Fun Times as a Five Month Old

The little man can sit. At first he was just a tripod, but by 5.5 months he was legitimately sitting up. This makes photo sessions a lot more fun for us both. Actually, it makes everything more fun other than when I forget to keep a hand on him and he bonks himself into a toilet or bookshelf. He also got started on baby food toward the end of the month. Pumpkin wins his top favorite. Green beans were a fail- how you can gag on puree is baffling but he did it.



My wonderful Samford friend, Mary, lives in Huntsville. Her husband deployed to Afghanistan last October and I've been terrible in not visiting her at all so Jackson and I drove up for some fun with Mary and Hannah. She lent us all kinds of baby things so part of our trip was to return what we aren't using so it didn't make the move with us to Greenville. Mostly it was just an excuse to have some girl time and catch up. I'm going to need to be able to teleport Mary to SC every so often!



Jackson also went swimming for the first time while we were at the hotel on our house hunting trip! He loved it and I am SO glad he is a water baby. It's a good thing the pool was indoors seeing as how both he and Matt are virtually translucent. Bless their hearts.

Even though we had to take it down after two weeks, the weather was so nice we put up the swing Great Gran sent for Christmas. The first time I put him in it a giant wasp buzzed by and I whisked Jackson out so fast it scratched his leg. Pretty sure that's the best way to instill a fear of the swing. It was short lived thankfully, and now he is happy to swing as long as you will push him.