Buckets of Insight: Annelisa is 5 Months!

Five months! It's hard to believe it's been five months already! It feels like yesterday we were getting to meet our little lady for the first time!

Annelisa's fifth month proved itself a month of personality! Annelisa is definitely growing physically, but we feel like her mental growth spurted ahead of the physical this month. Her personality seems to be mostly even keel, she knows what she wants and she fights to get it! She can happily play by herself for long stretches and wants plenty of hands on time with mom and dad, too! She is a fairly easy baby, who has stolen many hearts!

Annelisa's milestones this month include:

Moved up to size 3 diapers
Wearing all 6 month onesies and outfits and some 6-9 month dresses
Sleeping 12 hours each night (some nights she has slept 13.5 hours!)
Typically taking 2 naps, one "long" (2 plus hours in the morning) and one "short" (an hour or so in the afternoon). I'm hoping to switch this if she'll let me!
Nursing 5 to 6 times a day, however the length of feeding sessions has increased dramatically. Such that she typically nurses for an average of an hour and forty-five minutes total during the day.
Started cereal, both rice and oatmeal...she doesn't really like either of them. She spits a lot of it back at me. I've tried it thin, thick, and even sprinkled with cinnamon...I've begun to think she's just not crazy about the stuff and possibly not ready.
Continues to have tummy time and she is protesting more than previous months...aka lots of tears at some point during the day!
Can push herself up on straight arms during tummy time
Trying to complete an hour of tummy time most days...however, we average more in the 45 minute range.
Enjoying her exersaucer more...this is still overwhelming, 10 to 15 minutes is about all she can handle before she is over-stimulated.
Rolling over for the first time and not rolling since...almost like she hasn't realized she can do it on her own.
She is smiling and giggling a lot more! She thinks that her mommy and daddy are pretty funny most of the time...probably because both of us make lots of "sound effects" when we are playing with her.
She is much, much, much more aware of her surroundings. She wants to be out of her car seat so she can look around in stores or restaurants.
She is mesmerized by Farley...they are actually paying a little bit of attention to each other these days.
Bath time is still a favorite time during the day. As soon as she is placed in the tub, she always has her huge grin!
She loves her play mat and loves deliberately grabbing the toys and moving them into her mouth. Her favorite toy is the rattle on her play mat, she always manages to get the pokey parts into her mouth.
She is teething...likely one of her bottom teeth, you can't see it or feel it yet, but she is constantly putting anything and everything to that region of her mouth.
She has begun to grab our hands and move our fingers to her mouth.
She continues to suck her thumb and fingers, especially when going to sleep.
She is back scooting around the house! Meaning she is mobile!
She is a kicker! Literally! :)
Practicing sitting up with the help of the Boppi pillow
Traveled to Austin to visit the Wilkerson's for the first time!
Celebrated her daddy's 30th birthday! :)