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At three and a half months old, my daughter started laughing out loud. Although she had already been giggling and laughing in her sleep before she was even three months old. Her little laugh was very cute and is still is. She will laugh at the smallest things and it is very contagious. I would try to do anything to get her to laugh again as it was and still is pleasurable.

A four months old, we went to visit her pediatrician. She was vaccinated with all the vaccines recommended for her age. It was so sad to see her cry when she got poked by the needle. After a couple of minutes later, she stopped crying and fell asleep. I hated seeing her get those shots and being in pain. I wish that I could do it for her.

Also at about four months, we started rubbing her gums with the rubber baby brush. Since she loved to put things in her mouth to try different things and learn about them, she didn't mind having the rubber brush in her mouth. She would actually try to move it around her mouth herself. We would rub her gums as well as tongue with it..

At four months and three days, on April 17th, she had rolled over from back to stomach. And within a week or so, she was able to do it faster. she also started rolling from both sides. I get very excited when ever she reached a new milestone. Because for us, it would seem easy since we have been doing it forever, but watching her try and achieve it seemed like a very big milestone for her. I was cheering for her all the way through.

Before her five months birthday, I also to give her a little bit of rice cereal. She didn't really mind it all that much. I would feed her a very small amount at a time and she would eat most of it. Then I started to give her more and more each day until she got used to eating cereal every day. I started the baby jar foods a few weeks later. I gave her sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, etc. Her favorite was the sweet potato and least favorite was the beef stew. I wanted to be able to make her baby food from scratch, but I found that I really didn't have any time to be preparing baby food for her. But I would give her fresh bananas, strawberries or any other fruits or vegetable that we had available to smash. I tried giving her peaches, mango and pineapple, but she did not like them very much. .

I felt like she was growing up fast, and by five months she was able to put her pacifier into her mouth herself. It would sometimes take her a few tries to get it in, but she would eventually get it into her mouth.

By five months, she was swimming and pushing herself backwards and rocking back and forth on all fours. She also started to put her feet into her mouth and suck on her toes while she was lying on her back.

On May 24th, we took a flight from Indianapolis to Orlando for a week of vacation. We had some hotel points that we needed to use so we thought it would be a good time to use it. This was my daughter's first trip on an airplane. And since the destination was Orlando almost half of the passengers onboard were kids, ranging from infants to teenagers. We were hoping for an early boarding, but since half of the passengers were kids, it did not work out. She did very good in the airplane, basically slept the whole way. We received a lot of compliments on both the trip down and the trip back from Orlando about how well she did on the flight.

On June 4th, she sat down for the first time on her own. She had been trying for a few days to sit down, getting closer and closer with each day. All it was is rolling from being on fours to her back, but instead of falling back to lay down she ended up in a sitting position. She also does it when she is on her back and she rolls over onto her stomach but ends up sitting instead.