5 Months

After the mad rush of the holidays, our little guy turned 5 months! It boggles my mind to look back on the little baby that he was just a few short months ago. The pictures that we have hanging in his room are from the hospital-- that 7lb. 13oz. little baby-- I don't even know him anymore. My Levi today is HUGE! He has so much personality and is such a joy to be around and I am so lucky to be his Mommy.

Even though he is constantly smiling, all I could get on camera was his signature smirk.

My growing boy and his serious face.

The thing he does best: Chew. On. Everything.

Our Levi went to the Dr last week for a couple more shots and a quick check up. He's weighing in at 18lbs. 2oz. and they didn't check his height again. He's starting to wear 12 month clothes and this week we had to pull out the 18 month jammies. (They're cut a little thin through the thighs and, let's be honest, that he IS my child!) 

He is getting too heavy for me to carrying him around in his infant seat so he hangs on my hip or he goes in the stroller if we're out and about. He did get his big boy car seat for Christmas and we're about ready to transition him into it. He enjoys riding in the stroller without his infant seat because he can see more and talk to things as we walk by. 

He's rolling all over the place and starting to use that as a means to get where he wants to be. He's trying so hard to crawl and we think it might be any day now that he figures it out. He is playing with his toys from Christmas and it is so fun to watch his interest in all things musical. He doesn't have any teeth yet but he constantly has something in his mouth and drool all over his face and he loves his "Sophie the Giraffe" (thanks Stephanie!). 

Because of the reflux we started him on some solid foods before we went home for Christmas and he is loving it! We started with rice cereal, which is tolerated, but now we've added apples, sweet potatoes, squash and bananas. So far apples win (big time) and bananas loose (gag inducing) and we get lots of laughs as he learns how to eat and we learn how to feed him without getting so messy he needs a bath afterwards. 

And since I posted last week that he was sleeping so well it ended that very day. For the past week we've been up way too many times at night and the poor guy just seems miserable. We're thinking it's still his reflux so we're working to try to get back on top of it again. I'm not sure if it's worse when he never slept through the night or now that we know he can/has but now he isn't? Either way, I'm tired. The funny thing is that he's such a joy to be around that no one believes his late night crying bouts. The church nursery workers are in love with him and tell us how great he is every time we see them and I just keep telling him that it's a good thing he's cute because he has everyone fooled! But he really is a smiley, happy baby and he loves to interact with anyone who gives him a little attention. In fact, he has Dave's little eyebrow wiggle down and he pairs it with his cute little smile-- it kills me every time!

And here's a quick little video of Levi practicing his rolling/crawling/rubbing his forehead in the carpet routine. This was the night we got back from vacation and we were catching up on a little "Sing Off."