ANNA'S 5 MONTHS OLD? ALREADY?

5 months ago today Anna was born.  I cannot believe that this much time has passed already.  She is an amazing little girl who seems to be growing and developing by leaps and bounds.  Here are a few things that she's accomplished in the last month:

Showing off that beautiful, toothy smile.

• She is officially mobile.  She has linked her rolls and can now roll across the floor.  She also loves to spin around on her belly so that she can see whatever her big brother is doing. 
• She has 2 teeth.  We saw the first one popping in right after Christmas and now she has 2 little chompers on the bottom.  So cute! 
• She found her feet and they are her favorite toys.  This girl is trying to put her feet in her mouth all day.  She has a bit of trouble with the cloth diapers since they are a bit bulky, but as soon as you put her on the changing table and take her diaper off they are in her mouth.   Her socks are constantly wet now.  It's pretty funny. 
• She blows bubbles.  For a while she was constantly blowing bubbles with all of the extra drool that she has, but she doesn't do it as much anymore.  But when she does she is just so proud of herself. 
• She is getting pretty close to being able to sit up by herself.  She can kind of prop for a few seconds, then falls. 
• She loves to stand on your lap.
• She has started doing this thing where she throws her butt up in the air and is on her hands and toes.  I think she's trying to figure out how to crawl. 
• She still loves it when you sing to her.  It doesn't really matter what song, just sing and she smiles. 
• She LOVES her big brother so much.  He makes her laugh without even trying and it is so sweet to witness. 
• She just loves to laugh.  She is such a smiley, happy little girl.  You can't help but fall in love with her.
• She is really empathetic too.  Sometimes when Alexander will be crying and really upset over something she'll pout her bottom lip and start crying too.  It's really sweet.
• She loves her Sophie the giraffe.
• She's eating on a pretty good 3 hour schedule which is nice and still only nursing for about 4-5 minutes at a time.  She naps about 3-4 times a day still though.  She seems to like to nap for about 1 hour at a time. 
• She's still getting up 2 times/night most nights.  Boo.
• She loves to sit up in your arms and look out and see what is going on. 
• Bottom line, she's absolutely wonderful and we love her so much.  I couldn't have asked for a better or more perfect little girl. 

Here is a video of her latest "move".

Yesterday was the day that we saw the specialist for Anna's kidney.  We saw a pediatric urologist at UNC Children's Hospital and were very pleased with our experience.  The doctor is not really very concerned with her condition.  He said that about 1 in every 20 kids with this type of kidney will develop an obstruction that will need to be dealt with by the time they are 2 years old.  But he doesn't think that Anna will have that problem.  He does want to continue to monitor her to make sure, so we are going for another ultrasound in 5 months.  Chris and I feel very good about the outcome and feel really positive right now.  Hopefully in 5 months things won't be any worse.