She's Mobile

My little munchkin is still perfecting the art of crawling, but for now she's attempting more of an army crawl/leap movement.

Tonight she some how managed to go backwards when I wasn't looking and wedged herself under Daddy's recliner. I don't know what I'm going to do with her now that she can get around.

In other news she has decided to day that she needs to live on the boobs. Constantly nursing and the only reason I can think is because she's going through another growth spurt. I don't think it's in relation to her new tooth. Yes, Bud's friend Lizzie decided to move in permanently today. You can bet I'm excited because she has already managed to bite my cuticles today. This evening she finished up yesterday's sweet potatoes but for some reason wanted nothing to do with the green beans. After trying for five minutes I gave up, cleaned her up and let her play on the floor. Shortly after I set her down she decided to start screaming. I picked her up and she instantly tried to nurse through my shirt. So she didn't want real food, just juice. Sometimes it's enough to drive a mom insane.

5 Months Old and playing catch up

So I haven't been in a blogging mood lately, but I have a lot to update. Hopefully this will pull me out of my funk and I can get back to, at least every other day, blogging.

On May 31st, Arabella turned five-months-old. I can't believe it's been that long already. She has grown so much physically and developmentally. As of the thirty-first she weighed 18 pounds, 4.2 ounces and was 26 inches long. Yesterday we had to go buy some 12 month onesies for her. I think we hatched a giant baby!

She is also working on sitting up on her own. She can hold it for a few seconds but usually starts toppling over.

She has been able to stick both feet in her mouth and is trying to figure out how to suck on her thumb. So far she's merely using it to teethe with. She got her first tooth in and is now working on the second one. We started her on cereal and solids. To date she's only had rice cereal, oatmeal, sweet potatoes and green beans. She's also learned how to blow raspberries, which I must say is pretty cute. She's also attempting to figure out how to turn her monkey show on in her crib. Oh and the communication efforts are hysterical!

She has also started crawling on our bed. She's been getting pretty good at it this past week and today is showing attempts at doing it on the floor. She's getting really good at getting her tummy completely off the ground. Our little girl won't be so little for long!

Tonight we had another first...

GREEN BEANS...YUM!

At first we got these really sour faces from her but she gobbled up 2.5oz. She also seemed to keep them in her mouth better than the sweet potatoes. She was so disappointed when she finished them. Ah, the joys of raising a healthy eater.