5 Months: 15 pounds of fun, you're our little honey bun

Dear Punkin,
Wow, you have really developed a personality this month! 
You just love to laugh and you love thrills, like being thrown up in the air and being in the swing at the park.

You started to scoot backwards, even though we can see that youreally want to be crawling forward. Now that you’re becoming mobile, we have to strategically place you on the ground because you’ll end up a good distance back from where you started. 

Guess where she started?

You love to roll onto your stomach and get moving, and you can roll over multiple times. You’ve started to make “pppbb” and hard “thh” sounds and you’re drooling oh so much! 

1st time in the grass

Unfortunately, we also think you’re teething because you’ve been very fussy and have started to bring everything within reach into your mouth. You’ve developed a puppy-like whine, which is cute, … but we’re looking forward to when you move past it!

Ever since your grandma put you in a swing you haven’t looked back. You LOVE the swing. You love to sit back and hang on and watch all the other moms and babies. You love to look up at the trees and birds. You even fell asleep in the swing during an especially hot day at the park.

You started music class and you enjoy the hand puppets, bells, and tummy time on the beach ball. You also love your classmates, whom you are constantly checking out, talking to, and reaching for.

You also enjoy talking to us. A lot. You still like to make pirate noises (arghhhhh, arghhhhhh, arghhhhhh), but you mix it up with your drooly “pffbbbb” sounds now.

You love to chew on your fingers and, occasionally, your left thumb finds its way in. And you know how to reach for us when you want to be picked up. We love when this is followed by a great big, full body hug. You just cling on tightly with both arms and both feet!

You are amazing, Little Bear, and we can’t believe that we got such a fun little girl! You’re so sweet too, and we love that you touch our faces at night when you move on into Big Bed. You prefer Big Bed to your lonely old crib. Truth be told, we don’t really mind. It’s fun to wake up to you–laughing or rolling over on us, trying to find the next thing to explore.

We love you so much Little One. We hope your teeth come in soon so you can discover the vegetables that await you!

Big hugs and see you in the morning,
Mama and Dada