Five months old!

It's hard to believe that Kiefer is five months old already! Next week will be his first Thanksgiving (although does Thanksgiving really count if you don't get to eat any turkey or pumpkin pie?) We are making the journey to Pittsburgh. It will be a long drive, but Kiefer is so excited to meet all of his aunts, uncles, and cousins for the first time. We are going to do the drive in two days, and hopefully that will make it easier on all of us.

Sleeping is going well (knock on wood). Two to three naps each day, and 1-2 feedings per night is the norm. He goes down between 6-7pm, and it is nice to have a few hours to ourselves (although we should be going to bed earlier ourselves).

Our new challenge is dry skin -- Kiefer has red, dry irritated patches everywhere. We've started a pretty serious moisturizing campaign, so hopefully that will help out.

So, below is his five month photograph -- as you can see, he has really just discovered his toes. When on his back, he stares at them in fascination. He had pretty much ignored them until a few days ago. His sign, I want to fly, refers to his efforts at trying to move (see last video post.) We don't know his official height or weight, but he is still growing out of pjs. I packed away more clothes that no longer fit today.

The next picture is him enjoying his exersaucer -- his feet almost reach the bottom!

And lastly, for fun, I've let Kiefer try some sips from a cup. He gets a kick out of it, and it gets a few more ounces of milk in him (he's been challenging to feed lately -- there are too many other things to look at!)