Almost five months!

As I type this, I am giddy with excitement because Alex finally soothed himself to sleep, it took an hour but it happened! Alex has always been an excellent sleeper at night but his naps could use some work. We had resorted to using a bouncy seat to rock him to sleep since he was a newborn. Unfortunately, it resulted to a nice round bald spot on the back of his head. We have been slowly weaning him off the bouncy seat and getting him used to his crib. I have to hold him and bounce him until he is asleep (a workout in itself) and slowly lay him in his crib. However, today I bit the bullet and layed him down drowsy but awake. It took a full hour until he finally closed his eyes and went off to dreamland :) Don't worry, he wasn't crying that hour before he fell asleep. He just tossed and turned, made sounds once in a while, and I guess when he realized Mommy wasn't going to pick him up decided to go to sleep. I am crossing my fingers that this will be a daily occurence because quite frankly my back is killing me from carrying him! As of January 8th, he is 16 lbs 13 oz and 25 1/2 inches long!