Quinn: 5 Month Update

Better late than never, right?
Quinn gave herself a 5 month birthday present - she rolled from her front to her back (Memory: I was on the Schottland Scholar trip in Atlanta, and I announced the milestone to my students. We were on the bus. They all cheered with me). Arguably, she made this move because she hates her belly... but she still did it. She is now almost 6 months old, and is just starting to turn from her belly to her back. Every time she does it, her look says, "Shucks. I've gone and done it again." Just kidding - now that she is stronger she doesn't ENTIRELY hate belly time.

In fact, she has a new nemesis. Food. I've been fortunate to be able to produce milk for Quinn as long as I have. We've introduced a little formula, but have gone through only about 1 container of formula total. It really is more of a back-up. After Quinn's 5th month-birthday, I introduced cereal. She wasn't a fan.

 And she still isn't a fan. They've been feeding it to her at school each day, and each day they tell me she is refusing it. I'm secretly pleased! I don't want her to cheat on me yet with real food! Ha!

Lately I've talked about three things that Quinn hates: Belly time, cereal, and the nemisis flower on her exersaucer (Cora hated that same flower, too!). But I promise, those are about the only things that make Quinn cry. She starts to fuss when she is hungry (but usually just starts giving open-mouth kisses to whoever is holding her). She also starts to fuss when she is sleepy, but calms as soon as she is given her binky and lovey.

I was away from her for 5 straight days, and Mom came to stay and help Landon (dad joined them midweek). The report was that if they added every moment when Quinn cried while I was gone, including every fuss, the time would total less than one minute. I believe it. If Quinn starts to cry we all immediately react because she almost never cries.

Just today, she and Cora were playing in the floor. Cora did a couple of things that made me cringe and leap to intervene... but Quinn laughed each time, rolled in Cora's direction, and tried to grasp onto Cora to pull her closer. Quinn was loving it. Sometimes Quinn gets Cora's hair and Cora yelps. When we remind Cora that Quinn is just a baby, Cora always leans over and kisses Quinn.We'll sure be lucky if they stay like this!

My 5-month old baby standing flat footed in the exersaucer... it is on its highest setting.

 When Cora was a baby, the dangling duck and frog were almost always attached to this jungle gym. Now it is a scavenger hunt to find them. I laid out the mat this week, and was installing the bars. Cora immediately went to Quinn's toy drawer and pulled out the dangling ducks and frogs, and started hanging them on the mat. Good big sister!

 Quinn watching T.V. with the fellas.

And an afternoon nap with Daddy.

What Messal blog would be complete with out a Cora update?

 I started ordering diapers from diapers.com. Great deal. The best part is that they come in a big box... that box has kept things moving around here all week. She's crawled in and out, treated it like her very own art easel, pretended to sleep in there, asked to have the top closed around her...

There are a lot of giggles around this place.