Baby Averie at 18.5 Weeks!

Averie Lynn-18.5 Weeks Stats
16 lbs 2 oz-90th percentile
24 3/4 inches long-75th percentile
Head-42 cm

1. Rolls from her tummy to her back. Hasn't mastered the back to the tummy yet.
2. Ate her first solid food this week. Mashed potatoes and banana. Oh the faces she pulled. But she loved it! However, we are sticking to mommy's milk for a while.
3. Can sit up for about twenty seconds before tipping over.
4. Thinks that four o' clock in the morning is WAKE UP time.
5. Wears a size THREE diaper...what a chunk!
6. Wearing her six month clothing already and has been for almost a month!
7. Sleeps with her eyes open on occasion, just like daddy.
8. BIG TIME daddy's girl. SO CUTE!
9. Still loves Ellie the elephant.
10. Loves bath time
11. She is learning sign language and will sit and watch "Baby Signing Time" for an hour. She can do the sign for "milk" pretty well!
12. Must be rocked to sleep in standing, you sit down and she screams.
13. She is a WIGGLE WORM! She kicks her little legs like crazy.
14. Slept through the night this week. She slept from 8:00(her bedtime) to almost five in the morning. Followed by two nights of waking up every two hours. Ugh. So WORTH IT though!
15. She is NINETEEN weeks TODAY! Oh my gosh! My baby is almost FIVE MONTHS! I can speak for Trevor and myself when I say it has been the greatest five months of our life!

Picture descriptions:
Averie at the mall before Christmas-her first trip to the mall!
Cuddling with Pooh Bear.
Averie with mommy and daddy on her first shopping experience
Averie's new red dress from Aunt Kathy!
One of Averie's blessing dress pictures