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I see this a lot on the mommy blogs I love so much, so I’m going to give it a whirl.

Dear Quinn,
My goodness, 5 months already! I can hardly believe it. It’s ridiculous how much growing and learning you’re doing, and I know that will only get to be more and more.

Dad and I discovered you’re starting to sit up a bit on your own now. Just for a few seconds, but it’s very cool. Especially since you can do it a little bit without putting your hands on the floor in front of you to balance.

You’ve got 2 tiny little sharp teeth, bottom middle. You gave me a good chomp the other day. Just see if I let you use my hand as a teething ring anymore. : )

You’ve decided that you love to grab EVERYTHING. You see something and you want it NOW. Sometimes I have to hold you so tight to keep you from leaping out of my arms to acquire a desired object.

We’re moving right along with “solid” food. You’ve had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, sweet peas, apples, pears, carrots and bananas You LOVE bananas and carrots.

You’re so much better about being held now. You’ll sit in our laps, or if we’re standing, on our hips.

You just love your jumper. So glad we got it for you. You’re always moving your little legs like you want to jump, even when we’re holding you.  

Sleep has been a challenge lately. I think you got thrown off schedule with teething and have yet to get back to something a little more reasonable. You’re quite fond of waking up around 3 or 4am and wanting to jump and talk and play. Not cool dude. Not cool.

I do believe you love naked time. You’re always smiling and laughing when we take your clothes off to change you or for a bath. Perhaps you’ll be one of those little guys that rips his clothes off and runs around nakey?

You seem to recognize us now, and get all smiley when you see us. Sometimes when I get home from work you’ll be hanging out on the couch with dad. And when you see me I get the biggest smiles! LOVE. IT.  You’re just in love with dad. You watch him all the time, when he’s sitting with us, or walking in an out of the room. Clearly you two will be best buds.

You’ve started to show displeasure when you can’t have what you want. Last night you saw a CD on the side of the couch and tried to grab it, dropping the toy you had for this new shiny treasure. When I moved you away you got a bit angry. It’s hilarious. Well, for now. I’m sure I’ll get sick of it really quick.

You love to stare at lights, the alarm clock, the window- really any difference between light and dark. You get a dazed look on your face like a stoned little hippy. Good one.

You’re such a happy little guy. We’re still working on getting laughs out of you. We can get them sometimes, and they so damn cute. You may hold out on the laughs occasionally, but you’re always smiling. And now with those bottom little teeth? It kills me. I’ll miss those gummy smiles, but I can see toothy smiles will be just as cute.

We’re having so much fun with you little man. I’m sad to see you growing so much all the time, but equally excited for your next stages. We love, love, LOVE you honey bunny.

Q finally slept (mostly) through the night. Might have been his best nights sleep yet. I think the key is feeding him an entire jar of carrots and leaving him alone when he turns onto his belly to sleep.

He’d woken up not long after we put him down to sleep and I was sure it was going to be another night of up every two hours. But after that, somewhere around 8 probably, he was asleep until 4 am. I brought him back to bed with me, fed him and let him lay next to me and stare at the alarm clock. He fell asleep again and was still sleeping when I left for work at 6:45. Sure I still woke up a couple of times during the night and had to check on him. And I was in a bit of pain after not nursing or pumping for 8 or 9 hours.

All I know is that kid is having carrots for dinner again tonight.

Q’s sleep isn’t really getting any better. He’s in his crib now in his room. I thought that might help. It’s darker in there (he has curtains, we don’t in our room) and he was getting too big for his bassinett. I thought room to strech would be helpful. But last night he was awake after less than an hour, quickly back to sleep with a binkie back in the mouth. But then up every couple of hours. The biggest issue right now is him rolling onto his belly after I put him back down. I’d even just let this go if he didn’t bury his face in the mattress every time. I’ll keep turning him onto his back, or even on his side. But he’ll just roll again and eventually be awake. Then we get an hour of wide awake baby in our bed with us, kicking and punching me in the face. Le sigh. But at least he’s not crying or overly fussy. Guess I should consider myself lucky, eh?

And maybe tonight will be better. He’s now been asleep for a little over an hour. Maybe I should go get sleep while I can. Fingers crossed for a more peaceful night.

Not been doing very good with this whole thing. So, some recent things:

Last night when Shawn & Quinn got home, Shawn set the car seat in Q’s bedroom so he could take the dog out and leave the baby sleeping & undisturbed. When I peaked in on him, I noticed he was wide awake. I unbuckled him, he stretched and arched his back like he does now whenever we take him out, and lifted his arms up. I sat on the floor holding him standing (of course, always standing) on my lap. As I said hello and asked him about his day he just looked at me smiling and excited, and trying to pinch my cheeks. It’s rare for him to hold eye contact with you when you’re actually holding him, so I just love it when he does. We sat like that for a minute or two, my heart just melted into a puddle on the floor. I feel like he’s really starting to recognize us and get excited to see us, which I love.

Last night also marked the first time in weeks and weeks that Q slept for more than 2-3 hours at a time. In fact I think he slept from 7:30-8ish until just after midnight, and then from 12:30-1ish until almost 6. Back to where we were before teething. Hope it sticks, or dare I say it, gets better.

As we get closer to Halloween and holidays, I’m getting more and more excited. Shawn came home with a costume for Q: Shrek! I have a feeling it will not be the only costume. Even one costume is almost pointless with a baby that will be only 6 months old on Halloween. I don’t know that we’ll really be going anywhere,  but we just can’t resist!

Of course Xmas will be even worse. I don’t want to go overboard with gifts now, or in the future. But we both have a hard time with that. Last year when I woke up on Xmas there where kids books propped up on presents all around the tree, for our little boy. I want to do that again this year. A large number of the presents to each other were actually baby things. It’s hard to believe this year we actually get to celebrate with our little man. Oh, and stockings! I just realized I get to fill a stocking for him! Okay, I have to go look for stocking stuff to buy now.

Random

Is it wrong that when my husband responds to something completely normal I’ve said with “You make me want to throw up”  that it cracks me up and makes me love him more?