Annika is 5 months old!

My little girl is now 5 months old. I know it is a little late but life has been busy with camping trips, trips to the beach, hiking, swimming, visiting aunties and grandma's and enjoying the summer. Annika loves it all. She especially loves to watch her sisters and wish she could do things with them. She is calm and lets them treat her like a doll and loves every minute of it. She loves to giggle and laugh at everything. Some of her favorite things are singing songs to her and playing games like peek a boo and patty cake. She laughed so hard at me tonight when I was playing that game.

Annika is getting very good at rolling over and she is also getting very good at scooting around on her back like an inchworm. She is still very awkward at sitting and doesn't do it very well at all. Annika loves to eat rice cereal and eats so much of it we worry it will make her sick. She also loves applesauce which makes me happy since I made so much of it last fall in anticipation of her arrival. She does not appear to like bananas at all... when we fed her them she made the funniest faces and after awhile I stopped feeding it to her and made her plain rice cereal. Cameron tried the bananas again and she cried and refused to eat anymore. Tonight she was grateful her dinner was not tainted.

I don't know how much she weighs this month but she is a skinny tall baby and seems to be headed towards being skinnier and taller. I bet she will be crawling soon and I am worried about what we will do when she is completely mobile. We love having Annika in our home. She is a joy to have as she is always happy and smiling at everyone.