Our little Kate is making some big developments:
Kate loves being a big girl and anything that makes her feel that way. She loves to stand up when in your lap. She loves to play on her tummy and push herself up. If you walk away she tries to follow you by rolling. I've watched her complete 7 rolls and move half way out of the living room. She loves jumping! We got her a new jumping seat that is pretty much her favorite place to be. She is adorable in it as you can see from the video below.
She loves her cereal, makes mmmm noises when eating it, and holds the bowl with both hands. Kate actually started taking juice out of a sippy cup the other day. She really isn't one for the bottle and is always trying to grab my glasses so I bought her a kind of in between sippy cup. I pretended to drink out of it and of course she grabbed it right out of my hands and had to try it herself.
She has started sleeping much better at night sometimes as long as 11 hours without a feeding. Taking naps is a different story. I would almost say she has given up napping except for maybe two 20- 40 minute cat naps while we are running errands. I am working on this, though the night time sleeping is just fine for the moment.
Kate is great at playing with toys. My Mom got her a big bag of great toys that Kate has totally taken to. She has a piano she plays, an alligator she bites, and lots of things to stimulate her. She is starting to enjoy reading books, and our favorite is Kate's laugh. Her laugh continues to grow in frequency, length, and overall cuteness. She is a little ticklish, likes playing peek-a-boo, and loves being kind of startled. She went on the baby swing by my Mom's house and loved it. She liked it more the higher we went. She is quite the little daredevil.
As you can see we've had lots of fun and excitement in the last month with our precious Kate!
I can't believe our little baby Kate is already 5 months. She just seems so big to us! She is really much less baby and more of a little person with her very own emerging personality. She is a very happy and very active little one. I remember in utero when she kicked and moved for twenty minutes straight. The doctor called her a little marathon runner. It all makes sense now. She barely sits still, which I think you'll see from her 5 month pictures below.
We attended church together and Kate had a special hat to wear that she actually debuted in Chicago a few days earlier. While we were in church Kate got some great Pop Pop time, sitting in his lap stiller then either Brian and I have ever seen her. 
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She was smiling a lot while eating and once she got the hang of it was trying to grab the spoon and feed herself. She was so adorable looking between my Mom, Brian, and myself to see which one of us had the bowl. Kate was licking the cereal off her bib, and when we stopped feeding her she started crying for more. We gave her a little extra and she was sucking the spoon..jpg)
I don't think she could have liked it more as you can see from the video below. It was very fun, very cute, and a nice milestone. 
Everything else at the appointment went great, and we now get to start solid foods with Kate. That means rice cereal tomorrow! Kate continues to hold her head even higher when on her belly, to laugh especially at her daddy, rolling over immediately when put on her back, and is starting to mirror our actions. She is our fun little girl. The picture above is of Kate in one of the many many outfits my Mom has gotten her and the one below is of her new tubby. She has outgrown her infant tub and seems to like splashing in this one much better.
