5 Months...

Five Months was a HUGE month for me.  I started getting even bigger even though I was still only 12 pounds I was growing.  My motor skills were right on track. I was eating my homemade baby food daily and drinking my yummy formula with rice and probiotics in it.  Mommy made sure I was going to be a healthy lil girl.  Mommy started introducing me to all kinds of new toys and stuff.  See I am such a little baby that all the toys to help me with my motor skills and such are way to big for me but mommy was determined to get me out there and let me experience stuff other babies my age were experiencing.  As you will see below mommy got me a baby einstein exercise center.  That was a bit of a challenge for me.  I am so tiny that the thing you sit in came up practically to my neck. how the heck was I supposed to jump and play with my toys???
At 5 months I started sitting up for a couple of seconds without any help and I tried to crawl.  I had a long way to go in the area of crawling but I was sure determined!  I started spending a lot of time on my tummy, pushing up!

Mommy and daddy started taking me on adventures.  My first big one was the beach.  The pictures are posted below as well as others from my fifth month!

I was loving my Sweet Potatos homemade by my mommy!

This is the first day of me playing in my Baby Einstein exerciser!  You can't tell it was too little for me because i was in the middle of a jump in the air!

This begins a serious of pictures of me trying to feed myself.  Can you see the bottle is almost as big as me! Yes I was a little thing.  This is why I still let my mommy hold my bottle!  its HUGE!

Almost got it!

This is me thinking I am a big girl.  I love my bobby but I wanted out on the floor to move around!

I am trying to feed myself here!

sound asleep!

mommy loves taking nighty nighty pics of me...

This is a serious of pictures of mommy, daddy and me on our first family trip to the beach!  There was so much going on they had a hard time getting me to look at the camera...I loved the beach!

I started spending a lot of time in this position!

My 4th month....

4 months was lovely and sad..... Mommy started taking me on long walks because she said she wanted to get rid of the baby weight she put on with me. ha ha She would put me in my stroller and we would go go go.....I love being outside. At 4 months I started being able to sit up while being held. I spent a lot of time on my tummy so I could strengthen my body in preparation to crawl. At 4 and half months I decided I wanted to try baby food so I did and loved it. My mommy makes ALL of my baby food. She introduced me to different fruits and vegetables slowly and soon I was up to eating twice a day. Mommy makes me sweet potatos, squash, apple sauce, peaches, pears, carrots...i love them all!

It was around this time mommy started getting sad. I wondered why and she finally told me it was because she would soon be leaving me to go back to work. I didnt really understand but I soon found out mommy would be gone all day every week for 5 days. My fourth month was a big month for me and a sad one....

My 3rd Month....

Well my 3rd month started my life turning around. I started outgrowing colic and my mommy could finally start taking me out in public. She was kind of feeling like a prisoner in her own home being that we had to always stay inside because I cried so much. Mommy and me started making little field trips to places like Target or Walmart. Nothing to exciting as you never knew when my colic would hit and we would have to go home plus I hated the car seat. I am not into anything that really keeps me to confined. If I feel like I am tied down I can't move around like I want I don't like it. I more of a mover and shaker! Boy did i love to blabber at 3 months. Mommy says that I just went on and on and on just blah blah blahing away. I started to smile all the time also. My colic got better but i still cried when mommy tried to put me down. boy do i like it when mommy holds me! what baby doesnt?Anyway its around this time that my mommy wanted me to get some pretty professional pictures done by my Aunt Lacy. So we took a trip down to Simmons bottoms (sp?) to see Aunt Lacy and Uncle Brian. We didn't spend the night because I was too young. Below are the pictures of me that my Aunt Lacy did. Aren't they lovely???

I also celebrated my first official Holiday in my 3rd month. Easter...And the pictures below will show you how I celebrated it....ASLEEP! HA HA

My ikky Second Month....

