Five Months (and one week)

Our baby turned five months old last week. This past month has been so much fun. She really has started to become active and more aware of things. We get such a kick out of her.

A few week ago she was in a silly mood all weekend and kept Brian and I laughing. She developed a new laugh that sounds like "hee hee hee." All you would have to do is look at her and she would go "heee heee heee." It is funny how she develops news sounds all the time and all of sudden you realize that she stopped making one certain sound and is on to another. When she was only a few weeks old and would have her meltdowns she would make a mawaaa sound (its hard to type out.) Then she was on to "Mum." Everything was mum. Lately she has been grunting, especially when she is trapped in her car seat or bouncy seat. She also loves making raspberries sounds. She makes a funny face with it now. Through it all though, she has kept up with her squealing and yelling.

She likes playing with her toys and loves being read to. She can sit on my lap for the longest time while we look through her books. For Christmas we got a book with the correct versions of nursery rhymes and baby songs. This is a nice change from the "Hush little baby, don't you cry, Momma is going to buy you a Barbie Doll." I could pretty much only remember a mocking bird and a diamond ring and that was about it. I had to get creative in the things that momma was going to buy her.

Allison can be easily entertained by kisses. She loves getting kisses and tries to kiss you back. The other night when putting her to sleep, I was suddenly surprised when she had my nose in her mouth. She kept trying to eat my nose the rest of the night. So much for trying to get her to sleep because I was laughing so hard that I was crying and she was also laughing.

She is pretty much done with pacifiers already. She stopped taking it during the day a while back, and then didn't want it at night. She would sometimes take it at nap time but really doesn't even want that anymore. I think we will pack those up this week.

And since, I'm doing this blog in part for Allison when she gets older, I have to brag and talk about how we get so many compliments on how cute she is. She hear that she looks like the Gerber baby a lot. People also comments on her rosy cheeks. The other day when I brought her to the Meijer Gardens a volunteer said "You hear the term adorable baby, but really that is one adorable baby."

Besides rolling over, Allison also discovered her thumb. Luckily she doesn't seem too attached to it (well, besides it being attached to her hand.) Hopefully it doesn't turn into a bad habit. Right now she does it enough just to be cute.

We are looking forward to month five and all the milestones she will reach.

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