Rollin', Rollin', Rollin', keep that baby Rollin'!

Such a big girl sitting all on her own!

One word just about sums up McKenna to a tea right now, Rollin'! She rolls everywhere, onto the wood floor, into the tile at the base of the fire place, into the walls on the crib and pack n' play, into the leg of the coffee table, under Grandma Richens' coffee table, into the couch at Grandma's, and into just about anybody who will lay there and play with her.  I sure do love this girl! Each day she makes it harder and harder to go to work!

McKenna turned 5 months old on the second of March, so I am a little behind in posting this.  We tried a go with rice cereal about 3 weeks ago... We think it made her tummy pretty upset and gurgly, there was one night she cried for about and hour for me, and the sitter the next day :( so it was not worth it to me to have her be uncomfortable and not her normal happy, sweet self.  I have some oatmeal to try in a few weeks, and I have also started making some baby food that I thought I might give a go at when she is six months old.

Mmmm, my sock is soooo tasty! Live the look on her face in this one!

 This girl loves to roll everywhere as stated earlier!  There is no more just leaving her on the bed for a second. She has to be somewhere where she won't roll off.  She refuses to be held facing you, and automatically turns her body so she can see out in front of her.  She is so observant and watchful, this makes feeding her a bottle especially difficult, not quite as bad when she nurses.  Grandpa Richens thinks she wants to be an owl :).  She loves to buzz and gurgle still, and just recently has started making the ma-ma-am  ma-ma sounds- they are so cute! Now we are trying to work on the da-da and ba-ba sounds.



She does pretty well at sitting up, still wobbles from time to time, but whe. We put Baby Einstein on, she is very riveted and will sit without wobbles for at least five minutes or more.  She has started scooting backwards on her belly.  There are times that she will hike her rear end clear up, plant her face down, and scoot - crazy girl! She also just giggles whe I try to help her with the motion of pulling her knees up underneath her.  Daniel thinks she might be crawling by the time she is 6.5 months, we will have to see! We have the baby gate up already just in case

No teeth yet, but there are days when we wonder if they are starting to bug her- but we also know that they take a while to break through.  Here's hoping she got Daniel's pacing with teeth ( he didn't get any until he was a year old or more I think)

Some of her favorite things right now are:
Her butterfly bug- she will chomp down on its wing and it will just hang in her mouth
Teething fruit ring
Her thumbs, both sides are getting pretty chaffed again
Books- she loves to taste the words to help her read
Patting surfaces with her hands
Her toes
Baby Einstein Neighborhood Animals- she loves the cats and dog segments
Tiger- the big orange cat at Grandma Richens' house ( when he comes into the room she wil turn to watch him until he is out of sight)
Outside- she gets really quit whe we take her out and just sits back and soaks it all in
Grandma and Grandpa Richens
Grandma Luke and Grandpa Luke after she warms up to his bearded face
Uncle Chantz and Uncle Jared who can always make her smile or laugh

Each day this sweetheart changes a little more and grows a little bit. It is so fun to see her go through these different quirks and stages- we sure do love the joy that she brings and that we get from being her parents!