At Last

After a lot of hard work and a long time coming, she did it. Yes, Paige slept through the night! She went to bed around 8:00pm (a little later than usual due to our Stroller Fit class) and didn't wake up until 7:00am. She did stir a bit around 3:30am but went right back to sleep. As it would figure, I had a hard time sleeping (probably the first time since she was born). Oh well, we'll hope for the best again tonight. We're so proud of our tiny piglet!

Five Months!

Maybe it was due to the short month of February, but it's so hard to believe that Paige is already five months old. She is a generally happy and content girl as long as she gets her naps, which can still be a challenge, but seems to be improving.

Paige is spending quite a bit of time on her tummy, which is why the majority of the pictures you'll see are from that view. She can roll from her front to back but doesn't seem to find the need lately. She usually just whines or yells until one of us flips her over. Just last night she rolled from her back to her belly in her crib and slept like that for a couple of hours. It was a precious sight!

Paige is finally big enough to play in her exersaucer, which has to be the most overstimulating toy ever manufactured. It has so many animals, flowers, and bugs and makes just as many noises that even I don't know where to focus my attention. Mostly she just stares at it, trying to take it all in. Paige also loves playing airplane with me and can't contain the over abundance of drool that drips from her wide grin straight to my face. It's loads of fun for both of us!

Her five month photo shoot was a fun one. Paige just realized that "Little Bear" was sitting in the chair with her and seemed to want to inspect him more closely. Actually, she just fell over several times and landed on top of him but I thought it made for some cute pictures.

We also have some photos that, based on the Santa sleeper and bib, look like they were taken in December. We had about four inches of snow on March 1st so Drew and I thought we'd have "Christmas in March" and get one more use out of that cozy sleeper.

By the way, I was playing with our camera again and found some fun settings. Unfortunately, it keeps both the original and the secondary photo, which is why you'll see duplicates. Sorry! The remaining photos are on our shutterfly site, www.hamfamilyphoto.shutterfly.com.