Benton Update: 5 Months

It's time for another monthly update! It feels like we just sat down to write Benton's 4 month update. Sweet boy is growing so fast!!!

Some facts from Benton's fifth month of life:

-Wearing 6-12 month clothes. He is also starting to fit into some 12 month clothes (mainly t-shirts and pants/jeans).

-Mainly wearing cloth diapers on the middle snap. In disposables, he is wearing a size 3 diaper.

-Eating 5 times per day for about 15 minutes. When it is more convenient, he has a bottle with 6 ounces. We also recently added 1 tablespoon of solids to one meal per day. We do think it is about time to move to eating 4 times per day though!!!

-Still sleeping great! We put him down between 8-8:30pm and we wake him up at 7am. He is still taking a nap after every feeding.

-Loving the eat/play/sleep routine. Some of his favorite awake time activities are jumping in the jumper, chewing on everything (especially his hands), and giggling. :)

Random things we don't want to forget:

-He has been rolling over multiple times a night. He wakes up mad and ready to be flipped back over. We joke that we are "baby spatulas."

-We haven't actually seen Benton roll over (other than a time or two on the video monitor). When he is having tummy time or laying on his back during wake time, he just lays and makes no attempt to roll over. The minute we put him in his crib, he starts trying to roll over. Silly guy.

-Sickness hit our house again. This time, Benton was sick enough that we had to go the Pediatrician. He started Amoxicillin, which quickly cleared up his URI and gave him a raging diaper rash in return. Thank you very much.

-We started feeding him solids at the beginning of the month. The first thing we tried was oatmeal. Now, we are feeding him 1 tablespoon of vegetables once a day. He has tried peas, green beans, and butternut squash...of course, he loves all of them!

-He enjoys walks and sniffing the wind. Yes, sniffing the wind. :) No wonder he has horrible allergies.

-He LOVES his jumperoo!

-We think that he will be sitting up unassisted soon. We'll see...

-Benton is smiling, giggling, and "talking" up a storm. We do think he is somewhat shy though, as he really only does it for us or others he is very comfortable with.

-Watch out ladies, Ben is a kissing machine. Plant a few on him and he will turn right back to you and give you an open mouth kiss. Awesome.

Umm, how beautiful are his eyes?! We can't believe that his next update will be his 6 month update...he's almost been with us a year! Wow!