5 months

At 5 months, Ellery is getting happier and more content by the day! She is definately aware when you walk out of a room, and loves to be right in on the action. She is content playing on the floor with a sibling on either side talking to her. She does pretty well, considering the kids are always right in her face. She seems to notice and enjoy the TV much more than any of our other kids did at this age. She smiles and talks/coos quite freely now, and will usually laugh back at you if you laugh at her. She's working on sitting up, and does pretty well if you sit right behind her.

Her torticollus has improved alot.

She is sturdy! I weighed her on my scale, and it seems she weighs 17lbs. already!

We recently began feeding her real food. You can tell by this picture her thoughts on oatmeal. We tried a few times and she would have nothing to do with it, so we moved on to sweet potatoes. After a few tries she seems to like them! We slipped some to Stella however, and she does not :)

As far as sleeping goes, we are still working on sleeping through the night...but she's making progress. She can do it if she wants to. Some nights she will sleep till 5am, while other nights she is up crying every half hour, and I'm hastily wedging her pacfier in her mouth with her pink stuffed pig. During the days that we are home all day, she seems to be getting in to a bit of a routine, taking real naps. Lately tho, between 3 kids playing soccer, school, and scheduled apts., I always seems to be waking her...but she's learning to roll with it.

I LOVE this age. Still a little non-moving baby, yet so responsive, happy, smiley, chatty, loving and squeezable!