5 Months

My baby is 5 months old today! We had a couple of "firsts" today, too. He is finally rolling over. We have been working with him really hard and he accomplished the back to belly roll today. He's a big boy; it takes a lot of effort for him to roll himself over, so we were pretty excited. We also gave Ethan his first food today--rice cereal. I'm not sure he knew quite what to think of the whole thing, but he did great and got some of it down (the rest ended up on his bib!) We have also made a couple of larger purchases these past few weeks. First of all, I got a changing table, which I am super excited about. Now I don't have to change all those diapers on the floor! Second, we got Ethan his high chair, which he tried out for the first time today eating his supper. And lastly, we got ourselves a van while we were home. That's right....we are now officially a family. Ben and I were so tired of putting Ethan in and out of our Taurus and stuffing all of his things in the little trunk, so we bit the bullet and just did it. And, we are so glad we did! We have absolutely loved having it so far and it's only been a week.

As I said, we had a great time at home. Ben got to go fishing and the whole family enjoyed some Ethan time. Some of my favorite moments were watching Ethan get so excited playing peek-a-boo and also watching him play with some newspaper. He must really love the crinkling sound it makes. Ben and I also celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary while we were at home. I can't believe it's been that long; it just keeps getting better and better. We took a ton of pictures during our week at home. I'm going to go through them and try to post some of our favorites tomorrow. For now, I am just glad to be home and I'm off to enjoy my own bed tonight!