Stats:

Height: 69cm (27.1 in)

Weigh: 7.04 kg (15.5 lb)

This month has been exhausting. She went from being an incredibly alert baby to being a cracked out alert baby,like overnight one night, last month.

This child needs CONSTANT stimulation. She can stand about 10 -15 minutes TOPS doing one particular thing and then we have to reposition her completely or else the whining gets louder and LOUDER. Walks in the stroller are sort of getting easier because the scenery is constantly changing and so it distracts her from the fact that she is stuck having to sit still. However, after 30 minutes of anything, no matter what it is, she starts to protest. The Ergo is still the only guaranteed way of getting her to sleep and remain content for longer than 30 minutes, which is starting to hurt my back pretty bad.

She does not sleep- goes to bed between 9 and 10pm after an hour of screaming and then wakes every hour until 7am, when she wakes for good. She does not nap for more than 10 minutes at a time. If I am lucky.

For her five month present I got her a sleep sheep and all that I hope for is that the sound will drown out noises in the house so that she doesn’t wake up every time a pin drops. I did mention that she is a light sleeper, right?

Oh hey! The babbling strike ended, last night… at 4am. Whoo hoo!

As far as what she loves:  one of her favorite things, still, is being read to and she has obvious favorites when it comes to books.  I always give her two options and let her choose (by grabbing the book). She consistently chooses the same books and gets really pissed off it I go ahead and read the other one anyway.  She also turns the pages now.

omg i am so tired.

Lately our days consist of me running around in circles trying to keep her from getting bored. I don’t shower much anymore.  We’ve been going on long walks every day, despite the lousy weather. Yesterday as we were walking back from the vet, she decided she was over it and began to scream just as it started to snow and just as my hands were 99 % frozen off. I had to dig through the diaper bag with stiff frozen fingers to find my iphone so that I could youtube a fricken vacuum cleaner sound so that she would stop screaming until we got home. hahah  you can only imagine what a sight (and sound) that was: me pushing a screaming baby through the pouring snow with the sound of a hoover on full blast coming from inside the pram. HAHHAH omg.

She is also pointing now and pinching, mostly my tit.  Yay for me. I let her pinch the part that is nerve damaged and numb from my boob job though, so it works out.

Although she isn’t rolling anymore she has started to do this funny wiggle while on her back and can wiggle herself around and off of her play mat. She really gets into it when she’s got no clothes on, squirming and squealing (while I cry and take swig after swig from a bottle of brandy… and then let out a squeal of my own).

hey, don’t judge.

Overall she is a wonderful child. Sure, I wish we’d all get more sleep but, as my neighbor said, it’s better that she is alert and curious than sitting there like a blob. Easier said!  She has an incredibly active (hopefully NOT ADD) mind and it’s amazing to watch her discover the world and it’s also amazing to see how many different shades of purple i am capable of wearing beneath my eyes.

Other things of interest:

she looks incredibly cute in the color orange.

it looks like there could be a tooth coming in?!

she has pooped three times today.

if she is upset and you start to sing “the wheels on the bus” to her, she lights right up and flashes the biggest smile, EVER!

next month we start solids (attempting to try our own version of “baby lead weaning”…hmm)AND we are switching out the bassinet for the seat on her stroller which means it will actually FOLD up!

Alrighty then! THAT took 8 hours.

(here she is inspecting her new hot pink trousers. this was five minutes before she completely blew them out PTHTHTHTH)

<– putting down the rubber dicky.