Peyton at 5 Months

Peyton continues to be such a sweet, happy little girl! She is still very quick to give you a smile or a little laugh. She seems to like most adults....kids and babies are another story! She is starting to develop a little temper and will quickly let you know if she is not happy, or does not like what you are doing. She is not easily distracted when she is upset, which can be challenging. We think that she is really starting to teeth the past few days because she has been extra "temperamental". She is definitely a girl because she can go from happy, smiling and laughing to crying in an instant! I worry what the teenage years will be like!

Peyton still doesn't sleep very consistently at night or during naps. She takes 3 - 4 naps a day ranging from 30 minutes to almost 2 hours (very rarely). She will typically sleep for just 30 - 45 minutes. At night, she typically goes to sleep around 7 pm and will usually wake up in the 5 o'clock hour crying. We put her paci in, and she will usually sleep for another 30 minutes to an hour. We continue this process until we are ready to get her up at 6:30 or 7 in the morning. The past week, she has begun waking up around 9:30 pm crying....no clue why. We give her her paci, and she goes right back to sleep.

Peyton still loves her milk :) She is getting much better with her cereal, but we are still working on eating our baby food. She has tried sweet potatoes and peas and seems to prefer the peas. I, on the other hand, almost threw up the first time I fed her peas. The color combined with the smell was almost too much for me. I may let the nanny feed her the peas from now on, and I'll stick with the other baby food :)

Peyton still loves to be outside and go for walks! She is full of smiles when we are on our morning walks (it is WAY too hot here to be outside in the afternoons). She also is a lounger :) She will just sit/recline in your lap, with her arm on top of your arm for quite awhile. When she is in her exersaucer, she will alternate between leaning forward to play with the toys to leaning back and just "lounging". It's pretty cute :)

She is so much fun, and we are loving being her parents!!