5 Months!

So technically the boys are 5 1/2 months as I write this but who's counting? Wait. That's supposed to be me.

The boys are hilarious this month! They're so happy and fun. Words can not express how much easier they are to manage too! They don't seem (or look!) so much like infants anymore. They are so content to play with toys and they're really interested in everything around them. They sleep a solid 12 hours every night and they's both SO happy when we come get them in the mornings! (Dex smiles like crazy and Davis starts panting and kicking his legs.) They have started napping (hallelujah!) and they've been trying some solids. So far, apples are a fan favorite and green beans are a definite no. They have incredibly different personalities and it's fun to see them emerging. 

At five months, Davis might possibly be the sweetest human being on the planet. I don't know what it is about him but I swear he really looks at you so lovingly. He has the biggest, bluest eyes I've ever seen with long, dark lashes. His hair is starting to fill in a little bit and he's still our chunky monkey. He weighed in at 20 pounds a couple weeks ago! Davis loves to cuddle and every day when I'm giving Dex his afternoon bottle, I lay Davis on the Boppy next to me and he rests his little hand on my knee and strokes it with as much coordination as he can muster. Have you ever heard of anything sweeter? Davis loves, loves, loves kids. Our friends' 4-year old was sitting behind us at church on Sunday and Davis was belly laughing so loud at her everyone in our section was chuckling. Then we had dinner with some friends the other night and Davis laughed at their 5-year old all through dinner.  Davis can be shy with Preston and it's the cutest thing you've ever seen. He'll smile at Preston and then turn his head away and look at him out of the corner of his eye. I melt. Davis rolled over for the first time a couple weeks ago from tummy to back and on his back he rolls to his side. He likes to hold my hands and stand and he tries so hard to hold his own bottle. (If it's not very full, he can do it!) He loves eating solids and he can sit up with his Boppy as his safety net. He shocked me the first time he did it! He loves Roxy and if she's anywhere close, he reaches for her with both hands. Today, I put her on my lap with him and he was truly petting her head! So cute. Davis has started doing the best fake cry when he wants something. It is so, so, so funny. He furrows his brow and makes this funny coughing sound and we die laughing every time. Look at him trying to manipulate us already! It's only happened once so far but I swear he saw us playing with Dex one day and he looked over and started his fake cry! The minute I put Dex down he stopped. Stinker! Davis charms the pants off everyone (us included!) 

Dex is such a good, special boy. He's spunky as all get out and I love it! He has such a fun, fiery personality.  Preston always says Dex has a zest for life and it's true. When he likes something, he REALLY likes something but when he doesn't, watch out! Dex talks and talks and talks some more. He's always trying to get someone's attention by talking to them. When you have two babies, strangers constantly approach you and Dex really turns on the charm! He talks and smiles at everyone. He's such a little performer. Dex tries so hard to communicate. He imitates sounds we make and just today, we went to lunch with Jaimi's mom and when she said "uh-oh" he totally tried to repeat it! Dex doesn't laugh quite as much as Davis (he has a more sophisticated sense of humor ;) so when he does laugh at you, you feel like the funniest person alive. His laugh is so funny. I wish I could accurately describe it. Dex has super freakish strength. He can stand and balance himself on the ottoman in our living room. In fact, he loves to stand so much that when he's fussy, I stand him on my lap and he calms right down. He also loves when we wiggle his feet and pant like a dog (don't ask how that came to be.) He can be in the middle of a crying fit and when I wiggle his feet, he stops crying and starts laughing! Dexter tries to hold his own bottle too and he's so strong-willed that he rips the bottle out of my hands. That has resulted in more than one jab to the eye! He loves when I blow on his belly and he has recently discovered that he can squeal at a pitch only dogs can hear. It was funny until he started doing it all the time and everywhere! He loves to hear himself squeal because A) I think he's pretty impressed with his new skill and B) It makes everyone stop and look at him! Dex also has a new trick I'm sure he would like recorded for his posterity. Like I said, he's big on imitating people so one day he was sitting in his Bumbo and my dad stood in front of him with his arms open wide telling Dex about a fish that was "this big." Dex immediately threw his arms out. We all laughed and figured it was a coincidence until he did it over and over. Now all we have to do is throw our arms out and say "this big!" and he does it too! Genius? I think so. 

I am so obsessed with these little boys. There could never be words to accurately describe just how much I love them. How did I live before them? In the dark, that's for sure! I decided that the Lord must protect you by not letting you fathom how much love you could have for these little spirits because if you knew, you wouldn't have been able to live a single day without them. We went to a Suns game the other night for Preston's birthday and as we were driving down the road Preston looked over at me in the passenger seat and said, "Are you really already looking at pictures of them on your phone? We've been gone 12 minutes!" Guilty as charged. I can't even believe how blessed I am to get to be their mom. I cant believe the Lord would trust me with them! I never thought I could feel stress being a stay at home mom but I fret and worry every day about keeping them safe, teaching them the things they need to know, and making them feel loved. Is it normal to feel like you're not good enough for these perfect little beings? I can't believe how fast it's going. It's exciting to see them growing and changing but I panic that the days are passing too quickly!