So heres a little mish-mash of things! First Leightons 5 months pics, and some information i feel like i left off her 5 month post!
This girl is a DADDYS girl for sure. The minute he walks in the door she smiles. He whistles when he walks in the room, so no matter where we are, if she hears whistling, she starts looking for him. Its so sweet. I love to watch them together, it makes my heart melt. Theres something about a daddy and a daughter together, i pray they are always this insane for each others attention.
Leighton used to talk ALOT, she would jabber and squeal. Somewhere during the 4th month she stopped talking so much, and started watching instead. I call her the "studier" She will literally stare holes through you. She watches EVERYTHING i do. She watches me walk, sweep, do dishes fold laundry, put on her diaper, make her food, eat, talk, everything. And she watches with such an intestity its kind of funny! I have a feeling we will have a smart little girl on our hands, she's not a hyper-active can't focus baby, she's very methodical about what she does. Sometimes when the TV is on...oops, and something funny happens, like on funniest home videos, she laughs! And when she's in her crib and wakes up, she will get her face up into the video monitor and smile or smack her lips! Yes, i think my baby will be the genius i was never close to being. haha! its also a good reminder to myself that i need to think hard, and quick, about everything i do or say around this little one. Im positive she's watching, so i better keep in step :)
She's getting very close to sitting on her own, which i am SO excited about! I can't wait to watch her sitting in the living room playing with toys...so cute. She's still a great eater, she takes a bottle 5 times a day, about 5 ounces every time, and eats 3 meals a day. Her favorite food is still avocados, bananas are a close second. Tomorrow we try apples for the first time!
So far she's had:
Rice ( i stopped feeding her rice, it has a natural sugar in it that gives babies a sort
of "sugar high" and then they crash later, no bueno. Its also really fatty.
Oatmeal ( I buy the Earths Best brand of this, its the healthiest I could find )
Avocados
Bananas
Butternut Squash
Sweet Potatoes
Peas
Within the next 3 weeks will we try apples, pears, and then green beans! :)
So far she's liked it all and eats it all very well..sometimes i mix the peas with the avocados because she's just not having it haha.
This will be a big week for us, we are going to try and drop the dream feed. For all of you non baby-wisers out there a dream feed is usually between 10:00-11:00pm, you wake baby up and feed them and put them straight back to sleep, we've been doing this with Leighton since she started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks old. It works really well in helping baby make it through the night. However Leighton is almost 5.5 months old and she's starting to not want to eat it, she also drinks less during the day, so she's showing all the signs of being ready to let it go! So starting today , I will cut the time back by 10 minutes every other night, as well as the amount per ounce that she gets every other night, hopefully a week is all it will take, and little girl will be sleeping straight from 7:00pm-7:00am. Im sure soon following this she will be ready to move to a 4 hour schedule, and be half a year old, and be sitting...oh gosh she's growing so fast!
Anywho, this makes one post for the week...its monday, id say I'm off to a good start!
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