Already going off to college...

So one thing I've already come to grips with as part of being a mom, is the tension that you constantly live in between ... being so happy, grateful, and relieved that your sweet baby is growing & being so sad, scared, and dumbfounded that this little life is passing so quickly!!! Where have the past 5 months gone? What did we do before little man was here?! Haha. I feel like the life we had before Peyton was a lifetime ago, yet the past 5 months of his existence have FLOWN by... even the long & excruciating first few colicky months. Actually, Brandon's boss summed it up so perfectly... the days can seem to D...R...A...G on, but the months FLY by!!! 


Anyways ... we are still giving little man a 'dreamfeed' before we go to bed at 10:30. This weekend we will start weaning him off of it since he will be hitting both milestones of 5 months and (over) 15 pounds. (We got this little strategy from the book called The Sleepeasy Solution, and little man has been sleeping like a champ!) I absolutely love the dreamfeed because we go in and don't really wake him. We don't turn on any lights (except a little nightlight app from our phones), and we don't say anything. We just feed him 4oz to top him off so he will sleep through the night. Its the sweetest thing because he doesn't even open his eyes, but sucks that bottle right down. Then when we go to burp him, he just lays his little head on my shoulder and sleeps. *sigh* He doesn't even do that anymore. I almost want to say that, 'he hasn't done that since he was a baby'. LOL. Then I have to tear myself away from him to put him back in his crib... and tonight I started thinking... Oh my gosh, this must be what it feels like when you send your kids off to college! You know that its best for them (aka: putting him down to sleep in his crib), even though you want to hold onto him forever! Oh gah ... I'm am so ridiculous... and this made so much sense to me in that dimly lit room with the white noise going. 


On a completely different note... we think we are starting down the teething road. *sigh* Little man has been DROOLING buckets, gnawing on everything, and doing this moaning/closed mouth humming all.day.long. today. He even said, 'mmmmm' when I gave him a cold teething ring today. Hahaha. 


Here are some pics from this week. Enjoy!