Happy Five Months, Finwe!

He's five months of age, sort of. There's no 29th of February, so we'll just say it's now, as close to the line between the 28th and 1st as I care to get.

What's his favorite thing to do right now? Stick his tongue out. It's a bit odd, his tongue. It's a bit forked. I'll attempt to get a picture, but it has proven a difficult task.

And, I could be mistaken, and this was not done in a scientific measurement, but Finwe is 21 pounds on the home scale. He's huge. Absolutely huge. What a boy!

From my What to Expect the First Year book:

By the end of the sixth month your baby:

should be able to: (he does all of these)

• keep head level with body when pulled to sitting
• say ah-goo or similar vowel-consonant combinations

will probably be able to: (he does all of these, too)

• bear some weight on legs when held upright
• sit without support

may possibly be able to:

• stand holding on to someone or something
• feed self a cracker (Like I would give him a cracker!)
• object if you try to take a toy away (Does it count that he objects when you take me away?)
• work to get a toy out of reach
• pass a cube or other object from one hand to the other
• look for a dropped object
• rake a raisin and pick it up in fist (Who gives a small baby a raisin? Choking hazard!)
• turn in the direction of a voice (Has done this for quite a while now.)
• babble, combining vowels and consonants such as gagaga, bababa, mamama (No, Inwe, yes. Finwe, no. Larien, a little bit at this age.)

may even be able to:

• pull up to standing position from sitting
• get into a sitting position from stomach
• pick up tiny object with any part of thumb and finger
• say mama or dada indiscriminately