Parker Penny // 5 Months

I love her mini mohawk!

This has been a huge month developmentally for Parker.  This teeny tiny infant has grown into a wiggly, squirmy little person.  Some highights:

• Sleeps on her side or stomach 75% of the time.
• Rolls over front to back and back to front.
• Her fine motor skills are terrific...she can grasp items and hold them tightly.
• She can scooch/push herself backwards.
• Loves blowing rasberries.
• Appears to be a thumb sucker.
• Coos, babbles and smiles constantly. 
• Loves bath time

She still refuses the bottle so I've just given in and stopped trying.  She seems to be interested in food...whenever we eat she stares intently at us and has reached for items on my plate.  I want to try and give her solids again (she wasn't interested the first time we tried a few weeks ago), but our house is still a disaster and I can't find her baby spoons.

Her sleep pattern is fairly consistent...she usually goes down anytime between 7 and 9 depending on my evening schedule; I dream feed around 10:30 or 11 and she usually wakes up at 3am for a feed and then is awake for the day between 7 and 8 am.  The hilarious thing is she will end up on the opposite side of the crib, turned around, and is usually crammed in the corner whenever I go in to feed her.  We've had 2 nights recently were she slept through the night and I'm praying we get more of those again soon.

Naptime is very inconsistent.  Her naps range from 20 minutes to 2 1/2 hours.  Sometimes she'll nap once and sometimes 4 times a day.  Lovely.  

Let's talk poop shall we?  Her blowout situation has gone from about 3 a day to about one.  (Every now and then we get a blowout free day).  Now that she has been sleeping on her stomach, if she has a blowout in the middle of the night, her front is covered in poop instead of her back.  So her PJ's are now equally stained.  Awesome. 

She is still not really a fan of being in the car or going for walks in the stroller. She despises having her clothes changed, and she also randomly started this stubborn grunting/crying/arching/stiffening her body business...it's quite entertaining, unless I'm trying to changer her diaper.  About 3 weeks ago she went from being completely content with someone else holding her to having massive meltdowns if anyone but me or daddy is holding her.  Hopefully that passes soon.

I know this was a long post but so much has happened this month!!

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