Pomerleau Family Blog: Olivia is five months old!

I some how missed doing a blog post about when Olivia turned four months old. I write this post, two days before I go back to work and on the eve of Brandon's third birthday party. Olivia has changed so much in the past two months. She is becoming much more of a person. She loves to be held, loves attention, loves to be talked to. She loves watching her big brother play and interact with her. She loves being able to see what is going on with the rest of the family.

4 months old!

Digging the hoodie!

Big hug from Brandon in their Duck gear

Touchdown!

I began jogging with Olivia in my jogging stroller and she loves going on jogs with me. It relaxes her and she enjoys looking around and sometimes even takes a nap. Speaking of sleep, Olivia has not been a great sleeper like her brother. She is extremely alert and aware of her surroundings. This makes taking naps on the go like Brandon did extremely hard. She also loves to be held during her naps which makes me getting anything done very hard and sometimes wakes up when we put her down. She typically takes a 45 minute to one hour nap about two hours after she gets up and then usually a quick nap in the early afternoon around noonish usually for like 30 minutes to an hour. Then she usually takes a nap from around 2-3 that is sometimes longer than an hour. Bed time feeding begins around 7:45-8:00 and she is in her crib by 8:30. We moved Olivia into her own room and her own crib at 4.5 months too. After a few rough nights she appears to have gotten used to it and likes the space of her crib. We still swaddle her with one arm to help her sleep longer. Olivia usually gets up twice a night usually around 12:30-2:30 and then between 4 and 5. I am hoping that she will begin to sleep longer.

Such a cute hat

All bundled up on a nap

At her 4 month appointment Olivia was 14.5 lbs and 25.5 inches. She was 70 percentile in weight and 90th in height. Olivia at 5 months was 15 lbs and her height was not measured. She generally eats between 5-6 times a day. This month was a big struggle to get Olivia to take a bottle. She hates all things plastic and artificial including pacifers and does not appear to be a thumb sucker like Brandon. Due to Olivia not taking the bottle well and me going back to work her pedetrician recommended me starting solids a bit earlier. She has oatmeal cereal once a day mixed with breast milk and a fruit or veggies and has been eating well. She likes to be a part of us while we eat dinner.

First food and eating her bib

Yum oatmeal!

In the beginning of November we traveled to California and visited my Aunt Lael and my sisters Rachel and Tory in the Bay Area. Olivia was great on the airplane but not so great in sleeping in new environments despite having her pack n play that she had been sleeping in. We stayed at my Aunt Lael's for two nights and then with my sister Tory for one night. The weather was awesome while we were there and it was really nice to visit them. We also traveled to Eugene for Thanksgiving with Sean's side of the family. Unfortunately Olivia came down with a fever the day before and it just got higher while we were in Eugene and she was very sick both nights and very hard to sleep with. We all had to sleep in one room too which made it challenging with a sick baby who refused to sleep any where but on us. But we powered through it and got home and it took several days but we got Olivia back on her normal sleep schedule once again. Brandon at this age had no problems sleeping any where and was sleeping 10 hours a night by this age without waking up.

Auntie Tory and Olivia

Olivia and my cousin Lauren

Thanksgiving 2013

Not feeling well and being held by Daddy

Olivia and her cousin Bianca who is three months younger than her

Olivia learned how to roll over from her back to her belly right at four months. She learned how to because she loves looking at her toys on her play mat and grabbing at them and playing with them. She loves her play mat and can play under it entertained for 20-30 minutes. She also loves her jumperoo and her exersaucer as she loves standing up and looking around. She can sit almost with her hands down and my guess is she will be mastering that by the end of this month. I have to go back to work in 2 days. It has been so much fun being on maternity leave with Olivia all this time. I am so sad to have to go back to work. My mom is coming though and watching her twice a week so she only has to go to daycare three times a week. She is very social and I think she will like the excitement going on at school.