Four and Five

Month Four
Ireland is awesome!  Doesn't sleep through the night, but awesome.  She is such a relaxed baby... for the most part.  She hates riding in the car, but otherwise is quite content to be carried around wherever, or lie on her back and bat around some toys.  She started rolling to her side, mostly I think to get better leverage on her thumb, but hasn't quite figured out how to roll all the way over.

She just keeps growing, which makes us happy and sad.  We obviously wouldn't mind if she was more self sufficient, and it's fun to see her learn, but it's hard to watch your baby grow up.  Love that toothless smile.

She loves to go to the park with her big sister and laughs when she sees Blaire swinging.  She must be held upright, facing outward, or else!  She got her first cold this month, but dealt with it like a champ.

Month Five
"I" hit five months this week.  I can't help but wonder where the time goes.  I'm going to deem this the month of the grunt.  She constantly grunts wherever we are, whatever we are doing.  Makes watching TV very difficult, which I guess is OK since we should probably be doing something other than watching TV when we are hanging out.

She is very aware of all that is going on around her.  Loves her sister and laughs whenever Blaire laughs.  Ally has nick-named her "Ham."  Both because she is funny, and because she is medium husky.  She is starting to jabber quite a bit.  Her favorite right now seems to be this cross between the "B" sound and a hum.

She celebrated her first holiday season and we made beautiful memories.  She saw snow and bitter cold during our trip to Utah and developed a case of RSV.  We were all so thankful she handled it so well.  What a good baby we have.