This week Alex has discovered food and her feet!

Alex has had a couple of milestones this past week. One of them is her obsession with her feet. Any chance she gets, they go right in her mouth. It is nice to have something else to entertain her. Speaking of entertaining, she has also seemed to start liking Ayden. Ayden used to scare her. Mostly because most of the encounters she has had with her are negative. Ayden used to be pretty jealous and any chance she would get she would take it out on Alex. This behavior of hitting and pulling Alex’s hair unfortunately usually occurred while I was nursing. If Alex even just heard Ayden’s voice while I was nursing she would automatically start crying in fear of what might come next. I was worried that Alex would always be scared of her but fortunately they are becoming friends. Ayden does not act so jealous anymore and is starting to have fun with her. I think she is realizing that Alex can be fun. Ayden always asks where she is and loves to entertain her and Alex really likes it. It is sure making life a whole lot easier.
Another milestone for Alex has been her encounter with solid food. I was going to wait until she was 6 months to feed her cereal but Alex started acting hungry so I thought I would give it a try. I was really surprised with how well she ate it. I swear it took Ayden two weeks before she was actually swallowing more then she was wearing. That may be because I started feeding Ayden a month earlier but Alex caught on really quick and ate a lot of it. I could not tell if she liked it because by her facial expressions you would think that I was feeding her dirt or something but she kept wanting more and would start fussing if I stopped feeding her. She has seemed much more content now that I am giving her something a little more sustaining.
Alex has also finally accomplished laughing! Alex is a really serious baby. It took her a while to smile and even longer to laugh. I thought she may never do it. She has only done it once but it was the cutest noise ever so I really hope she starts doing it more.
I cannot believe that Alex is already 5 months old! It goes by so fast. She has really been changing a lot lately. It is hard to belive that she will be like Ayden running around and back talking to me before too long.