5 months!!

my baby girl turned 5 months yesterday, how crazy! She is getting so big, so fast. She keeps doing new things all the time. She is starting to make a scooting motion when we have tummy time in the morning. Every morning we (well just Alyssa not me :)) have naked tummy time to let her air out and hang out without a diaper. She is also starting to do the superman thing during tummy time, lifting both her legs and arms off the ground at the same time. Also in the last few days she has starting walking when we hold her hands. I was amazed when she started doing it the other night when I was holding her up to stand. She does every other foot like shes supposed to and it looks like she is trying to get somewhere while she does it. She only does like 10 or so steps but its so cute when Dave has her do it towards me!
So I kind of jinxed myself last week saying sleep was going much better. Its not going too bad, but she has her good nights where she sleeps 10-10.5 hours straight and others where she still wakes up. Last night she cried (well more of a whine/complain) on and off for about 1 1/2 hours. She'd fall back asleep then wake up 15 minutes later, whine a few minutes, fall back asleep. She never really got into a real cry. We were trying to do away with the paci in the middle of the night, if we could easily at least. She didn't scream so thats a plus but we eventually gave it to her because Dave and I wanted to get back to sleep. They say do the same thing when they wake in the middle of the night as you do at bedtime and since she no longer gets a paci for bedtime or naps we thought we'd try it in the middle of the night. Not sure if we are going to continue it this way or not. This whole sleep thing has taken a lot of trial and error, so we'll see. From now on if no sleep/napping issues are posted, it means its going well. I feel like whenever I say it out loud I jinx myself!
Sorry no pictures this week. My camera battery died last week right after I uploaded the blog pictures and I could not find my camera charger. I'm sad I missed out on an entire week of taking pictures of my little peanut. I thought I left it at my moms house last weekend but I just found it in a bag we took so the battery is charging as I type.
The house is still in progress, we try to do at least one little thing a night like hang a light fixture or put up a little quarterround. Yesterday during one of Alyssa's naps I cleaned out the office and unpacked a bunch of boxes that had just been sitting around. We'll get there, slowly.
This weekend my mom and cousin are coming down to visit. The trip was planned before we even knew it was Valentine's Day weekend. So my mom is going to watch Alyssa while Dave and I go to dinner. Last Valentine's Day I was pregnant, super sick, and on bed rest so this one should be a little more enjoyable for us. It will be only the 2nd time Dave and I have gone to dinner without Alyssa.
I made a recipe that used avacado the other night so I saved a little and mashed it for Alyssa to try. I think its fair to say she absolutely hated it. She even gagged, and not because it was too thick because I added some breastmilk to it to make it the same consistancy as her rice cereal she scarfs down every night. She made a terrible face and was gagging, I hope shes not going to be a picky eater. Dave and I aren't at all so we'll just keep letting her try it when we have it.