Hazel is 5 months old!
This past Saturday Hazel turned 5 months old – it’s amazing how much she’s grown and changed in the past 5 months. It’s kind of cliche to say that she changes so much, but she really does – from day to day and week to week she’s gotten so much more active, interactive, and loud…screams, squeels, farty noises, and something that sounds a little like barking. She’s seeming more and more like a little kid and much less like a newborn. She stares at things intently, studying them to figure out what’s going on. She’s started to become very interested in toys…especially now that she has the skills to grab them and bring them straight into her mouth.
Saturday was also, of course, Halloween. Here’s the babe in her bunny costume:
Doesn’t she look so big?!?! Hazel did remarkably well with her costume and never got pissy or angry about it. She laughed big time when she first saw herself in the mirror wearing it. She was in and out of the costume so many times: we had a couple Skype sessions with both the grandmas, Yenari brought her into my office wearing the costume, trick or treating at Yenari’s former landlady’s house, Halloween dinner with Yenari’s aunt and uncle, and a birthday party for one of Yenari’s coworkers’ kid.
On the eating front, she still hasn’t fully caught on to bottle feeding. She doesn’t scream when she sees the bottle, but she seems to prefer to hold out until Yenari gets home or at least until she’s really hungry. We did start the slow path down the solid food front – we’re still on rice cereal…she seems to enjoy it but isn’t eating too much of it yet. Maybe we should try carrots next – she couldn’t keep the toy carrot that came with her Halloween costume.
She’s moving around a lot more though hasn’t fully caught on to rolling yet. She did roll over from her tummy to her back once on the floor, but just once. She’s done it on the bed several times, but that’s a bit easier. She’s gotten strong enough that she can sit really well, prop herself up, and is able to hang out in her highchair now – here she is:
In sad news, it seems that her mohawk has subsided and no longer stands on end…her hair is still heavily focused right down the middle so she’s got a mohawk vibe, but its not the same thing. We’ll have to break out the hair gel and hair spray soon to keep the mohawk alive.
And lastly, some photos of my girls playing together…these are from about two weeks ago…
