Adventures in Mommyhood: Slow down please

Charlotte is 5 months old today and this is about the time when I would like things to slow down just a bit. It seems like every day brings a new development or milestone and it just goes by too fast. So Charlotte, could you please slow down just a little bit? Thanks :)

Here's the latest news on Miss Charlotte

* She has now mastered rolling both ways

* She can sit up pretty well, but with a pillow behind her, she still likes to dive bomb for added excitement

* She has become more tolerant of being on her stomach

* She isn't crawling, but she scoots around

* She has discovered her toes and can almost get them into her mouth

* She loves to attempt to eat anything she comes in contact with

*She is a drooling machine!!! (we do a lot of laundry around here)

*She has a tooth popping through on the bottom!

* She has starting eating purees, so far she likes sweet potatoes and bananas and doesn't like peas

* She goes to bed around 8 and wakes up somewhere around 1 for a bottle, then back to sleep till around 5 has another bottle and if we are lucky goes back to sleep.

* Naps are not consistent or predictable at all, I'm sure we'll get there someday... I hope. Most of the time she wakes up, plays about an hour, eats, then plays another hour and then naps for "awhile". This could mean 40 minutes or it could mean 3 hours- you never know :)

* She likes taking baths, and has graduated from the bath lounger to the mini tub insert where she can sit up.

* She loves to look at books, be sung to (itsy bitsy spider is a favorite), dance around, be tickled, and play with her big sister.

Here are some pictures form the past month:

A new doll, she loved it right away!

Thankfully she has gotten better about sleeping in her car seat, we are on the go a lot!

She has started to play with the toys attached to her car seat more often.

Time to start whipping up some baby food. Here are some sweet potatoes. I typically by fruits and veggies, fresh or frozen, and I try to do organic. Then steam them and throw them in food processor. Puree till smooth, pour them into these baby food trays, freeze,then pop them out and store them in ziploc bags. Just take out what you need each day. Each cube is about 1 ounce.