5 Months

This 5 month photo shoot was a day late and it's being posted a month later than that! Whew, I need to get busy. I didn't get one full smile out of him for any of these but at least he wasn't crying. What can I say about this month. I have tried and TRIED to work out a nap schedule and well to be completely honest I don't see results. This has probably been the boys most fussy month so far. 

The one thing I thought I had on the boy was night time, Davie has been sleeping 6-10 hours a night since about three months and the last week before he turned 5 months he started waking up at 3 and 4 am consistently. That has been frustrating to state the obvious. David is preoccupied with whether or not Davie is getting enough food and he is always asking if Davie is hungry. So much so that I kept feeling guilty when I would make Davie wait until 6 am to feed him. Until one day I found a quote that said "If every time you woke up your favorite person came to you and gave you your favorite treat, how motivated would you be to stay asleep?" Can I just say that I love that quote! He is a light sleeper and a felonious cat-napper! Seriously the boy almost never sleeps longer than 45 min without some kind of intervention (can you say binky?).  

He slept in his crib all night for the first time this month. This took so long because I didn't want to have to get out of bed and go into the other room to feed him, not because I couldn't bare to have him sleep away from me. Our initial plan was 3 months but having him next to me in our room was so easy! I'd say more about this but shortly after this we went on a trip to Idaho and he slept in a pack'n play again. 

What's over there?

He now rolls over more often, although he doesn't seem to realize what's happening, haha he is kind of like a bug that gets stuck. He has now had rice cereal a couple of times and he is vaguely interested, but  most of the time he either has to be starving or just in the mood to try something new. When he is starving he's ether more motivated to eat or angry that I'm not feeding him the real stuff.

This month Davie has become a toe-head. It started when I buzzed the sides of his head then I buzzed them again because I felt like they looked funny. Last but not least I buzzed the top. I figured we were in denial long enough. His hair started by receding towards the middle and then from the front and then a week after I cut the sides I just decided to buzz it all. I just didn't realize how blonde he was! He looked sooo bald! Apparently all the new hairs that had grown in were blonde and no loner brown. From the back of his head I told David that Davie looked like a light bulb, my poor fuzzy headed baby :)

Chubby baby hand

The Y pool has been a life saver this summer because it wares him out and I get to be in the sun.

Even with all the extra stress this last month has brought every time I look at him I just want to hold him, love him and kiss him. I told David the other day that this boy has me in "puddle" mode, it only takes two seconds after he frustrates me then he looks at me and smiles and I melt. Puddle.