Five months!

Jack is five months today! He changes so much and so quickly, but there are a few personality traits that has stuck with our little one.

He's focused: Jack decides what he feels like doing and focuses on that. When he was a baby he loved looking at our vintage travel posters in our rooms. If you were holding him and you turned around, he would often strain his neck just so he could keep looking at the same picture. He's still that way now focusing o
n one toy or task at a time and you won't have any luck distracting him with another bright, shiny object.

He loves his daddy's voice: From the very beginning his daddy's voice always makes him turn his head. If mommy is holding him and daddy starts talking Jack often turns his head towards his voice and smiles.

He loves hanging out mommy and daddy together: Just like all parents we are juggling many different things so often one of us has Jack duty and the other is getting something done. We noticed around 3 months that he smiles a lot more when he sees both of us are with him. We try to put him to bed together every night.

Don't get between him and a bottle: When Jack is hungry he must be fed immediately. There is no one minute or even one second. He needs to eat NOW.

He's a bit of a chatterbox: This one likes to talk. He'll go for several minutes just telling us about something that he feels we need to know. He also likes to join in conversations between mommy and daddy too. Oh...and he likes to scold us if we don't feed him on time. A few times at nap time or bed time we'll catch him mumbling in his pacifier as he drifts off to sleep.

He's careful: He can be wary or new things and situations and often looks to mommy or daddy for reassurance that this is ok. He actually does ok with new people as long as we are in the room. If he remains the same way as he is now, I won't ever have to worry about Jack getting in to a stranger's car.

He loves being naked: One of his favorite times of day is bath time. I think partly because of the warm water and partly because he is in his birthday suit. He also gets very excited when you change his diaper because he thinks this might be the time when he gets to hang out in just his diaper. It's been too cold lately for that, but the baby likes being sans clothing.