5 month update

The weather has finally cooled off in Austin, just in time for our 5 month photo shoot.  Here are a few favorites:

Giving each other a high five

Carter smiling and Anderson beginning to cry (these are their typical states)

Anderson looking to his big brother for some advice on posing

And this was the best we got....there's always next month

At 5 months (2.5 months adjusted or developmental age), the boys:
- Hold up their heads and look around
- Smile at you (Carter has a particularly cheesy grin)
- Sleep "through" the night (in bed around 7:30 and waking up around 5 for a feeding, then back to bed for a few more hours typically)
- Eat 4 ounces per feeding (eating 6 or 7 times per day)
- Both can almost roll over, but not quite there.  They've done it a few times without really realizing it, but they don't quite have all of it put together yet
- Follow you all around the room with their eyes and follow objects with their eyes
- Recognize Ty and I
-Babble constantly and can have a "conversation" with you in babbles (e.g., they respond when you talk)

I took the boys back to Austin First Steps (the developmental specialists) for their 5 month appointments and they said the boys were growing well.  They are sending out an occupational therapist to work with the boys on their fine motor skills (e.g., not making fists so often, having the thumb on the outside of their fist (who knew this was important???, etc.).

I am not exactly sure of their heights and weights since we have not been to the doctor lately.  They both seem to be growing well and at a similar rate, so we are happy with that.