Happy 5 months old!

Chase turned 5 months old on April 30. He is growing so fast. But it is such a fun age. It sure beats his newborn months when he would cry all the time! Now he rarely cries (as I breathe a looong sigh of relief!). He has even stopped crying when he wakes up in his crib. He just makes noise until I come get him. Unfortunately though, he is still getting up once a night to eat. I am going to work very hard this week to break this habit. I am decreasing the ounces he drinks at night every few days until I reach zero ounces and I have stopped feeding him right before bed. If you feed them right before bed, they supposedly become used to the idea of eating in order to fall asleep and that is why they wake up to eat at night, they think they need to eat in order to fall sleep again. Hopefully it works well! Here are his stats from 4 months of age:

• Height: 25 3/4 in. (75th percentile)
• Weight: 15 lbs 9 0z (60th percentile)
• Head: 42 1/2 cm (50th percentile)

And here are some pictures of him from the past month:

He loves sitting up by himself in this chair!

Finally, a picture with his mom
Our first attempt at eating solids...
It did not go so well. He wouldn't open his mouth for the spoon and just started crying like I was torturing him. Since you aren't supposed to force feed them, they are supposed to want to eat, I gave up for a few weeks after trying unsuccessfully for a few days to feed him. He just wasn't ready yet...

He loves his monkey daddy bought him
I often find him in this half rolled over position now
He loves looking at himself in the mirror! I don't blame him, he is one handsome boy!
Our second attempt at feeding him solids. It went much better. He opened his mouth for the spoon 3 times. I think most of the food came out of his mouth, I don't know if he actually swallowed any. But we are making progress! This time I tried bananas instead of rice cereal. I read that babies may like bananas better as a first food because they are sweeter and are still a low allergy food.