5 Months- September

Harper is five months old!!  

What a big girl!

Reminiscent of Gavin's 5-month neck tie photo shoot, we thought we'd do a little pearls and tutu.

 

  Would anyone ever guess that these kids are siblings?!  Um.  Yes.

Harper is now taller, fatter, cuter, louder, grabbier, rollier, funner and all-together more Harpie-er. 

Harper loves to play in her exersaucer, listen to noises that she can make when she scratches things or  plays with noisy things, and she LOVES to make eye contact and smile- which her mommy and daddy  really love! She especially loves to smile at her big brother Gavin.  Harper is rockin' and rollin' in her fifth month of life...with an extra emphasis on the rollin'.  She's gotten so rolly that it's made diaper changing time quite a challenge.  It's become mandatory to have a distraction object to get her to try to stay on her back long enough to wrangle her into a clean diaper.  I picked her up from the nursery one day this month and one of her more senior nursery workers reported to me "Changing your daughter is like trying to change a maggot."

While I'm sure there are more endearing ways of describing my daughter than to compare her to a legless larva, I am in agreement that she's quite squirmy.  

In addition to rocking and rolling, as you can see she's sitting too!  

I must admit  that her sitting skills have really been honed this past week, which was technically into the start of her sixth month of life (since her 5 month birthday was on the 24th), but we are truthful in saying that she was sitting, albeit more wobbly before the 24th, which means we can include this milestone safely and in good conscience.  And just to prove it, I've added a sitting picture that was taken on the 22nd which can evidence her sitting tendencies within Month 5.  Whew.

Harper is also eating cereal like a champ..that is, when you can get the spoon in her mouth fast enough before she tries to grab it.  Harper is a grabby grabberson, there's not doubt about that.  She's got super  stealth ninja reflexes, which makes all glasses, earrings, hair or any other stray object no match for her.    It's really fun to feed her cereal with Gavin nearby.  He's such a good big brother- and really encouraging! He will sit there and cheer for saying "Go Harper!" her while I feed her with the spoon and when she takes a bite he'll say "Yayyy!"  Who knew eating was such a spectator sport?! 

Just in case you thought that Harper's tutu looked cute- which how could you not?!- a shout out to our family friends Miss Phyllis and Brother Danny who gave Harper this tutu at one of our baby showers.  I have been dying to put it on her for months.  And her bow is from her Arlington Cox fam: Uncle John, Aunt Alice, Autie Amy and Uncle Nathan. Thanks Texas Family for dressing our little gal so fancy! 

Whether she's dressed to the nines (or the twotwo's- no pun intended) or just bummin' around in a onesie- we think we're pretty blessed to have this little bundle of cuteness.  She's a good little girl and we're so happy that she's ours to get to love!