Dear Shep,

I can not believe it, but you are already five months old! We plan to do your big monthly photo shoot this weekend, and hopefully I can get you to perform a few of your new tricks for Daddy. In the last few weeks you’ve figured out how to roll over, sit up with just a little help, grab and eat your toes, & reach to grab at toys when they’re offered to your tiny hands. I keep trying to tell everyone you’re a genius, but you get all modest and won’t perform on command when I attempt to prove my point. Dece saw you roll over the best you have yet while visiting, and of course my phone was out of memory (it always is with it full of photos & videos of you) so I couldn’t record any of them. You are in love with your Dece’s flower shirt. I think I deprive you of bright colors and patterns sometimes with my boring taste, but no need to worry, Dece has your back.

Daddy coming home from work is your favorite part of the day. You get a little cranky with me around 4, and suddenly Daddy walks in and you’re happy as a clam. I try and not take offense, but man he gets some of your biggest smiles when he walks in. If he takes a bath before work, I pick you up and crack the door open to peep your head in like your a grown man sneaking a peek. Gets him every time. Another funny dawned on me when he came home the other night. He was still on the phone with Papa Bear when he pulled up, so instead of coming inside, he paced back and forth on the patio finishing up his conversation. I was in the middle of changing your diaper, so we went to the back glass door and mooned him. Your very first moon and we were there to see it! Hopefully you’ll keep it as your last, but something tells me that with your Daddy’s genes, I won’t be so lucky. We have so much fun with you. Thank you for thinking we’re funny and always making even the stinkiest days less stinky.

Love you Superman,

Mommy Xx