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Brenna at 5 1/2 Months

02.10.09

Happy New Year! Brenna is 5 1/2 months old and is getting bigger and bigger by the day. Starting around 4 months, we introduced rice cereal and she is slowly but surely getting the hang of eating solid foods now. So far in addition to the cereal, she's had bananas, prunes, sweet potatoes, and applesauce. She's also sleeping more consistently at night which is wonderful. her bedtime is between 8-9pm and she'll usually sleep til 7am. I usually still get up once or twice to put a pacifier back in her mouth but she doesn't need to eat in the middle of the night anymore, which means I can go back to sleep faster :-)

We've met a lot of other moms and babies by going to Stroller Power class, which is a workout class where you can bring your babies. Through this class, we've organized our own little playdate group, and yesterday we had 9 moms and babies ranging between 2-6 months over. It was really fun. What a handful they will all be once they are mobile.

Random things:

She doesn't really like the car so much anymore because she wants to sit up straight and the car seat doesn't really let her do that.

She loves to sit up now (with very little assistance) and isn't as content playing on her mat anymore.

She weighs about 18 pounds now. She has the rosiest and biggest cheeks you've ever seen!

She takes a bottle 4-5 times a day and eats solids 1-2 times a day.

Oh, and almost all her hair fell out around 5 months. It's slowly coming back in at a lighter color than it was at birth.

Here are a few recent pics:

Clockwise from Brenna: Mason, Ella Kate, Audrey, Ryan, Lily, Maren, Marina