Wrenn is 5 Months Old

Feeding:  She's eating 5 ounces every 3 hours.  She'll usually eat 25-30 oz in a day.  We started solid foods at four months old.  She's now tried rice cereal, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, pears, apples, and green beans.  It took her about a week to really understand how to swallow food off the spoon.  The doctor wants us through all the stage 1 foods by the time Wrenn returns for her 6 month visit.  Wrenn is still quite a puker, sliming her parents on a daily basis.   

Sleeping:  Sleeping is much better now.  After Wrenn learned to roll over we had a bit of a nasty sleeping period in which she would wake up angry about the fact that she was on her stomach.  She's gotten used to it now and spends most of the night sleeping on her stomach.  She likes to cuddle against the corner of the crib and often wakes up with a freezing cold arm because it was hanging outside of the crib slats.  I tiptoe into her bedroom about three times a night to push her arm back by her.  She's pretty good about sleeping from 11-12 at night straight through to 6 in the morning.

Naps have gotten much better.  I tend to lay her down in the crib to cry it out in the morning simply because I want to get a shower.  Afternoon naps are for snuggling with Mama.  :)

Diapers:  Size 2

Clothes:  Size 6-9, or 12 months depending on the brand.  It's been so hot that her standard outfit is just a onesie.    

Disposition:  She's quite a happy baby.  She laughs and smiles much more than the other two ever did.  I wonder if this means anything about her future personality?  I know Durham has been my serious one ever since birth.  Maybe Wrenn will be my goofy, smiley girl.  

Places:  She went on her first family vacation to Port Huron.  She's been to the library every Tuesday nearly all summer, although I rarely get her out of the carseat.  Sorry, kid.  Mama's got two other wigglers to look after.  We've been swimming all over this summer, and she seems to like floating around in the water.  She's been getting acquainted with a few of her cousins who come to babysit her while Mom and Dad run errands.  

Fun Facts:  She found her feet and loves to play with them and put them in her mouth.  She's also fond of removing her socks.  She's becoming adept at picking up toys to put them in her mouth.  She can pass a toy from one hand to another as her hands seem to fight each other over the object.  She's decided her mortal enemy is the carseat, although not every time we get in the car.  Thankfully, she was perfect driving to and from Port Huron.

She's also quite a wiggler.  She's hard to hold.  We always say we have to wrestle her to sleep when we are rocking her in the chair.  You have to put the child in a near sleeper hold in order to get her to stop wiggling and relax.

She wakes up in the morning making noises like a hurt ostrich.

What little hair she had encircling the back of her head when she was born has now all disappeared.  It's just blond peach fuzz everywhere now.  The hair on her ears has disappeared as well.  I remember her having very fine, fair eyelashes when she was born, but that must have gradually changed because she has darker, thicker lashes now.  

She'll take her hands and put them on my face to turn my face towards hers.  It's just the sweetest thing ever.    

Her favorite position

Getting close to sitting up on her own.  

I was distracting Durham with "find the body part" questions just to get him to sit still.  It's so hard to get a 4 year old, 2 year old, and 5 month old to get a picture together!  

For comparison, here are pictures of all three kiddos at 5 months old.  

Ainsley, Wrenn, and Durham.  Wrenn is the peanut of the group.