5 Months

Little Miss is 5 months old! Of course I have loved all my dalings' stages of life, but I honestly do not remember the boys being nearly this delightful and cuddly (at this age) as this precious one! Is it a girl thing? Maybe the "this could be my last one" thing? A "I just don't remember" thing?
Ha. Whatever the cause, I'm totally, hands down smitten with this little beauty.
She is just pure sweetness and cuddles in the truest form.

So what's she up to?
SLEEP/EAT:
She has finally hit her stride of consistency! She gets a bottle every 3 hours (5oz.) starting at 7am, and her last being at 10pm. She usually falls asleep around 9:00pm (we get her up to feed her at ten and she goes back down), and sleeps all the way until 7:00ish. She gets a bottle, then falls back to sleep until about 8:00am.
The past few days, she has only drifted off to sleep for about 15 minutes in the morning (gets woken up usually by the business of our mornings). But then after her 1:00pm bottle, she immediately goes down from 1-4pm, just like her bothers. Then she will take a short little nap sometime in the evening, usually from about 6-7pm. I LOVE the long afternoon nap! This is how I trained Noah and it's always been great with everyone else's schedules in our house.
I have not tried solids yet and will probably wait until at least 6 months. We'll see.

DEVELOPMENT:
She can sit up, supported, and unsupported, will last about 5 seconds before toppling over. She loves sitting upright. She spends some time in her bumbo, but loves the jump-swing-thing (what is it called??) that hangs in the doorway. She loves standing, too. She rolls on her belly a ton, but only rolls back every now and then.

LIKES:
Two things make her belly chuckle and squeal like Justin Beiber just walked in the room (per, Jason's words of description - not mine!): 1. Watching her brothers jump on the trampoline, and 2. watching people throw and bounce balloons around her. So of course, we do them both all the time.

Her favorite place to be is in my arms, holding her tight on my hip. Seriously. The only child I have had like this and I love it. So me and her are basically attached. :) I used to carry the carseat around when I went places, but not with her anymore. She comes out of the carseat and on to my hip as we go about our days. Except for grocery shopping. ha.

Baths. Loves them.

Riding in the car and squealing at her brothers.

DISLIKES:
Honestly, I'm sure many of those will come, but she only really cries when she is getting tired.

I am going to try to get some fall pictures in the pretty colored leaves here in the next few weeks. Sunday night we had my mom's birthday party, and on the way I realized we were all actually dressed somewhat similar (which never happens!) so I had my mom take a few pictures. Now in retrospect, I wish I would have had Lincoln not wearing dark blue pants, but for the most part, it all worked!

 The birthday gal with her grandkids (I guess Lincoln will have to help hold the twins next year!):