5 Months!!

It's been a big month for you, little girl. Leading up to your 5 month birthday, you've:

• gotten two new teeth on the bottom
• learned how to eat rice cereal, then green beans, then peas
• almost mastered rolling from your back to your stomach, though you still get frustrated and often refuse to roll from your stomach to your back without help
• celebrated your first Halloween
• discovered just how high you can jump in your johnny-jump-up
• decided that you're ready to crawl, you're just not sure how to do it yet
• mastered sleeping from 7PM to 6AM and sometimes a little later
• had your first swing in the park
• gotten very good at grabbing things and putting them in your mouth

So many new things you've learned how to do. You're growing, growing, growing, and we love you more and more everyday.

You don't know it, but you were also alive to witness history: our first African American president was elected the day before your 5 month birthday. What exciting times we live in. I'm so glad that you will grow up in a world where people are becoming more and more accepting of differences everyday. You won't think twice about someone other than a white man having power in our country. You won't think twice about someone speaking another language in your class. You won't think twice about your aunts being married and having children. You will recognize the person, not the color or language or religion or orientation. It will all be the natural way of life for you. Change is here. I'm glad you're alive to be a part of it.