Rodriguez Family Ramblings: 5 Months Old

For some reason every month I still can't believe he is one month older. I guess that is how this whole growing up thing works. So Jake is 5 months old. We have had a lot of new stuff going on and that is going to be going on this month. We made our first baby purchase that I was really sad about. We bought a big boy carseat. Jake hasn't outgrown his infant seat but he would much rather be sitting up and he is too big to carry in it anymore. And with the trip to Michigan we figured he would just be much more comfortable in a bigger carseat.

He has also been rolling a lot more. He apparently remembered how to roll from belly to back this week. But he hasn't figured out that he can go from back to belly and back to his back to get places yet. I am happy about that, I am not quite ready for him to be on the move yet! He has been sleeping much better this week. He has FINALLY started taking longer naps. Although they are not consistently at the same times, he more or less gets in 4.5 hours worth of napping during the day. And he is back to just waking up once during the night to eat and going right back to sleep. We have been trying to get to the pool at least twice a week to get Jake in the water. He still likes it and just completely relaxes, followed by lots of splashing himself in the face.

Jake got his first boo boo in a Cosmo v. Jake incident. Jake was laying on our bed and I was playing with him and Cosmo jumped up onto the bed but didn't quite jump high enough so just got her front paws up and was trying to get her back paws on the bed and accidently scratched Jake's leg. He was fine for a few seconds then started screaming and it took a minute for me to get him calmed down. He has three little scratches on the bottom of his leg, but nothing too horrible. I figure this is the first of many, many boo boos for him!

So new things at 5 months for Jake:

Sits up alone for 10-15 seconds
Rolls back to belly and belly to back consistently
Sleeping on his belly most of the time now, we put him on his back and he flips over
He has a big boy carseat (although we haven't started using it yet)
He would much rather be sitting up or playing on the floor most of the time, but when he wants to be held he is vocal about it
He likes to chew on his spoons while he sits in the highchair and we eat dinner (no solids yet though)
Better naps!
He has been making a lot of new noises us, he is always surprising us and sometimes himself with the random sounds
He thinks peek-a-boo is hilarious, Cosmo is not a fan of this game

Now for pictures!

More than being bigger, I can tell he is getting older because this is the first time I have taken this picture that he has been interested in the monkey sitting next to him