The Telford Family: FIVE Months

How fitting that on Valentine's Day, Q turns 5 months old. So cliche, I know, but, "I can't believe that he is already five months".

It is hard for me to remember what we've "accomplished" since last month. We started rice cereal and then veggies. He has done great with both. So far we given him green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, and peas. He likes all of them. He dives for the food. Before I can get the spoon to his mouth he is diving towards me with mouth wide open!

He weighs 15lbs! Unbelievable! He is wearing some 12 month clothes. We are totally done with most 3-6 month items and the 9 month clothes seem to be fitting the best right now. Tex, his aunt, has sent him so many clothes that we've only worn each item about once! I can't wait until he can see her again. She sent him this little striped button up and the sleeves were rolled up, very preppy. Some of the pictures below he is wearing it. The onsie underneath, from GiGi, says, "Boys: Noise with dirt on it".

He is a very good baby. He hardly ever cries. And, he hardly ever takes a nap! But we are working on that. He is sleeping through most nights. That means to us that we don't have to get up with him for hours at a time throughout the night. We may have to get up and give him his pacifier or pat him on the back, but we don't pick him up or feed him. We are really glad about this!

He likes to watch TV, especially commercials where it is just one person, mostly focused on his face. The other day I was holding him, talking, and he looked away from me at the TV and got the biggest grin ever on his face. I looked up to see Hallie Berry doing a lipstick commercial, smiling really big. I laughed. Q likes the pretty ones. He was also pretty enamored with Sarah Palin. In those days she was the most beautiful thing on TV, we were so tired of looking at wrinkly old men with sour attitudes. Even though her voice could be annoying, she was pretty.

Quincy is getting tuned in to what is going on around him more so than before. He notices the dogs...they both run by him in a flash, he can hardly keep up. Jack will run up to him and give him a wet willie and then run off. Bella just hops around him. Both dogs have eaten their share of baby food. Many times after we feed Quincy we forget to put the food left up and the dogs jump on the coffee table and lick it clean. So last night we put him in his high chair for the first time. He didn't like it too much. We'll try that again in a few days I guess.