Beatrice is now five months old. It has been a crazy, warp-speed five months of life for all three of us and the rest of August doesn’t seem like life will get much slower. At five months, Bea is sitting up pretty well (despite the video from my earlier post) and she’s enjoying sitting in her little high chair while we eat. I think it makes her feel like a grown up. She still loves music and has gotten very good at recognizing her name in songs. It makes me smile to hear her “singing” along!

She enjoys opening and closing her hand around pretty much everything these days, so skinny little toys and spoons are some of her favorite things! She’s starting to figure out how to move things from one hand to the other, which is fascinating for her!  Her Aunt Rachel sent her a monkey that she really enjoys!

She loves different textures and we’ve been giving her different things to play with such as a blanket, a piece of bubble wrap, a big leaf, a flower petal,  to notice the way they feel. (Don’t worry, we make sure she doesn’t put things like bubble wrap in her mouth!)

We attended Bea’s first “friend” birthday party this month! Our friend Elisabeth turned one! It was a great day for a party and such fun to be part of the celebration!

Oh my goodness, she’s also quite the talker! Thanks to my friend Angie, we were able to take part in a baby yoga class and Beatrice really enjoyed the songs and movement, but she was so loud! She wanted to talk and talk and touch and play with all the other babies. She’s getting really good at saying “Dada!” but hasn’t yet fully associated the word with Jonathan. Most generally, I hear her say this when she’s yelling at me to get her more food! Ha!

Baby Bea is a happy, joyful little one who loves being around other children, finds time with both parents focused on her to be ideal and it is just fun for me to spend each day with her. She’s clever, tricky, a little stubborn, and loves to watch us “work” whether that’s in the kitchen, “helping” her Daddy on the computer or supervising  little chores around the house.