5 Months for Oslo

Ozzy Oso is five months old. He is a delight. That doesn’t mean he’s a perfect angel all the time, no one is. But I think it’s safe to say that he’s been a positive addition to our family. Everyone loves him. He loves watching everyone and being where they are. 

I’m still nursing him. *Pats myself on the back* He actually doesn’t like the bottle very much and will only take it if he’s desperate. So we’re actually nursing pretty much exclusively. 😳 That’s new for me. And I think five months might be my previous breastfeeding record, so it’s looking like we’ll probably knock that outta the water this go around.  We’ll see. 

He’s eating solids. Normally I wait as long as possible to introduce solids because, let’s be honest, it’s not very fun. It’s messy and you have to commit to it three times a day and it takes a long time. BUT Oslo was wanting to breastfeed ‘round the clock. So at the beginning of December I gave in and tried some bananas mixed with oatmeal. In the past when I’ve introduced solids, the baby usually gags the first time and throws everything up. Or can’t figure out how to swallow it and slobbers it all over the front of their shirt. Not Ozzy though. He WOLFED it down. I was astounded. 😂 He ate the entire package of bananas in his first sitting. And he was happy about it. Poor kid was probably starving or something. (Not really, he has been consistently gaining weight, and he’s pretty chubby.) He opens his mouth wide when he sees the spoon, and if I’m eating and not feeding him, he watches my spoon like a hawk. He’d probably snatch a bit of my dinner if he could manage it.  So, now we feed him two meals of solids a day and still do a lot of breastfeeding. He still wants to nurse a lot, but not like it was before. We’ll probably add in the third meal soon. 

At around four months we moved him out of the cradle and our room and into the crib in his room. That’s been nice. He still wakes up once or twice at night to eat though. Occasionally he’ll sleep through the night. But mostly he’s up around 4am to eat. 

He rolls over too. Back to front and front to back. But he still struggles with front to back a little bit. He scoots when he’s on his back, so if I lay his head in the middle of the crib, I usually come back to find him butting his head against the top of the crib. 

All the hair he had when he was born has fallen out, except for a few wispy pieces on top and the mullet on the back. But his new hair is filling in and it almost looks like it might be dark.  I mean it’s blonde, but it’s not a white blonde like Ollie’s or Cal’s and it’s not a golden blonde like everyone else’s. Wouldn’t it be fun if Oslo got dark hair like Aaron? Aaron’s hair was dark blonde as a baby but was dark dark brown by the time he was two or three years old. Whatever happens to his hair, it will be darling on him. 

He has very blue eyes. It’ll be interesting to see if they stay blue or if they turn hazel as he gets older. All my kids start with blue eyes. Lincoln’s turned hazel. Ivan’s stayed blue. Adelia’s turned hazel. I want to say Ollie’s are hazel 🤔(Yup, they are I just checked). Ruby’s are blue. And Cal’s are on their way to hazel. 

If I were trying to Type Oslo (remember Dressing Your Truth?) I’d say he’s most likely a T1 s4. T1 because of his personality and movement (he’s constantly moving), and s4 because his face has lots of parallel lines in it. Just as a quick refresher of the Types in our family: Aaron 2/3, Krystal 3/2, Lincoln 4/1, Ivan 4/3 (this is new, I used to think he was a 4/2, but I’ve since decided he’s a 4/3), Adelia 1/3, Oliver 2/1, Ruby 3/1, Cal 1/3, and Oslo 1/4.