Five months old. I know I say this every month, but I really cannot believe how very big that you have gotten. The days just go by so fast and no matter how hard I try and just slow down and enjoy each one, I just can't seem to make them go any slower. With each day that passes I do my best to just remember your face that day because I know that tomorrow will have a look all its own and you will never look quite like you do today again.
Your little personality has exploded. You are so smiley and you love to laugh. We know you wont find us near as entertaining in about 10 years, so we do everything that we can to get that little giggle out of you while we still can. You have the greatest little laugh. Its contagious. You cant help but smile when that adorable little gummy smile stares up at you. You make the best faces, and all of them look just like your daddy's. You are just so very expressive. Those eyebrows give you away every time. You also have become very interactive with toys this month. You will lay and play on your own with things and just explore them.
You are so strong and determined. You are pulling yourself up to standing when you hold onto our hands, and you are also sitting up unassisted. You are almost to the point where you dont need your hands to hold you up anymore. If we have you propped up on a pillow you will sit yourself up and then promptly fall over haha! But you are learning and exploring and that is what is important. We want you to explore always. You also push yourself up on all fours now. And you will arch your back all the way up when you are on your belly, kinda like the little Mermaid on the rock at the end of part of your world. It makes us giggle. And you are a rolling machine! You go from back to belly and then back again and end up half way across the room. You dont even hesitate anymore. You know what you want and you go for it. You also have started army crawling. Well not really crawling more like army scooting. You use your little knees and push and pull until you get where you want to be. And you grunt like crazy while youre trying to get there. Its one of my new favorite things that you do.
You love, love, love to talk. You will just babble away at us, or the friends or the floor haha. It doesnt really matter whos listening but you will just talk away. You have also become much more dependent on us this month. You like to be played with. And you have discovered the fake cry. If we don't get to you fast enough or we are busy making your food or attending to something else man do we know about it. We try not to give in every time, but man is it hard not to. Your dad has a really hard time with that. I know they say little girls have their dad's wrapped around their little fingers, but you are doing alright at that too haha! I love watching him love you. It reminds me every single day why I love him so much. He has also taken to calling you Little Buddy Diapers this month. Its adorable.
You have fallen even more in love with Mickey Mouse this month. You love to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and will laugh and smile at it. We also got you a little stuffed Mickey for our big drive to South Carolina and you will not go anywhere without it now. And you and Duffy are even bigger buddies now. You love to watch his story on youtube and you love playing with him. You tackle him now. We keep telling you that isnt how you treat your friends, but you just dont seem to listen haha. You also love books! You will sit and look at the pictures and touch everything and take it all in. You love the books with the touch and feel spots, and you love your giant Mickey book of course.
You got to touch the ocean for the first time this month. We went to visit your Morris grandparents and Aunt Desi in South Carolina and you really took to them. And boy did they love you. They held you and played with you and just loved on you for the three days we were there. You got to put your little toes in the water and feel the sand. I don't know that you were such a fan this time, but you most certainly liked the swimming pool! We put you in your little boat and just pushed you around the water and you kicked and splashed and played. If bath time was any indication to your love of water, I knew that you would love the pool. Im really glad we got to share that with you and that your grandma and Poppi got to experience those firsts with you too.
You had your first big cold this month as well as many sick visits with the doctor. You had an infection and antibiotic as well as a viral something that just doesnt seem to want to go away. You are such a trooper though. No matter how bad you were feeling, we would have never known it. If it werent for the subtle things I may not have even caught that you were sick. You are just the best little man. You really are.
You got over your dead stare of the camera this month. I let you play with my phone a bit so it isnt as foreign to you which really helps a lot. But you will smile and interact now when we are trying to get pictures of you and I love that. I want to remember this gummy little smile before those teeth finally make their way through the gums, which I am praying hard is soon. I think you might chew your fingers off if its not. We have four teeth trying to come in. Please just come in haha!!
Malachi you are the greatest blessing in this world. Your constant joy just brings so much life to me. When you were in my belly, i used to pray that you would be a joyful baby. That you would just be a light no matter where you went. And I cannot tell you how many people have told me how joyful you are. And that you are just the most pleasant baby to be around. And it is really so true. You bless me each and every day that you are in my world. Each smile and giggle makes my heart jump. Every new discovery is like someone has opened a whole new world to me. When we found out we were expecting you, I was so scared of what a baby would bring and all the unknowns but since you have come into this world, all the unknowns have been such a special part of each and every day. I love being your mama. More than any other job or any other role that I have every played. I love being your mama. And I hope that you always know how very loved and cared for you are. You mean more to me than you will ever know my sweet little boy. Don't ever forget that.
All my love,
Your mama
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