Up, Up, and Moving!!

Wow.  I feel like Ryan hit 5 months old and just took off on the milestones.  Every day I feel like he changes!  Off the top of my head, he has learned to sit up, play actively with toys, and now he is semi-mobile!  We are so very, very close to crawling!  In the last 48 hours, he has made improvements literally every few hours it seems!  When he went to bed tonight, he was officially getting on all fours and moving one knee forward.  He would push off with that one knee and kept rolling over instead of going forward, but he didn't get upset.  He just kept rolling back to his belly and going again!  For the most part, he is moving backwards rather than forward, but he is moving!!  Earlier today he started at his playmat and made his way to our Christmas tree without any help from anyone!

And just because Mommy couldn't get enough of his sweet face, I kept on snapping pictures of my BIG, BIG boy as he played and continued to move around!

While I should be in tears that my baby is getting big so quickly (and blowing his big brother and sister away on the milestone markers), but I am actually hoping he full-fledge crawls before the first of the year.  Jonathan leaves for France for several weeks January 2nd, and he is already upset that he might miss such a huge milestone.  So, for the sake of my husband, please baby boy start crawling before daddy leaves!