Five Months

Sweet Mairin is five months old!  She celebrated her five month birthday on Christmas day which was extra special and exciting.  She was busy watching Nolan and Quinn tear through their presents and even got into unwrapping a little bit herself.  She was mostly interested in watching everyone else.  She is so inquisitive these days and loves to study everything around her.  When she finds something really interesting she will lunge for it and grab it.  It usually goes straight into her mouth but sometimes you can catch her holding it, watching it and moving it around.  It's fun to watch her explore and wonder what she is thinking as she discovers something new.

Mairin is still the happiest girl.  She loves to flash her big smile at anyone who smiles at her.  She even smiles at her bottle when it's time to eat and laughs when she finds her toes.  When you are carrying her over your shoulder, she jumps and shakes with excitement as you walk her to her next destination.  Her happiness is contagious.  When she gets antsy to sleep at night, you simply take her clothes off and she is happy to bounce around naked for the next hour until it's time to eat and go to sleep.  

Sleep is still pretty steady.  She wakes up around 8:00, takes a morning nap around 9:30/10, an afternoon nap around 1:30/2, and a short cat nap around dinner time before going to bed between 8-8:30.  She is still sleeping in her bassinet in our room so it's easy to pass her a pacifier when she needs assistance falling back to sleep in the middle of the night but we will probably have to do a bit of sleep training once she's in her crib next month.  She has been napping in her crib and does really well so hopefully it will be an easy transition.

Mairin is a good eater and drinks 4-5 bottles a day ranging from 5-7 ounces each.  I was going to skip rice cereal altogether but she was having trouble stretching her sleep on her own from 6:30-8 so I thought we would give it a whirl to fill her belly up more.  She didn't seem to like it or not like it.  Just kinda ate it like it was no big deal.  Nolan was very concerned that she didn't like it and we were force feeding her (he is VERY protective) but she was fine.

Hard to believe we are almost half way through her first year already!!