5 Month Stats

Jameson, five months have flown by. You are not my teeny baby anymore. Your size fools people, sometimes even me.

You are still nursing about ever 3.5 hours during the day and sleeping in 6ish hour stretches at night.

Bedtime is 6:30pm. Sleep until midnightish (give or take an hour or so). Nurse. Back to sleep until 4-6am. Nurse. Sometimes back to sleep until 8, sometimes not. Those "not" mornings make for long days…

You DID sleep through the night once. I thought maybe that was the start of something new. You tricked me. You were up 3 times the next night :(

love that you hold your ear when you're nursing.  No idea why you do, but its cute. Chey used to play with her eyelashes or my hair when nursing. You play with your ears.

One word. Slobber. One word said multiple times. Slobber. Slobber. Slobber. Ahh the drool.

"Jameson…!"

"Hey Jameson"… There it is. The drool :)

I felt a tooth last week while you were gnawing on my fingers. Its just a little corner piece poking through, but those teeth are making their way up. I'm. Not. Ready. For. That.

You're favorite person in the world is your sister (because I don't count since most of the time I'm quite sure I'm just the boobs in your world). You laugh at everything she does whether she is trying to be funny or simply walking by you. You crack up.

You're newest love is bubbles. You think they are hilarious and amazing all at the same time. See the best bubble video HERE.

You are constantly moving, quite the wiggle worm. Daddy loves holding you when you are wiggly butt. NOT!



You roll everywhere. If you don't have room to roll, you scoot yourself like a flopping seal using your face and whole body to get yourself moved. Crawling is in your near future.

You still loves baths, despite the fact that you are too big for your bath. I haven't figured out a new game plan for that one so we just deal with too small bathtub that you try and squirm out of.

You are in size 9-12 months. 9 months is snug but its the last of my cute onesies for you so I'm getting my wear out of them. 12 months is quickly taking over though. There is no early buying for you. I can only get you things to fit now, no planning ahead because there is just no predicting.

You love being rocked and will fall asleep with pretty much anyone if they rock you. Exhibit A- you fell asleep in Skipper's arms while in VA.

You love being carried in either the Baby Bjorn or my Mayan Wrap. Those are your favorites. The Moby Wrap was just never going to work for you.

Firsts at five months- seeing bubbles and finding them hilarious!, Trip to VA to meet lots of new people, playing in your saucer, played in a "jonny jumper"-awesome, slept through the night, successfully took a bottle (the only bottle to date unfortunately).

Best outstanding moment of month five-

This. Happened.

Yes, you are a chunk and half and its only accentuated next to your cousin Ty. Yes your thigh is as wide are your cousin's waste. Yes, you did try and eat his head at one point.  I love that you two are holding hands and yes, you're best friends for life.

You are still such a happy boy! I hope that never changes. I hope that you continue to bring smiles to peoples's faces and shine your light bright in a very dark world. Your daddy and I are so thankful that we get to be your parents. What a gift you are.

 

Happy 5 months baby boy!! We love you.

5 months

has come too quickly. I'm one day early posting her 5 month post, but seeing as we'll be in the air tomorrow on our way to see her daddy, I figured, what the heck?.

She is more fun each day. And growing like a weed! I'm guessing that she is somewhere around 15.5 pounds and is 24.5-25 inches long.

She smiles about 75 percent of the time. That 25 percent she isn't smiling, she is either asleep or going to sleep. Speaking of which, doesn't happen all that often. My 21 week email said 5 month old babies should be sleeping somewhere around 14 1/2 hours a day. Hmmm, how about 8? Which then of course means her Momma is sleeping, oh, about half that. We start her heading to bed at 8pm which sometimes works, sometimes not. More than not, her schedule is asleep by 8:45pm, stretch of long sleep until midnight or 1ish (maybe eat), back to sleep then up every hour to three hours to fuss, be soothed, then fall back to sleep. Its a nightly routine. I've gotten really good at tiptoeing in at the slightest wimper and popping her paci back in before she wakes up enough to fight it.

Tummy time is still a challenge, but depending on the day/mood, she puts up with it for about 2-3 minutes at a time. She is pushing up a lot and we've been practicing moving her legs at the same time. How do you encourage crawling? I'll be doing my best to support the crawling. She loves to stand any chance she gets these days, so I think she might just try to be a walker from the start.

She talks and talks and squeals and talks more. She takes squealing to a whole new level. Decibel level that is. What usually starts out as a fun little giggle game escalates quickly to a ear piercing dog hearing level squeal. Usually right next to Momma's ears. What??....?...

Everything goes in her mouth. E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. I'm constantly wiping things down, sanitizing, wiping her down, wiping me down... yeah there's a lot of wiping during my days. Everything is interesting, yummy, but interesting.

She has quite a sense of humor. She loves to make people laugh. Getting or giving a giggle goes a long way with her. Add a clap and your golden.

We dance. We sing. We read books. We play Itsy Bitsy Spider. We roll over from front to back and back to front. We suck our fingers, any finger, but it must be upside down to truly enjoy it. Sometimes we even like to combine our paci and finger together for a real good time. So, yes, this is what we do every day. And we love it.

Oh my how she has grown in her 5 months of life. Slow down baby girl! I can't keep up. So, lets take a breather and go see Daddy now!