Five Months...

Ok, so we are a few days behind updating our post for our little mans 5 month post. I can't believe it's been 5 months already, seems like yesterday we were still fighting to get him out of the NICU and home. I'm sure it won't be long and we'll be saying how did he get to be 5 years old???

Ari is growing like a weed with an endless water supply. We took him back to the doctor 2 weeks after his 4 month checkup to get his shots and he had put on another pound and some change. I can only imagine how decimated our fridge will be when he's a teenager. Then I will know how my mom and dad felt with me. Ari gets admired where ever we take him. Which is kind of strange to have people looking at him all the time or wanting to touch him. But we can't blame them, he is awful cute. His newest "skill" as my sister likes to call them is screaming and squealing. It started out where he would just squeal when he was happy and it has become screaming when he's unhappy. Hopefully this phase will pass as quickly as it started. We would also like to see his sleep regression phase end. It is getting better at this point but still not over yet. Currently he tends to get up at 2-3 in the morning and then again at 5-6, but the best trick is then he wouldn't want to take a long nap during the day just 30-45 minute cat naps. Enter the screaming when he's unhappy. The last few days have been better as he has taken a 2-3 hour nap each day. Now if we can skip the one middle of the night getting up session momma will be much happier and better rested. We pretty sure he is teething right now although none have come through yet, but the drool is impressive. It's funny, we have all these teething toys but the thing he likes best, fingers either his or ours.

We have somewhat solved the issues he was having with his car seat. Namely screaming every time we put him in it. We took out the extra head support that came with the seat and went back to using blankets around his head. This provides him with much more visibility and range of motion and he seems to be digging it. He still gets fussy when he's tired in his seat but nothing like it used to be.

I'm not sure we are going to make it to see Santa this year, as those mall people want to charge you for pictures with Santa. Business has been exceptionally bad for me the past few months so we have to really watch our pennies. My work does a day with Santa so we may try and make it to that. Here are some pictures of the boy on or around his 5 month birthday. As you can tell from a few of them I'm pretty sure he thinks we're crazy. Hopefully he realizes that we are just crazy about him.!