Celebrating 5 months old in California

Today our baby boy is five months old. Each month surprises me more and more. I can't believe our boy is 5 months already. He is a beautiful, charming, funny, sassy, happy, growing boy! Last night Jay got off work at 6:30 and by 7:30, we were in the car on our way to Windsor, California. Every year my dad, Lori, Jacob, me, and now Jay and Carter spend a few days at a Worldmark resort about an hour north of San Francisco. We swim a ton, go to Giants games, and play in San Francisco. We decided to drive all night instead of waiting to leave till Monday. We didn't want to miss out on any of our days here. Carter slept for about an hour and a half, ate, slept another three hours, ate, and slept the next 5 hours until we got here. He was amazing!! I drove about three hours in two segments to give Jay some breaks and he drove the rest of the time. He is an amazing man! We pulled in here at about 6am, fed Carter and we all went to sleep for three hours. Then we were able to spend our day here rather than driving. We took Carter swimming for the first time and he loved it! He loved splashing and kicking at the water. His first time swimming was actually very special for both of us. He is just growing up so much. Last year I was about 12 weeks pregnant when we where here and everything we did I would always think about the next year and how we would have our baby with us...and here we are with our little man. We have had a great day today. When we get home on Saturday I will post pictures, unless I can figure out how to do it here on the laptop. :) Tomorrow we are meeting Jake, Marci, and the kids at Marine World, Six Flags.

And now to talk about our Carter man at 5 months old...
-Carter is all smiles, most of the time!
-He started eating cereal and veggies this month. He loved cereal, butternut squash, green beans, and carrots. He didn't really like peas. I am also trying to make my own baby food which is super fun.
-He has decided he doesn't want to keep sleeping through the night. He goes to bed between 8 and 9 and gets up anywhere from 3 to 7. There is no way of telling when he will wake up but it is getting better.
-He is so good at going to bed. Both naptime and bedtime he just talks in his crib for a couple minutes and then falls right to sleep.
-He rolls all the time. We can't keep him in the same place anymore. Most nights he wakes up on his tummy.
-He actually says mamamama all the time! You might not believe me but he does! I know he doesn't know he is saying mama but he at least has the sound down for sure!
-His face lights up when he sees his mommy or daddy.
-He is constantly talking and making noise. He has figured out how to use his tongue to make raspberry sounds. It is our favorite new thing that he does.
-He is sitting up really well on his own but we stay right there to catch him.
-He has the sweetest personality!
-He is in size 2 diapers and moving into mostly six month clothes. A lot of his 3-6 month clothes still fit him but anything that is only 3 months, he is growing out of and moving onto the 6 month size.
-At 4 1/2 months he weighed 16 lbs. 9 oz and was 25.5 inches long. Weight was in the 70th percentile and height was in the 55th percentile.

Thank you God for giving us this special blessing!