Ahl About Us...The Ahlgrens: Sterling Babbles

Sterling is 5 months old already and growing and growing and growing! He is the most content and happy baby. Sucking on his fingers and taking long walks to the park with Mommy and Daddy are probably his favorite things to do right now. He adores being outside...just like Daddy.

Because he was so premature, Sterling is still a little behind the curve for things like sitting and beginning to crawl...he's just now able to hold his head up for a couple minutes while on his tummy...but he doesn't really enjoy "tummy time" yet. We're working on that. :)

Sterling is not sleeping through the night yet...but his typical bed-time routine goes something like this. He usually falls asleep around 6:30 or 7pm. He either wakes up around 10 or 11pm (or we wake him up) to eat. He goes back to sleep when he's polished off 7 or 8 oz. of formula and stays asleep until about 2 or 3am...when he wakes up to be changed. Usually, we can just quickly change his diaper and he'll go back to sleep. Some nights it's more of an ordeal than others. :) When he finally goes back to sleep, he'll wake up between 4 and 5 (or we wake him up at 5am) to eat again. He usually is up for the day afther the morning bottle...but he'll generally take a morning nap. So, we're on our way to better sleep...and wearing lots of concealer over our dark eye circles to mask our exhaustion until then. Well, Mommy is wearing concealer...not Daddy. :)

We went to Kentucky to visit Jeremey's side of the family for Thanksgiving this year. Although we mourn the loss of Jeremey's father (he passed the Saturday following Thanksgiving), we celebrate the fact that Sterling was able to meet Grandpa Ernie. And it was a blessing to be around so much love during such a difficult time.