5 Months

So, I am a major slacker and didn't take Jackson in for his 4 month checkup until he was 5 months. Oops! So, anyway here are his 5 month stats:

Weight: 14 lbs 5 oz (17th percentile)

Height: 26 inches (61st percentile)


And here are a few things about Jackson:

• He is still an amazingly good baby, but he is starting to be a little more vocal and let his thoughts be heard, whether they are happy or sad.
  
  


• He loves his sister and always has smiles for her, and puts up with quite a bit of smothering and smashing.


• He is always shoving something in his mouth, or at least trying to including: toys, blankets, hands, my hair and face, and anything else he can get his hands on.


• He always has scratches on his face and the top of his head because when he is either getting tired or just waking up he digs into his face or the top of his head and no matter how good I am at cutting his nails, he still ends up scratching himself.


• He is now wearing 3-6 month clothes


• He still wakes up in the night and it seems to be getting worse. It was just once a night, and now it can be up to three times a night much to my dismay.


• He still wears a swaddling blanket at night because if I don't put him in one, he ends up with a ton more scratches all over his head.


• He loves to play pat-a-cake, and almost always laughs like crazy when he plays.


• He has a love/hate relationship with the floor. He likes to be on the floor, but he has learned to roll over from his back to his tummy, and so he tends to get stuck on his tummy which he does not love.
  
  
  and a lot of times he gets wrapped up in his blanket which gets him even more frustrated.

He loves to sit in the bumbo, especially when that means he gets to be where the action is. He likes to sit in it up in the kitchen while Raylee and I eat lunch or while I am making dinner etc.

We recently got out the little einstein activity center. He likes to be in there, but we still have to put a blanket in there with him so he doesn't flop around too much. He especially likes to bounce in it.

And we just gave him rice cereal for the first time right after he turned 5 months. We let Raylee feed him, and I was surprised at how well he did although he got tired of it after like 5 bites and started gagging on it. Now he doesn't really like it at all anymore and spits it out everytime we try and feed him.

I seriously can't believe how big he's getting, but we are loving every minute of it!