Verity: 5 Months

Age: 5 months

Weight: 15 lbs 8 oz - 50% (roughly, measured at home)

Height: 25 inches  - 45% (roughly, measured at home)

Eating: Same old, same old. Just breast milk and often.

Sleeping: Generally sleeps for 5-6 hrs at night followed by shorter spurts.

Accomplishments: Rotates in a circle if on the floor, grabs toes, "talks", happy shrieking, rolls from back to tummy, recently fake laughed repeatedly.

Other Random Stuff: Not much going on with Verity this month. She's sort of in between milestones so there's nothing really new. Next month should have lots to list. Still as cute as ever though!


 

More of Idaho

I have a horrible habit of bringing my great camera on trips or special events and then never even using it. This is why despite spending five days in Idaho, I took maybe 4 pictures. The rest I have snagged from Grandma. Story of my life.

So without further ado, here are a few more pictures from Idaho...that came from Grandma.

Dying Easter Eggs

Verity: chunky, sleepy, and covered in drool

Family Picture

At the Park

Road Trip to Idaho

Justin's parents moved to Idaho around 6 months ago. Until now, they have traveled to see us but we had never made the 8 hour trek to see them. Last week that changed.

Bright and early Monday morning (okay 8am, we have a hard time justifying the 4am road trip idea) we loaded everyone up and started our journey.

My kids are decent travelers; the boys were happy enough with books, Mad Libs, and Adventures in Odyssey. Everly was pretty decent as well although she started having a rough time around the 8 hour mark. (yes I said, 8 hour mark... the trip is 8 hours but when you take into account the lunch break and the every 2 hour breaks to feed Verity it was closer to a 10 hour trip).

Verity did great until about the 8 hour mark as well. You see, she decided to start the vacation by getting sick the night before we left. Nothing horrid, just a temperature in fact (enough to keep this mommy up more than she'd like the night before a road trip). However while on the road, she got a diaper rash and that was the end of it. She screamed bloody murder whenever her diaper was the tiniest bit wet. This unfortunately made hours 8-10 horrid. However, we finally made it. 10 hours later which seems really later when Idaho is an hour ahead of us. Let's just say we ate dinner and went to be extremely late that night.

This was the first year that the kids didn't get to do Easter with Grandma, so they requested to dye eggs, have an egg hunt, etc while they were in Idaho. So we celebrated Easter 2 days late.

We had 5 days packed full of parks, sunshine, arcade games, and food. We had perfect weather in Idaho. Full sun and perhaps just a tad too warm for us Washingtonians who had to go from cool rain to bright sun instantly. Nice to get our vitamin d and a little bit of a tan.

We had a great time and I'm happy to report that our return trip home went a hundred times better than before. It only took us 9 hours, Verity slept most of the way, and since we gained our hour back we arrived home at an earlier hour.