Oh my gosh I forgot how sweet this age is! Haven is full of smiles and giggles. He's so easy to entertain. I just love this boy SO much!!!
Haven's 4th and 5th months were great! Here are a few of his milestones:
~ The MOST exciting one to me is he's finally sleeping thru the night. Hooray! Oh. My. Goodness. This boy was stubborn at night. I thought I knew exactly how to get a child to sleep thru the night since Jill was at 15 weeks. NOPE. I tried everything with Haven and he was stubborn. About 2 weeks ago he finally slept from his dream feed at 10 til 7:30. finally! I definitely had to push him towards it, but he finally did it. The past few nights I've stopped the dream feed and now he's going 12-13 hours at night. I'm one happy mama!
~ For about 2-3 weeks now he's been pulling his knees up and rocking. He can scoot around on the ground or roll to where he wants to get. I think he'll be crawling in the next month. He wants to be on the move so bad. This is (again) so different than Jill. Jill didn't get her hiney in the air or start rocking til she was close to 9 months.
On all fours:
The push-up position!
Jill's giving him lessons on crawling
~ He eats 4-5x a day and eats solids twice a day. He loves anything I feed him - bananas, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, pears and avocados. We've been SO blessed to have kids that are so easy and eager to eat. The portions I'm giving him are close to the portions I was feeding Jill when she was 8 months or so. I always make up quite a bit of solids and think 'he won't eat all this' and he always does. He'll keep leaning forward and whining for more. Love our little eater!
~ Pretty good napper. Still on 3 naps a day, with his first 2 being the longest. Still in size 3 diapers and mostly 9 month clothing. I'm happy to report nursing is still going great!
~Sitting up by himself! Now this was the coolest milestone for Jillian; she was so content just sitting and playing with toys I'd hand her. Not Haven. He isn't too keen on sitting up and just looking around. He'll sit for a minute and then get on all fours.
~ Jillian is so sweet to her little brother. She's knows to be quiet when he's napping and is usually pretty good about that. Loves to give him his paci back, wipe his mouth, talk to him, make him smile, make him giggle, kiss him, always wants him to watch her do something cool, and really loves taking baths with him now that he's in the big boy bath-seat.
Here are a few more pictures from the past couple months.
I love this picture! About a month ago I took Haven with me to my very last Dr appointment for my toe. It was first thing in the morning, so right in the middle of his first nap. After playing for a while, he got really still in my lap. I look down and he's zonked. So precious! He slept like that for 30 minutes or so.
We love you sweet Haven! Can't wait to watch you grow over the next months!
