5 month update

Andrew turned 5 months old on August 12th. He's tasted two foods so far - banana and avocado. He enjoyed both, and has made great progress learning how to eat from a spoon in two short weeks. The bananas constipated him, so for that reason and a few others we're still moving slowly with foods, he's not getting them every day yet. He weighs 17 pounds and is too long for a few of his 6-9 months onesies - so he's growing well!

Andrew has been rolling both ways for over a month now, and is scooting around! He can move a foot or more pretty quickly with his own style of Army crawl/kick combo. He'll push himself up on all fours, but isn't quite sure what to do when he gets there. We expect he'll be crawling very soon.

Comparatively, at 5 months Evyn had done a short Army crawl (about 6 inches) once. She had just started rolling the week she turned 5 months old. She was eating solid foods daily, and weighed 16 1/2 pounds, but was nearly two inches shorter than Andrew (she was 25 1/2", and Andrew is somewhere around 27"). Though Evyn wasn't very mobile, her manual dexterity was quite impressive - leaps and bounds beyond the level Andrew is at. She could sit and play for extended periods of time - Andrew, on the other hand, hates to sit, and gets a little wobbly after 5 minutes.

Both kids took their first trip "to the mountains" at 5 months old! We just returned yesterday from our most recent voyage - I'll post pictures soon. In the meantime, here are some photos of Evyn at 5 months old, circa September 2004: