This Week In the Achievements of a 5 1/2 Month Old

Actually, we should probably call this "The Last 10ish Days Or So In the Achievements of a 5 1/2 Month Old".

After many attempts by his mother and especially his father, Matthew is now capable of sitting up.  We have placed him in a sitting position for months now.  Many of these efforts led to gravity immediately winning.  It really is incredible that a child taller than most kids twice his age still carries 80% of his weight above his shoulders.  Anyway, as time went on Matthew eventually stopped nosediving when put in the sitting position and began to respond instead by slowly falling forward.  It was still gravity asserting its dominance, but Matthew at least was putting up a fight, or as much of a fight as one can make when he still ends up in a position where his head is burrowed between his thighs.  After a while, Matthew began to realize that his arms are not meant for decoration and he began to catch himself as he fell.  Progress is a beautiful thing.  Well, now we are at a point where our offspring is able to sit up for 10 minutes at a time.  He still can't put himself into that position on his own, but as long as Shouty or Milklady sits him up, he is good to go.  The only issue for us is when he is sitting up consistently, it kind of lulls you to sleep.  This makes it a little more difficult to catch him when he eventually topples over.

Matthew also tried a new vegetable this week: peas.  Like everything else not called avocado, he enjoyed the peas thoroughly.  What we don't enjoy thoroughly is what the solid food is doing to Matthew's digestive system.  As previously mentioned, since we introduced solid food to our lad, his poop schedule went from twice daily to twice weekly.  It also went from odorless to wet dog.  Seriously, combine the smells he produces with his new found passion for sucking his own toes and you have an absolutely disgusting human being.  He sure is cute though.

Finally, we have also learned that M has separation anxiety.  Not for people; he barely notices when we go to work.  Rather, for objects, such as his crib's mobile, which we decided to remove one day only to have him scream bloody murder that night when we put him to bed that night.  After 45 minutes of screeching, we re-installed the mobile and he went to sleep immediately.  So not only is Matthew disgusting, he is materialistic.  Terrific.

He's still cute.