Layton is 5 months!

Layton, you are five months old! You have changed so much this month! I just can't get enough of you! You are my little buddy. You really are the most easy going little thing. You are so pleasant to be around. I just adore you!!

Here are some things about you that I want to remember this month:

One of your favorite places to be is in your jumperoo. You really go to town in it! You like to lay on the floor where you just play with your feet and look around. You love being held and you love to watch your brother and sister. You like to know what is going on around you.

This is a sweet picture of you holding hands with Lucy!

You have found a little temper some times (not often though). Ha! I had to take your picture here. You REALLY wanted out of that bouncy seat!

Most of the time, though, you are super happy while sitting in it. You just watch us and get so excited.

Lincoln has really been making you laugh lately. You are laughing much more easily now as well. We all just love to hear you laugh. There is nothing better!

Your fingers are constantly in your mouth! You have been drooling alot too. I think you are teething.

You rolled over for the first time this month--from back to front. However, you did it for about a week and then decided you didn't want to do it anymore. Oh well! I loved watching you try so hard to roll over.

You are so fat, it is a lot of work to get those legs up!

You still love bath time. I like to put you in the tub with me and you just splash and splash and have a big time.

So happy!

Playing with Daddy!

You can sit up in the high chair a little now. Lincoln is glad about this because it means he doesn't have to sit in it.

You are nursing every 3 1/2 hours during the day. We do cereal at night which you love. You cry when I get done feeding it to you. At 5 months, I gave you carrots for the first time. You weren't quite sure of them. I love the funny faces you made when you tried them for the first time. After 3 or 4 days, though, you have decided they are okay. We are going to try squash this week. Some how I have got to figure out how to get the cereal in you in the mornings and the veggie at night. Mornings are so hurried with getting Hannah and Lincoln to school, I am really going to have to figure out how to get it in there somewhere!

You are in size 2 diapers and either 3-6 months or 6 months clothes.

You don't like to be left in a room alone anymore. You cry till we come talk to you. Then, you immediately smile really big.

You give me the biggest hug (or what seems like a hug) when I pick you up out of bed after a nap or in the morning to feed you. You wrap your arms around my neck. It is so sweet. You wake up happy most mornings and smile up at me when I come in to get you.

You like to feel things with your hands.

You like to blow bubbles and you suck on your tongue. This is the cutest thing. You just smack on it sometimes. It makes us laugh!

We are still working on the sleeping. You have good nights and some not as good nights. I can't complain too much because you really are so good. I just haven't figured out what time to feed you last--either 7:00ish or do another dream feed at 9:30 or 10:00. You typically wake up around 5:00 a.m. or 5:30 a.m., I feed you and then you go back to sleep till around 7:00 a.m. You still nap well and take about 3 naps a day that range from about an hour to 2 hours at a time.

Layton - 5 months!

You are so sweet, I could just eat you up!