Dear Jackson,
You are five months old! I know I say this every month, but
I can’t believe how fast time is flying by! This month you have hit so many
milestones and grown so much. Here are your stats for the month:
Weight: 17 lbs. 4 ounces
Height: 26 in +
Diapers: Size 3 during the day and size 4 overnight
Clothes: 3-6 jammies and onesies, 6 month jammies and
onesies, and some 6-9 month pants.
You got your first tastes of baby purees this month. Your
first food was sweet potatoes, and you really didn’t seem like you enjoyed it
too much. You kept making funny faces and looking at us like you were
disgusted. It was so cute! You have also tried carrots, bananas, apples, and
pears. So far though you have only really seemed to enjoy the fresh avocado
that your Aunt Rachel mashed up for you at Christmas. You loved that so much
you kept pulling the spoon back to your mouth! Mommy also had to start weaning
you from breastfeeding this month, and you took to formula like a champ! I
started out putting only one ounce of formula in a mostly breastmilk bottle,
and you drank it with no problems. Now you are almost fully on formula and I
only nurse you at night before bed. It makes me sad to give it up, but it’s so
fun for Daddy and other people to feed you now too! You get so excited when you
see your bottle and pull it towards you!
You are a super baby when it comes to hitting milestones,
Jax! You have really mastered lots of social interactions this month like
peek-a-boo, belly laughing, and talking up a storm. You have even started
squealing when you are playing. As far as physical milestones, you are still a
rolling machine, but about a week before Christmas you started doing something
new: getting up on your knees and hands and rocking back and forth! Sweet boy,
I wasn’t ready for you to want to crawl yet, but you are taking off! You
started by pulling yourself around a blanket, but last night you pulled with
your arms and pushed with your legs for about 20 feet! As soon as you get your
arms and legs coordinated, you’ll be gone! Everyone is so surprised when I tell
them that you are only 5 months and are starting to crawl already. We are so
proud of you!
This month you got to celebrate your first Christmas. It was
so special to have you with us and to see you open your gifts (with our
help!). We spent the few days before
Christmas with the Renes family at Aunt Rachel and Uncle Dave’s house in
Topeka. We all built gingerbread houses, ate lots of food, and opened so many
presents! You have such a wonderful, big, fun family! Then on Christmas Eve we
drove 8 hours down to Jackson to see Mommy’s family. You spent your first
Christmas Day at Pop and GiGi’s house, and you opened your presents from Mommy
and Daddy there too. Unfortunately you only slept for about 30 minutes the whole
afternoon, so we fought the grouchiness at your Great-Grandma’s house before
finally going home. That night it snowed, and snowed, and snowed! Since you
woke up sick we didn’t go out in it, but it was your first time seeing that
beautiful white stuff outside.
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| Christmas 2012 |
The day after Christmas was a big day for you. You cut your
first tooth (the bottom right one), and you came down with your first real
cold. Your nose started running and a few days later you developed a very nasty
cough. You were still happy and played a lot, but sleeping was hard, so you
slept in your Rock-n-Play in our room again for a few nights. You didn’t run a
fever, so we waited to take you to the doctor. Finally, after a week or so, I
took you in just to have the doctor look at your ears and listen to your
coughs. Turns out that you had some congestion in your chest, so the doctor
wrote us a prescription for a nebulizer and now we are giving you breathing
treatments at home. You don’t mind them too bad, and they have been helping
your cough go away.
Your favorite toy this month is your Jumperoo. You have
learned that you can bounce, bounce, bounce, and you don’t want to stop! You
also love to chew on a wet washcloth, Sophie, and other teethers. You always
want one of your blankies and if we start to hand you one, you reach for it and
get really excited. Then you rub it all over your face. It is the cutest thing!
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| Aww, love the puppy! |
Our lives are so much fuller and happier with you in them,
sweet baby. We love you forever.
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