5 months

Happy birthday baby! Today you are 5 months old. Time is really flying by.
Here are your milestones baby boy:

• Weight: 13.5 lbs
• Height: 23.5 inches
• We baptized you on August 31st during the 9:30 traditional service at Clear Lake United Methodist Church. Rev. Tony Vinson was the one who baptized you. It was a very special day and you had a lot of people come to see it. All of mommy and daddy's Sunday School class was there, your Grandparents the Benjamins and the Olivers were there as well. It was made extra special because your Great-Grandma Sarah Hale was able to come as well. Mommy was so happy that she was able to come and see you on your special day. Afterwards, we had a party at League Park. We cooked hot dogs and hamburgers and had cake. Mommy and daddy invited the Olsens and Carina took lots of pictures for us. We will cherish them always. All of the pictures turned out great!
• Can roll over from tummy to back only when you REALLY want to. If we are playing on the floor and you roll over to your tummy, you get very mad trying to get back and you cannot do it. However, at night when you are sleeping, you can manage to make it back.
• You started making raspberry noises. 2 weeks ago, you started making ahhh sounds. We love talking back and forth to you.
• You now sleep through the night (for the most part). You go to bed at 10:30, wake up at 4:30 or 5, go back to bed after nursing, and get up again around 7.
• You have started teething. Everything goes into your mouth, including our fingers, and you proceed to chew. You drool all the time and sometimes you do not sleep good at night. We can see your gums protruding with the front top two teeth and the bottom three teeth.
• Your newest adventure was evacuating from Hurricane Ike. We went to Ft. Worth and stayed with your MiMi who was there on business.
• You have discovered your hands and feet.
• You can now hold toys and are even starting to reach out and grab toys from us. You hold your loop with keys on it with both hands (and then continue to put them in your mouth).

We will be posting pictures (I promise) soon.