C*K*J: five months

The months seem to be zipping by faster than I am comfortable with. Just a few short months ago, I was having a hard time imagining my life with a baby boy in it. However now, just five months after meeting him... I literally can't imagine my life without him.

This squishy, chubby, happy smiley boy definitely makes my world a better place!

This was a month of firsts...

Charlie made his first road trip this past month and had it been a test, he would have aced it!

Such a good little traveller!

The worst news of the month was that he also got his first sick bug and it was a doozy!

Poor buddy got RSV and was miserably sick for about a week, terrible cough, high fever, runny/stuffy nose and diminished appetite. It was awful. For a few days we had to take him into Primary Children's for suctioning and breathing treatments. I'm not sure who hated that worse... me or him.

He was a hot mess much of the time, but he was also especially sleepy and snuggly, which doesn't suck. I realize that the it won't be long before he will no longer sleep on my chest and rest his head on my shoulder and I just wanted to drink him up like this.

For the most part, he was a pretty sweet little sick guy, just so puzzled and confused as to why he felt so icky.

As if that week wasn't bad enough.... I had some sinus/oral surgery that had been scheduled for months. It was horrible timing, however we decided that I should go ahead with it and get it over with. I wasn't able to nurse him for about 18 hours, due to the anesthesia and it was miserable. We have never been super successful in getting him to take a bottle and he was definitely having none of it. Poor Chris had to feed him from a medicine dropper that whole time. His poor sad little face kind of ripped my heart out!

Luckily, we survived all of it!

In better news, he is finally sleeping better for the most part! Though we lost some ground when he got sick, we are back to getting a 6-8 hour stretch most nights. Nowhere near as good as littlemissbigsis was doing at this age... but still a significant improvement and we'll take it. Unfortunately we still have some crummy nights mixed in there... but the good nights are slowly starting to outweigh the bad.

I have gradually been adding soy back into my diet and it hasn't seemed to be a problem. He still seems to have some issues with dairy, so I am still trying to avoid it for the most part. However, my pediatrician suggested that I start taking some digestive enzymes, which I have and that seems to lessen the severity of his reaction to it! I am no longer as totally militant about it as I was and it feels soooooo good!

He is still growing like a weed and I suspect he has surpassed the 18 lb mark. He's enormous and ridiculously heavy.

He is very near growing completely out of sister's hand me down pink bathtub... yet not quite ready for the big tub. We gotta figure something out and soon because this boy loves his baths and its hilarious to see him bending his legs all crazy just to try and get his chubby torso under the water!

We have started venturing out on walks a little more these last couple of weeks, since we've finally had some days above freezing and he seems to love the fresh air almost as much as his mama!

Being cooped up in the winter isn't good for anyone's soul.

He is hitting that age that is so fun as he becomes more active, playful, alert and interactive. He is hitting new milestones all the time. He is rolling all over the place and is getting closer to being able to sit up on his own. He is finally really interested in toys and is working his hands really well. He loves to watch Leah play and no one can make him smile and laugh better than her.