5 Months Old

Wyatt turned five months old yesterday and I spent some time during his naps scrapbooking his young life. It was so fun going through the photos from his first few days, not only seeing his tiny little body but also the looks of wonder on Ross' and my face. We didn't know what we were in for.

Now looking back, all three of us have grown leaps and bounds and we can't imagine our family not being a family of three.

In terms of Wyatt's development, here are some of the skills he has picked up over the last five months:

Laughing ... talking (just not in English yet) ... rolling from his tummy to his back ... passing objects from one hand to the other ... reaching for objects ... pushing himself up from the belly position onto his hands ... pulling himself up into the standing position ... finding his pacifier in bed and putting it back into his mouth ... sleeping in his crib full time.


To celebrate the five month mark, we gave Wyatt a bouncy seat that hooks over the doorjamb. While he hasn't quite figured out yet that he can control the bouncing, he seemed to really delight in getting to "stand" on his own and loved to spin around in circles.

He also liked to chew on the side of the seat and by the end of his bouncy seat fun he had made a puddle of drool in the front tray. I even had to change his shirt after that experience.

Speaking of drool, in my previous post I mentioned Wyatt's "fake coughs". Well during some of my reading yesterday I found out that coughing is a common symptom of teething as babies get overwhelmed with the increase in saliva. Well don't I feel like a jerk for calling him a faker?! Sorry son... I just thought you were experimenting with your voice, not drowning in spit.