5 months Old

Drake turned 5 months old yesterday, July 11th. I am not sure how time can fly so quickly but everyday Drake is doing something new and continues to amaze us.

 Drizzy Drake (as the basketball players lovingly call you):

• You are a pretty big boy. Your unofficially weight over 16 pounds and when we checked your length this weekend, you were over 27 1/2 inches (which would put you off the scale for length for your age). 
• Because you are so long, you are now in 9 month clothes
• You love to talk and everyday we seem to hear a new sound that you have developed. You babble, you laugh, you have a high pitched squeal, you groan, and you grunt. 
• You can roll over both from front to back and back to front (although sometimes you forget you can do this and get frustrated). Unlike most babies, you rolled over first from back to front (on June 27th) and then front to back (on July 3).
• You have really been wanting to sit up and you are going to get there really soon. Yesterday you were able to sit up on your own for about 5 seconds before you would lose your balance.

Sitting on your own!

• You still love to watch Alice and Luke, but especially Alice. 
• You are starting to explore more with your hands. You have been touching our faces and trying to touch Luke and Alice.

You are actually looking at Alice in this picture

• Last week you finally found your feet! I have been trying to tell you how much you will enjoy playing with them but you had no interest. Now they are so fun. 
• You have visited or ridden through 8 states (South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana) and the District of Columbia...almost the whole Southeast and Mid-Atlantic section of the country knocked out!  
• You went swimming for the first time and loved it. We are going to have to start to do that more often.



This is another big weekend, your baptism. Almost all of the family will be in town to help you celebrate. We love you and everything that you have brought into our lives in the last five months. You really make every day brighter.