Age: Five Months Old
Weight: 15 pounds 3 ounces (by my measurement on our scale)
Length: 24 inches long (at 4 month check-up)
Size: Harper is in size 2 diapers and in all 6
month clothes and pajamas
Hair: She has a fuzz ball of blonde hair growth
Eyes: She has BIG blue eyes with long lashes
that go all the way up to her eyebrows when she bats them!
Health: Harper has had a
perfect bill of health this past month. She got 4 vaccines at her 4 month
doctors visit which she was tired from but didn’t seem too bothered by. She has
been happy, healthy, hungry and growing this month.
Teeth: None yet but she just loves chewing on her
hands.
Eating: Harper is still waking up for a night time feeding which I typically hold off until after midnight if she wakes up earlier.
Sleeping: Ahhh sleep, what is that? The 4 month sleep regression was in full swing as soon as she turned 4 months old. On top of that I had started phasing out the swaddle at night, then Daylight Savings hit and she got her vaccines all in the same week. Bad planning on this mama’s part! For the first two and half weeks Harper was up every single night 3-4 times a night. Half of the time she was easy to settle back down and just put her pacifier back in her mouth then she would fall right back to sleep or fall asleep on her own shortly after. The other half we weren’t so lucky. She still woke up all over the place, even after only being in bed a short time. The past week and half she has started getting back to her old sleeping habits of only waking up once to eat but will wake up because she has rolled onto her belly and gets mad. Typically I can just go flip her over and put her paci in then she is okay. Then just when you think they might be back to their better sleeping days, they decide to change things up again and wake up all hours of the night again. Maybe this month will be better?!
Movement: She’s a rolling fool! She rolls from back to
tummy and tummy to back. She is wiggle and roll off her playmat. When I put her
down on the floor, she is rarely in the same exact spot. It won’t be long
before she is rolling all over the living room. Rolling over in her crib and
sleeping on her belly.
Milestones: She is officially
rolling over!!! Easter weekend she decided to start rolling from her back to
her belly just in time to show off to family all weekend long. She learned how
to get over that darn arm but then would get it stuck under her. It didn’t take
long once she started rolling to do it all the time now. It seems as soon as I
set her down she flips right over and will get mad she can’t go anywhere. She
flails her arms and legs like she wants to go somewhere! Grabs her toes. Just started using the
jumperoo.
Favorite
Toys/Activities: Her
bouncer - she loves talking to the animals, grabbing and pulling at them to
make sound and now she has started playing with them with her feet. She
actually really likes getting adjusted at the chiro. She giggles and smiles every time. Likes to play with her Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer crinkle book, lovies, and blankets. Things she can immediately put in her mouth. She loves eating her hands and sucking on her thumb and pointer
finger. She still likes to stick her tongue out, baths, watching TV, blowing spit bubbles, blowing raspberries, diaper
changes, being naked, playing under the play mat, and smiling or talking to
anyone who gives her attention. She so loves her big brother, she watches him
all the time and looks around for him when she hears him. She thinks it’s funny
when he tries laying on her and “wrestling” her (which he knows he’s not
allowed to do!). Boys are rough but it doesn’t even phase her yet.
Dislikes: Naps, still the little catnapper but hopefully,
I think (fingers crossed) getting better. She still fights falling asleep, bedtime is usually fairly easy but naps she is definitely a fighter. Falling asleep outside her house or
without her mama. Waiting to eat, even at daycare.
Words: N/A
Sounds: Laughing and giggling. She usually only
cries when she’s tired or hungry. She still coos, squawks blows raspberries,
and “talks" all the time. She loves interacting with people who give her
attention. She has started talking in her crib. I’ve heard her a couple times
in the middle of the night talking and eventually will fall back to sleep on
her own. And she has started talking in the morning if she wakes up on her own.
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| Her new smile! |
Favorite Moments
- Easter weekend Harper decided it was time to start rolling over. Saturday morning after I got done changing her I laid her down on the floor which she immediately just went to her side. Then rolled right over. I thought it was a fluke but letter that afternoon while playing under her playmat she rolled over for me again and then I got it on video again right afterwards. There has been no stopping her since.
- This past weekend I decided to retire the swing to the basement and replace it with the Jumperoo. Even on the lowest setting she can just barely touch the ground so there isn't much jumping or bouncing just yet. Madden was super excited for her new toy and show Harper how to use it and all its gadgets. He ended up pulling up a chair to her to play with her and then lining up all sorts of toys and additional chairs around them saying "they were having a party" and there was even cake! :)
Monthly Highlights
- First St. Patrick’s Day
- Went to her first parade
- Visited the Malloy’s new house
- Celebrated first Easter
- Went to her first Easter Egg hunt (plus a few)
- Tornado sirens went off at bedtime, spent bedtime in basement
- First Farmer’s Market
- Went to Dexter’s church Annual Pancake Breakfast and Easter Egg Hunt
- Started rolling from back to tummy
- Started rolling over in crib and waking up
- Went on our first walk!
- Had a chiropractor appointment
- Cried for 2 hours straight for Grandma and Papa Dexter while they babysat
- First time being put to bed by anyone beside mom or dad
- First time in jumperoo
- Still Breastfeeding
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