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Five-ish Month

Isaac has been a ball of energy these days.  As you can see from the five-ish month photos, he is constantly moving which makes for even more great pictures.  Additional new developments include grabbing everything that is within arms-length and then putting it in his mouth, barrel-rolling but only to the right, he has become a drool machine, and he’s able to communicate without only crying.

Isaac’s latest thing is to make the “Mmm…” sound.  Every time he does that, we encourage him more by saying M-words to him like “Mama”, “Monkey”, and “Moo”.  I’m crossing my fingers that his first word will be Mama!

Things he is beginning to outgrow are trips-to-the-bathroom for soothing and his swing.  I don’t remember when was the last time we had to resort to the bathroom fan to soothe him.  For the most part, hugs from Daddy or Mama work just fine.  And the swing, his feet are beginning to hang out at the end.  In the past, the only way he could sleep was in the swing at maximum swinging and with crickets chirping.  We would go through at least 4 D batteries a week!  Now that he is beginning to be too big for the swing, we started having him learn to sleep in his crib.  The downside is, since he started spending his nights in the crib, he no longer sleeps through the night.  He wakes up once during the night for a feeding, which isn’t so bad considering I have other friends whose babies wake up 2-4 times.

We have to start child-proofing the apartment now because Isaac loves to barrel-roll across the room.  Below is a picture of what Isaac gets himself into when I leave the room for 1 minute to make him some oatmeal cereal.

I am so enjoying Isaac at this age.  He is so much fun and is such a happy baby.  Friends always ask me if he always smiling or if he’s just in a good mood at the moment.  I can honestly say that he is always smiling and laughing.  Of course, Isaac does have his moments when he’s unhappy about something, and he lets you know that he’s unhappy.  In fact, he lets everyone in the room know.  He’s very much like his Daddy in that he when he is upset, he has a pretty bad attitude.  I wouldn’t expect a child of Dan to be any other way.  But those moments are very rare.

From now on, whenever I post a photo up on Facebook, I’m going to try to remember to also post it on this website.  I know there are many people without a Facebook account but would really enjoy looking at Isaac’s pictures.

J

Five-ish Months!

Okay well we SORT OF missed the 5-month birthday.  It turns out that having a baby is really tiring and takes up all your time.  Who knew?

Anyhow, since we missed it, I’m posting a few pics from the photo shoot.  I’m also adding, as a bonus, a video of Isaac trying solid foods for the second time!  Enjoy!

-Papa-D

Isaac Laughing

I know you saw it written on the board, but here’s a video of Isaac giggling.  Enjoy!

– Papa-D