5 Month Update

Another month has flown by! Ty is cute, smiley, squawky, squealy, drooly, squishy, roly poly, and just plain perfect! As usual, we can't seem to just get a plain old cute sitting smiley picture of him because the kid NEVER STOPS MOVING, but we got some cute smiles this month. Ty is growing like crazy and doing new things every day! He is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to crawling....he army crawled on Friday (on his elbows and knees) and spends most of his time on the floor on all fours rocking back and forth. He just hasn't quite figured out the next step. When he wants to get to something he gets on all fours, rocks back and forth, and then throws his whole body forward. It's very dramatic! I maintain that the thing that will get him crawling is the cats. He wants them...BAD! They politely sit just out of his reach he goes bonkers trying to get to them. And sometimes he does get to them, but so far they've been pretty tolerant of him. We do a lot of "gentle, Ty....gentle" as we run his hand over their fur. He has pulled a few ears and done some arm flapping on them, but miraculously they haven't reacted! He continues to work hard on his teeth, but nothing has cut yet. You can see the top two through his gums, though. He doesn't seem to be in too much pain from teething, though some days he does seem to be very uncomfortable. He loves his frozen teething rings! He is experimenting with a sippy cup by playing with it and every now again sucking to get some pumped milk. He goes down around 7pm and is up at around 7am with nursing around 1am and 4am....but the 4am feeding usually happens in our bed and continues on and off until he wakes up in the morning. He usually takes three naps each day and continues to be an on-the-go kind of guy. He loves a change of scenery so we usually go to the park every day and supplement that with our play group, the Mommy and Me group through Kaiser, the books and babies program at the library, and the program for 0-6 month old babies at a local gymnastics place. Whew! Re-reading that sounds like we are crazy, but he loves it and if it keeps him from getting bored, than I love it, too! He sits on his own but needs grown up hands close by because after a few minutes he usually wobbles backwards. He's also really close to getting himself into the sit position on his own, but for now he needs help. He continues to do new things with his voice. He has a very sing-songy coo and loves to squeal and make loud noises. He cracks himself up in the car, but I can never tell what he's doing back there! We love watching him grow and can't wait to see what tomorrow brings! Enjoy some cute pictures :)

Gotta love that laugh!