5 Months and Counting

Ian is 5 months old and guess what he’s doing. He has determined that he does not want to sleep on his back anymore. That’s right, Ian started turning over this month and has taken to laying on his tummy the last couple of nights. It was kind of weird waking up and finding him on his tummy. Although not really surprising. He loved sleeping on his tummy earlier, and every time you put him on the floor he turns to his tummy. He’s also been wiggling around a lot too at night. There have been a couple of mornings where I’ll wake up and find he has turned 90 degrees during the night. He’s not turning over completely yet; he’s only going from his back to his tummy, but we’re hoping he’ll do the complete 360 by the end of the month.

Ian was started on cereal after his last checkup and this month we started adding some flavor to the cereal. We started out with applesauce, but that kind of tighten him up, so prunes was up next. We just started carrots yesterday, so he’s had a total of three flavors now. He has an initial “what is this?!” face going on, but afterwards he takes it pretty good. Of the three, I don’t think he liked the prunes as much. He tended to give me that face more. We’ll probably give him either squash or sweet potatoes next, but that won’t be for a couple of more days yet.

Since our last update, Ian received a new toy….a jumper. He loves that thing! We can put him in it and he’ll jump for awhile. It’s actually kind of funny because there’ll be times where he’s unhappy, but he doesn’t want to stop jumping. I’m not sure what I’m suppose to do when he does that. He has also started reaching for his toys. He wasn’t really doing this before, but it’s obvious now what he wants. He’ll reach out and grab it, but he doesn’t always know what to do with it when he has it.

Ian is sitting up now too. Not perfect, but he’s doing it. He can’t sit up for long periods of time, his balance isn’t quite there yet, but he’s doing it. We’ve been able to sit him on the floor without back support and he’ll sit like that for about 5 minutes before he’ll face plant himself on his tummy. He’ll do that a lot too. He’ll go from a sit up position to laying down, but he doesn’t really do it gracefully. I’m not sure if he’s purposefully doing that all the time, but he’ll just pitch himself forward. He’s not crawling yet, but the movements are still there and he can wiggle in a circle. It’s still early for that though.