Five Months and Wha Wha What?!!!

Talking to momma 

Stats: 21 pounds, 6 ounces
         27 inches long
Clothing size:  I just bought him a couple of shirts that are 18 months and 2T. We have to roll up the long sleeves but the body fits nicely.

Updates:
He is growing out of his infant carseat! We are going to try getting a convertible one coming up here in the next week hopefully. Seriously didn't think I would run into this problem so soon.

His bottom two teeth cut through!!!! Oh my goodness, his smile was already cute and I was like "uh-uh it is not going to ever get cuter than that gumminess" but I gotta say I love those two little teeth. We have been trying "all natural" ways of dealing with the pain- my finger massaging his gums works really wll- it hurts for a minute but after I'm done, he seems to calm down really fast- within 10 minutes. Frozen breast milk seems to be the fave though- I put it in muslin cloth and crush it up and he sucks on the cloth and he already likes milk so having it cold I think helps numb it up.  I don't know though- I'm going to have to find some more ideas because I think there are some more here that are coming soon- we woke up every hour last night to crying baby. Like I said though, just massaging them and frozen milk seem to be helping within 10 minutes so I'm going to keep on doing that along with trying other things.

He does a lot with his lips now- *SMACK!* and sucking them into his mouth.

Here is the "Wha, wha, what" part of my post title:
You are not going to believe this. I almost don't believe it as I'm sitting here typing this. But I knew it in the moment and I knew that baby G knew it and I just can't pretend like it didn't happen:

So...I've been teaching G some sign language: "Milk", "More", and "All Done" along with some other random ones that I learn that I think could be useful to him. Anyway so usually he is nursing on only one side and I always offer the other side, saying "More?" and signing it to him. When he refuses (which he almost always does) I say, "Okay, all done" with the sign to that.

Now because he's been teething I have been letting him nurse to sleep. So on October 12th, 2012, Friday of last week, I was nursing him to sleep. I kept trying to sneakily unlatch him and did a couple of times only to have him root for more comfort. Okay, I thought, he needs it probably because of his poor gums hurting. But on the third time unlatching him I thought he just needs to go to sleep so I put the comfort away. He starts rooting and realizes there is clothing in between his mouth and the comfort he is seeking. Immediately he opens his, what I thought, sleepy eyes, locks his eyes to mine and makes a noise, a noise that he is clearly trying to convey a message to me. It was a simple, clear noise that actually sounded, as clear as daylight, like the word "More."

Shock, bewilderment, amazement, confusion and disbelief. Did he just say...how did he... his first word?...no...

All I can do is act. I take it back out again and stare down at my baby that just talked to me. Not only did he say a word that meant what he wanted, but he said it in such a manner to remove any doubt I would have had that it was just a coincidence  Just have it. I just rocked and let this process. He said it. He said more. I can't believe that was his first word.

Genius baby.

With my beautiful Grandmother

So other than my baby looks like a 1 year old and is already talking to me like he's a little person and has teeth and everything, he isn't walking yet- no worries. He hasn't started solids although I let him try a banana and a pinapple one day which he LOVED but I'm reading this book about Baby Led Weaning which I absolutely love and the thing I am waiting for is him to reach out for the food- I'm so impatient- I just want him to discover all these amazing flavors- which I guess he gets flavors from my milk but I don't know I'm just so excited about it.

He's not jumping yet, but he's getting that he can turn and move around in the johnny jumpup

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Yes, his hair is still sticking up like that. It's his trademark.

Rolling over more consistently now. One time I put him down and immediately over he goes. From front to back. He's tried from back to front but those chubby legs look heavy to lift ha ha.