5 Months

Sweet Abby! This has been one crazy month!!!  You now live in Hawaii!  We arrived on the 9th and your world has completely changed. Before we left we spent a few days in Denver with Nana and Papa going to the museum and zoo. You slept a lot, but did enjoy looking around at things.  Mommy started working so you spend the mornings with your daddy and Autumn. I get home around 9 and we spend the rest of the day unpacking or playing.  You have met many of our friends here in Kona, took your first dip in the ocean and have spent a lot of time cruising around in the car while we run errands. You are content much of the time, but if you decide things are not like you want them you can sustain a full on screaming fit for 20 minutes - all the way from Costco to home.  Although you are not very patient for milk or cuddles, it is made up for with your social coos and smiles! If your current ways continue, I believe you will be a very social extroverted person.  If we put you down you only self entertain for a moment and then want eye contact and attention to continue to be happy.  You will go from crying to laughing with raspberries and kisses.  I am very happy to report that you are being very nice to daddy while I'm at work. You take the bottle after waking up and other than a little bank incident - you don't cry at him too much. 
Development - the first day I went back to work you rolled over from your tummy to back very easily.  You are so strong and love to stand on your feet. When on your tummy you push up and make crawling motions.  I'm hopeful you will wait a bit longer to learn to walk than your sister, but your movements would make us think that it is entirely possible you could walk early. You grab at everything, inspect and handle toys well.  You usually look at them and then see what they taste like. Everything goes in your mouth, you may be teething or just exploring orally.   You can really coo and squeal - it is so precious. Today at a friend's birthday party you squealed loudly at the ocean over the over.  You love watching children or animals.  You are now laughing more often - spontaneous laughs are still infrequent, but kissing your neck or giving you raspberries or tickles almost always produces a laugh.  We got a sit and spin and you love being upright looking at and grabbing at it. You especially like the little green frog that spins on it.  You still enjoy the swing and bouncer chair, but have to be in the right mood for it.  For me to get anything done in the kitchen I have to have you in there with the bouncer on the counter and toys to play with, as you do not tolerate being in the living room alone. 
Sleeping - you take irregular naps and then almost always melt between 8 and 9pm.  You fall asleep easily and then usually need fed 2-4 times during the night and get up at around 6 or 7.  
Eating - you are becoming more and more interested in watching us eat. Even opening your mouth as we bring the spoon to our own mouth. I've given you a little water on a spoon and let you suck on the edge of a water glass.
Diapers - you still a super pooper, but you seem to be blowing out of diapers less often. Today your outfit lasted all day!  Not that you want to know this - but when you rumble we hold you away from us, as you've been known to not only need an outfit change, but make us go change too! (-: 
We are excited to see more and more of your personality! We love you so much and are so grateful you are ours!!! 
Love, Mommy and Daddy

Denver Zoo

Ergo Nap

Valentines

First Dip in the Pacific - Kahaluu

Whale watching!!

Moving

First Airplane ride