Look Whose Four Months Old!!!
Oh my how much we've grown since last month :) You amaze me everyday and I'm sure it will never end, which is just fine with me because I look forward to spending every second I can with you!!
Seriously kid, how did you get so darn cute?!?! I can't help but kiss those chubby checks of yours every chance I can get. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to smother you with kissed but you not yet mobile so I'll do it as much as I can before you can start to crawl or run away from me. This last week you just started smiling and opening your mouth every time I bring you in for a kiss, it makes you happy!
This month you celebrated your first Halloween and first Thanksgiving. For Halloween you wanted to be Captain American (or your father did), you're never too little to save the world ;) You went to your first Halloween party for daycare, Rachel and her mom had a joint party for all the kids. You got to see all your friends dressed up. You just sat and watched everyone, soaking up everything even though it was past your bedtime. You're such a trooper!! For Thanksgiving mommy and daddy got extra days off work so we were able to spend a wonderfully long four day weekend together as a family. We went over to both your grandparents houses', decorated the house with Christmas decorations, put up our Christmas tree, daddy rented you both Christmas cartoons to watch, and we watched lots of football.
The week before Thanksgiving you decided to have your witching hour reappear. It usually showed up between 5pm and lasted till 7-8pm. You were overtired but refused to take a nap, fighting every chance you could to NOT fall asleep. Sometimes I could get you to finally give in but it was after lots of bouncing and walking around. You did not want to be set down and even after you fell asleep you wouldn't let me sit down or else you would wake up immediately.
Luckily this didn't last long, you seem to be back to your normal happy self again. Actually, you appear to be more awake and active now. And you have finally started to laugh out loud!!! Before you would squeal or open your mouth to laugh but nothing came out. Now you really laugh and giggle and it's the cutest most beautiful sounds this world has ever heard!!!!
You spent the majority of your 4th month fighting colds. Darn daycare! It has not been fun but you still seem to be one happy boy with a stuffy nose and cough. You started to get your first cold just a few days before you turned 3 months old. It started off with nasal congestion and a normal cough for a cold which last almost two weeks. Just when it was almost all gone you got sick again but this time it was a much more nasty cough. Your doctors office had me bring you in but it was just an upper respiratory thing, luckily it wasn't in your lungs or causing you an ear infection.
Even mommy got really sick and we both spent two days home sick together. You spent a lot of time cuddling mommy in our big king sized bed and even slept in daddy's spot for naps. I would prop you up on his pillow to help you breath a bit better and put you under the comforter from the waist down. You looked just like your daddy sleeping. It was the cutest! At night we had you sleep in your car seat placed in your crib for a week. This worked wonderfully and you actually slept great. It might have also been because I kept the Bundle Me on your car seat so you were nice and warm and snugly in it at night. I also got a humidifier for your room and put some Vick's in it to help with your cough and congestion. You finally got rid of all that sickness just this week and were able to enjoy the last few days of your fourth month cold free!!
We introduced you to a new toy, your jump-a-roo. You don't know what to think of it just yet. So far you sit in it for maybe 5 minutes just frozen and will look around at some of the bells and whistles but aren't too sure about what to do just yet. After 5 minutes or so your over it and ready to get the hell out of it! Daycare has one too that lower to the ground but less bouncy, Rachel just started putting you in hers and you definitely look around at everything and are just starting to interact with it. You just started really reaching for toys that are in front of you.
I love watching you develop, little things just click inside that brain of yours and all of a sudden you're doing something completely new. It's truly amazing! I can't get enough of you. I literally miss you as soon as I drop you off at daycare in the morning or as soon as I lay you down for bed. Even though your just in the other room I miss having you in my arms or playing with you, seeing you smile at me or hear you laugh and babble to me. My love for you grows more and more each day
Age: 4 months
Weight: 15 lbs. 7 oz.
