Mason: Five Months

Our Mason is five months old. No doctors appointment for stats this month! But he is slowly outgrowing his 3-6 month wardrobe and getting some chunk-alicious thighs.

Biggest news for this month: a few days after he turned 4 months he dropped his middle of the night feed and is sleeping through the night! So many praises. He did it for about two weeks straight and then for a week he woke up in the middle of the night screaming because he rolled from his back to his stomach and was too out of it to roll back over. For the last few nights he finally outgrew that stage and is sleeping from 7:30-7 again. He definitely prefers to sleep on his stomach but doesn't like it when he wakes up and realizes he is on his stomach. I don't understand.

He has become a major thumb sucker. He actually started sleeping through the night when he started sucking his thumb, so it's definitely a catch 22. He sucks that thumb HARD when he is falling asleep.

Mason stretched his feeding out to every 4 hours. 7/11/3/7. He gets terribly distracted when Calvin is around and he is trying to eat, so we have had to ban Calvin from the room when Mason eats. Poor Calvin.  Mason takes two 2-2.5 hr naps a day and one cat nap around 5:30 for about 45 minutes. He has tried a few solids the past few weeks; his favorite thing is to gnaw on carrots or celery. He gets hoppin mad if we are eating at the table and he is just watching. He has definitely gotten to the age of wanting to be involved and hates being left out (especially when it involves food).

See him staring down that ice cream cone?! 

Mason is generally happy until he is either bored or tired. If he is fussy at all after he has eaten it is generally because he needs a change of scenery or change of activity. He loves going outside and going on walks in the wrap or carrier and playing in his little play center/gym. He also really likes to join in on the reading fun when I read to Calvin. I think we have ourselves another avid reader.

He also LOVES his brother Calvin. If Calvin is in the room Mason just looks around until he finds him and will just stare at him until Calvin looks at him and Mason just giggles and smiles in return. It's adorable.

A few days after he turned four months he learned how to roll from his stomach to his back. Apparently that is a skill they are supposed to learn first, but this guy has done it backwards. Bad news is he is very talented at rolling from back to stomach and isn't very good (still) at rolling from stomach to back. He has done it a dozen or so times but not on a regular basis.

During his fifth month of life he celebrated his first St. Patricks Day, went to California and the beach for the first time, swung in a swing, graduated to a big boy seat in our stroller, and had his first family visitor (Auntie Layney).