Samantha at 25 Weeks Old

Samantha is continuing to grow both in size and in knowledge.  She has kind of been fitting in both three month and six month clothes up until now, and I think we have finally got to the point where three month clothes are too tight on her.  We can't believe that she is almost six months old, time goes by so quickly.


We have been giving Samantha rice cereal every evening and she definitely shows more interest in it now.  She reaches for the spoon and bowl and gets really excited about it.  I think she is still trying to figure out how exactly to swallow the cereal and where to put her tongue, but it is a learning process and an introduction to more food to come.


Our little girl is always so social and happy.  We are pretty much able to take her anywhere.  She just loves to be around people and will let anyone hold her.  She gives away smiles and giggles all the time.  We hope that this is an indication of her personality because it is something we love about her.  It will be interesting to see if she goes through a phase of not wanting to be around strangers, and instead just wants to be around mommy and daddy.


Something we have discovered in the last week as well as how much Samantha moves around in bed.  One day I walked into her room and she was grabbing onto her mesh bumper and using it for leverage to move herself around the crib.  It was after that that we decided it was time for us to lower her crib down to the next level.  Now that she is learning how to sit up and his pulling herself around in the crib, we don't want it to become a dangerous place where we will be worried about her being safe.  She continues to roll over and sleep on her tummy all the time too.  Almost every time I lay her down at night she will roll right over and get comfortable on her tummy for the night.  Some nights she will stay that way for the whole night because she has been sleeping through the night off and on for the past week.


This past weekend we met Ben's parents in Indianapolis for brunch.  Afterwards we went to the mall and shopped for a cute Christmas dress for Samantha.  His parents offered to buy it for us.  We went to JCPenney's and found a really cute white and red Christmas dress.  Samantha tried it on in the store, and it looked really cute on her.  It even has a puffy skirt and little, red velvet jacket.  She will look quite adorable!


Here are some great pictures of Samantha sitting up: