Happy New Year!

It has been far too long since I have updated this blog! We have all been sick - of course it started with Ron and then went to Rachel and I got it last...and the worst of all! OY! I'm feeling a bit better and since Rachel is having her morning nap, I thought I would take the opportunity to post an update!

Rachel is 5 months old today! FIVE MONTHS!!! It just doesn't seem possible. However, I was looking at old pictures of her last night and oh my goodness - she was sooo tiny when she was born. She's a little butterball now : )

The London Free Press has their Babies of 2006 contest going on. Rachel is in it and was in the Top 10 for the Week 1 voting. Today is the last day to vote for Week 2 and I'm hoping she won! That would be so much fun! I don't even really care about the prize ($50 gift certificate from Stan C. Reade {photographer}) - I just want her to win!!! You can check her out here:

http://lfpress.com/cgi-bin/babies.cgi?x=babies2006&d=babies&s_letter=W

I love this picture my Dad 'tweaked' yesterday. If she doesn't win this week, I think I will send this picture out to everyone and ask they vote for her next week. :)

Rachel is pretty much back to her normal sleeping pattern at night. No more parties in her crib at 2am. She just wants her soother back in her mouth around 4:30 in the morning. I think when the furnace comes on, it wakes her up and that's when she realizes she doesn't have her soother.

What else has happened? Oh - she rolled over from front to back. We have her on video at 3 weeks old doing this but now she does it 'for real' : ) She makes motor boat noises and some other kind of mouth noise but I don't know how to describe it. I have her on video doing it - I should post it one of these days.

We are going to have pictures taken again today at 11:40am. Rachel should be well rested by then and hopefully will smile! I'm happy I'm not going back to Loblaws - I get to go to Real Canadian Superstore instead. Hopefully afterwards we will go see Daddy on his lunch break - just depends on Rachel's mood.

Once I get the pictures back, I will scan them and upload them. Until then...KEEP VOTING FOR RACHEL!!!!! :)