Five Months Old
And Ryan's already playing the air guitar! Cute pic, eh?

Yes, I know...haven't updated in a couple of weeks, so here goes...

For the fourth, we went on our very second road trip to big D to visit Tia Maria y Tio Loco (no explanation needed here). Ryan did extremely well. This time around was so much better than our last trip to H-town when Ryan was almost two months old.

We went to a fabulous bar-b-que at Maria's friend's place. They have a son about a year older than Ryan. He is so adorable and he was great with Ryan. He tried to "share" his pacifier with Ryan. Sweet gesture, but a little gross. :) It's still so hard to imagine Ryan running around all over the house, but I know it's going to come soon! I'm enjoying the non-mobile stage.

We also got to check out Neha and Rooty's new pad. I just have to say that their place is pretty sweet. They live really close to Maria and RJ and when we were describing where Maria and RJ lived, Rooty opened up the patio door and pointed across the highway and asked if that was the complex and sure enough it was! Talk about a small world.

Ryan's five month birthday was on Thursday, so I thought it would be fun to take him out and celebrate while Steven was at his volleyball game. In honor of the new Harry Potter movie that just came out and the last book coming out this weekend, we went to see The Remus Lupins. Yes, that's right, Wizard Rock! They were playing at Bookpeople. I figure that he could go to his first concert for his five month birthday and what could be better than a Harry Potter rock band? Afterall, he's already got the air guitar down! I have to say that they were actually pretty good, but it was a little bit too loud. We didn't really have good seats because of the stroller, so we ended up walking around and checking out the store and listened to the music that way. I think he would have really liked to see them performing, but it was really cramped inside the store. I put Ryan in the Baby Bjorn and he absolutely loved it! He could see everything I could see and he kept on grabbing whatever books I picked up. Overall, his first rock concert experience went pretty well. How many people get to shop for books while being at a wizard rock concert?

This past week, we finally purchased a high chair for the Lion. We ended up with the cutesy patterned Rainforest high chair from Fisher Price. We've fed Ryan rice cereal a total of five times now. At first he really didn't understand why I was feeding him with a spoon and he made a lot of funny faces. Now that he's realized that food is involved, he has turned into a voracious little lion. He grabs my hand when I feed him to guide the spoon into his mouth and he gets upset if I take too long to get more for him. He's even reached out for the bowl that the cereal is in and brought it to his mouth so he could drink up the rice cereal. Lately, when we drink water, he'll reach out for our cups and drink from them too. I'm beginning to think that he's not going to be so little anymore! We're trying to decide what solid food to give him next. I can't wait to see his reaction to a new food. We mix the rice cereal with formula, which he's already used to, but if we do a veggie next, it'll be completely different.

Ryan's also been really talkative lately. He hoots like an owl. I hear "whoooooo" coming out of him all of the time! He's also starting to make the "pft" noise. It's almost like he's spitting. We went to hang out at Archiver's while a few friends were scrapbooking (I learned my lesson last time, scrapbooking and Ryan don't mix) and he alternated "whoooo"-ing and "pft"-ing. He was really loud, but cute. :)

Ryan has officially started sucking his thumb. He's always been obsessed with his hands, especially lately since I think he's teething. He usually has his hands in his mouth and he gnaws on them, but now he just pops his thumb in and sucks; it's so incredibly loud. I've been trying to pry his thumb out of his mouth and stick a pacifier in instead. The Soothie pacifiers that we use are like bottle nipples in that the middle of the nipple is hollow, so I try to stick Ryan's thumb in the hollow part, so it's like he's sucking his thumb, but not. For some reason, that seems to make sense to me! I still can't believe that we waited almost two months to give Ryan a paci. I was so worried that he's get addicted to it. Now, I'd prefer if he sucked on the paci instead of his thumb! Oh well, I have a feeling that it's all a losing battle. Whenever I give him a paci now, I can just hand it to him and he can bring it to his mouth and suck on it. A lot of times, he'll start playing with it and chew on the edges or even on the tab part, it's like a teething toy for him now. It's all very cute. :)

I had a realization this past week. We are horrible picture takers. We've got a ton of pictures, as you all know, but we never seem to remember to take pictures of all of Ryan's first holidays. I don't think we got a picture of him on Valentine's Day, his first holiday. We didn't get any pictures of him actually on Easter and we didn't get any pictures of Ryan on his first fourth of July. In his baby book of "first holidays," we're not going to have anything to put in there! So, if you're with us for any holiday in the future, please either take pictures yourself, or remind us to do it! I really wish that we also took pictures on his birthday every month. We did when he turned one month, but that's about it. You can buy these really cute onesies with the numbers 1 through 12 on them to show how many months old they are. I advise everyone to buy them or do something similar. We're doing a horrible job of tracking Ryan's first year!!!