{ 5 Months }

Peanut is officially 5 months old! He is rapidly gaining weight (he's still small, don't get me wrong) and, as of a week ago, is up to 13lbs. 5oz,  meaning he's gained about a pound and a half in two weeks time. He's also up to 25inches. He's making up for all that time he was starving. Looks like I'm an insufficient producer. I find that very sad. It's sad to fail at something so critical to your baby's health and to not really have any way of fixing it. At least I did what I could. So now we get to start forking out the big bucks for formula supplements and we're starting more solid foods. We tried out stage one apples this week. Next up bananas! Spoon feeding is so time consuming. It's a lot of fun though. This was fun to do too:

OTHER FUN FACTS:
*Not one, but two teeth have broken through!

*He enjoys sucking on his toes whenever he can.

*He attended his first Itsy Bitsy Yoga session on Friday.
He made it a whole fifteen minutes before we had a melt down. He probably thought, "Mom this is ridiculous," and it was, but it was free and sounded fun. We said lots of silly chants while "helping the baby's digestion" in a variety of yoga-ish ways.

*Eating is an aerobic event for this little boy.
He wiggles his arms everywhere (it looks like he's swimming the crawl stroke with one arm while he's nursing or taking a bottle) and he's constantly kicking his feet. He's always trying his best to throw off the nursing cover when we're in public.

*He's reaching for everything.
Dinner plates, hanging toys, watermelons...one day after we got back from the grocery store I put him in the Bumbo to put the groceries away and left the watermelon on the floor next to him. It kept him occupied for at least fifteen or twenty minutes.

*He's talking so much.
He'll wake up and just sit there in his bed cooing and babbling to himself. He also loves to make this high pitched scream when he's happy. It makes me think of a bird...a very loud bird.


*He's becoming quite the excellent pooper with all this extra food.

This is what he did to me on the return trip as we're standing in airport security waiting for my shoes and the diaper bag to come through the scanner. I looked down when I felt something warm on my stomach and saw a fountain of yellow-brown mush coming out the sides of his diaper. Gross! Oh and the bathroom was on the other side of the tram so everyone coming through security got to see the mess.

*He is starting to move like an inch worm. He scoots from one side of his crib to the other, ending up like this, the opposite side.