Elijah is now 5 months old, I can hardly believe it.
Life as a SAHM (for those of you who don’t know that lingo, thats “stay at home mom”) has been wonderful. Each day I get to spend my days with the two best guys in the world, my loving husband and my growing baby! I get to wake up to my son crying at 6:30am to eat, but then get to go back to sleep until he wakes me up by having conversations with himself in bed. I feed him again, change his diaper and put on his outfit, then we go up and visit his daddy who works upstairs on our third floor. We then head downstairs get some breakfast, then I put Eli in his bouncer and we sit outside on the deck and enjoy the weather. Most of our day I try to fit in housework and laundry, run errands, make lunch and dinner, and watching Elijah learn new things.
At this point Eli has begun to really start vocalizing. He puts his thumb in the side of his mouth, we really aren’t sure why, and starts babbling. Its great. He knows how to roll over from his stomach to his back, however, he has not rolled over on his own for about a month. I think I just likes being on his stomach now and looking around, he really pushes himself up well. When he lays on his back, he really likes pulling his legs up to his chest and rolling onto his side, but he has yet to completely roll over that way. In the next few days I plan to start him on some rice cereal. I’m nervous because that means my boy is growing up! He really likes to pull things to his mouth at all times, be it my cell phone, my hand, my arm, his burp cloth, any of the toys on his exersaucer, but not his feet yet! Speaking of the exersaucer, he really has begun to figure how to to maneuver around and enjoys spinning the spinny thing.
Another new thing for Eli is all the pool time hes been getting! We try each weekend to get him to either of his grandparents’ pools. Some friends are housesitting and we have frequented that pool as well. He has been dunked twice, both times not making him very happy. They say you should blow in the baby’s face so they breathe in, then dunk them. Well, this little guy does not really breath in. He is not swallowing the water but he is definitely surprised, shocked and a little upset. He opens his eyes really wide, sticks his tongue out and kicks his legs, haha. I have not been able to dunk him myself. I usually just take him afterwards, which is when he launches a snot rocket after me.
Overall, life is good. I love my life, my husband, and my son. Motherhood is the best.