Month 4

This month has been a very fast paced month as far as your development is concerned! You have literally taken off and you roll ALL over the place. If there is a toy just out of your arms grasp, you will roll until you have it in your hands.  I expect you to crawl any day now (mom crawled at 4.5 months)You play with almost anything you can get your hands on. You are learning so much! You hit a lot of things -like faces-yours and ours- to try and figure out cause and effect. You have favorite toys like your teethers and a mickey mouse stuffed animal. You also love your ‘jumperoo’ bouncy seat.  Your verbal skills are really taking off too! You ‘talk’ from the moment you wake up. You are so happy, you smile and play all the time!  Mom and Dad are working very hard to get your sleep schedule down.  After Papa Bear died your schedule was thrown off, so we have been working hard to get you back to sleeping thru the night.  By the end of this month you were only waking up once a night at 4am.  You also started eating solid foods this month.  Your first vegetable was sweet potatoes just like Daddy’s first vegetable.  Then you tried sweet pears, carrots, squash, bananas and peaches.  There really isn’t a food you don’t love.

eating cereal for the first time at the beginning of the month

At your 4 month check up

4 month photo shoot

 

Playing in the snow

Month 3

Papa Bear went to be with Jesus at the beginning of this month.  The day that he passed away you were SUCH a good baby.  You are normally very vocal, but that morning you had this calmness about you.  It was almost like you knew you needed to be still and quiet.  You woke up that morning at 3am, just wanting to hang out.  Turns out, that was about when Papa Bear began to get sicker.  You did a lot of movin’ and groovin’ this month.  You continued to roll over from your back to your belly and you began to roll over from your belly to your back.  The first time you rolled over belly to back it really scared you, so you haven’t really done it a lot since.  You also began to try and hold your bottle this month.  But instead of pulling the bottle towards you, you always push it away.  You LOVE standing up and you have very strong legs!  When you lay on your belly, you start kicking and we really think you are going to take off crawling!  You got your first cold this month, it was pretty miserable for you and Mommy (we had it at the same time.)  You also began teething this month, which was equally as miserable as the cold!  You ‘talk’ a lot more.  You especially love ‘talking’ to your cousin Maci.  You love doing different things and going new places and we can really see how much you are learning!  You enjoy watching ESPN. You get ‘mad’ at toys if you can’t figure them out.  And, the last of your ‘newborn’ hair fell out and new hair is growing in.  I’m excited to see what month 4 has in store.

 

wearing Daddy’s hat on your head.  (taken by my camera phone, so it isn’t so clear)

 

Month 2

Two months old! And what a month it’s been. You are starting to hold your head up really well at the beginning of this month, which is nice because I don’t have to worry about you flopping around as much anymore! You stay awake a lot longer during the day now. About every third night you will sleep 10ish to 5ish, which is GREAT! Your favorite thing to do is people watch. You are constantly studying people’s faces and trying to imitate their expressions. When you want to ‘talk’ you coo, but you also fake cough. At first we thought maybe you had a cold, but one day mommy coughed and you coughed back at her! We realized you had learned to control your coughing, so you use it to talk. Pretty funny!! You are always alert and I can tell you are learning a lot. You’ve also learned that toys ‘do’ things, and you always want them going.  Your colic seems to have disappeared into thin air, and we are so thankful for that! Mommy had to go back to work this month, and her heart broke a little. But, she knows you are in loving hands. We celebrated your very first Christmas this month and you went to church for the first time this month!

Month 1

I’m totally stealing this idea from another blog that I follow -> www.dooce.com

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What a whirlwind month!  I started out this month as 1 person.  Sure you were attached to me, but you required no care at all.  Now that you are here I am consumed with everything you need and how I can best take care of you.  The first 2 weeks of your life are a total blur to me.  Recovery from the c-section was hard but we had a lot of help!  You had more visitors that I can count!  People brought us yummy meals and helped clean our house.  You were up every 2 hours on the dot so that you could eat, and then you went right back to bed.  Week 3 was the hardest for mommy.  Sleep deprivation began to set in and the days and nights were hard.  Your colic began this week.  Your Daddy kept telling me that you had colic, but I didn’t want to believe that!  But, by week 4 I knew that you were hurting most of the time.  We all soothed you the best we could, but you cried a lot!  You had your first ‘real’ bath in your bathroom and you really loved the warm water.  You started sleeping about 3 hours at a time by the end of your fourth week and we decided to move you to your bedroom.  There are small glimpes of a personality, I’m ready to see what next month has in store.

This picture was taken by Erin.  She showed me this picture while they were sewing me up so that I could see what you looked like.  I couldn’t believe how beautiful you were.

This picture was taken 11-15-2008, you were 1 month old.