A Day in the Life of Eliana: 5 months!

Wow Eliana is 5 months old. Can you believe it? I can't. She is growing so fast, though all her baby friends are starting to outgrow her. She may be 5 months but she is still comfortably wearing 3m clothing, and her 6m clothes are still ridiculously big on her. She is rolling onto her belly all the time and starting to figure out how to roll back. She is an expert at scooting backwards, though that is not the direction she intends to go. I'm starting to find her stuck half under the couch (or coffee table) on a regular basis. She is eating one solid meal a day. She has had rice and oatmeal (she prefers oatmeal) carrots, apples, and bananas. She has tasted watermelon, bell peppers, peaches, potatoes, and I'm sure a lot more that I'm not thinking of right now. In the last month I tried to train her to sleep unswaddled, but after 3 weeks of bad naps and a constantly fussy baby I gave up and for the past 2 weeks (or so) she has been taking great naps and is calmer and not nearly as fussy. Now lets see what she is up to today.

8:00 Slept in this morning, by the way I'm only waking up once at night to eat now (sometimes twice) and I still sleep for about 12 hours total at night.

9:00 Despite sleeping in I was ready for my nap at the usual time, and I slept great didn't wake up till noon.

*Note the sweat spot from her head, this is why I wanted to unswaddle her.
Her swaddle is breathable, but it is so hot here.

I give Mommy big smiles when I wake up from a good nap, but when
she pulled out the camera, I made this face.

12:00 I was super hungry when I woke up, Mommy made me a bowel of smooshed bananas. I'd never had bananas before.

Face after first bite.

Second bite

Face after second bite, I like bananas!

Bananas are really yummy :)

When I finished all my bananas I got to play with my spoon.

12:30 After all that eating and a little bit of playing I needed a little pick me up nap, so I took a short 30 min snooze.

1:00 Now that I was rested again I was ready to play.

I love my Elephant.

2:30 Play time in my Jumperoo.

I can spin this butterfly.

And I can jump, but I'm still not quite tall enough so I jump on a binder
to give me a little boost

Mommy put my kitty on my jumperoo.

Hi Mommy!

3:00 Time for another good nap. Slept from 3-5 when Mommy had to wake me up

5:00 More play time!!! Mom pulled out a new toy for me today, I love it, I can chew on it and when I squeeze it it squeaks.


6:00 Daddy came home from work and Mommy made dinner, I played on the floor and found the pole in my jumperoo, it was so interesting.

*she was so interested in the bar she wouldn't even look at me when I was talking to her

7:00 A little bit of SO BIG! before bed

Who's so big?
Eliana is SO BIG!