The Lily Chronicles

Lily--Five months

We've hit the 5 month mark (a couple weeks ago--oops), and Lily is growing like a weed.  She is developing her skills and learning new things every day.  My cousin Meghan is studying nursing at CSU East Bay and has pediatrics this quarter.  She used Lily for a test she had to conduct, and we found out that Lily is, developmentally (social, gross-motor, fine-motor, language), at the 6-1/2 month mark and considered advanced.  I can't help but be proud.  As for her new accomplishments, Lily is:

*sitting without support and keeping her balance
*lifting herself on hands and knees and rocking back and forth (probably crawling very soon, Heaven help us)
*scooting wherever she needs to go (within a limited distance)
*sticking her tongue out like a lizard, without the speed of said lizard.  Just the in-and-out action
*flipping front to back (FINALLY!--she's still better at back to front, though)
*eating "solid food," such as rice cereal, oatmeal, and actually baby food
*having conversations with herself and jabbers to us, responding when we speak to her
*reaches for what she wants and to be picked up
*holding her bottle on her own (HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!)
*recognizes the animals in the house and reaches out to pet Maggie and Sirius (the cat)
*standing for longer periods of time with support, and prefers standing to sitting
*playing in the tub
*beginning her teething process (super fun! [there should be a font entitled "sarcastic"--how do we not have that option?])
*actively chewing on her foot and loves pulling her left sock off.  Not the right one; just the left.