Five Months

Sweet Lollypop!

Happy Five Months!

Oh, what a sweet angel you are.  We are all so in love with you - you are such a lucky little girl to be surrounded by so much love and happiness.  Just last Sunday, we mentioned to GaGa after lunch at church that we needed to make a trip to Walmart to get some "things", and he picked you up out of your Daddy's arms and put his face close to yours and said "nonsense.  You've got everything you need right here".  And he's right.

You are rolling over from your tummy to your back!  You did it the first time on Christmas morning, but didn't do it again, on purpose, until this past Sunday, the 10th.  You actually do more trying to scoot to grab things when you're on your tummy than you do trying to roll over.  You haven't gone from your back to your tummy yet, at least not without help.  No rush, little one!  I don't see the need to hurry along your baby-ness at all!  Please don't hurry growing up.

You will spend several minutes in the exersaucer now, without wanting to be picked back up.  And we have to strap you into the bouncy seat when we do use it, because you try to sit up, and you just about tumble yourself out of it!

There was no leaning back on the chair for these pictures!

She wants to sit up on her own.

On New Year's Day, you started blowing raspberries by sticking your tongue out and blowing with your tongue and lips.  You did that while sitting in MooMoo's lap, and she got so tickled!  Of course, that encouraged you to do it to EVERYone else which got all of us tickled.  There was much pfllbbttt going on that day, and you loved the applause!

Oh, we are so enjoying what a baby is - the purity and earnestness in everything you do.  Everything you are.  The clear, loving looks you give us.  The "little lion" sounds that you make when you need to tell us that you are uncomfortable or need to be picked up.  Oh, what a sweet baby you are.  I'm reminded all over again at how much I wish I knew how to enjoy babies when your older siblings were little!

You have taken to loving to sit with Tooter in Daddy's chair.  You and he will sit and watch a bit of a movie.  He'll put an arm around you and pat you on the leg.  And tell me that you are the sweetest baby in the world!  Of course, your BearBear (Poodle) can make you laugh faster than anyone at times.

Totally up-staging Fuzzy Wuzzy.

We still have no idea what's going on with your hair!  There is still some brown there, but there's an awful lot of might-ty blond stuff coming in.  Hmmm....  Overall, there's not a whole lot of anything up there, which makes you look even more like the baby you are, and I love it!  You do have this almost mohawk of hair right on the top, and we love how it sticks up after your bath when your hair is all clean and soft.  It's so cute!

Unfortunately, in the past month, we had confirmed what I had been suspecting - that you are developing eczema also.  Sigh.....  I cried when the doctor told me.  And I cried again when I told Daddy that night.  And I didn't say anything to anyone for awhile, because I didn't want to talk about it until I could rationalize everything.  And get my bearings about it.  Not be so dramatic about it.  It's not like we were told that you had something terrible to deal with.  And there is the chance that you really will outgrow it by the time you are 2 or 3 years old.  I know that Tooter hasn't yet, but that doesn't mean that you won't.  Besides, we are pretty good with the eczema thing now.  And, thankfully, your most troublesome spots respond very well to plain hydrocortizone cream right now!  I hate that I can't feel naturally soft skin on your legs anymore.  But, I was so very aware of that soft skin while you still had it.  We definitely didn't take it for granted.

You are still taking lots of short naps during the day.  Although I'm beginning to see the possibility of those naps beginning to lengthen a bit.  You still wake up during the night to nurse a little bit as well.  But, it's easy for us.  I still tuck you in close beside me so I can snuggle you all night and help you get back to sleep when your skin is bothering you.  And, mostly, I just like having you close.  Just like I did with Poodle and Tooter.  Boy I love snuggling my babies!  This baby time goes away so fast.

You are quite the drool bunny currently.  It's the very wet season of "pre-teething".  We go through a lot of bibs during the day.  :-)

I have a very vivid memory, to me, that I want to get down to assure I won't forget it.  It was before Christmas, and you and Tooter and I were killing time while Poodle was at her speech appointment.  We only had 30 minutes, so we wandered around a dollar store that was near the school where she was.  I was holding you in my arms, and you had your precious, soft, warm little cheek pressed against mine the whole time we were wandering the aisles.  Oh, the feeling of your relaxed, happy little self being perfectly content to piddle while keeping this quiet contact with me will stay with me forever!

It seems so commonplace to say that we love you little one.  We adore you completely.  And I know we are going to enjoy you so much as a little girl...  but please.  Don't hurry through the baby months.  They are going by so fast already.

Yay for five beautiful months!