5 months!

Since it's been a full MONTH since I posted last, I figured I better get back on it! :)

Life with a 5 month old...how come nobody told me that a 5 month old who can't crawl/walk/run is so busy?! We will lay him down on his play mat, and he'll lay on his back for anywhere from 5 seconds-a minute, before he's up on his tummy trying to move! He eventually gets frustrated when he can't get anywhere, and then I think he forgets that he can roll back over, so he just gets mad. He LOVES to play his "piano." Mom and Dad gave him a Fisher Price Step N Play Piano for Christmas and he spends quite a bit of time in there! He loves to sing along with it and just gets so excited when we put him in it. He is also finally able to reach the floor in his bouncer and is starting to get the hang of bouncing! He just always has to be doing something or he gets bored--oh, and he talks STEADY! I had to ask him the other day if he was going to stop to breathe, and he just smiled at me and kept on talking. :)

We've also started baby food! Right now he just gets one tub of food each day, but he really loves it! He is unsure about the first bite, but then once he swallows it, it's game on and he sits with his mouth wide open ready for more! So far the only food he's turned his head away from is pears, and the next day we tried them again and he gobbled up the whole thing!

One of his new favorite things to do is "feel" things. As soon as you pick him up, or when he rolls over, he's always feeling things with his little fingers. His personality is also really starting to show! He's such a fun little guy and is typically always happy unless he's hungry or tired. He's such a flirt, too! There's 2 little girls at his daycare and he just watches them and smiles and talks to them all day--I witnessed it the other day when I went to pick him up, and he's quite the Casanova! :) He started a new daycare at the end of January and he's loving it! It's super close to home and work, so it's very convenient. They have a set schedule of activities every day and they are constantly learning something new!

He's still such a good sleeper, and is on a really good schedule! His days are pretty much like this--to a T:

7:30--wake up or get woken up to get ready for daycare
8:00ish--bottle
9:30ish--1 hour nap
Noon--bottle
2 1/2-3 hour afternoon nap
4:00--bottle
5:30ish--45 minute nap
8:15ish--bottle
8:30ish--down for the night!

It's really awesome to see how predictable this is! The weekends throw us off a little if we're traveling or have things going on, but we still make it work! :)

We're really working on sitting up unassisted. He's getting better at it! He just finds his feet so fascinating that when he does sit up, all he wants to do is lean forward to play with his feet and try get them in his mouth....which leads to tipping over! He also does good until he gets excited and whips his head around to see what his "sister" is doing. He definitely LOVES watching Jersey and she is usually so excited to go into his room in the morning to see him! They're going to be such good buds :)

Well, that's about all we've been up to! We'll have his 6 month appointment in a couple weeks and I can't wait to see how much he's grown! :)