5 Months Brings Rolling and Some Quality Food

The little guy has grown up so much in the last month. He has so many facial expressions and noises. He is growing into such a little boy.

In terms of appearance he has started to slim down… abit. On occasion he actually only has one chin. He has lost of majority of his brown hair, with the exception of the tuff at the base of his neck. His brown hair is now bring replaced with white blond hair, it looks kind of like baby duck down. He continues to have shockingly blue eyes and there doesn’t seem to be any change in that.

This month he has started to roll over, from front to back and back to front. He started off only doing in once of twice in about a week or so but now he has turned pro and he can flip himself quite easily. As you know he sleeps on his stomach but now I never know which side I am going to find him on when I come to get him.

He still isn’t stable sitting up but he is getting better at it. He does love standing and he is pretty sturdy.

Felix and I have been getting a lot more fresh air in the last month. I haven’t been using the stroller very much but I have been using the carrier, it is quite the back strengthening. We have been for a lot of walks since the weather has started to warm up. Felix does not think much of being faced towards me and makes his feelings know but he is quite happy if he is faced outwards. Unfortunately although he is happy in the carrier he doesn’t usually sleep, bah!

Speaking of sleep, Felix has been sleeping through the night for the most part but unlike Amelia, who once she started sleeping through the night never looked back Felix has hiccups in his routine. In the last few weeks he has woken up crying in the night. Jeff and I think it might be his teeth of that he is hungry and ready to start solids.

Felix continues to be a drooling fool with no teeth in sight yet but an increase in the amount of drool and a set of rosy cheeks indicates they are on their way.

Felix is starting to get abit clingy, he gave my mom a run for her money the other week by screaming for about an hour while she was watching him, poor mom. I am not sure if he actually wants me or just wanted some one to rub his back and sing him the “Meatball” Song… Yup that is right that is his fav, I always sang Amelia Hush Little Baby but Felix just screams louder if I sing that but for some reason as soon as I start with “on top of spaghetti” he quiets right down. I am abit worried my son is going to start thinking his name is meatball, it is actually a rather appropriate nickname.

I am confirmed my son is not a shopper, Amelia would never fuss when I took her to the mall, Felix not to much. Every time I take him there is a minor melt down while I am browsing as soon as I pick up the pace though he is a happy camper again.

This isn’t actually official part of month 5 but seeing as I am late with my post I will add it anyway… As I mentioned above Felix has been waking up in the night, we narrowed it down to two possible explanations, teeth or hunger. First we tried giving Felix tempra before bed but that didn’t help so we thought food might be the problem, as such we decided to start Felix on solids this weekend. You would think we were rookie parents with the major lapse in judgment we made… Sat morning we took as break from home fix ups and went down to St. Lawrence market to get some fixin’ for dinner that night and we decided to get some yummy veggie for Felix to test out. We selected some lovely orange and purple carrots, so has anyone noted the problem… purple carrots not so smart…. They are like beats, they were impressively purple once steamed and squished. Oh well it made for an adventure. Anyways Felix seemed quite into the food. He was all about trying to grab the spoon and shove it in his mouth, this was about of an obstacle for us. In sticking with tradition we implemented the feeding hat again, Felix doesn’t have quite the voluminous locks that his sister did but still we figured better safe than sorry. Felix has had two more days of solids now and he really seems to be digging it. It is nice to have one child excited about the food we make 

Friday we headed to Dans and Rubs for a BBQ and drinks with friends, it was a good night. We hosted family dinner on Saturday night, it was chocked full of fresh market yummies. Sunday we went for our yuppie walk in High Park followed by some house tiding and storage room reorganization.

Amelia is doing really well, she is abit makeup and princess obsessed for us at the moment but other than that she is great. Friday we spent the day with Leigh and Ronan and those two had a great time together, they are so cute together.

Okay better go.