wordless wednesday

5 months

max is five months old today...can you believe it? me neither!
we've been practicing sitting...hence our wordless wednesday:) he is definitely doing better, sitting more upright and for longer periods of time and by that, i mean about 10-15 seconds before he face plants:)
he now has eaten sweet potatoes, apples, bananas, oatmeal and one small taste of avocado, which i plan on serving over the weekend. some days he does great with the foods and somedays i put most of it in the disposal. his favorite so far seems to be the sweet potatoes. i think we might try carrots next week.
i weighed him this morning, just after a small bottle and before the bananas, and he is just hovering around 17lbs. he really enjoys hiding from mom and dad, aka putting the burp rag over his face and is loving his jumperaroo.

this is him coming out of hiding!

his night time sleeping hit a bump in the road a couple of weeks ago but we seem to have gotten back on track and he is just waking one time during the night...usually between 3-5am. his daytime napping isn't so hot so we are trying some new techniques and we'll see how that goes:) i really would like to get him shifted to a couple longer naps during the day as opposed to 4 short naps. hopefully, i'll have good news to report next week.

wordless wednesday

found!

one set of feet, that is! max found his feet over the past week and they sure make for some fun toys. they have gotten dangerously close to his mouth but not actually in it:)
he really likes sweet potatoes and we are going to make apples tomorrow for him to eat. we are only doing one solid a day, usually for breakfast. if the apples are a hit, i think we might go to twice a day...oatmeal for breakfast and a veggie/fruit for lunch or dinner.
he's still talking up a storm and loves to laugh, especially when you laugh back at him. he likes to play with the baby in the mirror and loves, loves, loves to stand. i decided today we need to practice sitting more:) i weighed him this morning and he was around 16 1/2 lbs but it was just after he had finished a whole bottle:) he's getting to be such a big boy.
aunt L and uncle W were here for the weekend and max really enjoyed getting to meet them. we just stayed close to home for the most part but we did make it to stubb's for some BBQ.

here's a pic of the shelf and pictures we put up in our room.

spring

spring is in full force here in ATX...we had lots of rain this winter and spring so that makes for a very beautiful wildflower season! the bluebonnets are out in full force and we thought we'd take advantage of our wildflower center membership and get some photos with max! we went on easter sunday and the flowers were amazing!

the easter bunny brought max a jumperoo which he really seems to like...i think he'll like it even more when he figures it out. he can shake and jump a bit but i think once he gets a bit taller it will be even more fun!

reese's peanut butter eggs was the only other thing that the eater bunny brought but they were fantastic...can't wait for next year:)
we had a pretty low key weekend...did manage to get some new pictures in frames and some of them up on the wall...mostly in our bedroom. we also got a new quilt for the bed...will try to get some pics and post them. i think the pictures look great!
aunt L and uncle W are coming this weekend...all the way from albuquerque, to meet max for the first time...he is very excited. hopefully, we'll have lots of fun pictures to post after their visit.

you can tell max had decided one good photo was enough...see said solo photo above...in this one he was like "seriously, can't we just go home"!