Arena and dinner at Gramma and Grampa's)

First exersaucer experience

·         Little moments:

     *  no more swaddle...she looks so much older just sleeping in her pajamas!
* officially moved into her crib on her 3 month birthday

·         * sleeping through the night! sleeps 10-12 hours (thank you Lord for having her inherit her Mom's love of sleep) :) Some middle of the night fussing when she wants her pacifier...

·         * grabs/pulls things constantly

·         * puts everything in her mouth that she possibly can

·         * sings along with me (her favorites: "A Whole New World" and the part of The Little Mermaid when Ariel has to sing and Ursula steals her voice

·         * when I lean over her crib, she reaches up and holds onto my fingers

·         * little miss drooly

·         * sits in her bumbo

·        * goes in her exersaucer with blankets in front of and behind her

·         * more talkative!

·        * excited shrieks

·         * loves looking at herself in the mirror

·         * hugs blankets, dolls, toys

·         * starting to get bored and too big for her bouncy seat – prefers to be on her activity mat to stretch out

·         * plays with toys
 * rolls from her back to her sides

     * SO squirmy on the changing table
* crazy strong legs - if she's laying down and you pull her into a sitting position, she almost always stands right up
* loves loves loves the dogs (Tracker, Cooper and Lily) - watches them, smiles at them and is starting to reach for them 

4 month stats

Weight: 15lbs (73rd%)

Height 25.25 inches (78th%)  

Allie's Nursery

Picture of Allie's room from when we walked through at the Open House.

This is what we found under the lovely teal wooden border.

All sanded and primed.

Surprise! We won't be needing those blue and brown samples after all...

 

After our surprising ultrasound when we found out we would be having an Allie instead of a Jake, we called my Dad to tell him. Aaron asked for the phone and said, "I was wondering if you wanted to help paint your granddaughter's nursery..."

 

 

I really wanted her name in the room, but it wasn't going to work over her crib since her crib wasn't centered on the wall. Above the closet worked out perfectly!

 

 

 

Inexpensive wall art...a piece of beautiful wrapping paper my Mom found at Parkleigh and some cheap (mismatched) frames I bought on clearance at Michaels!

 

 

Messages friends and family wrote to Allie at the baby shower. :)

 

Changing table...FINALLY found bins that fit! I told my Mom the dimensions that I was having a hard time finding and she found these at the Christmas Tree Shop! 

 Wall art for $25 at Burlington randomly enough!

 Changing pad cover

Crib

$15 find on Amazon! It looks like it lets a lot of light in, but it makes the room so dark we don't even need a shade! I'm thinking about buying a second one for aesthetics so we can push them open in the middle instead of pushing it to one side.

 

 Some of my, I mean Allie's, turtles...on the gorgeous quilt her Great Aunt Jane made for her!

 Amazing detail!

 

Last detail: Aaron's awesome find! Night light and light switch plate on clearance at Babies R Us for $5! 

 

3rd month

First baby shower -Aunt Kelly & her baby girl: 9 weeks old

First time wearing a dress: 9 weeks old

(I guess she feels the same as her Mom about dresses...)

 First trip to Wegmans: 9 weeks old

First time dressed as an animal - "Yeessss!" : 9 weeks old

First time out to breakfast with her buddy Miles: 10 weeks old

First walk to the ponds: 10 weeks old

First time hanging out on the deck: 12 weeks old

First time at Moe's (out of utero): 12 weeks old

A little boy came over to see her and said, "What's the white thing on her head?" 

I told him it was a headband and he wanted to know why she was wearing it. 

I said it was to make her look cute and he said, "Well, she looks cute without it!" 

Little moments:

·         * Has learned to anticipate: stops crying when you walk over and talk to her before you’ve picked her up, given her her pacifier, etc.

·         * Started napping in her crib

·         * Started sleeping wonderfully at night! (slept 10pm – 9am with feedings at 2am and 6am)

·         * We got to join the "On Demand Club" and stopped waking her up to eat (now sleeps 9ish – 5am, eats, then goes back to sleep)

·         * One day when she woke up from her nap (after not pooping for 5 days) I said, “Did you poop??” She smiled really big and her eyebrows went up and down.

·         * Some days when I go to get her out of her crib after her nap she smiles so big her pacifier falls out. :)
* Likes to hold onto the side of my shirt when I'm changing her. 

·         * Does this really sad/funny cry that sounds like she's meowing.
* Has started having "conversations" with us...her answers to our questions are almost always "coo" though... (I'm absolutely in love with her little voice.)
* Tries to watch TV all the time, whether it's on or not!
* Stands like crazy! At first she would put a little weight on her legs, but now she can bring herself to a standing position if she's sitting on your lap just holding onto your hands. Crazy strong legs!
* Still hates tummy time. Either cries (loudly) or lays there licking the activity mat. 

·         * I was watching her play on her own in her bouncy seat one day and she licked her hand.....stopped and smiled with her eyes closed.....then licked it again. I don't think her fist has been away from her face/out of her mouth since.

3 months old!