Campbell, we made it to 5 months!
Campbell, you're still amazing me every day. You're such a happy baby, you're always giggling and always have a smile for mama even when you're tired. You're rolling around like a pro - the second we lay you down on your back, you roll to your belly. Daddy tells me daily that he thinks you'll be crawling soon. I tell him I hope not because I want you to slow down with this growing up business! He's right though, a couple times you have gotten up on your knees in crawling position for a couple seconds! Usually you just do the little "combat crawl" with your legs straight out behind you and when you get frustrated you push yourself into a "v" shape trying to move.
You're much better coordinated, holding things with two hands and sometimes you try to hold things with your feet you little monkey! You love to grab the phone and the remote if either are nearby!
You've been a good nighttime sleeper - naps are still a little touch and go. You usually give Gamma a good 2-3 hour nap in the mornings but the others are a little more rough. She loves having you every day and misses you when you're not there on the weekends. I love having 3 day weekends with you every other week.
You've lost all the hair you were born with except for a patch in the front and a patch in the back! It's come in very fine and blonde. Your eyes are still bright blue for now!
You're growing bigger and bigger (what seems like every day)! You're wearing 6-9 month clothes and most outfits you wear only once before they seem too small!
We still swaddle you to go to sleep but usually at nighttime once I lay you down, the arms come out and you roll to your side. Sometimes you'll roll right to your belly too!
We try to call you by your name and less by nick names but it's hard!
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Solids!
One of the new and exciting things is trying solids! At C's 4 month check up the Pedi said we could try solids whenever we wanted. Cautious mama just decided to wait until 5 months for cereal. I read a lot about babies getting constipated with rice cereal and that oatmeal didn't have that effect so needless to say we tried oatmeal!
For several weeks Campbell has shown a readiness for solids, he would stare at us while we ate - watching the fork go from the plate to our mouths and back. I started to feel guilty eating in front of him! Here's a pictorial of the first solid food attempt!
Gimme, gimme, finally! I'm so excited!
Hmm, what do I think about this?
Well, that's not quite what I expected...
Lemme try again...
Do not let too much in...
Blech, I was right! What IS this stuff!?
So it didn't really go as well as I hoped. I mixed it with breastmilk thinking that would make it taste familiar but, no go! We decided to put it away and try again later. We may just skip it all together and wait until 6 months when we try veggies. We'll see. The plan is still to make my own, we'll see about that too!
