Dexter is 5 Months Old!

FIVE months?! When did that happen?

Well, somehow, sometime, it did. Dexter is still such a very very happy baby. He smiles and LAUGHS like crazy. He really only cries when he's hungry or tired, and a grateful mother can't ask for anything more than that.

He's started sleeping *a little* better at night. He even slept all the way through the night on March 1. He's still our little giant, with a current estimated weight of 19 pounds or so. He's wearing anywhere from 9 month to 18 month clothes, mostly depending on brand and shrinkage. He's eating so much - anywhere from 40-48 ounces of formula each day, plus about 2 tbsp of rice cereal (mixed with formula and apple-grape juice) in the evenings. Plans are to start vegetables possibly as soon as March 7.

He has definitely mastered rolling over (both ways) and now travels across the floor by rolling and scooting and rotating. The scooting is the most funny, since he tends to scoot backwards like a little crawfish. He moved a good 5 feet under his own power the other day. (Unfortunately, although he always starts out on the rug and playmats, he invariably ends up on the bare hardwood. Poor kid.)

He's getting stronger every day. He still hasn't quite made it up to hands-and-knees, but he occasionally gets his hips off the floor to a nice hands-and-thighs position.

Anyway, without further ado, here are his "official" 5 month photos.

Picture time? Again? Okay!


Eating my toes is still my favorite-est thing.


Man. It is so much fun being 5 months old! I crack myself up.


(I had to include this one to show off his new hair. He's got a lot more growing
in, and it looks like a crew cut right out of the 1950s. It's hilarious.)


Hmm. Bear or Demonjello. Bear or Demonjello...


I choose BEAR!
(Bear was full of slobber... er, love, within a few short minutes.)

Finally, more with the toe-eating. This cracks me up.