5 months

I can't believe how quickly the time is flying. Every week when nic takes out the trash on tuesday night we seriously CAN NOT believe its trash day already! I feel like the time is just slipping away. I want to savor every moment with daphne. i know she will never be tiny again and each day she is getting bigger, smarter and more mobile. Sometimes, it makes me a little bit sad (especially when i held dave and shaunas new baby Clark last week... wow... SO teeny tiny!) but mostly just excited. She is interacting with us more and more everyday. She knows we are the mom and dad and you can just see in her eyes that she is pretty crazy about us. Good thing we feel the same way about her. Here are some of my favorite shots of our favorite girl from the past 5 months! (youngest to oldest... so scroll down for NEW pics! )

you have the

cutest dad ever.



see. i told you.

daphne at 20 weeks

TWENTY weeks!
I can't believe it. She is really growing up. Sometimes I want her to be tiny again but most of the time i just enjoy all her new phases. she looked like a toddler in her cute little outfit today. i didn't know what to think- good or bad? but, i love it. i love being a mom. i love being daphne's mom.

i love your little chin.

stats!

daphne went to her 4 month check up today. the shots were awful but she did great.

she is now 18 weeks so i guess she is more like 4.5 months-

she is:

24.5 inches tall {25th percentile}
13.5 pounds {25th percentile}

she is doing just great! the dr. said she was "extremely, extremely advanced developmentally" which only makes me worried- when my mom and sister hear what she can do they just laugh at me and say: have fun with that- you're going to be in trouble!

4 months!

I guess Daphne is really at the end of 17 weeks this week but today marks her 4 month birthday! I think the confusion between 16 weeks and 4 months threw me off so i didn't update last week. Plus I'm not sure if people are even reading this blog, besides my faithful sister and mother in law.
But, oh well, this is really a record for daphne so we can remember her adorable faces and milestones.
as of 4 months she can {some of these pictures are old..but there are new ones too!} :

+roll.roll.roll. she LOVES to roll. if you put her on the ground literally 8 seconds later (at the most) she is on her tummy. She used to HATE being on her stomach and would whine and whine till we turned her over. (she does roll from stomach to back but she has to be in the mood for it. if she is even a little bit tired she just cries) but she is starting to tolerate her stomach a little more.




+scoot. she has even gotten to be a little more mobile then just rolling! again, when in the mood, and bribed with something interesting (a piece of paper folded up will usually do it) she will prop her knees up and scoot towards it. so far she can move about 6 inches and its quite a struggle.



+eat. so far she has only had rice cereal and only a few times. i fed her yesterday and it was like she finally figured out what do, i think she kept most of it down this time!


+smile and laugh. yesterday i got her to laugh the most adorable little laugh. i am so glad nic was sitting right next to me so he heard it. but, as soon as she would laugh we would freak out and laugh so hard and that scared her everytime.


+bink. she can hold onto a binky with a little handle and she can even put it in her mouth! usually it takes her a few minutes but she eventually finds her open and ready mouth. it is adorable!

+sleep. we usually still get up once during the night to put her binky back in but that is usually enough to calm her down and she goes right back to sleep. She still likes to sleep in our bed in the mornings. This morning when we all woke up at 9 (she had been in bed with us since 6) i looked at her and said: you can't come in bed with us every morning and she looked back at me with the cutest, widest smile and i said: ahhh ok! you can! between putting her binky in and bringing her in bed in the morning she is sleeping 10-12 hours each night. its fabulous.
bascially, we fall more in love with her everyday. she is always doing something cute and even if she has been sad and whiney and hard to handle for an hour she can just look at me in a certain way and i don't even care at all. i love being her mom and nic loves being her dad. we got a good one.