Five Months Old

Our little man is five months old!

Alexander continues to be an on the go kid, happy as can be when we are out doing things and around people.  When he's at home, he is definitely more likely to be fussy, with lots of grunting/ whining, and some crying and screaming.

His sleep is inconsistent, with bad nights always before new milestones are met.

I will happily sacrifice my sanity (temporarily) for my little one to meet these milestones.

After two weeks of keeping me up all night, he sat up on his own!

He talks all the time, and uses his eyebrows constantly to let us know what he thinks about things.  I never knew a baby could be so expressive!

He loves school!  I have come in twice in the past week to him sitting in a circle for story time.  My heart melted!  Leaha says he loves watching the older babies move around him.

He rolls front to back and back to front, but not consistently.

He is swaddled under the arms at night, and needs his fuzzy airplane blanket (thanks aunt Heidi!) to self soothe during the night and at nap time.

We have semi-started solids this week.

He loves peanut butter!

He also likes oranges, bananas, and devoured frozen blueberries in the mesh teether.

He is ok with avocados but not oatmeal.

He loves to taste cheese dip when we go out for Mexican!

What a mess!

We love our little boy so much.

We had a great weekend, starting out with the Pirate Poker Run benefiting my school, the Emerald Coast Autism Center.

We had Leaha and Jesse lined up to babysit, but when we saw our nice umbrella set-up on the docks (and how cute he looked as a pirate), we decided to keep him and Zoey with us.  It is one of my favorite family of four days thus far!

The sun wiped our baby buccaneer out!

Zoey was not game for dawning the pirate hat

But she enjoyed getting to stay and be a dock dog.

After our day on the docks, we met up with Scott, Abby, and Karamia for dinner and then they came over after.  It was so fun watching Kara scurry all over the house!  We have a lot of baby-proofing to do before Xander gets that mobile!

We love you, our little growing boy!