Our Little Life: The 5.5 Month Old Scooting Crawfish

At 5 months Leo weighed in at 15 lbs 10 ounces and was 27 inches long! He's a very big boy with his super long legs and arms.

Leo is as active as ever! He still loves his jumperoo and now also jumps in his Johnny Jumper (a jumper that connects to the door jam). His new favorite activity is trying to crawl. He can get himself up on all fours and rock around. Usually he manages to make himself scoot backwards (for this reason, Charlie calls him a crawfish) but he has launched himself forward a few times too. We are officially on "crawl" watch in the Schreiner household! We got a great video that I will post soon.

Solid foods continue to go well. He now eats carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, pears, prunes, apples, & bananas. Peas went really well at first and then he decided he didn't like them. I guess we will try again in a week or so. With the exception of the prunes, I am still making the majority of his food. It really is quite easy and saves a TON of money. With Leo's allergies I like knowing EXACTLY what is in his food. We will be venturing on to butternut squash and oatmeal soon.

Leo can also "Roll with Intent" now, that is he has figured out that he can roll himself to get to things he wants. Usually what he wants is Cooper :)

We have our first tooth!!! I noticed that his gums looked like they were breaking on Sunday 1/24, by Monday you could feel a sharp point and then on Tuesday you could actually see it. It's not all the way in but its slowly making it's way through.

Most of these pictures don't really show it off, but Leo got his first hair cut! He had this goofy chunk of hair on top that was a ton longer than the rest of his head. He can now pull off a super cute spiky doo!

Here are pictures from the last month!