Cason–Five months!

-Still in size 2 Pampers Swaddlers, but they are getting a little snug!

-The last time we were at the doctor (about a week ago) he weighed 16 lbs even.

-Baby loves to EAT. So far we’ve tried rice cereal (not a fan), oatmeal cereal (LURVES), green beans (liked until he tried other foods and now he HATES them….like will spit them out all over you if you try to give them to him!) butternut squash (absolute fav!), peaches (likes okay) and apples (likes okay). My Dad is making most of his baby food!

-He doesn’t really care for the paci anymore. Occasionally he will take it to fall asleep, but more often he doesn’t want it.

-I wish those little teeth would pop on through!! It seems like he’s been teething forever! His hands are constantly in his mouth. Anything he can get his hands on goes straight to his mouth. And oh the DROOL! But still no toofies.

-Right now he is taking 5-7 oz of formula about every 2-4 hours during the day (hubba hubba) and eats oatmeal for breakfast, a jar of something at lunch and a jar of something at supper. He usually will not finish an entire jar of baby food, but he probably will if it’s squash!

-He is early to bed and early to rise, just like his Mommy! He is ready for bed by 6:30pm and wakes around 5:30am. He is sleeping through the niiiiiiiiiight! We’ve had another ear infection and a cold so he’s been waking some with that, but when he’s well, he sleeps!

-BUT he only will stay asleep by himself if it’s dark outside. Where we live, it doesn’t get dark until about 7:30pm. You can try to lay him down all you want, but unless it’s dark, he will wake up. And on the weekends, you can forget about daytime naps unless you hold him. But I’m not complaining because I love taking naps with him!

-He has been rolling from his front to back for a while now, but just yesterday morning when I went to his room to get him, he was on his belly! And he woke up several times last night crying because he rolled over to his belly and couldn’t figure out how to roll back!

-We are in 6 month clothing now and they fit perfectly.

-He has also started reaching for and grabbing toys that we hand him!

Likes: His big brother. If Noah even looks at him, he laughs and smiles! Chewing on everything, Mommy signing “The Circle of Life” in my best African voice, splashing water out of the bathtub, watching cartoons with his brother, eating, sleeping, kicking around on the floor, rolling across the floor, Daddy rocking him to sleep

Dislikes: changing clothes (particularly pulling something over his head), not being able to hold onto something or making something work the way he wants, being left alone for more than several minutes

Cason is growing and changing so fast! Brad and I were just talking the other day about how we can’t even remember what having only one child was like. He completes our family so well!