Ninjas and five months old

Long overdue blog post, but lately Calvin has decided sleeping through the night is a silly idea, and he's much rather wake up 4 or 5 times. Needless to say, I'm a bit fatigued and therefore haven't done much more then eat, sleep, work, take care of boy for the past six weeks.

For Halloween this year, we dressed Calvin as a Ninja. I let Dave pick the costume, and I really like the fact that he picked something a little less traditional then your typical pumpkin, puppy dog, etc. It was hard to get good pictures. We were running late for our church's Trunk or Treat event that we participate in every year, and once those trick or treaters come, they don't stop! We snapped a few at the beginning, and thanks to the modern invention of photo shop, I can cut and crop them to make them better.

Calvin also turned 5 months old (well..10 days ago he did). I looked at Dave and said to him "We've kept another human being alive for 5 months. We rock". Sometimes I still have to pinch myself to remind me that yes, I do have a son, yes, I am a mom, and yes, he's mine. Craziness.

 four months

Five months

Not a huge change this time, but he's definitely way more solid. When we went to the dr to diagnose his second ear infection (yes...two in a row!) he was 19 pounds. And yesterday we put him on my trusty old scale from college and he was 22 pounds. So, you be the judge! We're definitely in 6 months clothes and I'm using a bunch of hand me down 12 month pants. Silly to buy smaller pants when all you have to do is roll up the legs!

There has been alot going on in our family over the past few weeks as well. In fact, dare I say it, my next post is probably not going to be about the boy and is going to focus a bit more on Dave and I. It's a post I've been writing in my head for several weeks, and I think it will do me good to get out some of my emotions, thoughts, and feelings. And if that means baring my soul to the whole blogger world, so be it.

Close with a few more pics of the boy, though. He's really enjoyed his excersaucer lately, and like any genius child, his favorite toy on the whole contraption....the tag of course.