The Billmeier Family: Jacob Month 5

It has been well over a month since Jacob turned 5 months (4/20 to be exact). Things were super busy that day because we were trying to re-sod our entire backyard. Digging up all the old grass and laying down 5 pallets of new sod. But more on that project in another post coming soon....

I'll be honest, Jacob spends a lot of time doing things his sister wants to do...and just kind of tagging along. Like going to see Sid the Science Kid at the Perot Museum, or watching her get her face painted at the Arboretum, or going to a Laurie Berkner Band concert, or dyeing Easter eggs, or just hanging out in the backyard.

It's a good thing he is a pretty laid back kid, and easy to take along everywhere we go.

He's really not on any kind of nap schedule, and sometimes that leads to him napping wherever he falls asleep.

We did have a few big events this month:
Easter...

Some requisite bluebonnet photos by my wonderful friend and neighbor, Ashli

And we had some big milestones:
1st time to sit with us at the table in the highchair

1st night in his own bed (a bittersweet experience for me this time around...)

1st time in a hotel room

And 1st baseball game (with Juice the Moose! - Rebekah wanted nothing to do with this guy)

Blankets and playmats have become basically obsolete as he just rolls anywhere he wants to go.

And bottles have disappeared as well. I spent 10 weeks working so hard to nurse this boy and wishing each day that he didn't have to take a bottle. And now, he just won't do it. It started right at the end of March when I was still working, and it just keeps getting worse. So, he also tried a straw cup for the first time this month. (That didn't work either...)