fifth month

During her fifth month, Sonja grew to love her bath even more, and started swimming. She paddles around the tub constantly (but unfortunately no pictures of that). During March, Sonja saw snow for the first time, and we even had a short power outage as Carolina tried to deal with 4 - 6 inches of snow. We changed diapers by candlelight and I was thankful both for electricity and pin-less diapers. We curled up by the fireplace together and read tons of books. She likes to turn the pages herself.

fifth month

We struggled to put weight on her bones, but she was a very happy baby regardless. She pretty much just cries when she needs food or sleep. She loves people's faces and will study everyone she meets. I've heard that most babies will put things directly into their mouths -- Sonja will usually hold things up and rotate them with her hands. She also loves playing outside and taking walks. During this time, Sonja started interacting with other kids, staring at them, chattering, and touching. Sonja and Jesse have their own little language of growls, cackles, trills, and rolled "R"s. With me, she loves singing, pretending that her feet can play music, and laughing as I try to roll my "R"s and make raspberries.