5 months

As of tomorrow, Ella will be 5 months old. She and I discussed it, and we've decided that the 5 month will be the best yet. :)

It still surprises me that just when I think one thing is set with regards to Ella, everything seems to change. Example--she had been sleeping for 11 hours a night with only one night feeding for a few weeks. This week, we're back to 2 night feedings and sleeping 9 hours total. I really think that she is working so hard on learning new things that she takes a step back in other ways. This is totally fine with me, as it is so amazing to watch her figure other things out. The only thing I don't like is that she seems more tired during the day, so I hope she resumes the good sleep soon.

Here is what she is up to these days:
-sitting up, only for a few seconds at a time before she topples over, but she is definitely getting better at it.
-forming multi-syllabic sighs and grunts. No words yet of course, but definitely a new vocabulary is forming in that brain of hers. Today, she told Gammaw and Pops to "watch her sit up and chew on her favorite toy". This sounded a bit like, "bah-OHHH-woo-ma", but we all got the point.
-loving drinking from a cup, loving rice cereal, and even...drum roll please...loving the bottle! Thank goodness!
-tormenting Kaiser, this has been very interesting for him.

More pics to come soon!