5 Months Old

5 months! Has it really been 5 months already??? Things are changing and Cade is growing oh so fast it seems unreal! Every day truly gets better than the last and we feel so blessed to be the ones chosen to raise this precious boy!

Here are a few things about Cade from this month:

- He got his DOC band this last month and has taken everything in stride and adjusted to wearing the band without any difficulty.

- He is still so laid back, easy going, and has the sweetest disposition. He smiles and babbles all the time and has started making different noises in order to get attention.

- He likes music and will move his arms and legs around and babble whenever this is singing. - His fine motor skills are improving so much and he is getting a lot better at grabbing things such as our nose or lips, handfuls of my hair, my necklaces, and his toys too! Anything that he does grab he then tries to put in his mouth.

- He is constantly sucking on his fingers and has started to gag himself by sticking them too far down his throat.

- He is able to take his paci from his mouth and then put it back in and is able to hold his bottle on his own when propped up.

- He is constantly drooling and acts like he is teething but we don't see or feel any teeth yet.

- He has found his toes and loves to grab them and hold on dearly any chance he gets!

- He is sitting up on his own and gets real angry when we try to lay him down and it isn't his idea!

- He can roll tummy to back and back to tummy and will roll from one side of the room to the other and then uses his little feet to scoot around and change directions and will be off rolling again!

- He is starting to work his legs and trying to pull his knees up under him while on his belly. Occasionally he is successful and will start rocking or put his little butt up in the air and scoot.

- He is back to eating every 3 hours during the day and still every 7-9 hours at night. I am still breastfeeding and we are feeding exclusively breastmilk at this time.

- He is starting to get very interested in our food and watching us eat and will even reach out and try to get something that we are trying to eat.

- He is wearing size 1-2 diapers and size 3 month or 3-6 month clothes.

- He takes 3 naps during the day and will sleep for 1-2 hours during the naps.

- He still loves to be swaddled, cuddled, and rocked before going to sleep. (This just happens to be one of my favorite things also!)

We love you so much sweet boy and look forward to watching you grow and change even more over this next month!

And here are a few out takes from our photo shoot!

He was loving the elephant puppet that I was using to make him smile

yummy fingers!

always on the move

I wanted to get a few pictures of him in his bed but he was pretty much over the whole thing by this point and wouldn't look at me anymore!

PS- Sorry for the cray spacing in this post! It doesn't look like this until I publish and then there are all kinds of random spaces!