My little Johnnycake is 5 months old today! I feel bad for not updating this blog more often. After all, I found time to give weekly pregnancy updates. Obviously I had more time while pregnant. Having baby changes, oh, everything.
Johnny is now in size 3 diapers and has been for maybe two weeks. He was simply soaking through the size 2s overnights and they were starting to get tight. I have a few packs of size 2s left and I’ll exchange them for 3s later on.
I’m estimating that he’s getting close to 17 pounds, though my home scale isn’t sensitive enough to know for sure. He’s certainly feeling heavier and looks longer.
I have a 25-gallon storage container full of clothes he’s already outgrown. He’s mostly in the six-month size, but it really depends on the brand. Johnny’s Aunt Shannon sent him some cute PJs from Baby Gap and they say size 12 months, but he fits into them perfectly now.
Johnny is quite alert and smiley much of the time. He looks around, drools, munches on his fingers and even his toes! He’s now able to grab things like teething rings, blankets and other people’s fingers and he puts them in his mouth.
Yesterday, I was holding corn on the cob (first of the season! must be shipped from some other country…) and I held it close to his mouth to see what he’d do. He clamped down on it and started sucking away. Heh.
He seems pretty interested in food. I’m not quite ready to start giving him solids, but we are getting close. He’s had little tastes of some fruits and veggies and seems to get a kick out of it.
Nursing is still going well and he is much more efficient with feeding quickly. He sometimes completes a full feeding in 10 minutes or less (I’m guessing — I don’t time it).
Shane is good at making Jonathan laugh. I make him cackle or giggle. Shane makes an exaggerated face and then tickles him or covers his face with a burp cloth. I’ll blow raspberries on his belly or will clap his hands together.
He’s getting better at sleeping during the night, but he has a keen sense of mommy radar. If I’m not within arm’s reach or closer, he’ll wake up. Every time. I don’t know if he can sense my body heat, sounds of my breathing or scent or what the deal is, but the guy is good.
For the sake of my sanity and everyone’s sleep, Johnny sleeps in my bed. Yeah, yeah, I know when I was pregnant how adamant I was about him only sleeping in a crib. Oh, how little did I know.
It works well for now, but eventually we’ll transfer him to his own sleeping space and then his own room.
I work really hard at making sure he gets good naps throughout the day. At the first sign of his tiredness/fussyness, I feed him and then lay him down or put him in his swing. The swing works really well at times, but we’re starting to try to wean him off of it.
He sometimes screams his head off in the car, and it’s just awful. If we’re more than a few minutes from our destination, we’ll pull over and try to calm him down, but it doesn’t always work. Sometimes he’s fine with being in the car but it’s a crapshoot.
Johnny rolls over from his tummy to his back, but never the other way around. He doesn’t seem to like being on his belly much, so he has no motivation to roll that way I guess.
He babbles and squawks and has lots of conversations with himself and us. It’s a hoot!
Bathtime is loads of fun. I put him in the tub and he just seems so relaxed. He’ll splash and kick and carry on.
I just love him to bits and I’m excited to see what new things he’ll do this month!
