Hannah 5 Month Update

Well, I'm a month behind.  Hannah will be 6 months old in just 2 days and I'm just getting to her 5 month post.  But here is what she was up to at 5 months old...

She's growing so fast.  Hannah LOVES her big sister, Katie.  She watches every move Katie makes and laughs and smiles at her all the time.

Hannah is such a happy baby.  She smiles all the time.

Her favorite past time these days is jumping in her jumparoo.  Her feet don't touch the floor yet so we have some books under her feet for her to stand on.

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I guess she was pretty sleepy.  LOL

She wants to sit up so badly.  When she lays on her back, she lifts her head and legs up like she's doing some stomach crunches.  She doesn't roll over from her tummy to her back yet, but she rolls over from her back to her tummy pretty effortlessly now.

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Hannah's new little sound (another favorite past time) is blowing bubbles.  Here is a video clip of the 1st time she did this.  Her poor chin is covered in drool from spitting when she makes the sound.  She just drooled like that the 1st time she did it though.  She makes her sound really good now without drooling all over herself.  Ha!

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She LOVES her bath time.  And she LOVES to chew on her hand.  She doesn't take a paci and doesn't suck her fingers or hand, but chews all the time on her fingers.  No teeth yet though.

Eery night she sleeps the same way... she sucks on her right arm when she falls asleep so she sleeps with her left hand behind her head and her right hand is either in front of her mouth like this or it falls to the side so her right arm is up next to her head.

She doesn't nap much during the day.  She takes a few quick naps (usually like 20-30 minutes at a time) but sleeps good at night.  She gets fussy around 6:30 or 7:00 so I feed her and put her to bed.  Usually I have to wake her up at 6:30 to feed her in the morning before work, but on the weekends she usually wakes up pretty close to 6:30.  After I feed her she lays back in her crib really good and plays with her fish music toy until she falls back to sleep.

She still plays with her play mat but she doesn't like it nearly as much as she used to.  Sometimes I let her sit in her bumbo seat and play with the stuff hanging on there.  She likes that better than laying down on it.

Birthday Baking

Katie loves helping me cook.  I bought a Tupperware "kids in the kitchen" baking set and I can't wait to use it with her.  We had breakfast for dinner a few weeks ago at Katie's request and she helped me cook.  She doesn't like doing the eggs though.  It makes a mess and she says it's yucky so she says mommy does the eggs. 

As my birthday tradition, I made Katie's birthday cake(s).  She decided on a Veggie Tales birthday party so I was going to make a Bob the Tomato cake and a Larry the Cucumber cake.  After making those 2 cakes, I realized that wasn't much cake so I made Laura Carrot (AKA "Snoozie" according to Katie).  Then Katie kept saying "we're going to have Bob and Larry and Snoozie and Junior"!  She was so excited about them, I couldn't resist making a Junior Asparagus cake too.  So we made 4 cakes!  And Katie helped me bake them all.

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You can't forget the best part... licking the spoon and bowl when you're done!  Daddy joined in for this part too.

She also helped with the crumb coat of icing on Bob.

And here are the final products!  I think they turned out realy cute.  Junior is my favorite.

Sleepytime

I love watching my babies sleep.  Katie got a new nap mat for school this year.  It's pink an dhas monkeys on it.  She loves her nap mat and brought it with her to bed for her nap her 1st weekend after using it at school.

Hannah's sleeping a lot better at night now.  She's been sleeping through the night for a couple of months now, but when we moved her to her crib she cried a lot before falling asleep at night.  She still doesn't like to nap in her crib during the day, but falls alseep much better at night.  She likes to play with her fish toy and her little stuffed puppy dog.  When she wakes up in the morning, she's starting to play with her toys and talk to herself while she waits for me to get in there to feed her.

Hi Pop

I love this girl.  Here she is talking to Pop on the phone.  She's so funny!

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Last (and 1st) Swim of the Summer

We finally made it out to the pool with Hannah over Labor Day weekend.  I had cooled off enough to take her out there but was still warm enough to swim.  Katie had a blast and I think Hannah enjoyed the water too but it was a little chilly in the water. 

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Bye Bye summer.  Hopefully we can go to the pool more often next summer.

Hannah 4 Month Update

Wow.  With the start of the new school year I've gotten way behind on my blogging.  Hannah will actually be 5 months already in just 3 days and I'm just now getting to her 4 month post.  So I'll let you know what Hannah was doing at 4 months and then I'll post again soon with a 5 month update...

At Hannah's 4 month well visit (about a week late), she weighed in at 13 lbs, 7 oz (50th percentile).  She was 25" tall (75th-90th percentile-- tall girl).  And her head measured 15.8" (25th-50th percentile).  She's wearing 3-6 month clothes and growing so fast.  According to her weight she should be in size 2 diapers.  We're having issues with her diapers leaking a lot (and yes, we're changing her often) so we're trying different brands and sizes.  We're trying out size 3 Huggies right now but they're really too big so she'll go back to a size 2 next but in a different brand.

Hannah started going to daycare right at 4 months old and does really well there.  When I picked her up on her 1st day there was a sign on her crib that said "I can roll over."  They said they don't put a sign on their crib like that unless they actually see them roll over but at this point we had only seen her roll over once.  I put her on her tummy with her arms under her chest and she rolled to her back.

She loves for us to help her sit or stand.  She's never been a huge fan of laying down.  She likes to play in the exersaucer and sit in her Bumbo seat with her toys in front of her.  She reaches for and grabs and holds her toys.  She still won't take a pacifier, but likes to put things in her mouth (her taggie, stuffed animals, her hand, her shirt...).  No teeth yet though.

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Hannah LOVES her big sister.  She watches Katie all the time and smiles at her really big.    She's started giggling and it's so cute.  She also makes some funny growling sound.  She's a happy, smiley baby.  I love her so much!

Sweet big sister.  She loves her "Laura Numeroff" books and stuffed animals and really wanted to take a picture with them.  I love her so much!