Okay, so the kids been 5 months for a couple of weeks now, but as usual we've been a bit busy. I decided to go ahead and let Toren start in on solids at 5 months as he seemed interested in the idea of eating. He's been a pretty good eater from the start, but we did have possible allergy issues come up. About half a week into rice cereal Toren broke out into a head to toe rash/eczema. Our pediatrician sent us to an allergist. The allergist did a scratch test for the typical food allergies plus rice, but Toren didn't show up positive for anything. However, I took him in to get blood drawn (not a lot of fun for either of us)for a blood test which is more accurate and we get the results back in a week. The allergist thought it might just possibly be that since he's a red head we can blame it on his sensitive skin. He told us to go ahead to continue to introduce him to solids and let him know if anything produces a similar reaction. So we've continued to introduce him to food, but we've held off on rice cereal as it seemed to create a rash again. He's enjoying, banana, apple, pumpkin, peas, and carrots at this point and I've enjoyed making his food. I figure that since I rarely cook for Justin and I, I could at least make Toren's food.

Toren has also started some not so fun teething lately which means that he's been waking up every couple of hours at night for the past three nights. Needless to say I'm quite exhausted from this. Luckily my mom has been in town so she's been helping me out with some of these sleepless nights. No teeth have broken through at this point but I'm sure some are coming. When not teething he's turned into quite a happy baby as long as he isn't to sleepy. As Justin has said, if we had just had video of what a happy baby he would become, it would have made those first few months a bit easier. He still doesn't like tummy time so doesn't do much rolling around unless forced to but I think he's getting quite close to sitting on his own as he'll sit for about 30 seconds or so before toppling over. He's also become quite the babbler and really enjoys shrieking.

In addition to my mom visiting we also got some visits from some out of town friends this past month who were here for a law school reunion. We even got to babysit one of our friends 3 month olds (well he actually slept most of the time). We also got to celebrate his first Halloween with a couple of Justin's high school friends and their families. Justin took Toren to a couple of houses...and picked up some candy for himself and to show off our cute bumble bee of course.