Jane 6 Months

We've tried a few new foods this month; squash, sweet potato, bananas, pears, avocados.  She seemed to love sweet potatoes and avocados best!  But also loves her blueberry puff snacks.  Doesn't like water.  Still mostly experimenting though, her main food is still from mom!  Jane is sitting up all alone now, and can pull herself up the side of her crib, so we lowered the mattress.  In the morning she will stay happy in the crib until mom wakes up or she gets hungry.  Often I find she's maneuvered a leg through the side of the crib.  One morning she managed an arm out of her jammies.  She is also propping herself up on hands and knees but can only propel herself backwards.  Mom and Dad are holding their breath for the day she moves those knees forward and begins to crawl.  Oh, and she's starting to take note of when mom leaves the room by yelling or fussing when I leave her sight.  When she sees me again her whole face lights up with a smile.  We both know she prefers me over dad but that will change one day I'm sure. 

Pink hat splurge and Photo Op

So maybe it's not a splurge at $1, but we found this pink straw hat at Target and couldn't resist making a photo opportunity out of it.  And look how darling!  Having a little girl is so much like playing dress up with a little doll.  A wriggly, drooling, smelly one, but so much cuter regardless.  This 'doll' coos and smiles and gets into things.  Heck she even annoys me sometimes.  But I have lots of fun moments with her and end up taking all these silly dress up photos (and naked too), because one day she's gonna be all grown up and I'm going to want to reminisce and look back at what a small precious doll she was.

Family Shoot March 19th

Fun with Baby

All of the above photos were taken in February.  First one is Jane during some tummy time, you can see what a happy girl she is... with a smile like that how could she not be our daily sunshine around here? Even Dante enjoys being around her (that's his furry behind in the pic), but Sasha keeps her distance due to the inevitable fur-tugging if she gets too close.  Second pic is me with Jane, on a Sunday before church.  Third pic is with daddy, I just love me a naked baby with those chubby little cheeks and a gazillion belly rolls.  So had to document that.  Right before getting into the bath.  I'm sure dad was only thinking one thing; 'Don't pee on me. Don't pee on me.'  And the last photo is Jane in her crib with one of her recent most fave things to do...reach for the glowing orange monkey face.  Fascinating. :)

Jane 5 Months

Month 5 was a fast one.  Seems like with month 6 around the corner I was anticipating some milestones (such as solids) so I mentally skipped this month.  We took her to DisneyWorld just a few days before this photo was taken.  I was worried that she would be tough to travel with and have several meltdowns in the park and have difficulty sticking to her now established routine.  But I worried for nothing.  She was an angel.  We traveled half of the distance (5 hours) from 7pm to midnight, then resumed travel the next morning.  She only got a little fussy at the end.  While at the park, she was content in her stroller or in her carrier, we switched off to save our backs and to take turns on rides.  She fell asleep when she was tired without too much fuss, I only had one instance that she had to cry to sleep.  But we took it easy, only visiting the parks 2 days out of 6... got there Sat pm, church and rest on Sunday, Islands of Adventure Monday, Downtown Disney Tuesday, Boardwalk Wednesday, Magic Kingdom Thursday (all day!), rest and pack Friday, Sat come home.  She is sitting up pretty well by the end of month 5, but still topples over, and can roll over forward or backward with a lot of effort.  She will rotate in circles if left on her back or tummy by using her arms to pull herself around.  Learning peekaboo and loving bathtime.