Ryleigh is Five Months!!!!!

Ryleigh at five months (March 15, 2011)

What?!  Five months?!  It can't be!  My little baby is one month away from being half a year old!  I've never seen time go by so fast. 

We started this past month out with a visit from Yaya.  You can check out some pictures and videos from her visit here.  Other than that we've had a pretty relaxed month.  Ryleigh's physical therapy was dropped to only once a month, so we havn't seen Miss Flavia since February 24th, but we are still working on our stretches.  Ryleigh is spending a lot more time on her tummy so that she can work on strengthing her shoulders and neck.  She is getting a lot better at resting up on her elbows insteading of "supermaning" (balancing on her torso with her arms and legs lifted) as we like to call it.  She is also starting to reach for toys while she is laying on her back, so she will roll to her side and try to reach for something.  She has yet to roll over completely to it though.  It's almost as if she gets on her side and then decides "Ehh, I don't want that toy that bad" and then she flops back over onto her back.  But she'll get to it eventually...and by eventually, clearly I mean right now, since as I am writing this she has just rolled over from her back to her front while reaching for a toy.  Hooray!!  She is also getting very close to sitting up on her own.  We're hoping that will happen in the next month.

As for foods, she started eating vegetables this month.  Mommy figured it was time to start introducing those since at Ryleighs 4 month visit the doctor said that we could start introducing foods (even though we have been eating them since 2 months) and that we should start with veggies first, then fruit.  Well, Mommy introduced fruits first, whoops.  So we started eating veggies now too.  So far Ryleigh has eaten, and enjoyed carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, green beans, spinach and peas.  But, just like her Daddy, she doesn't seem to enjoy the peas as much.

Finally, the last new thing from this past month is that Ryleigh cut her first tooth!  We have been waiting for it to appear since she has been drooling and chewing for a while now.  It finally popped through on March 12th, which makes sense since she was uber fussy that whole week before.  Now we know why!  Daddy discovered it and when he told Mommy her reaction was "OH!" with excitement then, "OH!" with sadness...because this just means my little baby is growing up.  Then Daddy said "are you going to cry?", and Mommy, holding back her tears said "NO....." : (  But I know it's going to happen, so I will enjoy it as it comes and continue taking pictures and videos so that you can enjoy it as it comes too.  See you next month!!

this is our yucky peas face

now she watches Lucy running and playing & looks for her on the floor

this was her first time holding her own bottle & feeding herself

we DO NOT own this hat...we just put it on at the store, then put it back. it's not really our style.

Daddy was using Ryleigh as a table

Lovin' her wet, cold washcloths now that she's teething.

Earlier in the month we added handles to Ryleighs bottle to see if it was easier for her to hold.  She hadn't quite discovered that she had to tilt the bottle yet.

Ryleigh playing with her binkie.  She likes to take it in and out of her mouth, so much so we had to get one of those things to clip it to her shirt.

Enjoying tummy time a lot more now that she can actually play with the toys.