Well little Nuggie, you are now 5 months old! Nuggie is one of our favorite nicknames for you:) Your daddy joked the other day and said that hopefully you don't think Nuggie is your real name.
Sweet Nelia Jane you are truly the light of our lives - we love you sooooo much! Thinking about how much I love you brings tears to my eyes. You are just such an amazing little girl. We are truly blessed:)
At 5 months, you weigh about 15lbs, 6oz and are probably close to 27 inches (you are really tall!). We haven't started solids yet, but plan to next month. In the meantime you are still nursing every 2-3 hours during the day. You are now wearing a size 2 diaper. Most of your onesies/tops are 3-6 months, but you definitely wear 6-12 month pants and pajamas. Your silly mama bought you a bunch of 6 month sleepers after you outgrew all of your 3 month sleepers in about two weeks and now you are about to grow out of your 6 month sleepers! I need to buy you some 9 month sleepers now. You are growing so fast - a bit too fast for my liking:)Your face is chubbing up and you have the cutest chubby cheeks that I just love to smooch! You were born with a full head of hair and unfortunately it is starting to fall out a bit in the back:( It will grow back soon enough though! You are still sleeping through the night (thank goodness) and take naps during the day every 2-3 hours. Naps are becoming a bit more of a struggle, but we aren't sure if that is correlated with teething. We still have to bounce you on the exercise ball to get you to sleep, but this afternoon (11/27) you fell asleep all by yourself!!! Lets hope this continues:)
It is bittersweet watching you grow - in many ways I want you to stay a baby forever, but at the same time I love watching you learn and witnessing different milestones you are reaching on an almost daily basis. You are absolutely OBSESSED with rolling - it is getting nearly impossible to change your diaper or your clothes. As soon as you are on your back you are trying to roll over. It is like a workout changing your diaper:) You also sat for the first time without any support on November 14th - that was pretty exciting! You have become increasingly observant and love watching everything that is going on around you. You respond really well to your name and always react to both me and your daddy when you hear us in the room. You love watching the cats and grabbing at their fur. Mona isn't too sure about you and usually runs away, but surprisingly Roary is very patient with you (and even gives you kisses every once in awhile).
You have grown to really love the baby bjorn (carrier), but only if you are facing outwards. Today we went to the mall and you were having such a blast, talking and making fun sounds. You like to try to touch all the clothes too:) Speaking of which, you are grabbing at everything. If we put a toy in front of you, you always reach for it. Your favorite toy is still your fingers though - they are ALWAYS in your mouth. You are always drooling - often you have several wardrobe changes in one day:) You also love your sunshine rattle. You recently discovered your feet, but they aren't nearly as fun as your hands right now.
We have discovered some other things that you really love. You always laugh when we kiss your belly. You love when we blow on your face, like you are at the ocean. You enjoy looking at yourself in the mirror and have recently started smiling at yourself - it is quite cute. The exersaucer is becoming very fun - you have even figured out how to push the buttons so you can hear the animal sounds and music.
Bath time is still lots of fun, although you are getting so big that water splashes everywhere. You are always happy in your bath though and it is fun for your mommy and daddy to bathe you together. Daddy took you in the big bathtub for the first time on November 17th. You didn't really know what to think about it, but you seemed happy.
You are a pretty happy girl most of the time:) We think you might be a bit shy - you are usually pretty quiet if you around other people. You are smiling a lot more, but you are still a bit selective. We are excited to see how your personality evolves over the coming months and years. There aren't many things that you don't like- you still don't like the car and if you are hungry, you get impatient quickly.
We celebrated your Uncle Brent's birthday at your grandma's house in Glacier - that was a long drive, but we are so glad we went! You celebrated your first Halloween, which was lots of fun! You also celebrated your first Thanksgiving (post and pictures to come!). We have been on lots of playdates this month - to Grace's house, to the mall several times with different friends, Target, and lunch. Melissa came to visit us from Spokane and to meet you for the first time - you two hit it off! You have gone out to dinner many times with mommy and daddy - our new favorite place to take you is to sushi:) We saw many of mommy's friends from school at Vivian's house for a lumpia-making party. We had the Swanson's over for brunch at the beginning of the month - they are great friends. They also shared some special news with us - in April you will have a new baby friend!!!!! Yayyyy! Congrats Swansons:) We attended Aaron's 2nd birthday party and we discovered that you really like balloons. It has been a fun month!
Happy 5 months Nelia! You are such a delight! We love you and are so proud of you!
It is so hard getting you to smile, especially when I have that big, huge, scary camera up to my face
Trying to eat your monkey:)
