Mum-mum-mum-mum-mum

Sometime in the past week Obie has learned some consonants. He has moved beyond his regular coos, gurgles, and cries to make some real baby words. Just now he was lamenting, "Bwaah, bwaah, bwaah, bwaah" and I've definitely heard the precursor to Mommy, "mum-mummum-mum-mu". I am utterly amazed by these utterances. He's my little baby boy - how can he already be making this milestone?

Today is his 5 month birthday. FIVE MONTHS! I can not believe it. Five months is only one month away from SIX months and that's also known as half a year! Half A Year!!! How can that possibly be? In some ways last October feels like it was decades away. So much has happened since then. And yet it also feels like it was just last night that I was feverishly pacing around the block in the moonlight trying to entice him to come out and be born. How strange.