Five Months

Bennett is now five months old. We don't have a doctor's appointment until he's six months, so we're not sure how big he is, but he is definitely growing. At five months, Bennett:

- is ticklish. Sometimes when I'm just changing his clothes he'll start laughing because his armpits get tickled. I gue

ss he takes after his mom.

- likes his dad. If Bennett's eating and Nate says someth

ing, he'll stop and look for Nate, and sometimes just stare at him.

- likes looking at faces, even mine - which he sees every day. He likes to reach out and grab my mouth or touch my face.

- has a strong grip. I finally gave up and put my hair in a ponytail

yesterday because he kept grabbing it and pulling on it. He seems fascinated by my hair too - he'll pull some and just stare at it, especially if it's wet.

- still doesn't roll over from his back to his stomach, but likes to play on his side

- loves to play with his feet, although he hasn't

figured out how to get them in his mouth yet

- for some reason, he likes it when I rub my hands together. If I use hand sanitizer after changing his diaper (and I say "if" because I usually just wash my hands instead), he smiles and sometimes laughs when I'm rubbing it in

- has very funny-looking hair. Where it hasn't fallen out, it's really long (a strip along the top, and the mullet in the back), and where it's coming in again it's looking pretty light.

- still has blue eyes. Nate and I both have blue eyes in our families, but didn't think it was very likely our ki

ds would get blue eyes. They usually say they can change up to 6 months, so we'll see if they change in the next month (although I have heard people say their kids' have changed after that).

He doesn't have too many new "tricks" this month, but he is getting to be more and more fun to play with, and it's fun to see him exploring the world.

(PS - the two non-bumbo pictures were taken in my attempted photo shoots. If I thought my computer could handle it, I'd probably try to modify them in Photoshop Elements, but for now these will have to do. At least I got him smiling.)