5 Months

Carly Kate you are 5 months old today! You are the sweetest girl and you have learned to cuddle when you are being held and I love it!  You smile all the time.  You especially like to be sang to! So, I am changing my stand on you sleeping through the night...we don't have to get up in the middle of the night, but you wake up ALOT!  Mostly for your paci, but sometimes now you wake up for an hour and just talk to yourself and smile.  I'm not making any promises on when you will be in your crib but we are making tiny steps with you napping in it occasionally.  You now can sit up in your Bumbo(your Daddy calls it your Bongo) and you still enjoy your play mat and swing.  I think pretty soon you will be sitting up on your own.  You no longer like to roll over when you have tummy time, you just raise yourself up and look around. You are still wearing 3 to 6 month old and you still got plenty of room in them. At your last Doc appointment you weighed 10 lbs and 4 ounces.  You are still an itty bitty baby, but the Doc said you are progressing great from where you started. You have a shrill scream now, that is just ear piercing, you even get Pebbles to meowing...everyone says it's a GIRL thing.  You may be in the very beginning of teething too, so we've been using teething rings to keep you from stuffing your fingers in your mouth all the time.  We are also reading to you now which you seem to enjoy.  The sweetest thing is when you hear your Daddy come home and you immediately look for him...melts my heart! Love our little family!  It has been soooo HOT and you are such a hot natured child that we have been staying in ALOT, but its starting to cool off some now, so I'm hoping we can get you out more.