Four Months

As of today, his professional pictures are not here yet. And I don't want to ruin this post with cell phone pictures. But I will do a picture post soon.

Abilities

• He can roll both ways but still only does it in his sleep or if he gets mad.


• He sat up for over 10 seconds last night using his arm to prop himself up. He is only 17 weeks! I think this is huge!


• He laughs at me. Constantly!


• He knows where milk comes from. While talking to the neighbor, he got hungry and stuck his hand in my shirt to grab at his "mommy bottles".

Likes

• Crawling on top of me. He puts his body weight on his legs and pushes into me if I am sitting with him. Then I fall back (the 1st time it shocked me and I really did fall back) and he scoots around on top of me to find his boobs. He takes a drink, laughs, and starts biting, licking and sucking all over my chest and neck like a little baby vampire. And I laugh the entire time so he raises his head and laughs. Then to dismount he rolls. And he rolls hard! Almost like he throws himself off of me, so I have to have my arm crooked to catch him.


• His blankie. I wanted a lovey for him and to test if he would like a blanket I gave him one of the receiving blankets from the hospital. He now takes that ugly blanket everywhere. Luckily, the hospital sent 4 or 5 of them home with us, so I always have a clean one.


• Moby Wrap. We figured out how to nurse in it last night (I now have G's. Yes, my milk has given me mammaries of gigantic proportions) and he got to nurse and look over my shoulder at the boys playing basketball in the park.


• Walks. We have had an unusually warm winter here. And it has been in the 70's for several days now, so whenever we are bored we hop in our stroller and walk. He loves it.


• Moose. She is his bestie. He was talking to her as he sat in his activity center and she walked away and he yelled at her until she came back and he could talk to her again. He also tries to bite her nose. Every. Time. He. Sees. Her. Poor pup.


• His Daddy. Daddy told us a story about work the other night and this boy laughed after every sentence. Daddy gets the biggest smiles too.


• His Aunt Amanda. George's sister is wonderful to stare at I guess. I need to get her over here to occupy him so I can clean soon. I just text her to ask what she is doing. The weather has been so nice I haven't cleaned at all. All week


• This weird toy. It is a very colorful teething ring and the center piece turns if he licks it and so he will sit anywhere (cracker barrel) and lick it and turn it for LONG periods of time. He also got to pick out his own toy yesterday when we went up town on our walk. He picked a lion rattle. He seems to like lions since he also picked a lion hat over a penguin hat and a lion shirt over a duck shirt. And they're brown. So it can't really be the color. I swear, he is just a genius.


• Water. He swims in the tub. I am a paranoid mommy so I hold his head but he floats and kick kick kicks. I can't wait to get him in the pool.


• TV. I am against this. I read that tv exposure in the first 3 years raises aggression by age 5 by .16. I memorized that and quote it to my mom, grandma and George who insist on letting him watch tv. He likes The Doctors. EFF!


• His pack and play. He has a Baby Trend one with a monkey mobile. He thinks it is for kicking and playing. We bought it for my mom's house but he usually isn't there that long so he has only used it for play.

Dislikes

• What a horrible mom I am but I tried giving him formula. He was eating like a starving man, had a growth spurt that lasted over 2 weeks (he ate every hour by day and every 3 hours by night) and I was tapped out. So I gave him 3 ounces of breast milk and 1 ounce of formula. He sipped 3 times and gagged and refused it. Now he won't even take breast milk from a bottle.


• Strangers touching him. He is too young to understand strangers but he prefers my mom, husband and myself. But his Great Grandmas and Aunt Amanda seem okay. Oh, and I go to the gas station and get my coffee every morning. And I went there for my root beer cravings during pregnancy. So they are our family and play with him. Seriously, I think id trust the 1 girl to babysit. Sad.


• This is going to sound really weird but....that is it. He doesn't really have too much he doesn't like. Oh! When I do dishes! He HATES that.

Notes

• He is the slowest waker upper ever. He needs snuggled for at least 10 minutes upon waking.


• He loves the logo on my coffee cup


• He likes when old ladies talk to him. But no touching unless he knows them.


• He is helping me write this. By playing with my elbow. Now licking my arm.


• He loves to read. 3 books a night and a few by day. He is trying to read them himself too. He holds them and on the board books he turns the pages.


• He got zantac for his reflux but has only taken it 3 times successfully. It tastes like cleaning supplies. I had to gargle with water and chocolate milk and brush my teeth to get rid of the taste. When we go to our pharmacy next we are having them flavor it.


• He now knows my sounds. He hates the sound of me texting. He stirs in his crib when I stir in my bed. I am currently working on his room since his Daddy got a new job and is working 72-80 hours a week.


• I have picked his birthday party theme and have begun planning it and buying stuff for it. Curious George. We are using card tables to set up street vendors with pizza and hot dogs. Then he will have a cake of Curious George holding the balloons and being lifted into the sky.


• SUNGLASSES! If the sun shines in his eyes, he freaks. Not a cry, a freak out. So he wears Baby Shades and he loves them. He leaves them on and looks so happy when I put them on. These get lots of laughs and comments.Pictures to come.

The reflux! He has 1 bad day every week or so. But if I avoid all the yummy fruits, he does fine. I miss my fruit.

Overall, he is a pleasant baby who only really gets mad if he is sleepy, hungry or the sun is in his eyes. He also is letting me type this even thoug he needs more nappy time.