E update

Little miss E is five and a half months old. She is a dear sweet baby, and very happy. She sleeps through the night (knock on wood) from between 8 and 11pm until about 7:30am. She is a lot like her brother in that she wakes happy, and is content to lie in her crib, most recently spending time eating her toes.

She has a loose schedule, up, drinks a bottle then naps again around 9am for maybe 45 minutes. She’s then awake and ready for anything until around 11am or noon when she naps again. At some time in the afternoon she has a longer nap, although the turkey girl likes to sleep for an hour, demand a bottle, then sleep for another hour, even if she has just eaten! She is awake and active then until a short cat nap around dinner time.

She likes to sit in the bumbo where she can watch the rest of the chaos swirling around her. She loves her fingers, and sucks the middle two (on either hand) to calm herself. I must say I prefer this to the soother at the stage! It’s also likely why she sleeps through the night as she can self soothe. She is almost able to roll over, she rolls her lower torso over, but doesn’t quite manage to finish rolling her upper torso over. She may have rolled over all the way today but there is a good chance her sister “helped” her. She does like to lie in her baby gym and swat at the toys, and just roll around.

She is very blond at this stage, and it looks like she has daddy’s colouring too. She is a sweet happy baby, and I can’t wait to watch her discover her world!