5 Months!

Mikaela is 5 months..where does the time go?!

*13lbs (finally had a weight gain!)

*Her height I'm not sure about..last month at doctors (even had a print out that said it) she was 25.5, we measured her several times at home & was only 24.5-25 inches.

*3-6 month, some 6 month clothes.

*Size 2 diapers

*Her food has changed. Most of the month was eating 6 oz of Nutramigen every 3 hours and we did veggies/fruit twice a day since the cereal didn't go so well. She became so miserable. After having her to the doctor for them to just say oh she's fine when I knew she was not I decided to take matters in to my own hands. I took her off solids and after couple days saw somewhat of an improvement but I still knew she was in pain. I did quite a bit of research and using her symptoms kept stumbling across allergy to formula and the high fructose corn syrup. So I called to the Berlin health food to get some insight on goats milk and they happen to say something about trying organic formula, it sometimes does the trick (has regular sugar instead of the corn syrup), so we gave the organic a try. Something had to be done I knew, crying all day long could not be healthy for her and definitely was not healthy for the Mama! After 3 bottles I was beginning to see a bit of difference and after 1 day she is like a different little girl! I can't tell you enough the change in her. Her dirty diapers are a normal color and normal smelling again (I know kind of gross but this was one of my major concerns) and she is a normal 5 month old! She has her color back and is feeling a little chunkier :) Thank you Jesus!!! I don't think I could go on much more with how she was. Knowing shes in pain and not knowing what was wrong was stressing me out to no end! I have begun making my own baby food as well, seems to be agreeing too. She just talks and smiles now and I actually can put her down! The boys are happy they are getting a little of their mama back :)

*Rolling every chance she gets

*Talking a lot & smiling like crazy

*Loves to sit and watch her brothers, I think this is the highlight of her day :)

*Taking about 3 naps a day in her crib and sleeping from 9pm to 9am (usually around those times). Usually as soon as I see her getting sleepy I can just lay her down in crib and she goes to sleep on her own with no crying :)

*On her first antibiotic this month, she got the lovely nasty cold with an earache.

*Went sled riding for the first time :)

*She is reaching & grabbing at everything.

*Will sit on her own for a few seconds occasionally. She likes to lean forward and falls on her face, no belly to keep her up, miss skinny minnie!

Some pictures :)

Her headband in the first pictures look blue but it was actually the same color as her jacket. I didn't realize it was coming out that color until I was almost finished, so we changed headbands and took some more.

She nestled down in the chair and used the side as a pillow. She was so content like that.

I just love her smiles!

She needed to stretch. Its hard work getting your picture taken ;)

with big brother Keldan. He loves to have his picture taken with Mikaela! Lucas was taking a nap during this or I would've tried to get one with him too ;)