5 months

Ayla is 5 months old.

As I write this, I can scarcely believe that it was 5 months ago, almost to the exact minute, that we welcomed Ayla into our world.

She is getting SO big! She weighed in today at 14lbs 2 ozs (almost, but not quite, double her birth weight).

Some notable things about Ayla at 5 months:

• She can still fit many of her 0-3 month clothes.
• She still wears size 1 diapers.
• 1 bottle of shampoo has lasted her for 5 months (I just bought a new bottle yesterday)
• Her hair is lightening into a lovely shade of strawberry blonde.

Some notable things that happened during this 5th month:

• Her love affair with the Jolly Jumper deepened.
• Ayla slept 'through the night' for the first time (Note: just because Ayla slept through the night does not mean that I slept through the night. I actually got far less sleep than usual on this night because my body kept waking me up, every hour on the hour, wondering what the heck was going on.)
• The toes made their way into the mouth.
• She started responding to her name.
• Second round of vaccinations.
• She started to sit....sort of.

her official 5 month picture

...and a few more for your viewing pleasure

5 month calendar scrapbook pages

trying to take a family self-portrait