Length: 25 3/4 inches
Size: Size 2 disposable diapers, small and medium settings for all pocket cloth diapers. He's outgrowing the length of all his 3 month clothes, he still fits in the majority of his 3 months but they are all high waters in him. He's in mostly 6 month pajamas. Wearing 3-6 and 6 month outfits.
Hair: He’s got some mad scientist hair going on. It’s lightened up a bit more and thinned out, it doesn’t show up well in pictures and looks like he is bald in the front but still has a good amount of hair on his head. He has a bald spot in the back where his head rubs from being on his back, it’s kind of funny.
Teeth: Not yet! He’s a drooling/spitting-up machine and always has his hands in his mouth so he could be teething but who knows! It could be months before anything pops out. With the amount of drool and milk he spits up we have to keep a bib on him practically at all times, otherwise we would be changing outfits every 10 seconds! Dave jokes that he's going to be the only kid on grade school still wearing a bib because he can't turn his faucet off.
Sleeping: He’s a pretty good night time sleeper. A typical night for bedtime is at around 7-7:30pm (occasionally earlier) which he usually goes down pretty easily, wakes up between 12-2am for a night time feeding then goes right back down till 6-6:45am. There are some nights he wakes up before midnight, if so I go in to soothe and settle him back down and back to sleep. I try not to feed him till after midnight unless he keeps waking up. It seems the last few weeks he has gotten over his 4:00am awakenings. Naps are still harder, especially since weekend are so much more difficult with keeping his schedule. But I find if I can catch his sleep cues early I have a better chance at getting him to fall asleep without a fight, the only thing is getting him to stay asleep. He still wakes up the majority of naps after only 30-40 minutes.
Eating: Exclusively breast milk. He eats about every 3-4 hours. He gets two bottles of pumped breast milk a day at daycare. I nurse him once in the morning after he wakes up for the day, as soon as I get home from work, at bedtime, and then for one night feeding. Although I would love to get a full nights rest of uninterrupted sleep, I actually really love that one night feeding. It's quiet and dark in the house, and he's quiet, cuddly and sleepy. It's my extra chance at spending some more time with him alone with no distractions and just focus on him.
Movement: Lifting his head up 90 degrees while on his tummy. Rise up on his chest with his arms when on his tummy. Rolled over from tummy to back 3 times. Able to hold his head up when being held or pulling him up to a sitting position. He brings his hands together, pulls toys up to his mouth, puts hands in his mouth. Bears a good amount of weight on his legs. Looks in the direction of a voice and will follow me around the room or until I'm out of site.
Milestones: Pushing up with his arms while on his tummy. Rolled from belly to back. Squealing. Laughing. Babbling. Not crying when he wakes up from sleeping.
Favorite Toys/Activities: Eating. Walks in the stroller. Car rides, he usually stars out the window. Lights and ceiling fans. His activity mat. Staring at the striped painted on his wall in the nursery and the hanging lanterns. Bath time with daddy. His bouncy seat. Playing/chewing on his lovey.
Dislikes: Waiting to eat. Being cold and going from the bath to the towel. Having clothes go over his head.
Words & Sounds: He's making lots more noises this month. Lots of Ohh's, Ahhh's, Ahhaa's, and babbling.
Favorite Moment: The other night I woke up at 1:30am because he hadn't yet woken me up to eat. Then I realized he was awake but he was just laying in his crib babbling to himself. I watched him on the monitor talking up a storm. I though maybe he would go back to sleep since he wasn't crying and I didn't want to disturb him if he was content, so I tried to go back to sleep myself. Fifteen minutes later he was still babbling away so I just got up to go feed him anyways so I could get back to sleep sooner than later. I bend over his crib, he looked up at me and continued to "Ohhh" and "Ahhh" and "Oooo". Then he stopped, smiled and laughed at me, like "Ha ha mom it's 2am, I'm not even tired right now and I got you out of bed sucka!" I seriously wish I could have video taped it!
