5 Months

Can you believe it? Josh is 5 months old. Seems like just yesterday.... It is a little sad to me that he's not a "tiny baby" anymore. I saw a wee little baby the other day in the grocery store and it made me think how long ago it was that Josh was so tiny. Those were hard times though: feeding him constantly, crying for hours on end for no reason, getting NO sleep whatsoever. I'm glad he's getting older, growing, becoming more self-sufficient. Okay, we're a while from self-sufficient... But he is entertaining himself more lately. He's very interested in himself. He spends a lot of time checking out his hand, his feet, himself in a mirror (though the books tell me that he cannot recognize that he's looking at himself).


We took these pics on Wednesday (4/9/08) Josh's five-month b-day before his bath. Notice in the one where I'm holding him (gotta love the baby bottom!!) how cottage-cheesy his butt is!!

Sleep update! Josh is doing well with his 7pm bedtime. I feel like he anticipates it and likes knowing that at 7pm he'll go to sleep. He was doing well, sleeping until 2am or 3am and nursing then going back to bed until 6am-ish. For the most part, he still is doing okay. A couple nights this week he decided to wake up a few extra times, but not because he was hungry or anything, he just wanted to be awake. I popped his pacifier back in his mouth and he went back to sleep. I hope to get him back on track to only getting up a couple of times to nurse and then right back to sleep.

This weekend Josh and I are going to meet Auntie Bethany in Freeport to have dinner. She hasn't seen Josh since he was 6 weeks old so he's going to look so different! We also have some major cleaning to do. Our house gets sooooo messy! Good news is that's I'm only half-way through my "day off" and I've done two loads of laundry and swept the floors, plus done a little "work" that had to be done.