Pax at 5 Months

You little gem. I call you a sugar bear because you growl and roar like a bear, and your dad is clearly a grizzly. 

Eat: You're completely breastfed and snack all day. Sometimes I can hold you out, but most of the time I just offer you breast every 30 minutes or so. You're very interested in food and water though and try to grab them any time their in my hands. On Christmas at exactly 5 months we gave you a piece of a banana in a mesh feeder and you devoured it and fussed like crazy when we took the feeder to clean you up. You're ready. I'm not quite. 

Sleep: We semi sleep trained you but you aren't night weaned so it didn't completely work. At night you go to sleep in crib at 7:30/8 (we put you down drowsy after a nighttime routine and you roll onto your stomach and go to bed on your own). You wake around 12:30 to eat and go right back down, on your stomach. Again at 3. Then at 6am if its a school day we all wake up and take the big kids to school, and if its not a school day you come to my bed where we cuddle until 7:30/8. You take between 3 and 4 naps a day depending on our wake time, and all of them happen in the upright carrier as of now. It's the only way I can get anything done. The few times I've put you in your crib, you wake in 30/45 minutes.

You: You're so close to crawling, it's insane. You get up on your hands and knees and rock every time we set you down, and you can lunge forward once and fall on your belly. We always find you in a different direction and position in your crib. You can make it across the room with a lot of resets. You fuss a lot right now but I think it's because so much is happening at once. You want to grab everything in my hands and your drooling is out of control. You can say BA and a few other consonant-ey sounds. You copy us when we blow raspberries. You know your name and smile when someone looks you in the eyes. And in general you're eager to move and do and be. Your dad says you have "zero chill", meaning you are ready to go and you don't want to sit still. EVER! You love the bath and we've made sure to pour water over your face since you were born so you have no fear.  But just like on land, you want to roll over and crawl and swim and splash, which makes bath time challenging.