I'm a little late on Brody's 5 Month blog but with the Holiday's and not getting much sleep these days it's been kind of hard getting my brain to function right. He is weighing in at 18 1/2lbs and when we measured him about 2 weeks ago he was a little over 26". He is still just doing most of the stuff he was at 4 months but here they are again. He is still getting 6oz every 3-4 hours, we are still eating greens and he really seems to like green beans the best so far but I'm planning on introducing avocados to him soon, talks to us mostly in the mornings and evenings, is getting really attached to sucking his thumb and even though I'm against that it is so freaking cute, and he is finally showing interests in toys! I didn't think he was ever going to get to the point of holding on or grabbing for his toys but we have a favorite right now. Also when he sucks his thumb he loves to pull his blanket up to his little face and usually he's not happy until I give it to him!! He is not rolling over which bothers me a little but he has before so I'm not extremely worried about it. He's happy on his tummy and his back so I guess he really doesn't feel the need.
Now on to our sleep problems. The reason I'm typing an update for his 5 month blog. I was so sleep deprived that when I went back and looked today I realized I should redo this. Brody has never really been a 100% sleep through the nighter but he was getting pretty good at it. We had about 2 sometimes 3 nights out of the week that he would and the others I would give him his paci and if that didn't help a bottle and he would go right back to sleep. So 11/21/11 is when we woke up to a sick but happy baby so we went to Dr. Winchall since Dimmick was out and she just said it was a common cold and it would pass and did the x-rays and all. I explained all this in my previous post. The cough got a little better but would still get way worse at night and poor baby (and mommy) could not sleep. So we went back on 11/29/11 this time to Dimmick and he just said nothing is wrong cause he is still happy and eating and that he would get over it. I was not happy with that diagnosis at all but 2 different Dr.'s said the same thing so ok. Going on week 3 11/6/11 I took him back to Dr. Winchall cause it was just getting ridiculous already. He would wake up in the middle of the night most nights just screaming and not being able to breathe through his little nose and I hated that. We tried propping his mattress, propping him on his changing pad and propping him on his boppy. The only one that seemed to work was when we propped him on his boppy but then I couldn't sleep cause I was so worried about him rolling off of it or sliding down and getting his little face smushed in there. She looked him over really good and wouldn't you know he had 2 ear infections. She said that is probably prolonging the cold so finally she gave us some antibiotics. He has always seemed to love taking medicine so it hasn't been any problem getting it down him. We have about a 1/4 of the bottle left but I can already tell a major difference at night. Now the only problem is I think he was getting use to being tended to in the middle of the night he still wants to wake up at about 2:30 so we are up but right back asleep with the help of his paci. I'm just glad he doesn't wake up screaming anymore. Thank goodness it looks like the end of this nasty cold and ear infections for us finally.
The next couple weeks are going to be busy for us with all the Christmas fun coming up!! Brody has his very first Christmas gift exchange Friday at school and I am so excited for him!! Right now I think there is only 4 babies in his room so we all drew names. We got the only girl in the class Ally. She is a super cute little red head and I think she is about a month younger than Brody. We went and got her little gift the other day. Then on Saturday we have our first of four family Christmas' not including ours with just us on Christmas Day morning! This year we are having Christmas at Bert's brother Mark's house in Angelton! I'm really excited about going there cause even though Bert and I have been together for 5 years now I have never been to there house. I have told him we need to drive there and visit one day but of course it still hasn't happened. They draw names just between the kids and Brody got Brett and I am still waiting for Bert to get a present because I really don't know what to get a 16 yr old boy. Then next Wednesday is Brody's school Christmas program. The little kids aren't doing anything in it but it will still be fun to go watch. The 22nd is Christmas with my immediate family. The 23rd is Christmas with Dad's side of the family. Then the 25th we will have our very first family Christmas at home. Then the 31st is mom's side of the family Christmas. It's a lot but it will be so much fun as usual but ecspecially now that we have Brody. I don't have any pics to post today but I will have some from all the fun we have coming up.
