Caroline is 5.5 months old, 17 lbs., gobbles up rice cereal, holds her toes, & dives toward/grabs toys.
But most importantly, she’s still very kissable & yummy!
I’m not very meticulous about keeping super-detailed notes about this baby girl– She is the 3rd child, after all. *sigh* But I do keep some notes, & I do adore her just as much as I did her siblings at this age!
There’s something so wonderful about babies at 5 months. They do more & interact more, while still maintaining their pre-crawling pudginess. Caroline isn’t extremely vocal or smiley, but she is such a content, easygoing girl. She likes when I just carry her around the house, outward-facing so she can take in all the action, and grab anything within her reach.
One way she expresses her contentment is by making a nasal humming-gurgling sound that always makes us smile. Hard to describe—Pace says we’d better catch it on video before she stops doing it!
Caroline has a lot more hair than Chase or Charlotte did as babies. She enjoys grabbing faces & hair. She has just a little bit of stranger anxiety. No teeth yet! She likes naps and expects them. At sleep times, she likes to have a pacifier & to be snuggled up to her Minky blanket.
This baby girl currently wakes up all the time at night (and I’m unfortunately not great at being an outstanding, cheerful mommy to the older two when I’m utterly exhausted). I’m working on weaning Caroline off the middle-of-the-night nursing in hopes that she will sleep better soon. If that doesn’t stop the night waking, we will say good-bye to the pacifier so that she isn’t dependent on a parent replacing it in order to get her back to sleep.
And we think that Caroline is a beautiful baby!
