Watch Me Grow: Five Months

How can it be that five months have passed??!  Cal is growing and changing with each day.  What fun we are having watching his little personality grow.

Eating:  You continue to nurse and that is going well.  You typically eat five times during the day, every 3-4 hours.  You have had a few more bottles and are taking 4+ oz.  You aren't spitting up as much which is nice!  We tried rice cereal this month but you don't seem very interested.  We will continue that and hopefully soon you'll catch on and we can move on to more exciting foods.

Sleeping:  This has been a challenging month for sleep, daytime sleep that is.  You sleep from 9:00ish at night until 7:00ish in the morning, but you do "wake" for your pacifier 2-3 times a night.  We moved you into your crib in the big boys' room this month and that has gone well too.  You are still swaddled and I know we need to take you out but I'm dreading it for some reason.  You are getting so used to falling asleep in your carseat during the day that you really struggle with napping in your crib.  You typically take an hour nap in the morning (in your carseat but sometimes in your crib) from 9:00-10:00.  The afternoon is a little more challenging.  If we run errands and you're in your carseat you will take a good 2 hour nap.  If we are home, forget about it!  You will sleep for 30-45 minutes and then cry.  You usually need another short nap around 5:00 or so (depending on how you slept earlier in the day).  We are holding you a lot between 7:00-9:00 pm because sometimes you sleep and sometimes you don't, but usually by 9:00 you are down for the night.  I think its time to get a little more strict on your sleeping times and let you cry a little bit.  We'll see how well mommy does with that over the next month.  {For some reason its very hard for me to let you cry!}

Milestones:  You have learned so much this month.  You rolled from your tummy to your back at the beginning of March, and two weeks later you rolled from your back to your tummy.  You aren't super motivated to roll though, so I don't see you do it that often.

You can lay on your tummy and rotate a full 360 degrees.

You can bring both hands to your mouth and chew on whatever you have.  You are a drooler!

You like to be up and looking around rather than laying down.  We got out the jumper and you seem to like that.

We love you so much Cal!  It's so fun to see you interact more with us and develop your own little personality.  You're such a sweet boy!