Five Months

This sweetheart turned 5 months old on the 4th! And I'm just now blogging about it...it will be short and sweet :-)

And, by-the-skin-of-my-teeth, I barely remembered to take her monthly pictures that day (hence the poor lighting :-) 

They are getting harder and harder with her movements!

This gal takes 2-3 naps a day, and goes to bed between 8-9 p.m. (and has developed a desire to want to eat once in the middle of the night which I am trying to break her of). One thing is for sure, she can sleep anywhere!

She is doing well at night, usually sleeping about 8-9 hours before she needs to eat again!

Elise has a new-found obsession with her feet!

I failed to catch her having both her hand and foot in her mouth...this mommy wasn't fast enough!

E has been logging in some bounce time in her jumperoo. She doesn't look enthused in this pic, but she has enjoyed recently learning that her feet can touch the floor :-)

She is also an avid Bumbo fan :-) 

and I think it has accelerated her desire to sit more on her own

She has had some clingier days, but I'll take them!

And the boys have been clingier with her (ha!). No, really, it is the sweetest thing ever to watch your older kids bond with your baby. Blake calls Elise, "My baby." He always wants to hold her and check in on her at night when I'm feeding her and putting her to bed. The sweetest!

And JW has started interacting with her on his own, and not for attention. He's taking and running with the Big Brother role, and it is great to witness. As I said when I captioned this photo on Facebook, Elise will always be entertained by her brothers, whether she wants to be or not :-)

Case in point...hashtag, little sis problems

 

The boys often dress up, and we received this crown headband from my sister-in-law and her girls. So, Jameston always wants her to wear it when they are pretending to be "good guys"  and saving their princess

She is rolling both ways but is very content like this. Can't handle the cutest of this chubby cherub!

We went to Austin to visit family, and the littlest cousins bonded. Elise and Claire

While the oldest cousin wanted to help E learn to sit on her own

She napped so sweetly while at Granny and Papa's (and with all the noise :-)

Mommy helped out with VBS in late July, so Elise had her first days in the church nursery. Clearly, she loved it!

Our poor girl seems to have some allergy issues, as we are going on two weeks of congestion and a dry cough. No fun! We haven't started anything for it, will look into it at her 6-month check up.

We love our Lisey Faye!

 I'll post about her 1/2 year mark before you know it :-)

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Pops' birthday partay!!

We had a cook out in July for my dad's birthday! The kids had fun celebrating their Pops!!

And we also had a lot of water fun!!

Elise at 4 months old

Elise turned 4-months-old on the 4th,

exactly a year later to the day that we found out we were expecting another little blessing :-)

I took her in for her 4-month-appt yesterday, and here are the numbers:

Weight: 16lbs 5 oz. (85%)
Height: 26.75 in. (99%)
She's wearing size 2 diapers, still size 1 shoe (long, little feet) and 3-6 months clothes. But she is feeling those out, so I bet we move up to 6-9 months before she's half a year old! 

Eating every 3-4 hours during the day; when she has a bottle, she eats about 5-6 ounces

She is sleeping great at night, in a sleepsack! She sometimes rolls to her side and snoozes well :-)

 She naps great, usually 2 long ones (and in her crib some days when we are at home, yay!) with maybe a short cat nap in there. 

Big milestones this month are that she:

• Is rolling back to front (not consistently though, and more often just to her side)
• Has found her feet! Will have pictures to document this with next month's post
• Has found her voice, too! Even her cry is different these days!  And she makes a gurgling sound quite often with a lot of babbling sounds. Girl is LOUD when she wants to be, ha! 

• She is a pretty good supported sitter (no pictures to prove it, like the new-found feet feat), does well in the bumbo and boppy

And, like her big brothers,she LOVES the Jumerpoo!

Elise tolerates tummy time but usually not for long!

Recent happenings:

• She has started to spit up more this month, probably because she is upright more maybe?
• Baby sister has the best belly laugh, and I have the best video that documents it (hope to upload it!)
• She likes to SING back to us when we're singing
• Elise loves to look in the mirror and the funny faces Mommy makes while we singing and talking into the mirror 
• She has a "Popeye" smile, where she closes one eye slightly
• LOVES Peekabo/"where are you/I see!"
• Seems to recognize her name
• We've started doing the touch books, and she seems to like the textures
• She is drool factory and has started blowing lots of bubbles lately! And she likes to chew on her hands, case in point...

• She is trying to gum all things, not just her hands, so we'll see how far behind her little teethers are...

Big brothers are so sweet with her! Melts my heart...

Here is a pic collage of all three kiddos around 2 months old. You can tell they're siblings, huh? But Elise has the biggest eyes of all three, that's for sure. Baby blues:

She wasn't a fan of the backyard pool

One morning we had a play date with some of her (and big brothers') siblings. Here she is with Misses Kenzie and Addy!

Also, as previously posted, we headed to the lake for E's (and Blake's) first camping experience. Here she is with my middle sis, Lynnlee. Love it! She tolerated the outdoors very well :-) Happy 4-months, baby girl!
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