5 Month Check-up

With the move and the fact that pediatricians are hard to come by around here, Brooklyn had her 4 month Dr. appt at 5 months. She weighs 13 1/2 lbs (correction from 8 1/2 lbs that I had accidentally written..oops!) (25%), 25 inches (55%), and head 40%. Just as we suspected, she is doing great and growing like crazy!! She does have thrush, but she has been just as happy and playful as always so we had no idea. Hopefully it goes away soon with the medicine. She sure keeps us smiling with all her new tricks!

• Loves sucking on anything..hands, rattles, stuffed animals, burp cloths...you name it!
• Is silly at night! Every night, she just giggles, laughs and wants to play (right before bed time of course...It's so hard to put her to bed when she's being so cute!)
• Is generally a good napper and falls to sleep on her own (usually without fussing)..still working on sleeping through the night but after a rough week last week, we are grateful for only 1 wake time at night!
• Getting so good at holding her neck up (to no credit of our own..we are horrible with tummy time). But now that she can lift her neck back up when it falls, she actually enjoys tummy time for at least a few minutes so she is getting a bit more of it.
  
• Tries helping hold her bottle. She either has to be helping with her bottle or holding our fingers during feedings. We prefer when she holds our hands..it means she isn't knocking her bottle out of her mouth. But she is a good helper!
• Loves being outside. Whenever she gets fussy (which doesn't happen too often), we take her outside, layher on a blanket, and she just calms down and kicks to her hearts content. She is quite the active little thing!She liked looking at herself in the mirror..until the shots came. But she did so good and only cried for a minute, then slept most of the day!