Tom is 5 months old today!
This month has been great and horrible. It has been horrible because Tom got sick for the first time. He had a fever of 102-104 for about 4 days. The doctors said it was probably just a virus that is going around. But it was not fun. Poor Tom was so hot, fussy and projectile vomiting. He was only sleeping in 1-2 hour increments. And after he was done being sick he was still having trouble sleeping and waking up every couple hours. Sometimes he would only sleep for a half hour. I don't know if it was all this heat we were having or what, but we slept in the basement to try to stay cool. It has been a couple of weeks now and he is getting closer to sleeping for 8 hours again.
It was also a great month though. Tom went to the beach for the first time, and he also tip toed around in the pool to survive this heat wave. He also went to Long Beach for the first time.
Tom has also advanced a lot this month. He is moving around on his play mat a lot. I really have to watch him now because he moves further and faster. Here is him running into the couch. You can now get him to giggle and funny faces and sounds. He is gripping his toys really well now. He grabs on to them and shakes them around. He has been really teething and chews on anything within his reach. He has been doing a lot of chewing on his hand and he is sort of figuring out sucking just on his thumb. He is loving music and gets really excited when he hears it. This is his favorite song right now. Thanks Mindy!
His biggest development this month was that he started eating some rice cereal. It has been a pretty slow process because he does not eat much unless daddy feeds it to him. He eats it great but I think it is boring to him. I think he sees and smells all the interesting food we are eating and wants that instead. Eric let him smell a container of chocolate someone had and apparently he went crazy just from the smell. As far as the vitamin drops the doctor told us we had to use he does not like it at all. I think we are going to have to wait until we can mix it in with something to mask the flavor because mixing it in with a little milk did not make him too happy either. I don't blame him. It smells awful. All feeding times have been challenging lately as he seems to get distracted by any noise or movement. Looking forward to next months exciting new developments.
