5 Months!

Man, it was hard to get good pictures this month! Owen is a mover and a shaker, so it seems like every single picture has a little bit of a blurry spot.

Some things about Owen:

• Nicknames: Buggie, Little Bug, Owie, Baby O, Bubbaloo, Munchkin
• Has definitely discovered his feet.  He LOVES to hold them and more recently, suck on them.
• Has a natural mohawk. I think I am going to cut it because it is just a little circle on his head that has loooong hair. The rest of it is really short. So it's either sticking straight up or gelled all funky.
• FINALLY a little closer to getting on a set sleep schedule. It took a lot of work!  After 3 straight days of screaming for 1+ hours without success (I ended up just getting him out) I was about ready to give up.  Then the next day, I put him in and he fell right to sleep!  We started with naps and then worked our way up to night sleeping.  I was really nervous to put him to bed awake for the night, but like a champ, he went right to sleep.  He still wakes up a little bit in the night.  Unfortunately he is a little unreasonable in the middle of the night and a binky will not suffice!  If it is before 3 am, I try to make him cry himself to sleep, but sometimes it is just easier to feed him and he will sleep until the morning. The last few nights he has done AWESOME, so I am hopeful we are getting close! (I probably just jinxed myself-). ...(I wrote this a few days ago, and yep... I jinxed myself. The next night he was up SIX times.  I don't really know what to do since he will go to sleep completely on his own, but still wakes up?)
• Along with sleeping better, he is so much happier! It makes my days a lot more pleasant.
• Has discovered spitting. Right now, it is really cute but I am sure that isn't going to last very long :)
• He has been able to stick his tongue out of his mouth, so now I am reconsidering clipping his tongue next month.
• Soooo close to sitting up. I can tell he wants to so bad. When he is laying down, he tries to lift his head up to sit up. However, he can't quite hold himself up. He either arches his back or leans too far forward.
• Rolls and rolls and rolls.  I lay a quilt down for him to play on, but he doesn't last long on it. He is also all over his crib.  I put him in facing one way and he usually ends up on the opposite end, facing the opposite direction and wedged in the corner.
• Suddenly loves his binky again. It was like one day he just couldn't get enough of it.  It has definitely helped with sleeping!
• SO so so so active. Changing his diaper has become a huge struggle since he is already trying to roll over and get away! I thought I had a few more months. Feeding him is also a challenge. He always has his arm whacking up and down. And when he eats his rice cereal, I feel like I need to eat a bib too.  He whacks it everywhere!
• Even though he is really active, he isn't very loud.  He will make sounds, but he isn't a squawker.  
• Still in 3-6 month clothes and size 2 diapers

See that little tuft of hair? No idea what to do with it.

Toe sucker

Angel baby

Sweet little puppy eyes

Seriously has an obsession with his feet. And pushing against anything he touches.

Next to his feet, his next obsession is his fingers

Lounging

Many faces

Pretty sure this is how he ends up from one end of his crib to the other.