Good gracious, another month of this boy's life has gone by! We had kind of an exciting month, experiencing several "firsts", but mostly, we just take one day at a time and see what life brings us. We're still "wingin' it" in this thing called parenting, doing the best we can with what we know and learn. :)
We still try to make sure he gets tummy time, for the brief moment that he'll lay on his tummy. He's still not a big fan but every once in a while you can catch him in a good mood where he'll lay there for a little while before he gets frustrated. He's still not rolling over yet but we've caught him rolling on to his side a time or two.
[18 weeks]
And when he gets frustrated, we just flip over onto our back and chill for a bit. :)
At the beginning of March, Deacon started sleeping through the night! It was a gradual process, though, and you can read about that here. Now, he's most definitely sleeping through the night without waking at all. If he does, it's only for a second or two and he puts himself back to sleep. I can't tell you how nice it is to know that when we put him down for the night, he's down until the morning.
Deacon got his first TOOTH at 4.5 months old! You can read more about that here, but I'll just go ahead and tell you, he's cut his SECOND tooth already! Yep, it popped out this past Monday. He had a little fever with this one and a little more chewing & fussing, but he trudged through and got it done. Such a trooper. I hope we'll have a few months before the next ones start showing up...
[first tooth @ 4.5 mos]
We finally got some warmer weather so I was dressing Deacon in just onesies...
[20.5 weeks]
[love his chunky little legs!]
Around 21 weeks, I started putting size 2 diapers on Deacon overnight and after his morning feeding to try to avoid some of the messes (aka "blowouts") he was making in his clothes. That seems to be working pretty well and I don't think it will be long before he's officially wearing size 2 diapers all the time.
Deacon also found his feet this month. :) This is what we ocassionally catch him rolling on his side for:
[just relaxin', watching TV]
At 21 weeks, Deacon started sitting in a bumbo seat! Have you heard of these? We had and several of our friends told us we "had" to have one -- those things are expensive, though! But Daddy ordered one for his boy and we promptly put him in it. He seems to like it pretty well...
[21 weeks]
On the night that Deacon turned 5 months, we tried giving him rice cereal for the first time. The box said we could mix it in his bottle or spoon-feed him. So we mixed up what we'd normally put in his bottle (so it was very watery) and tried giving it to him in a spoon, just to see what he'd do...
Needless to say, it was kind of a bust. But we were pleased with how he did with the spoon, having never had one of those in his mouth before. He figured out what was happening pretty early on and would open his mouth when I held the spoon up to him. But as I said, it was pretty watery, so he wasn't getting much. We chalked it up to experience and got his bottle ready.
We gave him 6.5 oz (instead of the standard 4 oz) w/a tbsp of rice cereal mixed in. He drank it down with no trouble and slept great that night. The next night we mixed in 2 tbsp of rice cereal in the 6.5 oz bottle. He did great with that, too, so that's kind of become the standard. He gets a 6.5-7 oz bottle with a couple tbsp of rice cereal in it at night and he's good to go until morning. :) So proud of him for how he's handling all these changes as he grows up.
[5 mos]
