I love this photo because it so captures where Coco is at five months. Starting to interact with toys, reaching, grabbing, focusing in a new way with intent and pleasure. This is an amazing age. She has begun to hold her neck up with more ease, and enjoys the time on her belly. She seems to know how to get from her belly to back, but not yet the other way around.This month we had a few stage nights where Coco was refusing the breast or bottle. We would put her to sleep, wake her up twenty minutes later, and she would eat like nothing happened. It has not happened since. She is beginning to coo and make great noises when she is done with her feedings, and is becoming increasingly distracted by what is going on around her.
Oh, and how very exciting for her, she has found her feet. She loves to watch them and grab for them. They make her smile and laugh with delight. She has started sitting in her bumbo seat, and I think enjoys this new perspective on the world around.
Coco is a social being, and a real girl. She is happy to be in her car seat at a meal as long as she can see everyone at the table. She is calm and patient, and a very very easy baby. We took a trip to Disneyland last week, and she couldnt' have been easier to be with. Happy when awake, interested, napped well, never crabby. I often think, what did I do to deserve this perfectly easy beautiful little girl. Very simply put she is joy. She is light. She is heaven.
