A New Year full of Confessions: 5 Months Old

1/25/2013

Dear Brookelynn,

Holy cow...another new year has begun, a new year means a lot of different things, new beginnings, new adventures, new goals, it's a fresh start, to start over or continue working on the things that mean the most to you. On New Years Day we read Squirrel's New Years Resolution, a very cute book about the meaning behind this yearly tradition. 

This year I made a simple New Years resolution, to read more. I'm devoting a little time each day to myself to read a book or a magazine and have a cup of tea. So far, I've managed to do this most days but with a little spunky baby girl like you, sometimes Mommy doesn't get a little escape to a far off land or erotic day dream (like the book that started it all...Fifty Shades of Grey...just kidding). But, everyday we do read together (But, not shades of course). Reading is the foundation to learning and having an imagination which is why it's so important to me that we take the time to do this everyday, Neverland, floating palaces, and runways are only a few pages away. And at only five months old I can already see your imagination blooming. 

This year we celebrated the New Year at home and you wore a fabulous tuxedo dress, you love tutus so this dress met your fashion standards for your glamorous night in drinking bottles and watching Disney movies with Daddy and Mommy. 

Miss Fancy Pants:

You love showing off and you think you are so fancy. You love playing with your toys on your tummy and trying to crawl which you first attempted just before New Years on 12/29/2013 and to my amazement you began army crawling in your Pack n Play on 1/23/2014 just a short month later to get your toy monkey. 

You still do your fake cough but have added to your skills with kissing noises and raspberries, which you think is historical.  Mommy has learned to accept the slobber that comes with them. It compliments my makeup nicely. 

On 1/2/2014 you completely mastered rolling over in both directions, you were a little backwards and started the hard way first, front to back which you have had mastered for months but you struggled with front to back for a short time. Now we can't stop you from rolling around. 

You love looking at the baby in the mirror now, the first time you smiled at yourself was on 1/3/2014, before then you were mad Mommy was holding another baby. 

You've also mastered the tripod pose. You first started doing this version of sitting up on 1/5/2014 and mastered it by 1/9. You went from laying flat to sitting up on 1/21 while laying next to Mommy on the couch. You really thought you were fancy then, until you toppled over. 

On 1/10/2014 you stood up on your own while sitting on Daddy's lap. Your growing so fast and learning so much it's been an incredible month watching you discover what you can do. Your such a little peanut though weighing in at only 15 pounds with a diaper and PJ's on, your still only in the 40 percentile but that's ok, your a very cute and spunky little peanut. 

And I think you are going to be so excited to eat real food after you turn 6 months because you love to stare at Mommy and Daddy and mimic us as we eat. You are trying to figure out how we do it. It's pretty funny to watch. 

Baby Love:

You love Glammy and squeal, giggle, and light up when you see her.  Her and Lambie (from Doc McStuffins) are your BFFs. And Glammy loves Lambie because it rhymes with Glammy. You also love when Glammy gives you manicures. You sit there so perfectly and intensely watch what she is doing. I can't wait till you can join us for our monthly pedicures. 

You love, love, love your toys! And you have tons of them, but right now here are a few of your favorites besides Lambie:

You love puppies and have several of them, you love puppy brother (your stuffed taggie dog) which reminds me how much you love your fur sister Miss Paisley Bella, you get so excited when we go out to see her.  She loves her Brookie too. And you love to see pictures of puppies on Pinterest. 

Your obsessed with Mommy's cell phone (which we don't let you play with) so we had to buy you one you could play with. It really looks and works like Mommy's, so of course your very proud of it. Now you enjoy calling Mommy (it dials my number for you), checking your schedule and listening to your music on it. 

Every month gets more exciting and fun as you grow. Your little personality develops more and more every day and it truly is amazing how many changes occur over a months time. And just a short five months into this life with Brookelynn, I have managed to be almost back to normal though my mind is never going to be the same, I'm convinced. Just ask Glammy about how I wore my pants backwards all day and didn't know it...but that's a story that needs it's own post-Mommy Problems! 

Happy 5 Months little peanut! Here is to a year full of love and firsts! I can't believe this time next month I'll be writing about your half birthday party! Time flys when your having the time of your life with your best friend! -XOX!