Milestones

Happy 5 months to my baby!

You are growing up before my very eyes and it is amazing to watch! It seems that you learn something new everyday! I'm going to take this opportunity to share with the world some of the wonderful milestones and things you've been up to lately.

There's no better way to celebrate turning 5 months old than by learning to fully turn over by yourself. Yes, that's right! And if you'd like to see a video of this epic feat (yes, it is epic in the video) then you'll have to check out facebook. You won't be disappointed. Now, this is the hard turning over - the back to front. She was able to do front to back much earlier but has taken her sweet time with this one since she hated being on her belly until, oh say... yesterday! haha! Guess she has a mind of her own!

She also decided to celebrate her 5 month birthday by sleeping ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE NIGHT!!! Now, she's done this a couple of other times but it hasn't been consistent yet. Usually, she still wants a bottle around 4am. Which is fine. But I think she is well on her way to being able to sleep through the night every night. Yayayay!

Emma has also been learning to eat rice cereal these last couple of weeks. She has been doing so well lately with opening her mouth up wide and swallowing the whole thing. Doing well, that is, until I tried to sneak in a little mashed banana into the cereal yesterday. The above picture tells you how she felt about it.

The rest of these pictures aren't necessarily milestone but rather just things Emma likes to do to fill her time. (And cute pics I thought you'd like to see. :) Emma still loves to stand up (assisted). And also loves to model super cute outfits people have given us!

She loves eating paper. However, this habit was abruptly cut off in church last week when we discovered that she literally was EATING the bulletin and had some bit off and stuck to the roof of her mouth!

Recently Emma has had a fetish with her tongue. She loves sticking it out like this.

And as always, she loves sitting and playing with her toys. She is getting so strong and can al.most.do.it.a.lone... Almost.

I wonder what the next milestone will be. Any guesses?