Will - 5 months

Happy 5 Months Old Will!

Stats:
Height - 26.5 inches
Weight - 16 lbs

His personality is coming out more and more each day. He is a mover too - always on the go. This made picture time interesting since he decided he wanted to peel off his sticker and eat it.

Will tried his first food at 4 and 1/2 months. Rice cereal - yummy! We got the video camera out, got all prepared, and learned that Will + spoon = mouth closed, lips sealed! Really?!?! This is coming from the kid that has his mouth open to everything! I was afraid he didn't like the cereal so I just put it in his bottle and he seemed to have no problem with that. I tried just milk in the spoon and got the same closed mouth reaction, so it is definitely a spoon issue rather than the actual contents. I try to give him the spoon to play with each day so he can hopefully get used to it. Until he gets good at the rice cereal, we aren't moving forward with any other foods. He can hold his bottle though, so we are making some progress.

Will seems to be recognizing the people that he sees more often. There is no greater feeling than seeing that sweet baby grin when he see you coming!

Will got to visit with his great-grandparents Mama and Poppa. He first met them when he was just a few days old, so this time they really were able to enjoy him. In November, Will is going to finally meet his other great-grandmother.

He is starting to scoot just a little. His object of desire is usually Maggie. He will scoot a couple of feet towards her, and right when he gets to her she usually gets up and moves. Poor Will, he has to start all over. Once he figures out how to get up on his knees he will be off and crawling. I am pretty sure that he will never walk...he is just going to start running! He scoots all over his crib throughout the night, but usually ends up in a corner with his bottom sticking up in the air.
Speaking of his crib, Mama was given a project to find a way to attach his bumpers to his bed so that he couldn't pull them off. Gram had previously tried velcro, but he would just pull that right apart. Mama sewed on buttons, but he could snap those apart within minutes. He really enjoys this and thinks it is a game. We could go check on him thinking he was asleep when he was finally quiet, and this is what we would see. I didn't really worry about him suffocating from the bumpers, but he would eventually get stuck in the slats and start screaming when he got an arm or leg caught and couldn't move. (The American Academy of Pediatrics actually recommends that bumpers not be put in cribs at all anymore. I think this is insane! I really think he could break an arm trying to twist and get unstuck.) Gram finally fixed the problem! She got some rope type material and sewed it on to each piece and then we tied it around the crib slats. Those bumpers aren't going anywhere now!

His new toy this month was the Johnny Jump-Up. He doesn't do much bouncing in it yet, but he likes to just spin around in circles and check everything out.

As I say every month, this one has been better than before. Every day is a new adventure or new discovery. There is nothing like seeing the world through the eyes of a baby!