Daphne, 5 Months and some...

This 5 month old post is a little late, but better than never! I think Daphne has grown a ton in just the last two weeks. Suddenly, it looks like her feet are getting close to hanging past the end of the car seat, and she's just filling out all over.

She tried rice cereal about 2 weeks ago. She didn't hate it, and humored me with it! I've been trying to give her some every day - some days she doesn't get it simply because there wasn't a good time! How horrible is that?! Once she starts really eating, "there simply wasn't time" isn't going to cut it...I better get this figured out!!! I don't have any pictures of just the rice cereal. As you can imagine, I was trying to juggle a few other things at the same time, so this time photos lost out. I did, however, make the time today to take some pictures of Daph enjoying some carrots. I do think she is really starting to like the food, as when the spoon gets to her eye level, she grabs at it and pulls it into her wide open mouth! (If I could get the kids to work the camera, I'd be able to get pictures of that, too. Hmmm...I'll have to start training them!!!)

When she's playing on the floor, she still doesn't care to roll around, but she can. She cranks onto her side and will play like that, but doesn't roll back and forth.

She usually goes to bed around 5:30 or 6:00 and wakes up for the day around 6:30 or 7:00. I have been feeding her once or twice in the night b/c she has this horrible cough that wakes her up, and I like a drink when I cough like that, so there you go! I'm hoping/praying that we are on the downhill side of this cough, as I-am-tired!!! Once the cough's gone, she's all done with the night time snacks!!!

She's still such a sweet, sweet baby. Last week, at swim practice, Coach Janet used her to show the kiddies the correct stroke for butterfly. It was priceless, and of course, I didn't have my camera. I'll get it on film at some point! She loves to be sung to and when Wyatt and Annabelle talk to her. Her smile and little giggles are infectious!!!

We put Daphne in the excersaucer for the first time this week. I think she liked it!

Of Course, Wyatt and Annabelle wanted to be a part of the fun!

She really did seem to like the carrots, despite this picture! Annabelle's looking funny eating a cookie in the background!

This is a dress from a friend...the friend had a birthday lunch today, so I dressed up Daph in her pretty party dress! She's so cute, I wanna nibble her... :)

And here I'm trying to chronicle Daphne's little habit of sucking her bottom lip. This is the second time she's sucked on it so hard that it bruised it! She didn't like me doing this to her...

Only two more short, quick weeks until she's six months old. I really wish these weeks would slow down a bit.