5 Months

On Monday Levi turned the big 5 MONTHS! Just before this big milestone in his life, he started trying some cereal. Here is his first reaction:
The first spoonful...hmmmm

The first bite....uh, what is this stuff?

Mom, I don't really like this stuff.

Well, so far he isn't a huge fan of the rice cereal, or the oatmeal for that matter. But we keep on trying. Eventually he'll get it.

A few things Levi is doing now:
He sits up all on his own pretty well. He only goes for about 2-3 minutes at a time before falling over, but I think that's pretty good.

Levi has been banished to the basement to learn to sleep through the night. The first night he woke up twice and cried himself back to sleep. The next three nights it's only been once. This morning I mainly heard him grunting around 6:00 am, but then he fell back asleep until about 8:45 am. He's really doing pretty well and will eventually get to go back to sleeping upstairs.

One thing Levi really likes to do is lay upside down. Whenever he is fussy or just 'in the mood' he will lay himself back like this and it always puts a smile on his face. He ended up sleeping through Sacrament meeting in a similar pose on Sunday. It kind of looks like his head is going to fall off, but he seems to really like it.
With all that upside down time, Levi has also discovered his toes. He tries to get them to his mouth to chew on and has been successful a number of times. Unfortunately, any time I try to get a picture of it, he just gives me a big old grin instead.

Levi loves to laugh and to smile. So far he's been a pretty easy going baby and we're so thankful to have him in our family.