At 5 months, Xzavier was holding his own bottle and trying to crawl. He finally started to make some distance crawling (literally) at the 6 month mark, right about the time he got his first tooth. Two weeks later he started getting a second tooth, and this week he started to sit up on his own. The last couple of days he’s starting to pull up on the crib rails. Throughout this whole time, he’s been mashing away at the keyboard trying to be like mommy and daddy.

This is what he has to say about everything:

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Obviously he’s got some work to do before he’s a typing master, but he’s working on it!

At this pace, he’ll be walking by 9 months old. Personally, I think he’s growing up a little bit too fast, but one thing never changes – he’s a happy, smiling, easy to deal with little guy.

Xzavier turned 6 months on the 31st of January.  It’s amazing how 6 months of pregnancy seemed like 6 years yet 6 months with a new baby seems like 6 weeks.  He’s getting very big.  He wore newborn stuff for about 4 months, now his 3-6 month stuff looks barely fits him at all.  He’s eating solid foods and so far he’s liked everything I’ve given him except applesauce.   Really?  He doesn’t like my favorite treat?  Go figure.  Maybe I ate too much of it when I was pregnant.   He’s almost crawling – doing the rocking on all fours right now, leaping forward till he gets what he wants.  No more leaving him anywhere unattended.  He still can’t sit up on his own entirely yet – he spends more time practicing his escape via crawling than how to sit still.

Overall he is such a happy baby.  I didn’t realize I would like being a new mommy again so much, and who knows.  I may just have one more kiddo so he can have a sibling close in age.  Crazy talk I know….but I can’t help feeling like one more isn’t so crazy.  It’s up to daddy though – I am content with my 4 wonderful kids :)

Some new pics of Xzavier, including some Christmas pics.