holy smokes, how can my baby girl be 5 months old?
it's crazy!!!
but we are loving you more every day. maelle, you are so much fun! you're little personality is already coming through nicely. you will be quite like your mom and her dad, i think. all our best qualities...loud, funny, animated... poor girl.
so here is a comparison for you.
one month
five months
it was hard to get a good one with the sign because you only wanted to eat it...
at 5 months, maelle, you are sitting up and just starting to roll over (only back to front) and scoot. you can scoot two different ways though (we hope that makes up for the fact that you aren't really interested in rolling over at all and will only do it when tempted with a special treat (an iPhone or a cup will do the trick). first you scoot by sitting on your bottom and bouncing so much that you will just barely inch forward. the other scoot is a tummy backwards army crawl thing. you seem pretty frustrated by it, because we think your really want to be going forwards...oops.
you're also VERY interested in cameras and really want to touch. well really you just want to touch everything in sight. and then you want to eat it. it's so funny to watch and see what you want to put in your mouth. lately, you have started gnawing on tables - nana's table, restaurant tables (yuck!), the coffee table - you name it you've chewed it.
you LOVE your feet. you are constantly playing with your toes and trying to get them in your mouth. you are usually quite successful! pretty impressive flexibility.
you're also always happy. now that you have figured out the benefits of a good nap, you smile nearly all of your awake time. (currently, you have been out like a light for about 3 hours! i keep checking just to make sure you're breathing!) you are getting so big, that blanket used to seem so big, now it seems like any day you might out grow it.
true to form and family, you, girl, are a TALKER. you loves to hear yourself. you will lay in your bed in the mornings just happily babbleing to yourself until someone comes to get you. it is so sweet. you will also talk the ear off your little elephant carseat friend, Tony Elephantae (affectionately dubbed so by your daddy). you also loves to sing. all. the. time. we sang the wheels on the bus for a solid 40 minutes on our last trip out west while waiting for a little thing called sleep...after about 15 rounds of the repeats, your mommy and daddy got a little more creative with the verses, but you didn't seem to mind as long as we just kept singing.
finley and you are finally beginning to become friends. you look at him and smile when he walks in the room. mommy can't get a picture of you two because you won't hold still long enough. he distracts you from all your tasks, diaper changes, eating, nursing, etc. you have no focus when finley is in the room. he is so gentle with you and is a little protective too. he lays between your stroller and the other dogs at nana and papa joe's house, almost like he's trying to say, "this is my baby...get your own."
here are a few more pictures and videos to remind us and you about you at 5 months.
So funny! from lindsay frasier on Vimeo.
Swinging! from lindsay frasier on Vimeo.