All About Baby

I have a friend who posts monthly on her child's progress. It's a great way to keep track and let friends and family know... I just can't keep up with Caleb!

Let's see.....

He's 5 months 10 days old. He:

• recognizes his bottle and reaches out for it. He'll hold onto it but can't really hold it up himself.
• sits up but tends to fall over if unsupported on one side.
  
• grabs his feet.
• eats 7 oz. 6 times a day... We need to start trying rice cereal again.
  
• sleeps 8 hours straight at night.
• laughs ALL THE TIME. Especially when I sing in silly voices.
• Grabs everything! He's obsessed with my longer hair. The first (and only) time we've ever heard his angry cry - the "why-did-u-take-away-my-toy-give-it-BACK" cry - was when he had a grip on my hair and I took it away from him. The only way to get him to calm down was to give it back! Haha! So I just sat there holding him while he held onto me! Craziness!
• talks a LOT. He'll wake up talking. He talks until he burps. He'll talk and sing and growl, too! I'm glad he's moved on from his shrieking baby phase when we started calling him a Pterodactyl! (and who knew that dinosaur had a silent "P" in it's name?)
• smiles bashfully and turns his head into my shoulder. He does this a lot around girl. Sucha flirt.
  
• learns from his daycare buddies. An 8 month old infant blows raspberries, Caleb *attempts* to blow raspberries. An 11 month old twirls around in the Johnny Jump-Up, Caleb spins on one foot. I don't know if I should encourage this behavior (copying what his friends do in HIGHSCHOOL won't be cool) but it's so cute now.
  
• reaches out and touches my face. It's sooooo stinkin' precious. I tend to groom him like a mama monkey (picking at his hair, ears, nose) and he'll grab right back. :P
  
• enjoys toys more. Not surprisingly, he loves the toys my mom gives him. My dog Cohan always favored her toys, too. She just has the magic touch. He particularly likes a Geico gecko, an alien from Ikea, and Cohan's tail. Hehe.
  
• loves his red car walker (another Grandma gift) and bounces up and down in it more than he walks around (since we have carpet). But it lights up and makes noises when you hit different things and, when he hits the accelerator and it goes "vroom vroom", he goes B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
• weighs at least 16 lbs. That's how much he weighed at his 4 month dr.'s visit but, man, he's gotta be heavier than that now!
• has lighter hair now... I can def tell that it's getting blonder.
  
• wears pants a lot more now than just onesies or onesies with feet (so cute) but it's so tough because the boy has SUPER LONG LEGS!
  
• rolls over and pushes himself up a bit when given Tummy Time. He wants to crawl and he'll push with all his might with his STRONG legs but tends to push his arms back next to his body like a seal so he doesn't go anywhere. :P We need to work on that arm strength.
  
• is starting to suck his thumb more than sticking his whole fist in his mouth but he still can't decide what he likes better.
• holds his hands together and it is SO cute! But he's been doing that almost since birth.
• sleeps on his side sometimes. That just seems crazy to me! He's always slept on his back, usually swaddled right, but I've caught him a few times turned halfway over, just curled up the way Brett and I do to sleep. Is that normal?
• enjoys all kinds of textures, even paint! And he didn't try to put it in his mouth! He made his first creation with me a week ago and I 'bout cried.
  
• flew in a plane and didn't freak out.
  
• skypes with the grandparents in Roanoke, VA.
• is a trooper when it comes to big shopping trips or long car rides.
  
• drools like crazy and chews on everything... where are these teeth already?!?
• adores music.
• still has a bad mucus-y cough when he wakes up. :( Breaks your heart

I'm sure I am leaving stuff out and I cannot tell you exactly when he started to do everything but I hear my boy talking to himself now, waking up from a nap, so I'm going to go. :)