Hadley: Five Months!

Happy Five Months, Hadley Mae!
On August 19th, you turned five months old.
I can't believe we're almost half-way to your 1st birthday! Where has the time gone?!

We love you more & more each day, and it's hard to imagine our little family without you in it! You are just the sweetest thing!

Here's what Miss Hadley is up to these days....

--no teeth yet!

--size 3 diapers & mostly 6 or 9 month clothes, although we've already had to pack up a few of your 6 month outfits b/c they were getting too snug!

--taking 2 or 3 naps a day depending on our schedule that day...a lot of the time you sacrifice your morning nap for your big sister's activities, but you are always such a trooper about it! I just wear you in a baby carrier, and you're happy as a clam! Sometimes you take a little cat nap in there, but usually you like to stay awake & watch the action ;)

--you almost never sleep in the car anymore...just like Shelby! But you are pretty content in your carseat for the most part these days, so I'll take it! You just like to sleep in your crib :)

--you love to put anything & everything in your mouth

--you love to reach out and touch our faces & you'll grab a handful of hair too if you can. Shelby is always so sweet with you when you do this. She'll always say "Hadley, that's not nice. Remember, we don't hit. We don't pull hair." ;)  If only you understood that! Ha!

--still nursing! By this point, we were already regularly giving Shelby rice cereal. But we have decided to wait until 6 months with you before giving you any "food." We are leaning towards doing the baby-led weaning with you as opposed to starting with rice cereal/pureed baby food. We'll see how that goes! It's hard to believe it's almost time to break out the high chair again!

--When Shelby was staying with Grammy & Grampy earlier this month, you started almost sleeping through the night! You'd sleep from 7 or 8pm to 4 or 5am then nurse & go back to sleep till 8:30 or 9am...glorious! {Last night you slept from 8pm to a little after 7am and woke up cooing & squealing...I hope you keep this up!}

--You are rolling over from your back to your front all.the.time. But you're never happy when you realize what you've done & you start fussing. Hopefully you'll figure out how to get back onto your back on your own soon...until then, Mommy can't leave you alone on the floor for too long until you're calling for help to get rolled back over! ;)
--You almost never spit up, and it's delightful!
--You took Zantac for about a month, and then we weaned you off it..and you're doing just fine now! Yay!
--You love sitting at the table & watching us eat...it's so funny to see your face tracking our food all the way to our mouth & back and forth again.

You are still the most laid-back, content, easy-going, happy baby! When we are out & about, people always comment on one of two things about you: how happy you are or how much you look like your big sister! ;)  We love you, Hadley!!