Be Mine.

Happy Valentine's Day!

We admit it, we're not really the Valentine's Day type. Overpriced dinner, flowers, hallmark sentiments - not really for us. But give us a Maximilian decked out in hearts and we're in the mood for love. He's certainly reason enough for celebration. We spent the day just like any other though; lots of giggles and laughs.

Today we had a nurse come to the house to weigh Max. He had a very small dip in his weight between two of his recent doctor appointments, so they wanted to make sure the changes we made to his feeds were doing the trick. He seems to have caught right up, gaining half a pound and growing an inch in 2 weeks. He's now finally broken free of the 11 pound bracket and is now weighing in at 12lbs. For a "5 month old" this is still pretty small, but we were reminded that in relation to his height, his weight is appropriate. We looked up the charts, and sure enough, while his height and weight seperately aren't on the chart yet, his height in relation to weight is roughly in the 40th percentile. So he's growing nicely on his own curve. He's happy, healthy and full of energy, so we have no reason for concern.

Max is hitting some new milestones lately, and improving on others - he seems to be doing something new nearly every day. He's incredibly vocal, and is always "talking" and "singing" to us and his toys - this is usually accompanied by the latest dance move. Max has reached that age where everything seems to find its way into his mouth. We're really starting to wonder how much longer we're going to wait to see a tooth errupt - he's often feverishly gnawing on his hands (or ours). His core strength is developing well, and Max is getting more steady at sitting; although more often he'd rather show off his standing skills - he loves standing! For the longest time he protested greatly to tummy time (like many babies) and we couldn't keep him on his belly for too long, as he'd inveitably throw up. He's become much more tolerant of tummy time and has finally rolled over. He startled himself the first time he did it, but went back for two more rolls before he broke out crying. We think it was a good start. When playing on his back he tries quite hard to launch himself backward with his heels - this may be a family trait, as his Uncle Cameron crawled this way, back arched, head to the floor. We've already told Max that he has to grow back the one bald spot before he acquires another though, so he should really work on that front crawl instead.

All in all, Max is a super happy baby. He's making the winter hibernation quite tolerable.

 

P.S. We did promise a video in our last post - it's in the works!