5 Months!

Our little Grets was 5 months a couple of weeks ago already!  She is still a very good little girl and I can't believe how big she's getting!  She rolls all over the place and loves to try to get to her big siblings' toys.  She also loves grabbing at cords so it's definitely different now that I can't just plop her in one spot and expect to find her in that same spot--she always moves somewhere else and likes to get stuck under the couch (just barely--it's not that she can really fit under it completely, just her arm/leg) and such.  We loves her to pieces and love watching her big bro and big sis interact with her.  I thought this was so sweet at Tulip Time the other day.  They were all on the sit/stand stroller and both big kids were holding Greta's hand. 

She is still in size 2 diaper and 6 month and 9 month clothing both fits her.  She normally drinks about 7 oz in a bottle. She wakes up around 8/8:30 and then naps normally about and hour in the morning, eats "lunch" at 11:30/12ish and then eats around 3 (depending on how long she naps).  She then eats around 6, or sometimes 7.  If it's 7, then that is her last bottle, but if it's 6ish, then I feed her a couple more ounces around 7:30.  I don't quite dare to make 6pm her last feeding--I'm afraid she'll wake up early--although Layla and Gibs both had that as their last feeding, with her if she eats too early, she's up earlier (although I haven't tried it in probably a month or two).  She has tried real food a few times.  Soon I'll start giving it to her more.  The dr said by 6 months, so she's got a couple of weeks:).  She liked it when she tried but had a little bit of a hard time swallowing all of it.  The dr said that the longer we waited, the better she'd be at it, so I figured it wasn't a rush.  Bottles are easy:).  Last night we went to Russ' and Menards (such and exciting night out!) and we tried giving her formula at Russ' and she would NOT take it.  I'm not pumping as much out anymore so I need her to start getting used to formula while we're out.  At the parade this week I had to take a cold bottle along (since we were gone for awhile without being able to pump) and she did NOT like that either and drank maybe 1/2 an oz.  Last night I don't really think she drank any of her formula bottle.  So she needs to learn.  She then went from like 3:15 until we got home around 9 without eating, but she seemed fine with it.  Guess she's just stubborn--she knew that that was her only option:).  Thankfully she didn't even get crabby.  Here are some pics from last month of her trying food.

 We had some sweet potatoes, so we thought we'd see if she wanted a little.  She wasn't a fan at first, but then ate a little bit.

 She tried a little cereal before bed...

 Layla LOVED feeding her.  Layla also finished off the cereal that Greta didn't eat and loved it:).