I know I say this every time but I just can’t believe my sweet little guy is 5 months old! Could it have been 5 whole months ago that we were meeting him for the first time?

I suppose I also always tell you how much I love him, but I really do…I manage to love and enjoy him more each day, if you can believe it. This is a really fun age* because not only is he entertaining, he’s getting easier to care for, which is a nice combination.

He loves to put anything near him into his mouth, and now that his hand-eye coordination is really great, he snags things up in a heartbeat. My fork, a handful of food from my plate, a piece of paper, anything really…and SHOVES them into his mouth right away. He has chewed on my face, Josh’s nose (that was a funny one!), anyone’s clothes, a Godiva bag…I could go on.

After months of drooling and hand-chewing, I think I can feel a tooth poking up from his bottom jaw. He loves to crinkle up paper and sing very loudly to it while he chews on it. It’s very funny. He’s generally very loud. He shrieks and squeals while he’s playing, and sings himself to sleep with a loud, receptive sound that I call “the sleep song.” He is still making raspberries and humming sounds, but continues to add sounds to his repertoire daily. 

He’s a very squirmy baby! We call him the squirmy worm. He’s extremely physical and will climb all over me as though I were a jungle gym. When he’s on the floor, he scoots sideways and moves all over the place. It’s actually kind of scary! He can roll from front to back, and almost from back to front. In fact, I’m sure he could do it, but he doesn’t know he can, and that’s fine with me. The more mobile he becomes the more work I have!   He is very strong. He can hold himself upright in a sitting position, but can’t balance like that, so he’s not sitting up quite yet (again, fine by me!). He grabs his feet and puts them up on everything. He wraps them around the bars of the play gym and sticks them out of his car seat. When he gets excited, he straightens his arms and legs and it cracks us all up. He’ll straighten his little legs and make a serious face and then let out a loud squeal as though he was working up to it for a while. 

He’s facing forward in his stroller without the car seat now, as you’ve probably noticed in pictures. It’s really different for me, as I can’t see him, but he’s so happy to see the world around him. He likes the stroller a lot more this way!

We’re still baby carrying most of the time, and loving it. It’s his favorite place to fall asleep. He still fights naps, and I try whatever tricks I have to sneak them in for my own good and his.

We are one month away from solid foods, which is exciting, and I have been making some baby food to prepare. I do worry he’ll be actually crawling soon, as he can move quite a lot in an army crawl fashion. He has the cutest laugh and nothing makes me happier than to hear it. He loves to smile at anyone who comes near, and has become quite popular at Josh’s bike races. 🙂

Every day is a gift. I see him grow and learn each day. He reaches for me now, which is so beautiful for me.