You've come a long way baby...

A few days ago our little monkey turned 5 months old. I can hardly believe that just 5 months ago they rushed us in for an emergency c-section and introduced us to our son. We celebrated 5 months with a trip to the cardiologist who decided that we can start weaning Sawyer off one of his heart medicines! That's a whole month earlier than we expected to even start discussing if coming off any of the medicines was an option. She said that Sawyer was making great progress and sounding good. Even better, we're weaning off the medicine he gets three times a day, as in the one he gets at 6am, 2pm, and 10pm. Because if you have kids you know, there's nothing better than waking a sleeping baby. Fortunately for us Sawyer sleeps through taking his medicine but we figured it was just a matter of time before he would actually wake up and not want to go back to sleep. Hopefully in about 5 - 6 months we'll be done with that medicine and just down to one and that one won't require waking the sleeping baby! The cardiologist visit was such a yay God moment: to be reminded that everything was taken care of in such a way to protect Sawyer's health while he developed before birth, during birth, and afterwards so that we have our own little miracle - a healthy, happy son.

We love our baby so much and can't believe how big he is. He's already pushing out the feet on his 6 month sleepers and I had to go buy shorts in the 6 - 9 month size because his current ones were too short for him. At his 4 month checkup he was still in the 75% for length and we think he's had a couple of growth spurt since then. He's a happy baby that loves to talk and play. He adores his dad and is already watching Mike's every move. Lately he's become fascinated with the dog and will watch Apollo all day long. About a month and a half ago we saw the first tooth bud in Sawyer's mouth and in the last couple of weeks teething behavior has gotten into full swing. He prefers to chew on his hands and our fingers instead of his chew toys still though. And I'm starting to teach him that nursing and chewing do not go together. Mommy is not a chew toy!

He can roll from his back to his side and from his stomach to his back. He doesn't like tummy time and once he learned to roll over it's been hard to get any tummy time with him. That's actually our theory for why he won't roll all the way over - why go from his side to his stomach when he knows he doesn't like it there. He has strong legs though and loves to stand. We think he may be an early walker so heaven help us! Sawyer still sleeps part of the night with us. He starts out in his bed and then I bring him to bed with us during the night. I'm not ready to stop waking up to his big happy grins in the morning. He'll only be little for a while. Plus sleeping with us means that he pretty much sleeps through the night and what parent in their right mind wants to give that up?

I took Sawyer's 5 month photos the other day but haven't gotten them edited yet. They'll be up soon and I'll post the link. Here he is though with my Uncle Bob and Aunt Dixie when we saw them a few weeks ago in Oklahoma.