5 months old!

Our sweet Lillian is 5 months old today! Crazy how time flies! She just gets cuter by the day and we have so much fun getting to know her sweet little personality as she grows and changes every day. Here are a few things about Lilly at 5 months old for my own record keeping:

-sleeping through the night for a good long 10-12 hours

-loves her bottles and eats around 4-5, 8 oz bottles a day. It is definitely time to start the rice cereal as she has sometimes acted as if she is still hungry after downing an 8 oz bottle haha!
- we have tried rice cereal 2 times and she wasn't so sure of it but still tolerated it. we will keep trying :)
- rolls over from back to tummy but not so sure how to get back. she does like tummy time a lot more now and wiggles and scoots around quite a bit in her bed
- sleeps on her tummy and side now that she can roll over.
-LOVES her pacifier (thank goodness!) she does occasionally wake up in the night wanting it but goes right back sleep once I give it to her.
-loves to grab her toes and sometimes is caught sucking on her big toe!
- she is starting to coo and make more sounds, but is generally pretty quiet because there is always some kind of noise going on at our house :)
-she is pretty easy going mostly because she has to be...she goes with the flow and is great about it. That's child #4 for ya! It's funny how with my first baby I would make sure to be home for his naps and with baby #4 I am interrupting her naps to go places with the big kids!
-she loves her big brother and sisters...she just lights up and smiles when they talk to her and pay attention to her.
-she does get startled by loud noises sometimes and doesn't like it to be loud when she is eating.
- she will smile at anyone that will smile at her :) although her smiles are hard to catch on camera. I was lucky enough to get a couple today though!!
-she is just plain SWEET and our family would not be complete without her!!

We LOVE our sweet Lilly!!

It is tradition in the Stacy family to pierce our baby girl's ears at the California State Fair with this really awesome guy that has been there for years. Sheila and I were so excited to get Lilly's and Hailey's ears pierced together and we couldn't wait for the State Fair. So yesterday we went to the fair BUT unfortunately, this year, the "ear-piercing guy" was nowhere to be found! We were so bummed but we were not going to go home without our baby girls' ears pierced. After dinner we made a stop at the mall and tortured our sweet baby girls! They both actually did great and only cried for less than a minute! Here is Lilly before...

And AFTER...see! she hardly looks like anything phased her!

So Pretty!

And then seriously 5 minutes later she passed out! She was so exhausted from our busy day at the fair and then the ear piercing trauma! That's Hailey trying to get her cousin Lilly...she has cute earrings too :)

A few more recent pics of our sweet Lilly :)

Showing off our new swimsuit!

Zach and Kali actually took these shots. haha! Not too bad huh!?!

Kali just can't get enough of Lilly and she is always asking to hold her. She is a great big sister and loves to take care of Lilly when I let her ;)

Lovin' those toes!