He is eating!!!

Ricky ate cereal for the first time today. It was sooo cute. He looked kinda confused the first few times. We waited until he was almost 5 months because we wanted to make sure his digestive system was ok. We will see how he does.

He has been sleeping all night now. His bedtime is 8:30pm. He gets a bath, then his bottle, then he sleeps. He is asleep by 9pm. I get to sleep until 7ish the next morning. I missed my sleep.

He fights me sometimes. I sing to him so he can fall asleep and lately he is reaching up and covering my mouth with his hand. Now, I know I dont have the best voice in the world but I dont think it's that bad...who knows.

I am having so much fun with him. He loves to sit up and see everything. He loves to talk and laugh. He is the biggest flirt in the world. He loves girls. Any girl that talks to him, he smiles and does his googly eyes. If he has a group of girls, his eyes always land on the prettiest one and its to her that he gives all his best smiles. I have seen him do that one to many times. I am already worrying:)

He will be 5 months this month....We moved his crib to our room. He was sleeping in a bassinet and he out grew it. The first night we put him there, I felt so sad. I realized that he was growing up so fast. In a matter of months, he will be in his own room. Then he will be starting school. Soon after that he'll be graduating, going on a mission, getting married and leaving me. In a blink of an eye, I will be a grandma. A little melodramatic? Maybe, but I know that all you moms will understand. I loved feeling him move inside me. I love carrying him in my arms and staring at him for hours. I love kissing and hugging him without him pushing me away. I am cherishing all these moments because he is growing up so fast.

I love this lil guy that I just met a few months ago. I hope he knows that.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and much more!

So I took a very long vacation from blogging. Ricky has been more alert and awake during the day. He takes 2 naps and sleeps for about 10-15 min each nap. He is awake the rest of the time and demands constant attention. This makes blogging very hard:)

So Christmas was fun. We spent it with Mando's family. Ricky received tons of gifts. He slept most of Christmas but we took tons of pictures for him to see when he gets older.

We traveled to California on the 29th. He did amazing on the flights. He slept much of the time and the rest of the time he just talked to himself. He met my dad for the first time. It was amazing. I loved seeing my dad with him. And Ricky loved every minute of it. He also met Natalie (my sister) for the first time. He loved her instantly. I have never seen him react to someone the way he did with her. As soon as he saw he smiled and talked with her and you can see how happy he was with her. He was like that the whole time we were there.

We also had the opportunity to bless him. in our church, we don't baptize babies, we give them a blessing. We were able to do this in LA so that my father and brothers had the opportunity to be there.

We came back on the 11th. Mando started a new job at Rackspace. Ricky had his 4 month checkup and shots. He has grown sooo much. He is sleeping through the night beautifully. He sits up with a little help and hates tummy time. He is getting ready to start eating solids. We will begin with some cereal soon. He is so talkative. I love it. My lil chunker is growing up...