5 Months

Can't believe how quickly the past 5 months have passed. I am nearly ready to return to work... well not so much 'ready' as 'having to'. Our little boy is turning into a little man. He's growing so much, his hair is really starting to fill in and he's really establishing a personality of his own. I have started weaning him over this past week. I had been giving him a bit of baby rice for the past few weeks, but just started to introduce a baby cereal as well as carrots and sweet potato. I bought a new handheld food processor to make all of his baby foods from scratch. It's all organic and homemade for my wee man! We'll start introducing broccoli, peas, apples, pears, avocado and banana over the next week. Eating baby cereal...

Carrots...

Sweet Potato...

His new sippy cup...

All in all he seems a very content little man. He gets a bit cranky when his routine is changed, but I suppose we all do. We visited the health visitor on his 5 month birthday for a weight, length and overall progress update. He's a whopping 18 lbs and 28 inches. This boy is a little monster. I've had to pop him into his 6-9 month clothes. Even the health visitor had to double check with me that he was only 5 months. She thought he was at least 7 months. She was really pleased with his progress and kept commenting on how advanced she thought he was for his age (both in size and activity). He kept rolling over onto his tummy while I was trying to undress him. And he kept grabbing for her glasses, babbling away and smiling his little head off.

He is able to sit much better and attempts to sit up fully whenever lying down or in his bouncing chair. He never stays on his back for longer than a few seconds. As soon as I put him down he's straight onto his tummy. He's still sleeping through the night for us. We normally get him down between 7-8 pm and he's up around 7 am. He takes a few naps throughout the day and is on a pretty regular feeding schedule- three 9 oz bottles, baby cereal in the morning, rice in the evening and carrot or sweet potato at lunch time. I'm going to start introducing snacks over the next few weeks (apple or pear mid morning or mid afternoon).

We are still going to baby yoga and he's one of the more active babies in the class. As the weather is getting better, I'm going to start doing more outdoor activities. It is over a mile and a half from our house to the bottom of the road leading into our development. We'll be trying to walk up and down every other day. I also changed his pram from infant to baby mode last month. He loves to look out at everyone and everything going on.

Here he is at Botanic Gardens. He really loves smiling for the camera now.

I think he looks like me in this picture. Actually, I think he usually looks like me when he is sleeping. He's so cute!