5 Months

Whew, we survived!  It's been a rough month around here!  Between lots of waking up at night to mommy getting sick twice, it's been a bit challenging around here. December ended with very little sleep at night, and in January it kept right on going.  Just couldn't get out of our bad habit!  So, we had our own baby sleep bootcamp, and you passed with flying colors!  By the end of the month we had our sleeping baby back!  Woohoo!!!

Everyone who sees you says you're just the cutest baby!  Many say you look just like the gerber baby!  Your big blue eyes are usually the first thing they notice.  At your 4.5 month doctor appointment you weighted 18.6 lbs and are now 26 inches long.  Still our cute little chunk!  You're in 9 to 12 month clothing now.

At the beginning of the month you rolled from tummy to back.  So we're rolling both ways now!  You are such a rolly polly!  You roll everywhere! When I put you down on the ground and walk away for even a second I come back and you're halfway across the room.  You are most definitely a mover.  You're already starting to army crawl a little.

You are so very aware of EVERYTHING around you!  You just want to look and touch and grab any and everything you see!  It really is so fun watching you learn and discover so many new things.  You got a new toy for Christmas, your Baby Einstein exersaucer, that you absolutely love!  It's really amazing to see you figure everything out.  How to pull, push, and swivel around.  You're so smart!  Mr. Turtle was a fast favorite.  I think Mr. Crab is quickly taking over though ;-)

We survived a couple of big sicknesses this month.  I got the sickest I've been in a long time mid-month, and it lasted almost 2 weeks!  Then, the last day of the month I managed to get a stomach bug that had me puking like crazy!  Horrible being that sick and having to stay away from you as much as possible, so you wouldn't get it.  Couldn't snuggle and hold you hardly at all!  Fortunately, you managed to come out unscathed.  Daddy did a great job, and we had Gigi over quite a bit to help while Daddy was at work.

We started you on solids this month.  We decided to go with sweet potatoes first.  We gave you 1 teaspoon for about 5 days. You loved them, and did such a good job of eating them!  You got down every last bite.  Unfortunately, we noticed around day 4 you started breaking out in a terrible rash all over your face.  Turned into some really really bad eczema.  I'm already dairy and soy free, so the doctor told me to cut out eggs since your eczema and gas were getting worst.   Once we started feeding you sweet potatoes and it got even more worst, she asked about my diet.  Well, sweet potatoes is a huge staple to my diet (eat them probably 5 days a week!).  So, we both had to cut out the sweet potatoes.  A week later the eczema and rashes went away (thank the Lord!).  We're going to try carrots at the end of the week.

Here are some other fun things you're doing now...

*You love playing with Daddy's beard
*You are always chewing on your hands.  Not exactly a thumb sucker, but pretty much the whole hand.
*I should just trying to put headbands on you.  You almost immediately pull them down and start chewing on them.
*Same thing with socks or shoes.  You manage to get them off with in seconds of them going on.
*You giggle all the time!  We love it.
*You still love practicing standing up.
*You're passing toys from one hand to the other.
*Love reading time with mommy!
*Love singing along to music playing.
*You managed to get your foot in your mouth this week.  You thought that was a pretty cool trick!
*You're almost sitting up all by yourself!  We're kinda slumping over more than sitting, but we're close!