November 29, 2007
Tabitha - 5 months
Dear Tabby
Today you are 5 months old. I was wondering what to write to you this month as I thought surely you can't have changed all that much in the last 4 or 5 weeks, but then I went back and read last months note and realised that you are completely different to the Tabitha of 1 month ago!
I wrote last month that you were on a nap schedule at last. HA HA HA. No such thing :-) Actually you will nap for a reasonable length of time in the morning now, and you will take a couple of cat naps in the afternoon, but it's rather hit & miss. And night time sleeping after you were sick at the weekend with a cold, is rather messed up again. You wake at 4am and find it very hard to go back to sleep. Gas, writhing around, crying out, all contribute to not being able to put you back in bed successfully. Thankfully your daddy will cuddle you to sleep and sleep himself propped up on the sofa while you doze in his arms!
I'm actually starting to wonder if you have an intolerance to dairy in my diet. I've briefly considered this before but I'm now getting to a point where I can't ignore it. That's a subject for another post to the blog though, not your monthly newsletter!
You finally outgrew the bassinet :-(
I was so sad to see it go away for the very last time. I've put it in your room and hope that you will use it for your dollys and teddys to sleep in! It's that or put it away for the grandchildren!
You're now sleeping in a travel crib in our room. Just until you're sleeping through the night, then you will go to your own room! I don't want you to go to your own room! It is downstairs, a million billion miles away from me!
I am still terribly terribly out of control buying girly clothes. You are an incredibly well dressed young lady as a result! This will no doubt bite me on the bum when you are old enough to adopt this clothes buying insanity for yourself thanks to the bad example you've been led :-)
Dylan is your favourite brother this month. You keep chuckling and giggling when you see him and you love to gaze at him and watch whatever he is doing.
In terms of interests, you've begun to really love lying on your back and grabbing your toes. You will hold your toes for hours. Your favourite toy of all! You love lying under your arches too, batting at the dangling toys. You love to clutch and grasp at toys too and examine them intently, plastic rings, little squishy cuddly toys, rattles, anything..... and of course you're also shoving them all in your mouth as you begin to teethe! I know that teething is imminent thanks to the endless drool coming down your chin!
You also now have a 'jumparoo' which is a bouncing toy and you're starting to really enjoy being upright to play and starting to reach out and grab at the toys around you.
Car rides are more enjoyable now, you don't tend to scream unless you've been in there too long! Yesterday infact I had the most lovely day with you. You napped in the morning then played, then napped on the way to school when we took Harry, then we went for lunch with a friend and you sat happily on my knee taking it all in, then we shopped (for clothes!) and you were quite content and amazed by all that went on around you. Finally we fetched Dylan and Harry, then came home and a friend came over and you lay and played really happily on the rug with me until bed time. No tears all day, just gorgeous and smiley and happy!
I can't believe that you're already 5 months old. Next month we'll be starting you on solids and you'll really change into a grown up big girl at that point. It's amazing how quickly you want to move forward to each new step when you have your first baby, but now I am so heartbroken by each passing moment knowing there is no going back. I am enjoying your being so tiny and wish I could stop the world for a while and savour each moment a little longer.
I love you little girl.
Mummy xxxxx
Posted by katie at November 29, 2007 12:09 AM