The Olson Family: Five Months!

August 14th was a very special day -- Peyton turned 5 months and Steve turned the big 3-0!

This past month was such an exciting one in the Peyton department. I felt like every other day he was doing something new. Month five was definitely one of the most rapidly changing months for Peyton.

At the beginning of the month, he started to seem like he suddenly "gets it." He almost always turns when you say his name and he squirms & squeals when you make his bottle. He opens up his mouth when you put the bottle to his lips & is probably ready to start solids, but we're still waiting until 6 months... which seems soooo...far...away, but is really less than 30 days!

He belly laughed several times this month and is just starting to laugh out loud almost every day. At the end of July, he started to sleep until 7am. Some days were 7:30am, but at this point, it's pretty much a consistent 7am wake up call! BUT, today however, was his latest with 8am!!!!! And even then he was just chilling in his crib, hardly making a peep.

One of the biggest things we've been working on is getting him to roll over. On August 1st, he rolled over, but I lured him with a toy and am hesitant to write this date down in the books. He rolled half way, then a few seconds later, rolled all the way. He hasn't done it since. However, today he was SO CLOSE to rolling in one swift movement on his own, but got half way there and stopped. It'll happen any day now.

He also started to "swim" big time, when on his belly. I almost feel like he's trying to crawl and rolling over will be an accident. He seems to have more interest in moving along than rolling over. He's grabbing our faces now, pulling on our ears, chin, nose, etc. He totally anticipates things happening that he knows, like water coming out of the spout at bath time, his bottle, etc.

Another newbie is putting his hand behind his head/ear. Of course this makes me wonder several things - is he teething? does he have an earache? headache? is he soothing himself? Who knows, but someday we'll figure it out!

As I blogged about earlier, he just started to Tripod Sit. That was the last big thing he did in his 5th month.

I can tell (I think?) that he's not growing as fast. He's still eating 6oz bottles (with one 7oz in the morning), five times a day. With him sleeping so late now, it's hard to get 5 bottles in. Four bottles with 7-8 oz does not work! He can go 5+ hours without eating when he has a 7oz bottle, so at that rate he'd be eating 3 times a day, and that's not enough!

He's wearing 6 month clothing, and fits best in 9 month PJ's.

~It wasn't hard at all getting a smiley pic this month!~