5 months!

Ace,

Time has gotten away from me! I have not had a chance to write about little you at five months and your sixth month birthday is creeping up on us! Luckily, I keep a journal all and write in it everyday to help me remember.

Your fifth month was quite an adventure! It included your very first Halloween (you were a duck), a visit from your Grandma Sharon, two Citadel football games, the Rock and Roll marathon in our neighborhood, the suprise arrival of Aunt Biz, a bad upper respitatory infection and the arrival of not one but TWO teeth!! You are are incredibly social and adaptable and so much enjoy conversation and spending time with people. It makes taking you places so easy and so much fun. At 5 months, you weigh 17lbs, 14oz. This means you have gained ten whole pounds since you were born! You can also roll from your belly to your back.

Your daily routine consists of waking up between 6-6:30. You are all smiles when I pick you up out of your bassinet. At five months, you were still sleeping in the bassinet in mommy and daddy's room. You take a bottle in the morning then hang out in your seat in the bathroom to get some steam to help your never ending conjestion and then play in your jump jump while mom gets ready. We leave for the Y around 8:00 or so and you always fall asleep as soon as we turn into Kensington Park. I carry you and your HEAVY seat into my office where you usually nap for about an hour. Next you head to your classroom for the day. I always come and spend some time with you right after lunch. We head home around 4:30 and just like our way in, you fall asleep as soon as we turn on DeRenne. You sleep in your carrier for about another hour in the evening while I clean your bottles and get chores done. You usually wake up around 6 or so to eat dinner which is cereal and a 6 oz. bottle. Dinner is followed by a bath, some play time, story time and cuddle time with mommy. Then as if you are a timer, you are sleeping by 7:00-7:30 at the very latest. I pick you up for a bottle around 10 but you stay sleeping all the way until the morning!

The night you got your first tooth is one for the record books. We were in Charleston at Dan and Stef's for Citadel homecoming. You were your normal self during the day and ate your dinner like a champ. I put you to bed with no difficulty and you were off to dreamland. When we got you up for your late night bottle, you fussed a lot before laying back down. You were up again at midnight. Daddy and I thought you were hungry so we fed you again. Then at 1:30, you were up again....screaming! Not knowing what was wrong, we tried a smaller bottle to see if that would pacify you. It worked until about 4 when you got up again! We prepared yet another bottle, you drank the whole thing but then just would not calm down. Finally, daddy put you in your seat and drove you around so you could sleep. It wasn't until we got home to Savannah and touched your gums that we realized we had mistaken hunger for a tooth!!

We enjoy your giggles, your smiles and your super sweet personality! You are such a happy baby and we so enjoy being your parents!

Love,

Mom