Oh my goodness, Eleanor is growing up so fast. She's learning so many new things. It's hard to believe that the little peanut we brought home from the hospital in January is the smiling, laughing, big 5 month old that we love spending time with. (As a side note, I'm loving that summer break lets me pretend that I'm a stay at home mom. I'm beyond excited to have 2 straight months to spend with Eleanor!) I don't have official "stats" for Eleanor since we don't go back to the doctor until her 6 month appointment next month.
Here's what Little Miss is up to these days:
-She is still eating 4 oz formula with 2 tbsp of rice cereal mixed in. She's starting to get hungry a little sooner, so I think we're going to up her to 5 oz bottles tomorrow and see how that goes. Only about a month until she starts solids, too. Crazy!
-Wears 3-6 month clothes, though some of these are getting a little small on her. I put her in a 6-9 month sleeper tonight and it fit well. She was getting a little too long for the 3-6 month ones.
-Grins a TON and usually has a lot to say as well. Eleanor will laugh, but she has to find something
really funny to do so. But oh, when she laughs it is the sweetest, most joyful sound. I love it. Things Eleanor finds funny: changing a blowout-diaper in a restaurant bathroom, bouncing in her jumper with someone grinning at her, and when Matt takes one of her toys and brings it down to touch her face (complete with sound effects) then quickly picks it back up and repeats.
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| Daddy's girl. She's always got grins for Daddy :) |
-Still loves taking baths and splashing around.
-Has found her feet as of last week and she goes for them with just about every diaper change.
-Can sit up with some help, but still falls over if she's unsupported. But man, she can rock the Bop.py while she's playing with her toys.
-Enjoys having dance parties in the living room with mama. Oh.my.goodness, the grins and squeals during our dance parties are
awesome.
-Puts
everything in her mouth. Toys, other people's hands and arms, anything. She really likes to try and eat Matt's nose if she's laying next to him :) Eleanor has discovered that Sop.hie the Giraffe's face is the perfect size to fit in her mouth. She loves her some Sophie.
-Gives out huge grins when we go in to get her in the morning or after a nap. She has also figured out where we enter and leave the room, so as soon as she hears a voice she whips her head around to see who's coming.
-Still sleeps 9-11 hours every night. Mommy and Daddy very much appreciate this. Oh, and Eleanor still wakes up in the craziest places. Usually her feet are between the back slats and her head is near the front ones. This morning, however, Eleanor had done a complete 180 and her head was where her feet normally are. She accomplishes all this movement because she rolls onto her side, then back down to her back. Each of these movements moves her just a little bit, until eventually she's completely rotated.
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| Just chillin' in my crib after a nap |
-Can roll front to back, and is doing that more consistently, but hasn't figured out back to front yet. She's really close and can get all the way over on her side, but then just doesn't know what to do with that arm that's underneath her.
-Is reaching for anything and everything that's nearby. She especially loves touching people's faces.
-Has realized that bottles=food. If she's fussing because she's hungry and she sees the bottle, she stops fussing and starts making these really fast noises like, "oh, oh, it's coming." She will even lean down/over and try to eat the bottle while we are making it. She has also started being able to hold her bottle sometimes. She usually reaches for it and keeps at least one hand on the bottle, but she's not able to consistently hold it by herself yet. And she hasn't quite figured out that the bottle has to be tipped up in order to get anything out of it.
-Enjoys watching ceiling fans. Seriously. When all else fails Matt and I will lay her in the middle of our bed and turn on the ceiling fan. Most of the time this works. Sunday she hadn't napped all day and I had tried rocking her and a few other tricks. We put her on the bed and laid next to her (but not close enough that she could touch us, because now her hands also move around a lot and rub whatever is nearby) and within a few minutes girlfriend was out.
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| Napping with Mommy |
-Still takes a pacifier to go to sleep most times, but that's usually the only time she gets the pacifier unless she is super fussy. She is also still pretty determined to be a thumb sucker.
-Loves being outside. We go on a lot of walks and this past Sunday Eleanor hung out in her pack.n.pl.ay on the porch (in the shade) for about a half hour while Matt and I did some yardwork. She was perfectly content to play with (aka eat) her toys and babble :)
And because this picture is too sweet not to share, here's a picture of Matt and Eleanor. One of Matt's clients made this quilt for Eleanor and we just recently got it. Isn't it beautiful? Anyway, we were taking some photos of Eleanor on the blanket so Matt could show them to the person who made it for her, and then we just played for a while. Eleanor got tired and fell asleep...and Matt, who had been laying next to her, took a little snooze as well. I think this is one of my favorite photos of Matt and Eleanor. I love it.
