Five months old!

I can't believe Zachary is five months old today! So much so that I just typed 'Four months old' in the title and then had to change it. The last month especially has gone by so fast!

It seems like he's doing something new every day now. He is such a cheerful baby - always smiling and laughing. He is very interested in the world around him now, which can make feeding time challenging. He has much better control of his hands now and can pick up toys and move them from one hand to another with no trouble. He is just starting to pick up on the "how many times can I drop this and get mom to pick it up?" game. We can always get a good laugh out of him with a few (or twenty) rounds of Peekaboo! He especially likes it if you hide behind something and jump out.

He is almost ready to sit up - he is getting pretty good at "frog sitting", where he sits kind of hunched over with his hands propping him up. We can see him watching the other babies at school and making notes of what they are doing so he can try it out! He can now support himself standing up with us just holding onto his hands, which I just discovered. He loves watching the babies on his Baby Einstein video too. He really likes puppets, especially his fish puppet.

He loves jumping in his activity center and playing with his crinkly toys. He loves to roll around on the floor and crane his neck to see the TV from whatever position we put him down in. He's rolled front to back a few times now but hasn't quite made it back to front. He also loves to fling his legs into the air, grab his feet, and study them.

He's still very vocal - our favorite is "MmmmmmGooo!" :-)

He saw Tabitha's Starbellied Sneetch on her blog and was very jealous. Then lo and behold he opened his Christmas present from Grandmother and there it was! We were very excited. The cool pj's were made by his Aunt Kathleen.

Speaking of being jealous, Tootie went on a rampage when we left him in the house alone the other night. The living room was littered with toys and stuffed animals pulled from every room in the house. There were only a couple of casualties, primarily Zachary's favorite Pooh crinkle book, but most of the injuries were superficial. The Sneetch got it a little bit but after a quick trip through the washing machine was good as new. We still don't know if it was sibling rivalry or stress from the new dogs next door, but he's definitely lost his loose in the house alone priveleges for the time being!