Four Months

FOUR. This has been your biggest month yet, sweet boy! You celebrated your first New Year's as we rang in 2018. We had yet another snow day and you took your first plane ride for a family wedding in Texas. This has been my most favorite month yet as you are really growing into your little personality. You love to smile, laugh, chew on your fists, kick your feet and roll around on your play mat. You are starting to love your new excersaucer you got for Christmas, but I think you like being able to sit up and look at everything instead of lying on your back constantly. It also allows you to be eyeball to eyeball with your big brothers.

You love eating, napping, bath time, sleeping in your car seat and watching your loud brothers run around.

You don't love when your brothers are too loud and they scare you, the process of getting your pj's on after bath, when your schedule is thrown off thanks to school or church, when we leave you in your bed all night long instead of feeding you every few hours.

I just moved you up to size 3 diapers, because you were exploding out of the 2's. You're wearing size 3-6mo. clothing. You are up to 14.9lbs and 26in.

You tagged along with us to Texas for a family wedding last weekend and did so well with the exception of the plane ride there. You slept through the entire rehearsal dinner, wedding and reception. Your schedule was thrown off, but I think you liked having mommy and daddy all to yourself.

Speaking of schedule, here is where we're at currently:

8AM- wake up and eat
8-9:30AM- awake time; play time if we're at home
9:30-11AM- nap; home or car seat if we're on the go
11AM- eat
11-12:30- awake time
12:30-2PM- nap
2PM- eat
2-3PM- awake time
3PM- nap
5PM- eat
5-6PM- awake/fussy time
6PM- cat nap
6:45PM- bath time; watch brothers get ready for bed
7:15PM- bottle and books with brothers
7:45PM- bed time

You're "sleeping through the night" in the sense that I'm not feeding you, but you don't actually stay asleep all night long. You'll wake up and cry for a bit, but then eventually fall back asleep.

Your hair might be one of my most favorite things about you right now. It sticks straight up in the back no matter how much I brush it down.

You are such a happy little guy and give us plenty of smiles and laughs, but when you're not happy about something you certainly let us know. You get the saddest/cutest little pouty lip and most of the time, it's followed by a loud scream.

I can't wait for the weather to warm up, so that we can get out of this nasty flu season and go on some walks. I have a feeling you're going to like being outside just as much as your big brothers.

Sweet boy, we love you so much and feel so blessed to be your mommy and daddy. You are the sweetest little gift we never knew we needed.

A perfect example of the pouty lip.

 Here are your big brothers at four months.