Emily and Kolby: Five Months Old

*This post is way late. I wrote it forever ago but never got around to taking/editing the pics. Whoops.*

Someone please tell me how it’s possible that my baby is now five months old? Heavens I can’t even imagine what will become of me next month, when I’m forced to acknowledge that half a year has passed.

You are probably tired of my wailing about how fast time is passing but you might as well just go ahead and get used to it :)

Anyway, what’s new with our five month old? Nothing and everything at the same time. He’s still the happiest and easiest baby ever (seriously). I keep thinking it’s just a great phase he’s in, but he’s still going strong with it so maybe it really is just his nature? That would be a major score. This month his physical growth hasn’t been too striking but his development has been in full swing. Most notably is how he grabs on to EVERYTHING. And faster than you ever thought possible. He’s gotten a lot more coordinated with his hands. Also, he is incredibly vocal. He doesn’t really have a belly laugh, but he laughs/squeals quite a bit and has a happy cooing sound that he makes along with his smile. He also has a happy scream that I think he makes because he likes the way it feels in his throat.

He is close to sitting up on his own. He can do it for almost a minute at a time, so I know it won’t be long. There is something so sweet and funny about a baby tipping over to me, so I’m in no hurry. He doesn’t roll over yet but he never really tries to and I don’t care to make him try because I’m not afraid that he’ll be leaving for college and still not know how to roll over. He’ll do it when he’s good and ready.

One big thing we’ve noticed this month is how much this kid has become a daddy’s boy. He LOVES his dad. It makes me think back to when I was pregnant and Beckett would always move like crazy when he heard Kolby’s voice. Now, if Kolby opens his mouth anywhere in the house Beckett stops whatever he is doing to try and find where he is. If Kolby is in another room I’ll have him come in or I’ll take Beckett to him because it gets really sad in a hurry—he never gives up. When he finds him he just looks at him and waits for him to look his way and then slowly flashes a big gummy grin. You can’t even imagine what it does to Kolby.

If you think I’m struggling with Beckett growing up, you should hear from Kolby. The other day he said, “If I could choose between Beckett being a normal child or staying this age forever, I’d really have to think about it.” Ha! The thing that gets him lately is how much Beckett shows that he loves him. Kolby seems to be convinced that there won’t be another time where Beckett will show his love like he does now. Right now all Beckett wants to do with Kolby is smile at him, coo at him, be carried around by him, and just be with him. No rebelling, no choosing friends or video games instead, no wanting anything in return—just pure unadulterated affection.

For the sake of documenting details for myself, Beckett started taking a longer morning nap this month—from about 8-10am. He usually takes a quick nap mid-day and another long nap in the late afternoon. This is the first time we’ve attempted to structure his nap schedule a little bit, and it’s going pretty well. He eats six times during the day and wakes up in the middle of the night—usually around 3am—to eat again. He usually wakes up one other time as well and just wants to be rocked back to sleep. So no, he’s not sleeping through the night. He did sleep through the night three times this month (he hasn’t done that since he was two months old, when he also did it a few random times), from about 10-5:30. We’ve just moved his bedtime up to 9:00, which I think is still pretty late, and we’re planning to work with him on sleeping through the night in a few weeks, then hopefully move his bedtime up again to closer to 8. Overall his sleep has come a long way, although when I hear of babies his age sleeping from 7-7 it completely blows my mind!

What we did this month:

-Beckett was baptized

-We ate out successfully several times

-First family trip to the neighborhood library

-Hung a swing for Beckett from a tree in our front yard and started using it

-Went to several Rangers games

-Played on a blanket in the back yard a lot

Beckett’s favorite things:

-Grabbing hair, shirts, necklaces, food, everything

-Reaching out to pet Maya when she walks by

-Going for family walks in his carrier and listening to the Rangers’ game

-His little fox stuffed animal