So my Second Month out of my mommys tummy was a rocky one! Around this time I started to try and grow but that didn't work out so well for me because I was in pain.  At this time I decided I needed to cry to express how much pain I was in...Thats when it started. The hours upon hours upon hours of endless crying.  Who knew a baby, my age could cry for 8 hours + STRAIGHT. no lie. Ask mommy because towards the end of my crying she started to also! ha ha Poor Mommy and Poor Me!.... so I cried for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours a day.  Sometimes my daddy would leave for work at 5 am and I would be crying.  He would get home around 5 pm and I would still be crying.  Daddy would take me and give my mommy a break!  Mommy tried everything, she would walk with me, sing, read books, watch tv, swaddle, feed, go in another room, turn the water on, play different types of music.  Nother ever worked!  The doctor finally told mommy I had colic!  I never want to go thru that again and either does my mommy!
At around this time my eating was not so good.  I was only eating 5 ounces a day and couldnt go to the bathroom.  The doctor swore it wasnt my formula.  My mommy thought other wise!  I remember my mommy would research - research - research and talk to person after person,everyone trying to help me.  Mommy would be so upset she couldnt help me she would cry.  That made me sad so I cried some more.  After I thougth I was all cried out and mommy thought she would get a break I would cry some more.  This went on for months!  Mommy kept calling the doctor over and over to finally she lost all trust in the doctor and took it upon herself to fix me.  She switched my formula to a hypo-allergenic, colic formula and I was much better. It tasted so yummy and I actually wanted to eat.   I ended up being allergic to soy!  However this did not stop the crying....Mommy found me a new doctor that we both love.  That other one didnt know what she was talking about.  How she is still a doctor and treating other innocent, sad babies like I was is beyond me.    My mommy should have been a doctor because she diagnosed me and everything.
So because for almost my entire second month I didnt grow I had to start trying to play catch up!  Boy did I start eating.  everyone was so happy!
Here are some pictures of me at the age of 2 months...enjoy! he he

me very quiet. nite nite. a rare site at 2 months!

This is me discovering my "poopy face". Yes that is right my "poopy face"

Chillin on a good day!

One of my new bows!

Me trying out a Mohawk

My very first night home and My First month....

My first night home with mommy and daddy was a doozy. Earlier that day they released mommy from the hospital. She dressed me in the cutest going home outfit. Her friend Jenny (as I call her) or AKA Jennifer Angel from work gave me a oh so cute little pink outfit with pink pants, a onsie with lil cherries all over it and a pink zip up hoody. It was so cold going home so this was the perfect outfit. Mommy and Daddy got me home and inside the warm house where I got to meet my brothers for the first time. See they are boys and don't do the hospital thing so they didnt come see us, really they had work and school so I forgave them. They are big boys and when I get older I will have my very own body gaurds.


Well I slept off and on that day. mostly off. i was very wired up from being in my new place and trying to get used to being out of my mommy that I didnt really want to sleep. After a brief meet and greet with my family, mommy took me upstairs to rest. We settled in for the night so mommy and me could get some rest. Boy was mommy in for a surprise! Early that evening I decided to cry and cry and cry. I really never stopped crying. I started around 6pm and cried all night long. Mommy held me, rocked me, talked to me, swaddled me, she really did everything she could but I felt I needed to cry. Then daddy got up and walked me back and forth across the room for hours. Mommy finally called my granny at 4:30 am crying. She told granny that i just would not stop crying. Granny is so smart, she told mommy that I was just getting used to my new surrounding. Mommy hung up with granny and at 4:40am I finally was so tired I couldn't cry anymore.....

This is a picture of me my first night home my outfit my Jenny gave me....

My first month was a whirlwind.  I was kind of uncomfortable getting used to being outside my mommy's tummy.  Mommy was also uncomfortable as she had a big cut under her tummy that the doctor had to make to get me out.  My mommy's bed is so high up that daddy had to make her a step to get in and out of.   I spent the majority of my first month sleeping in the pretty boppy my Aunt Lacy and Uncle Brian got me.  My mommy would swaddle me and wrap me up to sleep. This month is also when I started to cry a lot. Slowly but surely leading up to being some challenging next months....
My eating wasn't so good when I got home so the doctor switched me from similac advantage to similac soy.  I did way better on that.  This first month is kind of a blur because I was so young.  You take in a lot when your first introduced to this big world so I don't have much to say.  I do know that mommy was really tired and in a lot of pain because of her cut.  Also I met so many people that my head started to spin so I think I started crying to deal with all the adjustments....
Here are some pics of me and my first month!

This was my first trip to the doctors office!

Asleep in my Bobby....

Mommy and Me watching my first SuperBowl!!!!! Go Saints!!!!

Mommy, Daddy and Me!

This is my very first day in the world. The sweet nurses had just cleaned me all up so I could look brand new!

This is my daddy holding me for the first time EVER!

My 2nd day in the world.  The photo people came in and wanted me to do a photo shoot so mommy put me in a cute little outfit with cherries on it that her friend Jenn gave me! I loved it and my pretty pink bow!

So young and I was even a ham for the camera then...

Me and the pretty hat my mommy ordered for me months before I was born.  She just couldnt wait to put it on me.

Me and daddy!