5 Months! (22 Weeks)

So, Carmen hit five months on Friday!  She is such a big girl, she now eats two meals a day from her big girl's high chair.  She loves her solids, and it doesn't seem to matter what it is that I give her, she opens her little mouth and eats it.  So, that is all good, but her sleeping has gone haywire again.  I take complete responsibility - I have been a little naughty and have been letting her go to sleep on the bottle (it is just SO easy that way!!).  But it has caused her night waking again, because now she can't go to sleep without a bottle in her mouth.  She also has insomnia after her night feed and is awake for an hour and a half.  As am I.  Every night.  3:30am to 5:00am.  So, we have been going through a bit of sleep training again - although crying it out is more like fussing it out now.  Yesterday she cry-fussed through two of her naps, but today she is doing a little better - this last nap she cry-fussed for 50 minutes before going to sleep, but almost two hours later she is still asleep - yay!

Our friend from the States Darren is in town.  Jeff went to Sydney to pick him up and then they had a boys' night out on the town.  Carmen and I had some mummy-daughter time.  We are hanging out for Grandma and Grandaddy to come back from Thailand, and also for Carmen to meet her Oma and Opa next week.  Very exciting!

3 videos at bath time, 5 months:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsNnShPHa48

http://www.youtube.com/user/MollymookSally?feature=mhee#p/a/u/1/Y6dbodcH0jU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beWOp-cdki8

5 months old and in her big girl's high chair