Little Peanut is 5 months old!!!!

Aly Loves the saucer

At the dr. after her 3rd antibiotic shot for an ear infection. It was really bothering her can you tell?

Grandpa and Aly at Stone Mountain

Aly and Daddy

Oh where to start!!! So many things are changing!!! Well the best news of all is that I think Alyssa is finally over these ear infections( 5 dr. visits later) and this cold that has been kicking all of our butts for the past week and half. We ended up having to do a series of 3 shots, 3 days in a row. That ended yesterday. She hated the shots but I really think they worked!!! She has been on breathing treatments for about a week now and they are really helping too!!!

I am looking into moving her to a in home daycare and its been a difficult thing to deal with. There are pros and cons to both daycare centers and in home so we haven't made a decision yet. I have talked to several people but its hard to find that person that you trust enough.

Alyssa is changing so much. She smiles and laughs all the time. Now that she is feeling better she is back to her happy self!! She loves her feet, as you can see and now she has discovered that she has something fuzzy on her head and she tries to grab it but can't quite get it, its so funny!!! She is sitting up by her self most of the time. She tends to fall over a lot and she has to lean forward to keep her balance, but I feel like she's going to be crawling before we know it! She now weighs 16lbs and 4 ozs. She wearing her 6 months clothes and probably going to be in 9 months shortly. We have also been shopping for big girl car seats because she is going to out of her infant carrier probably by Feb.

We are going to attempt baby food again this weekend. We needed to wait until the medicines were out of her system to make sure we didn't have any reactions. She didn't do so well a month ago so we gave it some time. I think we are going to go with green beans this time and see what happens! I'm excited! She's really interested in food, she sits on my lap during dinner a lot (yes I know thats bad but she has an alarm clock that is tied with the oven and as soon as dinner is ready she is ready to be held) and she watches me eat every bit!!! I slip her some potatoes sometimes and she likes it! (she's not spoiled at all, I promise!!)

She is still sleeping good. We went through a rough patch while she was sick because she wouldn't sleep in her crib, so we are trying to transition her back in there! and now that she has her appetite back she is sleeping longer too.

Her first Thanksgiving was great, she managed to eat a few sweet potato bites so she had something to do!! We are so looking forward to Christmas. Grammy and I went shopping and got all of her Christmas clothes so she is ready to go!!! We went to Stone Mountain and tried to take some pictures for our Christmas card, but she wasn't feeling well so that didn't work out great! We did get one good one though in her dress Aunt Lane bought (so cute). We are going to go and see Santa one night next week hopefully so that will be fun!!!

Alyssa has really taken a interest in Marley too, when he gets close she reaches out to grab him, its so funny! He's so good with her, he just stands there and takes it! It won't be too long before she is chasing him every where and he's trying to get away!!

I think every night JV and I both say that she is the cutest, best thing in the world and we mean every bit of it!!! WE ARE SO IN LOVE WITH OUT PRINCESS!!!