5 Months Old

Aubrey Nicole, you are 5 months old!

You are (unofficially) 15 lbs 6 oz and 25 1/4 inches long.  You wear size 2 diapers (only until I finish this last box) and 3-6 and 6 month clothes.  You are starting to quickly outgrow the 3-6 month size so those are starting to go in a box and I guess I'd better get the 6-9 month size out and washed.

Things you've learned/can do now:
 - You are a rolling machine from your tummy to back now.  You will now only stay on your tummy for approx. 1 second.  You still refuse to even attempt to roll onto your stomach but you will turn in circles to get in a better position for something you want.
 - You are eating rice cereal now and loving it.  You eat like your daddy... as fast as possible. :)
 - We put together your high chair and walker and you like sitting in them.
 - You went swimming for the first time last week.  You weren't quite sure what to do with a life jacket on, but hopefully we'll be able to go again soon and you'll figure out how fun it is.
 - You started "singing" to some music on your walker the other day.  I was trying to get you to talk to me and then every time I'd play the music you would start to babble and then stop when the music stopped.
 - You are great at finding hair and necklaces when I turn my head for only a second and have an awesome grip.
 - You still don't say many consonant sounds and most ahh and ooh but you've started to be more deliberate in your babbling.  You look at me and seem to be trying to tell me something now.
 - You want to be able to sit up so badly.  You can lift your whole head off the ground and sometimes even your shoulders slightly like you're trying to do a crunch.

I'm sure I'm missing some other milestones for the past month, but I didn't keep the list going all month like usual.  I just had to think of them all off the top of my head and the top of my head has been pretty forgetful lately.  Now for the best part.... pictures!

 

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Growing So Big

Aubrey is growing like a weed.  She's learning and doing new things everyday.  She wants to sit up so bad she just isn't quite strong enough yet.  We put together the high chair and the walker so she could practice sitting up more.

Ready...

Such a good helper!

Why is this taking so long?

 Good job, Mom! 

 Next: the walker

I guess I took too long

Last weekend Aubrey got her first taste of rice cereal.  She wasn't quite sure of it at first.  I think that was mostly because she was really hungry and not in the mood to try something unfamiliar.  After a few sips of milk to tide her over we tried again.  She seemed to like it okay.  The next day she acted like it tasted disgusting.  Now 5 days later she gulps it down like it's the best food ever!  Once I get a charger for the video camera, I'll be able to upload some of the rice cereal fun.

Tomorrow will be 7 weeks since Matt left.  For some reason this week has been really hard.  I think I've just been extra tired.  I did get to eat the last teal M&M and started eating the green ones for May.  Eating those everyday have been really helpful, but unfortunately I think the cleaning people ate a bunch of them.  Several of the green ones were gone when I went to eat one last night and then I looked and a some of the white for June and bunch of the blue and maybe even yellow in the big jar for July and August were gone too.  I can't replace the white ones because those are Easter egg M&Ms, but I guess I can try to replace the others and then hide the jars better.

April 30th, 1 full month down and last teal M&M

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Ft. Hood Training

Well Matt has been gone for over a month now.  I've gotten to speak to him everyday so far even if only for a few minutes.  For the most part the first couple weeks were really slow for him.  His first days were just in-processing and medical checks.  He got a small pox and anthrax shot and a few others as a welcome. :) He had a couple hours of language training.  I asked him what he learned to say and he couldn't remember anything.  Seems like that class was super helpful.  There was a couple days of weapons qualifications, one gun he will carry while in Afghanistan and the other he won't.  He's also had some combative training so if you read any news articles about the Taliban wrestling with soldiers, have no fear!  He only got to fly one day in the first 3 weeks then last week he was in New Mexico all week for high altitude training.  Now he's back at Ft. Hood and his days are getting busier.  He's actually starting to fly simulated missions and do more of the type of training I expected.

It's been a long 5 weeks but we've managed.  I had some good plans for making the year go by quicker by setting some goals that I can track besides just the time.... and so far I haven't even started most of them. I might have to adjust my goals a little but I still think I can at least attempt to do most of them.  I've followed through on eating my M&M everyday though! :)  Now that it's May I'm on to my second color.  I think one of the major struggles right now to go to bed and fall asleep every night.  Speaking of bed, I should probably head there right now.

Last Purple M&M

Weapons Qualifications

Barracks

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