5 Month Stats:
Height: 28 in. (95th Percentile)
Weight: 17 lbs. (75th Percentile)
At 5 Months:
- Reed has four teeth and they are all on the bottom. This lends itself to a pretty funny story in the fact that I was completely expecting his next two teeth to arrive on top that I completely missed the arrival of two new teeth on the bottom. Chris had to point them out. Bad Mommy!
- He sits up very, very well. He has even started straightening his back and sitting up like a big boy. He will be sitting without me sitting around him to catch him soon enough.
- He has started a new phase of making the most pitiful faces at people that aren't me or Chris and then screaming bloody murder. Hopefully this phase will pass very quickly. I want him to be a social butterfly.
- He is eating two meals of solid foods per day in addition to his four bottles. As of today, he has tried green beans, peas, sweet potatoes and carrots. He seems to like all of them, although he probably favors the orange vegetables the most. He gets one meal of baby cereal around lunchtime and then a vegetable for dinner. Next, we will start trying fruits and hope that he doesn't refuse to eat vegetables once he gets a taste of the sweet stuff.
- Reed is once again sleeping through the night. Thank goodness! With Chris starting work, I wasn't sure how I was going to make it getting up every 20 to 40 minutes by myself. Thankfully, Reed knew when the time was right to start sleeping through the night again.
- It is time to switch into 6-12 month or 9 month clothes. The boy is so long!
- He is wearing a size 3 diaper.
- Just yesterday he decided that he would blow his food all over me. He has gone from saying "boom, boom, boom" to actually blowing bubbles instead. I put him in his bed for a nap yesterday and the sheet was soaking wet after only a few minutes of him spitting everywhere. Silly boy!
- In addition to the blowing, he is also crazy about grunting. It is hilarious! I assume we could probably call this his main form of communication at this point in time.
- He has graduated from the bumbo to a booster seat. The booster seat is working so much better for him than the bumbo ever did. He is finally sitting up straight and enjoying his meals. With the bumbo, he would continuously lean to one side or the other, hardly ever sitting straight up.
- He has fully embraced sleeping on his stomach. He loves it. Most nights he sleeps with his butt straight up in the air but others he sleeps flat on his stomach with his hands stuck underneath his tummy. I imagine that his little hands are probably asleep when he wakes up like this.
Enjoy Reed's 5 month pics below! He's getting so big!
5 Months Old!
He had his hands in his mouth for the majority of the mini-photoshoot. It was like it was the first time he knew he had hands.
He pretty much just attacked Tadbit the frog.
This was just before he leaned farther over and tried to pull the elephant to him.
Just doing a little bit of screaming (communicating, lol!).
He now has a permanent stream of drool running from his mouth.
An example of the bubbles I mentioned above.
He never fails to give me this pose every month.
Sweet Boy!
Getting a little bit tired.....
And now he's had enough!
