Kelsey's Five Month Update

Dear Kelsey,

As usually it is so hard to believe that another month has gone by.  Five months old!!!  That just seems so old to me and it just seems like yesterday that you were such a tiny little thing.  I just love watching you grow and learn!  Being your Mama is a joy and a privilege. 

You are still wearing size 1 diapers and are into 3-6 month clothes.  A lot of them are still really big on you.  You seem to be growing a little slower like the boys at this age!  You look much bigger than you are in pictures.  You have the cutest little chubby cheeks but they are deceitful! 

You are still a big talker.  You have started gurgling a lot and you will imitate us if we do the same.  You love your brothers and have started smiling and laughing at them!

We had to move you out of the Rock-N-Play and put away our bouncer.  You kept sitting straight up in them and I was afraid you were going to call out of it!  So we got the Pack-N-Play out to keep you safe!  You are still sleeping around 8:30 or 9 to around 5 or 6 each morning.  After I feed you then you go back down for a couple of hours.

You are rolling over both ways now and can sit up for a few seconds although you are all hunched over!  You'll be sitting up soon!

I bought you a nursing necklace this month and you love it!  You kept pulling my hair while you were nursing and this necklace helps to solve that problem!  It is made of silicone and wood and you love to grab it and also chew on it!

You went to the fair for the first time this month, the zoo, hiking at Mt. Rainier, on a train ride, to a college volleyball game, your first baseball game, the beach, the pool, lots of playgrounds, and camping for the first time!  It was a busy and exhausting month and you loved all of it!

We also had you dedicated at church.  It was really special to be able to share that moment with our family at Journey.  You are so loved by our friends there.  We chose Zephaniah 3:17 as the verse to pray over you.  It's words are so true.  Our God is mighty to save.  He deights in you.  He rejoices over you with singing.  He will quiet you with His love.  

We love  you to pieces Kelsey Jane!

Love,

Mama & Daddy