Katie will be five months old on Sunday. Hard to believe. She is rolling over easily onto her tummy now. She isn’t sure what to do once she gets there, but she sure enjoys the rolling part. Still hasn’t completely figured out how to roll back the other way, though. She’s done it a couple times, but doesn’t seem to remember how she did it before. She smiles and squeals a lot — much happier than those first three months. Glad they are behind us. She sleeps much better, cries less, and is just a joy to be around. She always was a joy to be around, but it’s much better now that she is happy, too. She’s starting to figure out how to sit up now; doesn’t need much assistance with that. She loves her bedtime stories — we rotate between Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Butterfly Kisses. Goodnight Moon is definitely her favorite. She tries to turn the pages and is pretty good at it for as young as she is! She grabs her Daddy’s arm while he reads; it’s so precious. She almost never cries when we put her down at night now. Guess that speaks well for the bedtime routine that we have established.
Life is so different than it was before. People ask how I’m doing, what I’ve been up to, etc., and inevitably my answer revolves around how Katie is doing and what she has been up to. I love it, though. I knew I would love being a mommy, but I enjoy it so much more than I ever thought I would. The domestic life is definitely my cup of tea.
In a few weeks, I will be getting out of OKC for a bit and getting out to see family and friends. I’ll go to see parents and grandparents, and friends that I haven’t seen since a few weeks after Katie was born. I’m really looking forward to that. Travelling with her is much easier now, not that it was ever very difficult.
Not much else to report, really. Just doing my day to day stuff, living life as a wife and mom, and enjoying it to the fullest. God is good.
