Mark is 5 months

I guess for now keeping up with his monthly updates is all I can do on this blog. I want to catch up with more things here but it just isn't happening. Anyways.
Mark is still our little joy. He really does have such a mellow mood. He loves to be held and he is usually pretty content with whatever is going on. When he is ready for something new he will let you know that is for sure.
We are having a harder time leaving him with Katelynn in the same room for a minute or two. She likes to play with him but she doesn't play appropriately with him. She usually starts off okay but then gets closer and closer in his face. Then she tries to give him toys but she is too forceful with them or if he is playing with something she will yank it away. Then there comes the hitting or squashing and we have to separate them which she doesn't like but I won't stand for her being mean to others. He just takes it most of the time, but I don't like it.
He likes to be around others and see what they are doing. He likes to be on the floor playing with toys, he will play in his exer-saucer for a good 10-15 minutes or longer if Katelynn is playing with you, you will sit in your chair and watch me make meals pretty contently and of course you love to be held and rocked by momma. He is drooling and chewing on his hands like crazy so maybe he is teething but I don't feel anything coming yet. So, I think that we have another month or more before teeth will come. He wears size 3 diapers and 9 month clothes. He still eats about 30 oz a day with 3 naps during the day. He is 16lbs and 10 oz. He is very happy with his schedule.
Other than being the cutest little man I know he hasn't been doing too much at five months.

First Foods

Yesterday, Katelynn was wanting a snack. Ben and I were cooking dinner so I pulled a banana off of the bunch for her and tried to get dinner finished up. Mark was laying under his toy gym happy as he usually is. Katelynn wandered in the living and was talking/playing with him and still eating her banana. The banana is important here. Ben goes into the living room first and I hear him say to Katelynn, "No, Katelynn. You don't share your banana with brother. Oh well, it's already in your mouth." I think, oh dear, how much banana is smooshed all over Mark?! Luckily, Katelynn just gave him the tiniest of pieces. Mark, was still as happy as could be until I dug my finger in his mouth and took the banana piece out. That was when he started screaming. He was enjoying gumming it. Soon enough little man, you can have some solids in just a few weeks.
We may have a problem when Mark starts eating. Katelynn, may want to give him everything.

Mark is 4 Months

I am blaming this late post on the Holidays!
Mark turned 4 months a week ago and is still my little blue eyed baby boy. Oh, how much I love him, I can't even count the ways. He is still a mellow little guy. He lives to sit and watch what ever we are doing. As long as someone is near him he is pretty happy. He knows his schedule pretty well and will make us stick to it. He wakes up at about 7:30 am and will chill while we get ready for the morning and have breakfast. He'll eat at about 9 and then when he has been up for two hours it is nap time. He'll wake up and eat and magically at 2 hours of awake time he starts getting fussy again and we do that routine all day. He'll get into his pajamas around 7 and he knows when he is in his pj's so he wants to get to bed. So, he's down around 7:30. I'll feed him before I go to bed and then again around 4am and then we start over the next day. He has at least one crazy, crying, I am hungry! I am tired! I don't know what I want! fit that lasts about 10 minutes. Once he settles and eats and falls asleep all is again right with the world.
He is so happy, he will smile right back at you and he is giggling more which is absolutely adorable. If Katelynn is in his line of sight he will just watch her and be in total awe of his big sister. He has the cutest grin on his face when he is watching her. He is rolling over consistently from his back to his stomach and doesn't like to be on his stomach for long. I have laid him on his back to do something and then a few minutes later I hear grunting because he has rolled over and is stuck and needs someone to come save him.
As for the stats at his 4 month appt he weighed 15 lbs 7 oz and was 26.5 inches (Katelynn was 16lbs 2oz and 26 inches). The doctor is concerned that his weight isn't where it should be for his HUGE growth potential. He is on the 80th percentile for height and 45th for weight, so I have been trying to feed him more which hasn't been working, I can only feed he what he wants to eat. We'll see what happens when we go in for a weight check at the end of the month. He is eating about 30oz in a 24 hour period which is average for is age. He is wearing size 3 diapers and fits in both 6 and 9 month clothes.
I LOVE to put him to sleep. It is my favorite time of the day! I rock him to sleep which usually takes 5 minutes (as long as Katelynn is quite too!) He will just stare up at me while I rock him and he'll take his left arm reach for me stroking my neckline and hair until he falls asleep. Such sweet bliss!