Five Months

Our baby is five months old! For his five month pictures, we went up to Walker Ranch and hiked down to South Boulder Creek.  We had a picnic and B got in some fly fishing.  It was a great day!

From four to five months, A got much better at sitting. He's still not sitting independently, but is able to sit with minimal help.  He started to reach for toys and actually pick them up. He really discovered his fingers, and likes to watch them as he moves each individual one. He started working on using his finger to pinch things, including skin sometimes. He also continues to put EVERYTHING in his mouth, although there are no signs of teeth yet.  He makes a lot of squealing noises and some occasional babble, but no "bababababa" or anything like that yet.  He started getting a second crop of hair under his newborn hair, so his bald spots are disappearing. His laughs come even easier and smiles are abundant. Each day he is changing and growing and it's so much fun to watch!

Someone loves his dad

Chilling and calming down after an intense photo session

The best one we've gotten so far

I thought I was just out of the shot, getting smiles for the camera

Family selfie attempt!

His expression is priceless!

Turns out we can only get 2/3 looking at the camera

I believe the camera caught B talking!

First solid food (@ 5 months + 2 days)

Our Dr recommended "fruit, vegetables or meat" as his first solid food. We decided to go with avocado (which his mom and dad remembered first trying around 20 yrs old or so). He was neither thrilled nor deterred. He prob just wondered why there was green goo on the new toy that mom and dad were strangely encouraging him to put in his mouth.

 

 

More summer fun

We went to the park and met up with a friend of ours from high school who was in Colorado visiting her sister.  She has a 4 year old daughter and a 3 year old son.  They thought the baby was pretty cute.

A enjoyed lying down on a blanket much more this time than the first time I took him to the park.  On his tummy he very much enjoyed playing with grass.

 Sometimes you try really hard to get a family photo...

 And this is the best one you get...

After a good nap on the way home, A rocked tummy time.  He likes reaching for all different toys.

It's official, I can't watch tv anymore when I'm feeding him.  This was him rubbernecking instead of letting me burp him.  It was hilarious how obsessed he was with seeing the tv.  Game over, mom.

Today we walked to library story time.  We were so close to being on time, but then got stuck waiting for this train.  A told me to chill out, mom, we'll make it.  Plus, there's this toy.  Which he held on to the entire walk to the library, taking it in and out of his mouth.

He even holds his toy when he sleeps.

A selfie we took for daddy telling him we were excited to see him.  It took FOREVER because he kept touching the screen and the phone was getting mad at us.  I only noticed the drool pool after I got the photo on a bigger screen.  This is our life right now.

Camping at Olive Ridge

While we didn't make it for the three nights that we had originally planned (long story all around) we did make it out camping one night the first weekend of summer.  A had a blast!  We had fun, too, until the second day when I got vertigo really badly at least.

Layers for the cold night!

How to entertain a baby when daddy is packing up the car and the slightest movement makes you feel nauseous...dangle something in their face!  Thanks for this book, Gram!

Naptime en plein air.  The sheet on top of the pack n play is for shade.

Three camping seats

Enjoying the fire with daddy

REALLY enjoying the fire with daddy.

No, really.  He enjoyed it.

I hear my happy camper waking up from his two hour nap, so it's back to mom time!

Summer fun

 Summer is here!  A and I had a great first week at home together.

One of my projects at the beginning of the summer is to "tidy."  I am reading a book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and so far it has been great for me.  I have officially tidied all of my clothes/shoes/accessories and am making a donation trip shortly.  This was from my tops day.  Embarrassing but true.

Practicing sitting!  He needs to be able to sit up before he can start eating solids...I keep telling him that but it doesn't seem to sink in!

We went for a stroll on the Boulder Creek path with a moms group before going to the official new moms group at the hospital.  A managed to sleep through it even though it was pretty warm.

At the moms group.  We got to see babies crawling, sitting, walking....so much to look forward to!

Tidying -- dresses, skirts, and pants day

If he doesn't have any toys to put in his mouth, his hands are always a good option.

He loves to "stand" in the bouncer thing.  He's really starting to figure out the toys along the outside.

We went swimming in our apartment complex's pool.  This is his swim diaper.

Here he is ready to go in his full swim outfit.  Thanks to Annie and Rita for this adorable number!

It has been really sunny and warm.  I lost my sunglasses, and he needed some, so here we are with our new shades!

He loves this piano that his grandma got for him.  He's starting to figure out how to make it make noise.  But he also likes to put it in his mouth.

After dad got back from his bike race, we took a stroll to taste of Louisville.  Once again, he slept almost the entire time.  

Four Month Check Up

We had a blast at A's 4 month check up.  The doctor had told me at his 2 month check up that A would likely be not only smiling but cracking up at the 4 month, and would likely be rolling over.  A proved him right!  It helped a lot that dad was at the check up -- A thinks dad is pretty much the funniest person in the world.  He was full of giggles, and once we put him on the table, after he got over checking out the baby in the mirror, he was determined to plop right over.  Finally we let him, and he just played with the paper on the table like it was his job.  It's amazing how fast he's growing up.

We talked about food this time, as sometime between now and 6 months he'll start eating.  Pediatricians no longer recommend giving rice cereal first -- our guidelines were just to try a fruit, a vegetable, or a meat.  Try one for a few days, then introduce another.  That way we can figure out if he has a reaction to any foods.  It seems crazy that he'll be eating solids soon, but the way he watches us eat and just stares as the food goes in our mouths tells us that he's almost ready.  Hopefully he can get a little better at sitting up before he starts getting really into it!

He weighed 16 lb, 5 oz, was 26 inches long, and his head was 16.5 inches around.  That was 60th, 80th, and 75th percentile for boys.  Here's a family photo we took, courtesy of the mirror in the doctor's office.

I should add that we had a blast UNTIL shots time.  Daddy got to do the honors of holding him this time and comforting him afterward.  He only cried out really once per shot and was calm and happy-ish after a minute or so.  It's so hard to not be able to explain to him why he's getting the shots!

And here are some recent videos of our happy baby.

He has some serious cradle cap, so we have to wash his hair with Selsun Blue once a week.  He thought it was HILARIOUS when dad said "blue shampoo" when it was on his head, so now we just say it and he cracks up.  Well, when he feels like it.  And mostly just when dad says it :)

He found his feet!  Though you can clearly see we have work to do on sitting up still.

In the past few days, he's started really being intentional about picking up and moving things.  He likes to move this lion back and forth, back and forth.  He'd probably been doing it for over a minute before I started recording, which is an eternity in baby time.