5 Months!

Holy Cow! Where does the time go??  Honestly, I can't believe it.  My little Derek is now 5 months old!  This little guy is seriously the sweetest baby.  Everywhere I go people ask me, "is he always like this?"  Yes, yes he is!  Calm and contented.  He weighs 16 lbs now and is 27 inches long which means he's tall and skinny for his age.  We just started feeding him some banana/rice cereal and he's not all that interested, but we keep trying anyway.  Derek has just recently found his voice, he babbles and squeals all the time.  It is sort of high pitched, which makes me think he's upset, then I look at him and he's totally fine, just listening to himself.  He rolls over and has started putting things in his mouth, so I have to watch closely in case Jacob has left something hazardous on the floor.  Derek is also teething.  I suspected this about a month ago when we went to my brother's wedding.  We started getting a fusser and a drooler.  Sure enough, I can feel that tooth, but nothing has popped through yet.  Unlike Jacob, Derek likes it when I rub his gums with my finger, so that's helpful.  I've had a hard time getting him to take a teething ring, but I suspect that has more to do with his small mouth than anything else.  Derek LOVES to sit up straight.  He's so close to sitting up on his own, but my mom got him a Bumbo this week and that really helps him to sit up.