Five Months

Addison, Ava (remember the "Cesaer"cut?), Elaina

The girls turned 5 months old last Saturday, and what a week of firsts! Elaina started rolling over that same day and hasn't stopped since. Ava seems close, too - may be any day now. I fed Addison and Elaina their first bites of cereal just for kicks and they had no problems with it. I'm not making a habit out of it quite yet because it's just more work for me. I'll drag it out as long as I can for now!

Since we are still working on the sleep issues with Ava (since her ear infection), we started putting her to bed in her own little space in our nice, quite and dark closet. Wouldn't you know - she didn't make a peep until 7am! I couldn't believe that I woke up on my own at 4am and actually felt refreshed - what a change! It's amazing what 6 hours of sleep can do. I dream of the nights of 9 hour sleeps!

The girls are getting too big for their little tub now - so I gave them their first baths in the big tub. They just seem like their getting so old now! Won't it be nice when we can do them all at once! What a trip that will be!

We also took the whole family to church on Sunday for the first time! This was something we had been looking forward to for a long time, but didn't want to chance it over the winter months. Hello, SUMMER! It's a little tricky getting everyone in the door - but aside from that, it was great! I love having our whole family together after so many months of taking turns.

Another first was Luke learning to ride his bike without the training wheels last friday. I think he wasn't enjoying practicing on his sister's Barbie bike - so as soon as Rich took the wheels off of his own bike he took off within seconds. That's a boy for ya!

Summer is officially starting this friday at 11:30am. Emma will be done with school - and I will spend my days at home with our 5 kids. Let the challenge begin!

Elaina's 1st boyfriend

"Eat your heart out, girls!" Playtime
Elaina's 1st rollover