4 Months Old

How did this happen?  Our happy baby has been with us for a third of a year already!  Between three and four months, he started sleeping through the night.  He went from drinking 4 oz bottles to now SEVEN ounce bottles.  He started daycare.  He rolled over back to front.  He started really unleashing his giggles (video to come soon!)  He got to spend time with both his Grandma and his great aunt who both gave up time at home to help us until daycare was able to fit him in.  He really got going with his talking/babbling.  He has started to figure out that if he makes pathetic noises, we'll pay attention to him and then he can flash a smile at us.  He grabs EVERYTHING with the goal of putting it in his mouth.  He's working on sitting up but isn't there yet.  We are absolutely smitten.

Pre-photo shoot lighting check

Mothers Day

What a difference a year can make.  Last year on Mothers Day, B and I drove home from a weekend of camping and hiking in Sequoia National Park and called our moms on the way home.  I had had a lot more trouble than usual hiking, and struggled to catch my breath.  I had concluded that I must be pregnant, B thought I was just out of shape.  When we got home, I took a pregnancy test, and even though it's supposed to take 3 minutes to turn positive, it turned positive by the time I walked down the hallway to the kitchen where B was standing. I think that I thought at the time that it was the best Mothers Day present I could ever get.

But then I got to spend a day with our almost 4 month old and his dad.  Nothing better.  We went out to brunch this morning and also went on a walk later in the afternoon.  On a typical Colorado May day, it snowed quite a bit last night, but is all gone already.  I got a good bath in, too.  Mercifully, there are no photos of that.

The hat I made while on bedrest got one day's wear!

"I'll never let go dad, I'll never let go."

Mission Accomplished

This morning as we were getting ready to leave for day 2 of daycare, we put A in his gym.  He's been working on rolling over for a few days now, and we're not sure when it happened, but all of a sudden B looked at him and he had accomplished his goal.

Today after work, he did it 3 times!  Twice before dad came home, and then once after.  I didn't video until then, and at that point he was a bit fussy and tired, so he did it with a pacifier in his mouth to boot.  He currently can only do it in that one spot, and there's a slight drop off where the blankets we're using for padding taper off, but he's really close on the other surfaces as well.  It's so fun to watch him figure this all out!

His other  new favorite activity is talking.  Yesterday morning before daycare, he decided to talk it up while stuck in his not-quite-turned position.

Almost rolling the other way

Last night A decided to roll back to tummy and was determined to do it each time he laid on his back. Unfortunately, that pesky shoulder got in the way!

Roll Over

Here he was at 10.5 weeks rolling over.  He replicated it probably 10 or 15 times but hasn't been so interested in it lately.

3 months old

He just keeps changing!  Between his second and third month, our baby became a smile machine who loves to make eye contact, perhaps most with the baby in the mirror in his gym.  He grabs at toys with both hands and puts whatever he can into his mouth, most often part of his fist.  He's also started rolling his head around while lying on the ground and losing a lot of hair as a result.  And the biggest news is that at 10 and a half weeks he started to turn over!  He flipped from his tummy to his back and we have it on video (soon to come).  He probably has done it 10-15 times but in the past week has been less interested in it.  He is just starting to giggle for us and I think that might be unleashed in the coming weeks.  Ok, enough of this...the pictures are what you come here for!

Quality time with mom and dad

Sometimes while on maternity leave when it got to the point where I really needed a nap, A and I would nap together.  And often, Nanaa would join us as well.  B caught us.

One of B's favorite things to do with A is to read to him.  He was catching up on his national geographic subscription.  The look on A's face in the second picture is just my favorite.