I am late on posting this, but Gibson turned 5 months on May 30! Hard to believe he's been in this world for almost half a year already! He is still just such a happy little guy and we just love him to pieces! He is giggling more and more and always full of smiles. He loves cuddling but is also (normally) very content to play on his own in his bouncy seat or under his activity mat. He can roll from front to back and back to front but doesn't do it all that often. He actually rolled from back to front first and then the same day started being able to roll from front to back. Sometimes his chunky little arm gets stuck when he goes from back to front:). He loves his sides and sometimes sleeps on his side. He loves touching things while he's sleeping so I took his bumper pad off of his crib just to be safe. I never took it off with Layla, but it scared me a bit how much he would cuddle with it. Plus now it's much easier to change his sheets (which need to be changed quite a bit due to him still having spit up issues) :-). Now he likes resting his arms or legs on his crib rails while he sleeps. He also loves blankets and taggies and anything else he can grab to cuddle with (not while he's sleeping) so I got him a new blanket buddy thing (Tigger) and he loves him. I had originally bought him a Mickey blanket thing, but Layla has claimed him as hers and I'm not about to try to take Mickey away from her now:). Pick your battles, right? :-) Gibson is mainly wearing size 3-6 months/6 months although he still fits in some 0-3. So he's now just one shorts size away from Layla:-). He has 4 8 oz bottles a day, normally at about 8/8:30, noon, 4/4:30 and 7:30/8ish. His last bottles are a bit closer together b/c if he gets crabby it's when he wakes up from his evening nap around 7. He then goes to bed around 8:30 and normally sleeps until 8, however, at times I need to stick his pipe in a couple of times starting at like 6 or 7. He doesn't seem to be as good at sleeping in as his big sis. He doesn't cry at 6 or 7, so he's not hungry, he's just wide awake, at least often he'll go back to sleep if I give him his pipe. Every once in awhile he'll wake up at like 3 or 4am too and be awake for a bit and then fall back to sleep. It seems to happen like once a week. He had been doing good at night since the end of March and then like mid May he started waking up! He never needs to eat, but he sometimes needs his pipe. Hopefully it's just a phase! He normally doesn't fall asleep with his pipe, so I don't know how he got in that habit. He's such a happy good baby though that I really can't complain that every once in awhile I need to get up with him for 30 seconds in the night. It's hard to be mad at him when he's laughing at you in his crib:-). He naps 3 times day. His morning and evening naps aren't the long, but he'll nap like 2/2 1/2 hours in the afternoon which is nice b/c Layla does as well.
5 month pic...
Of course sissy had to join the pics...
Kisses from sissy (I obviously hadn't put her detangler in her hair yet:D)...
We also gave him some cereal once he turned 5 months b/c he started seeming extra hungry at his last feeding (and hungry earlier). He did well with it the first time and would open his mouth and actually got it all down, but the couple of times I've tried it since then he would spit some of it out. So I'll probably wait a bit b/f trying again. His doctor said to start b/w 5-7 months for him instead of 4-6, so we have time.
Yum, this is new!
More please!
They were both in their diapers the other day when I was getting them dressed so I thought I'd take a few pics--too bad Layla is blurry, but you get the point that their width is pretty similar:-). He is in size 2 diapers and she's in 3's.
She likes to copy him:-). So far they are good buddies--mainly b/c Layla can do whatever she wants to him and take whatever she wants away from him and he doesn't care--I'm sure that will change once he can fight back so I'm enjoying the time now while they get along:-).
Gibs and Tigger...
