I am five months old!

Wow! 5 months! I can hardly believe it has already been 5 months since David has arrived! Seems like yesterday we were going back and forth to the hospital awaiting his release. He is finally sleeping better. We have been following this 90 minute sleep cycle and it is working like a charm. He is actually sleeping longer for naps and actually TAKING them! We also are able to put him down while awake and he is going to sleep on his own. He sometimes will cry but it hasn't been longer than 5 minutes! A break through! Let's see what else? He is almost holding his bottle on his own! It is very cute. He definitely knows his bottle and goes to grab for it and pulls it in.
And his hair seems like it is coming in more! It is quite light and it is very puffy and soft!
We are very close to putting him in bath seat for he is growing out of his little tub!
We are continuing solids and he has now tried sweet potatoes, carrots, peaches, apricots,prunes and a little juice.
he is pretty much wearing size 6-9 months now!!!!!

he LOVES absolutely loves his bouncer! He gets in that thing and bounces like crazy.. makes himself puke! Sometimes he will be in there for a good 20 minutes. Then I can run around and pick up the house!


More to come!

Every day there is something new!

Ok so I would just like to start off by saying D is definitely advanced! Brilliant i must say!! :) His new trick that he is now doing on a consistent basis is..... he goes to grab for our hands to pull him up to a standing position. Aaron has been home this week and i have to admit he taught him this. He is reaching for EVERYTHING now. Absolutley everything. He LOVES the phone! This morning he was actually sitting on his own..... ok i propped him up a little bit... but he actually sat there! didn't fall over for a bit of time!!! He was on his mat reaching for his little buddies that hang down. I think he was reaching for the monkey this time. :)
He loves the Xmas tree, just stares at the lights! He is just like his mommy! Loves sparkly things!!
I am so excited to have him here and this is going to be such a wonderful Christmas. He is healthy and happy and getting more and more amazing with each day. i think he has made me tear up on a daily basis..... he is growing up so fast!

Photos

herre are some more photos since the slideshow feature isn't working!


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Finally!

I know I know he is 20 weeks today and I finally have gotten it together to get this blog out! I attempted on a couple of occasions, but it just wasn't working out! He is slumbering at the moment. I think( fingers crossed) that he MAY just start settling into taking naps longer than 20 minutes at a time. But again I said MAY!

He is a total mover! He manages to scoot himself in the top corner of his crib no matter how far back we put him! So crawling??? It will be early I predict! He started officially rolling over Halloween. I was out trick or treating with the girls and I get a VM from Aaron saying David had some news for me. I knew IMMEDIATELY what that meant. He had been so close rocking back and forth and with assistance been doing it..... so I just knew. Of course it brought tears to my eyes since I missed it. But i was happy to know Aaron was able to actually get a first for once. Although he was with me when David had his first spontaneous laugh! That was so adorable.... again i cried! we were at breakfast with Emily and i was singing "take me on a trip I want to go someday....." and he started totally cracking up! My heart just melt.
David hardly likes to be on his back anymore... we put him down BOOP there he goes and rolls over! In the crib same thing always on his tummy now! He sometimes sleeps on his sides and even on his tummy. I guess it is OK now. Must be a nice relief. Maybe that is why is actually sleeping more now??? HMMMMMM!!!

I will have to back date some of his milestones since i am a bit behind.

But things are going well I would have to say. He has been sleeping through the night since he was about 9 weeks old. After the accident he fell out of his pattern, then he got his first cold two weeks ago! Luckily it didn't last too long, but it took awhile for him to feel 100% again. We have had close to 5 days now where he hasn't woken up at 3!

At his 4 month Check up he weighed in at 16 pounds and 23 inches! BIG boy no wonder my back is through!!!!! Doc said it was cool to start him on small amounts of food! That has been fun.... of course it is more him learning how to eat than actual consumption. He has tried pears, apricots and sweet potatoes. he has eaten the most of sweet potatoes! He is very strong and sits mainly on his own and bears lots of weight on his legs. He is just so amazing!

We went to his neosurgery follow up apt on Monday and it seems like everything is fine. We have to go back one more time in February, but it looks like he will have no future issues! thank god! We just couldn't take any more! And neither can he! he is one strong little boy.

My little D!

More to come.....