Linus turned 5 months a few days ago. Yay! He's grown a lot, he is very sociable (?), cooing, laughing, giggling. He loves his big brothers who never fail to put up a great show for him. And he laughs and he laughs. Especially Otso is really into entertaining Linus. Aleksi focuses on taking care of him. Aleksi imitates my way of talking to Linus, and he smiles and acts calmly and uietly around his little brother. Otso on the other hand takes on his clown role, jumps and goofs around Linus in trying to make him laugh. Sometimes Linus doesn't know what to think of his brother's act of madness...

Linus also started tasting solid foods yesterday. His first appetizer was pureed apricot. He didn't seem to mind the first spoonful (tip of the spoon to be more specific), but then he realized mommy just shoved something weird into his mouth and started making faces. Otso and I tried to convince him it was all good and yummy, but I think Linus disagreed with us. He had a few bites and that was enough for the first time. Today we repeated the episode. And tomorrow we'll do the same.

Lately Linus has been fussing and fighting when nursing. He's hungry and there's plenty of milk for him, but he just won't nurse. That is really frustrating. I got him to nurse upstairs on our bed where it's not so noisy and restless (when the older kids are home). At night he eats well. I guess he's not awake enough to be fussing at night. He usually eats twice a night. Today he ate very well, nursing nice and long, long enough to get all the hind milk too. That was a nice "lunch", I enjoyed it as well.

I would post pictures, but the batteries for our crappy camera are dead so I haven't been able to take pictures, sorry...