5 Months Old

5 Months Old

My Little Giraffe on Halloween

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving!  Ours was very busy but great.  I was nervous about how Ramey would handle such a long and eventful day, but he did great.  At 11, we went to the Harrison family Thanksgiving at Mamaw's (Harry's grandmother) retirement home.  Aunt Janie and the family rented out the little building at Copperlake and we had 31 people there for Thanksgiving.  I had to quadruple my green bean casserole recipe to have enough.  Ramey did great and loved looking around at everyone and being passed around and seeing new faces.  He started to get a little cranky since he needed his nap, but refused to nap since so much was going on around him and he didn't want to miss anything.  I put him in the moby wrap and almost got him to sleep but he still fought it.  He wasn't fussy anymore once I had him wrapped up but still no sleep.  We left around 2 and as soon as the car door shut he was asleep.  We came home and I fed him and he fell asleep on me for 2 hours. Then once he woke up, I fed him and we headed to Nini's house in Moore.  We had a good time there with the whole Wilson family and Uncle Tom's side of the family.  Then we came back home and Ramey again crashed as soon as we got in the car.  It was a great day and a wonderful first Thanksgiving for our little turkey!

I am LOVING being a stay at home mom! I am so glad that I am able to stay home with my little guy.  We read books, practice rolling over (lol), play with toys, go on walks when it is nice, run errands, and have lots of play dates.  We try to have a play date a week!  So if you want to have a play date, let me know!

Ramey is now rolling over!!!! He went first from back to tummy.  Normally babies go from tummy to back first.  But he goes mostly from tummy to back.  He has only done back to tummy a few times.  But now that he knows he can flip back to his back when he wants he likes tummy time.  He likes to play with his toys when he is on his tummy because he can see all of the toys out in front of him and can grab whichever one he wants.  He definitely has a little mind of his own.  If we are sitting on the couch, he will lean over and grunt and groan and stretch as far as he can to get a certain toy.  If I had him a different toy he will complain until he gets the one he wants.

He has been sleeping in his swing during the days and I decided that after Thanksgiving we would work on getting him to sleep in his mini-crib in our room since we had a few days with nothing scheduled so we could just work on sleep!  Well the first day, it took about 45 minutes for his first nap. He wasn't crying but just whining.  I would go in every 5 minutes to let him know it was okay to go to sleep and he finally went to sleep.  The 2nd nap of the day only took 9 minutes! But the 3rd nap took an hour.  The next day, the first nap too 17 minutes, then 8 minutes, then 2 minutes!!! Then today was even better!  I couldn't believe it.  His first nap took 2 minutes, then 2 minutes, then 1 minute!  Hopefully it keeps going this well.  I try to keep everything the same so he knows exactly what is going to happen and knows what to expect.  I read somewhere that some people do alot of activities and then just expect the babies to go straight to sleep.  So you need to do a wind down activity.  So we go into my bedroom and read a book or two to let him know that the nap is coming.  Hopefully when we move him to his own room at 6 months it goes this well.

Ramey has been doing great sleeping at night.  He goes to sleep at 8, dream feeds at 10:30 then has been sleeping until 7:15!  He sometimes still wakes up around 4:30 or 5:30 and eats and if he does then he sleeps until 8:30.  He did have the "4 month sleep regression" and was waking up every 2 hours or so and we could sing and rock him back to sleep after about 15 minutes.  That went on for a couple of weeks but now he is back to being a good sleeper, thank goodness.  But I think he is teething now, so he gets a little cranky for no reason during the day.

And I'm still exclusively breastfeeding!!! I am very proud of myself because it hasn't always been easy but this little guy hasn't had a drop of formula!  My goal is a year, but anything past 6 months I will be very happy with!

At our 4th month well-baby appointment, we decided we needed to get an ultrasound to check to see if Ramey's spinal cord was tethered. Well we had our appointment and Ramey HATED the ultrasound.  He was screaming and crying the hardest he has ever cried.  I was just hoping they got an image that they could see if it was tethered or not because he was squirming so much.  The doctor called me on Monday, his ultrasound was on a Friday, and let me know that he was perfect and that we didn't have to worry about that ever again!  Glad to have it done and over with!

I saw some cute pictures on Pinterest that made me want to have a little Christmas photo shoot.  Here are some of the pictures we took!  I love how they turned out but I think I will have my dad take some because he has a really nice fancy camera and is a great photographer!

My sister and Ryan are new homeowners!!! They built a new home in Deer Creek and moved in on November 17th!  We are very excited because they are only 5 minutes away and even has a spot in their house where Ramey's mini crib is going to go once he is in his crib in his room at our house.  What a great Auntie and Uncle.


Here is our monthly list...

5 Months

November 25, 2012

15 lbs- from our home scale

Shakes head back and forth while fighting to go to sleep

Talk and moans when falling asleep in his swing or carseat

Grabs for feet and loves rolling to the side started on November 12th

Rolls over!!!!

From back to tummy on November 13^th- a few times only

From tummy to back on November 16^th – all the time!

Started reaching for people on November 16^th

Grandma was the first one he reached for!

Grabs for toys and yells about it if he doesn’t get the toy he wants

Teething- bottom two teeth

Very interested in people food and tries to grab whatever is in our hands

Sucks on Mommy’s chin and nose

Still loves Jay (formerly known as Dottie and Sophie the Giraffe)

Laughs a lot without being tickled

Laughs at silly voices, when we yell, when we run at him, when he rubs on cheeks

Loves his taggie blanket

Bounces a lot in activity center

Likes his ball with the holes in it because it is so easy to grab

Eats very quickly (15 minutes)

Has started not liking getting dressed but is fine once he is clothed

Loves Ellie and smiles at her when she walks by

Gets very mad if Ellie is close and he isn’t petting her

Still loves the tv

Put up his first Christmas ornament

Was a perfect angel at both Thanksgivings

Loves being wrapped in the Moby Wrap and if he is upset will immediately calm down once his 2^nd leg is secure

Likes to play with a toy in the bath tub

Doesn’t like getting his nighttime massage anymore

 Old but here it is... My Little Giraffe on Halloween