I was doing so well

I started the month doing so well posting all the time, and then things got busy and it's been over a week now. At least I've kept up on my thankful list, right?

My baby boy turned 5 months old on Wednesday, where does time go?

Here's his 5 month snapshot...



He seems to be right on the edge of doing a whole bunch of new things now.
He CAN roll both ways, he just doesn't always want to. He's rolled from tummy to back quite a bit, but he still prefers to just lay there and scream with his face in the blanket when he's done being on his belly. Silly boy. He's rolled from back to belly once now, and he was trying again today. I think he uses that one more when he sees something he wants that he can't reach. He doesn't really like being on his belly, so he doesn't do it as much.
He's also starting to grab toys, although he's not very good at it yet.

Here are some recent random pictures of him from the last couple weeks. :)

His favorite thing to do now... stand on our laps.



Hanging out in his bumbo seat with some new toys



Playing in his exersaucer



I think we may have a thumb sucker on our hands. He still takes his paci to sleep with, but he's really starting to get his thumb more and more now.





I'm still doing the no dairy thing, with no change yet. It'll be 2 weeks next Tuesday, so I'm still hopeful that we'll see a change around that time. Amazingly enough I'm not missing cheese as much as I thought I would. I just feel stupid for starting this during February when there's Valentines Day and a whole bunch of birthdays (including mine!). I keep promising myself that if this doesn't work I'll make myself a cheesecake in March. lol I think it will be easier to do if I know it's working. Right now I'm doing it and not seeing results, so that's hard, I just can't wait until the 2-4 weeks is up and I know one way or the other.

Anyway... here are a couple other pictures that are not of N, lol

R loves to draw on his magnadoodle, his favorite thing to draw? Playgrounds (this is a slide, swing, and ladder I think)



M trying on some new clothes for the summer



I thought this was funny. I took it as we were making dinner the other night. All 3 kids doing completely different things, but in the same picture. M was listening to music on her headphones and totally ignoring us (a glimpse into the teenage years?), R was hard at work on some art, and N was swinging away.



And finally, a picture of my redone photo wall. All black and white, and all matted now. I love it!! (and those are the baskets I got for the kids art, they won't really be going there, I just had them out to see if they would look okay next to each other).