I can’t believe we have a 5 month old baby. Where did the time go? Truman is growing up so quickly. This is a snapshot of Truman’s life at 5 months. He loves his exersaucer. He spins around from toy to toy and gets very excited when we watch him play in it. He loves having an audience.
A quick disclaimer for Hillari: James usually writes the captions for the pictures. Sometimes I write captions too, but if it’s funny, James wrote it.
Truman loves pushing himself up high when he’s on his tummy. He gets such a proud look on his face when he does it, even though it’s really not that hard for him and he does it all the time.
With his teeth coming in he likes chewing on things, including his bottom lip, but mostly his fingers and burp cloths. He recently started biting his food source and had to get scolded.
He loves being naked, and now that he doesn’t make shi shi every time his diaper comes off, we can indulge him a bit.

Truman agreed to appear on the blog nude only after the photographer assured him that the pictures would be "artistic."
Truman sleeps on his tummy now. Maybe every baby does after they learn to roll over. For some reason Truman likes to grab things as he falls asleep. He usually holds on to Bink, but unfortunately that leads to him pulling out Bink. Sometimes he can sleep through pulling out his Bink, but it usually wakes him up. Occasionally he grabs his sheets, and that satisfies his grab need, but sometimes we give him a teething ring to hold on to.

Truman started out his nap by holding on to Bink while it was in his mouth, but at some point he pulled it out, dragged it to the edge of his bed, dropped it, and grabbed a crib slat instead.
Truman is not quite crawling or scooting yet, but he still gets around. He rolls on to his tummy, turns in his desired direction, and then rolls over a couple more times, and eventually he winds up in some funny places. One day I put him down on his blanket in the middle of the floor so I could use the computer and a minute later I felt something tapping the leg of the chair. I looked down and guess who was there?
Another day I changed his diaper on the floor in our bedroom and left him there while I threw away the doo doo diaper and rinsed off the clothes he had dirtied. I knew he wouldn’t still be on his changing pad when I got back, but I was surprised to find him under the bed when I walked back in the room.

Truman's expression says it all. "If you don't want me to roll around everywhere, stop dressing me in athletic pants."
Being more mobile also means more trouble. I’m not sure how we’re going to keep him out of things that are off-limits. We have to keep an eye on him, because he is always faster than we think. He has his little rolling and turning routine down pretty well. We look away for a couple of minutes and turn back to find him pulling on wires and pushing buttons on the dvd player.
Truman is one of the most content babies I have ever met. He is smiling, laughing, playing, and babbling all day long. But it’s hard to get a picture of him smiling because he is so interested in electronics. Anytime he sees a camera he immediately stops whatever he was doing to stare at it. All of our pictures of him are either blurry ones of him smiling (he gets a wee bit out of control when he is happy and thrashes around) or ones of him with a somewhat confused look on his face as he studies the camera. Here are some rare shots of him doing what he does most often.
We love this boy! Our lives were so lame before he came along.














































































