Hi Sweetheart.  You're five months old, and you're teething like crazy.  You're all drool, all the time, and have turned into the boy that screams and screams a lot and enough with the screaming.  You can throw some pretty wild fits now that you have this high pitched scream down pat. 

You'll start eating, pull away, scream, eat some more, pull away, scream, and get back to eating.  You completely baffle me.  It can get so frustrating.  But like your mother, where you throw fits passionately, you can also love so passionately.  It's either one extreme or the other.  However, it's pretty fleeting.  You're so much like your grandfather in the sense that you are very "whatever" in whatever setting you're in.  You're very serious, but have gotten very demanding in letting me know when things aren't "just so".  I'm not sure if Zane rubbed off on you when he came over for me to babysit on Tuesday, or if this is a fun, new, personality quirk that you have developed all on your own.  I can almost say it's like you're a newborn again.  Because the behavior is very much the same.  Tantrumy, grumpy, cranky.... I want to say that it's just teeth, and pray that it's just a phase you're going through.

You're getting more and more curious about the world you live in.  You smile more at people, you're picking up objects, and you're totally into being on your tummy.  Until you're tired of being on your tummy, then you scream for me to come and rescue you.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and you're forced to lay there and throw a fit while I wait to see if you'll figure this one out on your own.  You put yourself there, so you've got to figure out how to put yourself back.  You've started sleeping on your tummy, too.  Of course, this sends me into a round of paranoid checking at every so often (read: every ten minutes).  The thought of SIDS terrifies me as I witness you take your first couple of tries at being individual and testing your personal preferences for things.  I'm interested in how this first night of letting you sleep on your belly is going to go.  Are you going to wake yourself up in the middle of it when you realize you're uncomfortable and want to roll over?  I don't know.  I'm not for certain I should turn you back over before I head to bed tonight.  Curious, indeed.