As of this past Saturday Amelia is 5 months old. She is much more active now. She likes to get down on the floor and play with toys, and although she can't yet crawl she manages to roll around to get to whatever toy she wants. She also enjoys playing with Gavin. He spends a lot of time entertaining her each day, and makes her laugh often. It seems to be his favorite past time this summer. However he tends to get carried away and wound up, and I rather frequently have to tell him to calm down and back away before he accidentally hurts her. Amelia has been teething and waking up 2-3 times a night. Her naps are erratic as well. She is sometimes clingy but seems to still be in a good mood overall despite her teething pain. She has gone swimming a few times in our pool now. She most enjoys being held on the steps and repeatedly splashing the water with her hands. She also likes watching Gavin swim.
With a baby in the house we haven't had quite as active a summer as usual, but have still managed to have fun. Gavin has been swimming in our pool, to Monkey Joe's, playgroup at Lane's to play and eat peach ice cream, slip and slide at Carleigh's house, playing at Brayden's house, riding his bike and playing with the neighbor kids, built a dragon at Lowes, and a few trips to the library. He is enjoying the summer reading program, earning trinkets and free food coupons for books read. He's doing all our family's daily scripture reading this summer, reading a chapter each day from his kid version of the scriptures (with help). This past Saturday we found a bag of transformers at goodwill for $10 (probably cost $200-$300 originally) so he's been enjoying those as well. In his downtime, when he's not building airplanes out of cardboard boxes, he has been watching documentaries on Netflix - about various modes of transportation, dinosaurs, and other animals. He would rather watch these than cartoons.
