Sitting up

I forgot to post her sitting up success in the last one.

5 months

Yep, she's growing up fast.  Inbetween trying to eat page 2, Nora is already reading novels about bunnies to her friend Georgia.

This past week has been big in terms of growth and development.  Nora has gone from sitting like a top heavy bobble doll to bracing herself upright with her short little pudgy arms.  She loves to stand too, and with help will go through the motions of taking alternating steps.

Although she eats all her meals horizontal in a comfortable chair, she's begun practicing for meals at the table.  She sits maturely in her new high-chair-like seat watching the bowl of fruits and vegetables longingly.

She went from rolling over on accident to doing it within 30 seconds of being on her stomach (yep, still hates tummy time), every time (only to the left though).  

She's reaching for, picking up, and transferring objects from one hand to the other.  

She's figuring out the spectrum of her voice, trying out everything from low growls to sound barrier breaking squeals.  

She's discovered her feet and will spend countless minutes, (a seeming eternity) staring at them in jaw-dropping wonderment, and then will resort to the old stand-by....trying to eat them.      

More immunizations

Things started off as usual this  morning.  Nora was happy to greet a new day.  

However, things changed once she got in her car-seat.  Her baby sense told her that today's Dr.'s appointment was going to be more than a height and weight.  Her carefree playfulness changed to concerned worry.  

She got two immunizations today, one in each leg.  I felt guilty holding her in my lap since I was in on the mean trick that was about to go down.  Nora was smiling and drooling at the nurse who was talking baby talk to her.  Why wouldn't she?   The nurse was carrying on about how cute she was, and how good she was being, and didn't mention a thing about jabbing her in the thigh with a needle.  

Her check-up confirmed what we already knew, she's growing like a weed.  She's in the 95th percentile for height at 25.5 inches and the 75th percentile for weight at 14 lbs even.  We began to be suspisious that she's bigger than the average baby when she started busting out of 3-6 month clothing and moving onto, into, and through the 9-12 month stuff.  

Things seem to be back to normal though.  All the whimpering and tears wore her out, so she took a nap when she got home and seems to have forgotten the whole thing.