5 months

LITTLE MONSTER, WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE!?!?!  The monthly picture taking process has become a bit more complicated!  But, my goodness, you are too cute!!!  My heart melts at those big blue eyes!!!

You are such a happy little bean and you love to have your picture taken.  You actually love pretty much everything about life, except for sleeping.  You smile and laugh all the time.  You especially love church, where you get a lot of attention.  You are such a flirt.  You actually reached for a person for the first time this month at church.  I have seen you reach for toys and rice cereal, but never a person.  Unfortunately, it was not your mother or father.  No, you reached for the nursery worker.  I was there waiting to hold you and give you kisses and you reached for the nursery worker.  In all fairness, she was holding your bottle which may have been the true object of your desire, but I still felt the sting.

You love to read books!

Little monster finally got his own room this month.  I think you love it.  The first night you slept in your crib, you slept a solid 8 hours with out waking up.  We thought we had solved the sleeping problems forever, that maybe all you needed was your own very quiet bed room.  Unfortunately that was not the case.  You still end up missing me every few hours and cry until I come and visit you.  I love you too little man, but feel free to sleep longer, please.  It is not like you are making up for lost sleep during nap time.  You still take 2 thirty minute naps on average.  I keep expecting you to crash one of these days and sleep for 72 hours straight to make up for all of the lost time.  Maybe when you are a teenager...

You can almost sit up by yourself!

You finally learned to roll over!!!!  It is actually pretty comedic.  You can roll from your back to your stomach like a champ and are very quick to do it as soon as we put you down on your back.  But once you get there, you... are... MAD!!!   You hate tummy time, but have not figured out how to roll back.  You roll on to your belly with this look of "hey, look what I can do!  I'm rolling."  Then when you realize where it got you, your face changes to a...."What the what?!?!  How the heck did I get here?!?!"  This little trick of yours is especially enjoyable in the middle of the night when you repetitively wake up on your stomach furious until daddy or I comes to roll you back over.

We started rice cereal this month and you LOVE IT!!

You truly are a joyful little fella which was one of my specific prayers for you while you were in my tummy.  I love to watch you smile and laugh and will do almost anything in that effort.  Your favorite things right now are watching daddy or I dance, jump, or shake our hair.  My favorite is when we dance for you, because not only do you laugh but you kick and move your arms like you can not wait to join in on the fun.

You are a wonderful blessing to our family and we thank God every day for giving us you.  He has used you to teach us both so much about His unconditional love for us and the extent of His sacrifice through Christ.  He has also used you to reveal our selfish natures and make us more dependent on Him for love and contentment.  We love you tiny monster.