Happy 5 Months!

Happy 5 months my little prince! Another month has passed us by. I know I say this every month, but where does time go? Before I know it, you’ll be a year old. I’m pretty excited about this month because we’re going to start introducing pureed foods to you! I hope you’ll like it :)

So here are some of the changes from the past month:

• Showed interest in food by grabbing my banana and tasting it. 
• Started eating a little bit of rice cereal at the end of the month.
• You slithered about an inch or so that one time when I put you on tummy time.
• One of your favorite activities is to bounce around in your exersaucer.
• You love it when someone is singing songs to you and making you “dance.”
• You have a predictable napping and sleeping schedule now.
• You started sleeping through the night again. 
• You’re now drinking 7 oz of milk now.

I can’t wait to see what new adventures we will have for this month! I’m so excited to see how you will like the purees! I know this next few months will be a bit lonely because daddy isn’t here with us, but we’ll video chat with him whenever we can! 

I love you baby Travis. 

Travis's intruder

Travis has a little intruder in his mouth named tooth. I see Travis’s little tooth has partly cut its way through his gums. I can feel and definitely see part of it. It’s kind of sharp! 

I would take a photo, but  my little prince won’t cooperate! He won’t open his mouth long enough or wide enough for me to take a picture. 

Hopefully the rest of mister tooth will soon follow. This little tooth is causing a lot of drooling! At least he isn’t fussy!

I can’t wait till the rest of the tooth comes out! :) 

Rice cereal

Travis had a taste of rice cereal today and I'm happy to say that he ate most of it!

I tasted some too, tastes like rice. We used Earth’s Best Whole Grain Rice Cereal - a recommendation from some friends who said they had no problems with their little ones getting constipated. I read the ingredients and they use whole grain brown rice. 

Also, I teased Travis earlier by holding the banana (that I was eating again) close to his mouth. Travis opened his mouth and tried to bite off a big piece, but of course I didn’t let him - besides he probably can’t anyway, the kid doesn’t have teeth yet!

Banana stealer!

Earlier while Travis was on my lap, I was eating a piece of banana (a small piece, peeled). All of a sudden, Travis grabbed some (little mashed up pieces) and stuck it in his mouth! He seemed to like it! So I placed him on his exersaucer and let him take a “bite” again, which he did. Every time the banana came towards him, he would open his mouth trying to take a bite. It was one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen!

We haven’t fully started him on solids yet. We did give him rice cereal about three times now. The first time was when Joseph and I were thinking, “Maybe breastmilk isn’t hitting the spot anymore (when he started regressing in sleep),” so we gave him some and his extrusion reflex was still strongly intact. So we stopped and waited about a week and half and tried giving him some again, same results as the first time. So we tried again about in a week and he’s gotten better. He was swallowing most of it and only pushing a little bit out.

Travis will be turning 5 months on Monday. When Monday comes, I’ll slowly start integrating solids into his diet. I’m so excited! :)

This whole day

I’ve been tripping all over Travis’s toys. Mainly his play gym and exersaucer.

Your toys are dangerous kid.

This CD has saved my sanity, literally! It never fails to put Travis to sleep no matter how fussy he is being or how hard he tries to fight his sleep. 

My sister gave this to him as one of his Christmas presents. She got it at Target in the section where they have those nature CDs (you know that little nifty stand where you can press on the screen and it plays the music, kind of like giving you a preview of the contents of the CD). 

Everyone, go get one!

Travis seems to be enjoying this gloomy day. Just like his daddy, he feels that the perfect way to spend a cold, gloomy day is to have a lazy day and nap for most of the day.

As for me, I’m not going to complain! I think I’m going to make myself another cup of coffee and make some banana bread.