20 Weeks / 4-1/2 Months - Blogging Update

Ok, it's been almost 5 months since the little critter arrived. I've been wanting to keep up with this so everyone can see her grow, but you know how it goes. Now that I'm home allllll day long, I seem to get even less done... oh well. So, I'm going to attempt to back fill with milestones and pics.... more to come....

What Taylor is doing now:
Well, she is becoming a very sweet little girl. She's pretty good, really only cries if she is hungry or bored (I think she gets bored a lot). She likes to do things and get out of the house. Yesterday, Angie's bday, she rolled over 3 times - tummy to back - so, like any mommy, I ran to get the camera to video and that was it, no more.... She is in her screaching phase of talking which is pretty funny and cute. I swear she does the "oooOOu oooOOu" (spelling??) like you hear in the club. She is getting very grabby now, so watch you stuff! Her eating habits are starting to change too. She is getting very fussy during the day when nursing, so weaning may be in her near future, but not sure if it's because I haven't been feeling well, gas bubbles, or she is just getting pissed at something. She is starting to eat some rice cereal, but doesn't have it down pat yet. We're gona try apple sauce here any day. Her temperment is pretty happy except after 6 p.m. she doesn't really like new faces or to be held by others than mom and dad (which is usually when others see her, so we get the whole gamut of "she's colicy," "she needs to be eating solids," "she's gassy," "she's [fill in the blanks]). She's been doing this since she was probably a couple weeks old, but we've just determined it is her personality.

We've been in the pool nearly everyday. Since the first day we took her we've been very interested in teaching her how to swim. I know that at 4-1/2 months of age a baby aint gona be swimming laps in the pool - my goal is to simply get her used to the water so that she is not afraid of it and she'll have fun around it in the future, not to mention the safety factor of her knowing how to swim. My experience with kids are that they are afraid to put their face in the water, so we practice that each time. I blow in her face so that she holds her breath and dunk. Next, we practice floating on the back - that's going slow, but getting better.