Bacon Bits: March 2014

March 2, 2014: Jack is 5 months old!

Well, Jack made up for his lack of growth this month. Just by my estimates, the kid is huge. Those measurements aren't exact, and are probably a little low. I feel it in my back when I carry him. What a pork chop! We also have some REAL hair! It's very thin, and very blonde, so it doesn't show up in pictures much. But boy, it sure is growing. Marc jokes that he has even sprouted his first back hair. Being a mix of Bacon and Weldy, I can look past the joke and even consider it's validity.

Jack is SO MUCH FUN. He is so happy. His smile is painful. It's painful because it is impossible to emulate the happiness he exerts through his big beautiful eyes and that toothless smile. It makes you feel weak, helpless. BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH! He is such a hoot now. His personality is definitely showing through. He does this thing where he stares at you when you are talking to him, almost like he is judging you, then raises his eyebrows way high, almost like he is saying "JUST KIDDING! That really was a great story. I truly enjoyed it. I was just messing with you with that whole judging thing. You're great. Let's hug."

In all honesty, this month has kind of been a blur to me. Work is pretty awful and I get a mere hour with happy Jack before he conks out for the night... so I live for that hour. The weekends are awesome though! He is sleeping through the night from 7:00 PM to 5:00 AM with a few pacifier pops

(this is difficult to write since now, on our way to 6 months, he is no longer sleeping through the night.) He started eating solids, and when I say solids, I mean gooey rice cereal and yummy bananas. It wasn't too difficult to get him to eat (again, Weldy/Bacon.) He does require a second spoon to play with, otherwise things get rather messy.

He is also very keen on his schedule. Get him one minute off, and you pay for it all night. I learned that the hard way one night... and I'll never do it again. I guess you can learn a lot from an infant. My bedtime has routinely been around 9:00 at night, and the quality of my day is much better. Although I don't get 4 hours of napping like he does.

Jack is also sitting (literally!) at the big boy table at daycare! That was an exciting thing for me to see... for a long time, when I drop him off, the other kids all sit at the cool table but Jack just wasn't there yet. Now, he's hanging with the wolf pack. I am really pleased with our experience at daycare. He loves his teachers and his friends. I've never once left him there feeling sad or guilty; he is always so happy to be there. Picking him up is always fun too, he smiles from ear to ear as soon as he sees you. But then he becomes a terrorist if you break his schedule. So beware.

We did have quite a few snow days this month... we got pretty antsy hanging out in the house for 5 days straight. This is when we got Jack onto a solid nap schedule. Is that worth the 30 minutes added to each school day? Undecided. But we got to play in some more snow (Jack was still unimpressed, he saw way more snow in Chicago for Christmas) and we did A LOT of snuggling and playing.

I can't believe my little monkey is almost 6 months old. Everyone always says that time goes by quickly... but seriously. Time is going by WAY too fast. I dislike the speed in which things are moving. I want him to be this age forever. But I know it is just going to get better and better every day :)

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from Jack's 5th month in our lives: