Five Months

(Jan 7 - Feb 6)

During your fifth month you:
- Weigh 16 lbs
- Are 26 inches long
- Had your second round of shots. And your crying breaks my heart.
- Had some kind of growth spurt! You grew so much so quickly I feel like it happened over night.
- As a result, you are now wearing some 3-6 months clothes and mostly 6 months clothes. I had to wipe away a few tears while packing away all of your 0-3 & 3 month clothes.
- Still have a flat spot, but I'm focusing on keeping you sitting up while you're awake.
- Getting pretty good at balancing while you're sitting.
- Went on your first road trip. It was for a sad occasion (funeral), but you got to see our North Carolina family again and you were so so good on the long drive.

      

This picture is just too cute not to share.

- We had to do some sleep training to help you get used to sleeping on your own (instead of our arms) during nap time. I miss holding & cuddling my sleeping baby, but I know you get more restorative rest this way, so it has to be done. You're still a great sleeper at night and now you're getting good rest during the day too.
- Speaking of sleep, you now wake up around 5:30-6:00 am, take a morning & afternoon nap, avoid your third/evening nap (so we're thinking about dropping it in favor of an earlier bed time), and go to bed between 7:30 - 9 depending on whether or not you took that third nap.
- Still love to smile and laugh. I've had so many comments about what a good/happy/sweet baby you are. Which is obviously true.

- Still love tv and lights and your exersaucer.
- You started jumping a lot, so we tried your your johnny jump up.
- Started solids at the end of January (about a week before you turned 5 months)... and subsequently had your first bout of constipation.

- EXPERIENCED YOUR FIRST SNOW!!! It was the one that shut Alabama and Georgia down. But you seemed to really enjoy sitting by the door and watching it. The funny thing to me is that you slept the whole way home while I was stressing out.
- Started going to Jessica's house 2 days/week while Mommy & Daddy go to work. You are a good boy and love playing with her daughter, Lily.

That escalated quickly.