chubby baby is 5 months old

It's pretty embarrassing when your two most recent blog posts are titled "chubby baby is 4 months!" and "chubby baby is 5 months!". What can I say other than, we've been busy. We were in Utah for Christmas and then came home and have been sick the entire month of January (including 5 doctors visits and two hospital trips). It's been insane. Despite the chaos that is parenting two children, we are so happy to share our days with Buddy. He just gets happier and happier everyday. 

 We started solids two weeks ago and went straight into fruit and veggie purees. Buddy loves them all. So far he's tried avocado, banana, and potato. I've been too sick/tired to be really aggressive with it but hopefully in the next week I'll get my act together and really get into it.

 I'm pleased to say that the spit up has decreased since he started sitting on his own and I am so happy that our laundry has gone from 10 loads a week down to 5. Hallelujah!

Buddy loves to watch his big brother and always gives him the best smiles, like the one below:

Shrimp still thinks that monkey belongs to him. It is really hard to have a photoshoot when your toddler keeps running off with the prop. Luckily, Buddy doesn't care quite yet. 

 Big brother also gets jealous of the attention so we had to get some shots of him too. With the stolen monkey.

 Ah brotherly love. 

 It's just the best.