5 Months Old!

My boy turned 5 Months old today!!  He's getting so HUGE (i think so anyway)!! We had our plunket visit yesterday, and he's keeping up in all the percentiles, in the 75th for most things! 
So here are some fun facts (and a few that require work) about my 5 month old boy!!

• He now has 2 mush feeds a day.  He's polishing off a quarter of a jar of food and then doing his best baby bird impression to try to get more! (but then he pukes, so we don't give in....most days)
• Fitting '00' clothes and size 2 shoes!
• Night sleeps are still varying greatly!  He can sleep 9 hours one night, then wake every 3 hours the next!  As a general rule though, he does one long stretch (about 6-7 hours) then one short (about 3-4 hours).
• Daytime naps still just depend on who is more determined at the time!
• For the last couple of weeks he's developed a foot fetish, and has mastered grabbing his feet and laughing hysterically!
• Jumping is another fantastic new past time (Thanks Aunty Binka and Uncky Deane for the Jumper stand!!) I swear the kid could jump for hours if we let him!
• He's rolled over twice from tummy to back, with hubby and me scrambling  for cameras to video, but the  Cheeky Bean refused to roll again by the time we got sorted and hasn't done since :(
• Bath time is a bit more adventurous now, with a whole lot of kicking and wriggling going on!!
• Night terrors are still occurring, we're investigating the pain angle, and silent (or not so silent) reflux is being looked at again!
• He makes us smile and laugh every day with his gorgeous personality, his beautiful, screeching laugh and his scrummy, serious 'thinking' face!!!

  I wonder what the next month will bring?!  More terrifying exciting times with my beautiful boy no doubt, and another million photos too!  The poor kid probably thinks that the camera is a permanent attachment on his mama! (has anyone else noticed that i have an obsession with exclamation marks?!) 

Anywho, here's a wee barrage of pics of my beautiful boy for everyone to oogle over on his 5 month birthday!!

Ps: Just gave my blog a new do! Hope ya's like it, feedback is totally welcome!!!

Toodles! :)

Lazy Saturday

Today we made it to our first coffee group from our ante-natal class and it was so lovely to see a few of the other babies born around the same time as Lachy!! The coffee group was held at a cafe by the lake and i have to say i was really disappointed with what they were charging for their food! A bread roll was about $9!! I'm sure their absolutely delicious and a decent size, but really?? $9?! The pies were $5.40!! Its such an expense for families that want to enjoy the lake walk and playground and then maybe a wee snack for the kids!

Anyway, enough grumbling! The day was cold and grey, but still lovely and we went for a wee walk a little bit of the way around the lake after our coffee, and then came home to have a lazy family day!! I love days like these... The fires going, there's a roast in the oven, and after having playtime with me, Lachy's havin a snooze on his daddy's chest...It's awsum! And such a good way to recharge the batteries!!

Another bonus to the day was hearing someone say how much Lachy looked like me!! Most comments are usually about how much he looks like his dad (which is fine by me cause i think he's a bit of a looker), so its nice to hear that i'm still visible somewhere in that scrummy face!!

Oh, and did i mention Lachlan managed to have a 7 1/2 hour sleep stretch last night!!! It doesn't matter that i was awake and waiting to feed him, i was so excited and i'm hoping and praying that its the start of something new!! It would be such a nice difference to his usual 3-4 hour stretches (occasionally 2 hourly)!! So fingers crossed that he stays in this new rhythm!!

Anywho! Time to get his night time bath underway! Stay tuned for my next photo challenge pic in the next day or 2!!

Toodles! :)