5 Months

Dear Justice,
You turned 5 months old on Easter Sunday! Kind of a cool way to celebrate having 5 full months with you in our lives. That said, to be perfectly honest, I was not celebrating this particular milestone because 5 months just seems so old. And I don't know if its because you're the third child or  because you're so chill and undemanding or what-but I just don't feel like I haven't  gotten quite enough snuggles out of you.

Yup, snuggling you is by far the BEST thing of a lot of my days this month. You brought me a lot of joy in an otherwise very stressful month. This month your cousin Olivet took up the baby-drama torch and she carried it even higher than you did, spending much of the first month of her life in hospital after hospital. Even ending up here in San Antonio! Thankfully the Lord continues to show us how much He loves you sweet babies ( and the rest of us!) and He has done some wonderful prayer-answering which means we got to have a pretty fun photo shoot with Olivet before she went back home ( hopefully for the very last time!). Nothing like a picture with a 1 month old to make you look huge and grown up!

You're thighs continue to be mega squeeze worthy as are your cheeks. You still laugh pretty much any time someone sings to you, or "tosses" you up into the air. This month you graduated into the very same exersaucer that your brother and sister both loved. At first I wasn't sure if you were quite ready for it, you kept getting your arms trapped down in the leg holes-dont ask me how-and then would be sadly resting your chin on the edge of the exersaucer just calmly waiting for someone to come in and rescue you! But now you're a pro and can spin around and play with all the different toys at your whim.  You eye hand coordination has really excelled and your love for chewing on everything you can get your hands on has only increased. Current favorite chewing things are Sophie the Giraffe and plastic rings as well as the little mirrored flower that hangs on your play chair.

This month you did very little day time sleeping. In fact, I started to wonder if we'd some how broken you with all of our day time outings ( honestly it isn't that many, its just we have to leave the house SOMETIME, ya know!?) but I think you were just learning and growing and sure enough by the last week of the month you were back to sleeping like a champ during the day and at night.

Your current ( on a good day) schedule is:

Wake up around 8 and coo in your bed till I finally take pity on you and feed you around 8:30 ( awesome mom award, right here!)

You usually take a 45-1 hr nap around 10 ( sometimes its as short as 15 minutes because this is usually the nap you have to take on the "go")

you eat around 12 and then take another hopefully longer nap around 1pm.

You eat again at 3 and have another nap around 4:30/5 ( depending on how long your other naps last this one gets pushed around a bit) and you wake up and eat around 5:45/6pm...exactly when Mommy is usually sitting down to eat dinner.

You then "go to bed" at 7pm and we wake you up for a "late feeding" around 10 or 11 so that you'll sleep until 5:30 or 6am. This feeding is probably your Daddy's favorite because he gets quality time getting to look at you before we put you back down. You're always uber sleepy ( since we just woke you up and all!) and want to go back to bed, but you're still willing to get lots of smiles and coos if we ask you.

You're pretty much the best, sweetest baby ever and when you actually got legitimately fussy this month I was at a total loss of what to do with you! I had forgotten all my soothing skills because you have just not needed them! hahah!
So thanks for getting out of that particular little season quickly! Also thank you for being such a joy in our lives!

We love you so much!
Mommy