Overnight, it seems, Sweet Pea grew up!

She extended her wake time and dropped her 4th nap the week after turning 5 months old! This means she is now up while we are eating dinner and, for the first time, our whole family of four sits around the table for dinner every night!

She sits in her seat talking away while we eat. Adorable! She is SO content and happy. I have never seen a baby as content with life as her. She sits wherever we put her and she watches her family around her. I guess we are pretty entertaining. Or I guess I should say…her big sister is pretty entertaining!

She has become a hoot in the bathtub!

This particular night, she was kicking and splashing like CRAZY!

She would kick so fast and furious and then stop and look at me to make sure I was watching her.

I would say something to her and she would start smiling HUGE and start kicking all over again!

It was awesome to see some personality coming out in this precious little baby!

Then…

I got her out of the tub and she was her usual smiley self. I decided to get some cute naked shot of her (every baby has to have those, right?!).

She started acting like she was going to ROLL OVER!

So I quickly switched the camera to video and I captured her first roll-over from stomach to back!!

(Sorry, not posting. I was a little too excited to post the video for the world to see. )

About a week and a half after turning 5 months old, Sweet Pea dropped another feeding and increased her feeds to 5 ounces!

While the GI and pedi had both recommended that we not give her over 4 ounces per feed until she is 6 months, doing this now just seemed the right and natural next step for her. In other words, I didn’t “force” this on her – she did this on her own, so I went with it, knowing if she had issues with eating 5 ounces per feed I could always take her back to 4 ounces. But, because she was ready, she has done just fine with eating 5 ounces every 3.5 hours.

Now that she eats 5 ounces, we had to move her up to the BIG bottles that hold 8 ounces! The bottle is about as tall as she is!

Both of my girls seem to be growing up so fast lately!

It is SO encouraging to see this progress in Sweet Pea. Her body is healing. She is not completely there as she still has some overstimulation issues, but…these are all good signs to me that she is making progress and soon, all this will be behind her.

Praise the Lord!!

- Elaine