Five Months Old!

Ryan was 5 months old yesterday! This past month has been a little rocky. We started out with going to reunion at Camp Farwesta in Stewartsville.  Ryan, Dan and I slept at my mom's house and Courtney stayed with my mom in the cabin. We spent all day at camp, letting Ryan nap and play in the cabin. He went swimming each day and was over all a pretty good baby (except that he was a bit fussier because of the heat - over 100 each day!).  When we got home, we started Ryan in his crib in his own room! Dan and I noticed a big change in his sleep this month. He sort of stopped sleeping all through the night. He was waking up a lot and sometimes staying awake instead of just taking the pacifier and going back to sleep. We started sleep training and that has really helped! We were still swaddling Ryan but he was constantly getting out of it and waking up, so we transitioned him out of that and now he is just in a sleep sack. So, we feel like we are back on the right track with sleep and we will probably never remember how stressed it made us for a few weeks. Thank goodness I am writing this so I can remember :) Right now, he goes to bed at 6:30 and is after eating is usually asleep by 7:00. We may have to give him his "giggy" one time a night. He wakes up around 6ish, but will go back to sleep until about 7:30ish. He takes a nap at 9 and 1, for an hour to an hour and a half. I'm hoping he can lengthen these out! He takes a little catnap around 4:30 or 5:00 to make it to bedtime.

Other things that Ryan started doing this month were playing in his exersaucer and moved to 4 hour feedings. He had 2 trial days at the babysitter and started going full time this week! He is doing great there and we get good reports every day! I think he will love Tina just as much as Courtney does!