C at 4 Months

The little man is 4 months old.  He has made it a rough month for his mama.  Sleeping has NOT been going well.  I think he had a cold for about half the month, which impeded his sleeping and now we think he's teething, which isn't helping his night sleeping issues out.  He's not even getting one good long stretch of sleep in the late evening/night anymore.  From 4 AM to 7, he's up about each hour to hour and half.  Nights are extremely short anymore.  Daytime naps aren't going any smoother.  He sleeps for 20-40 minutes in the bassinet for naps.  Ugh.  I keep telling myself...this too shall pass.

He loves watching E and X.  He likes keeping track of all their activities.  He and I spend most of our 'together' time in the afternoons during rest time.  He sits and 'talks' to me for quite a while.  The rest of the day, he's enamored with watching the other two and doesn't spend much time socializing with me.

 

C can roll over from his back to his tummy now.  He doesn't do it all the time.  He gets frustrated when he gets there because he can't get back over but he can flip.  We have to be careful where we leave him.  He can also rotate 360 degrees from where he's left.  Mobility has started.

 We made our first ever trip to the ER this month.  C had been congested all week and hadn't slept much.  Jut had been gone for school for the entire week.  I was exhausted.  We were at Mom and Dad's for dinner on Friday night and C cried inconsolably for 2 hours.  Mom thought that he might have an ear infection and with his behavior, the diagnosis made sense.  She told us he needed to go the ER before his ear drum ruptured...b/c X had his rupture at 2 months.  Jut took him in at 10 on a Friday evening.  The diagnosis came back that he was teething.  Ummm, yeah.  Third child, first trip ever to ER for teething?!  Maybe not a stellar choice on our part...but at the time if it meant more sleep, I was all for it.

 

He's wearing all 9 month clothing now.  He's growing so fast.  Hopefully tomorrow I'll remember to weigh him and check to see how much he's grown.

Staring at his hand is one of his favorite past times right now.  He loves that fist...he loves staring at it and sucking on his fingers.  He's a little drooling king on the majority of days.

We look forward to seeing what this month brings...

  

***On 3-13 at his 4-month well baby check, C weighed in at 17 lbs 13 ozs and 28 inches long...his head might have been 17.5 inches but I might have wrote that down wrong. ****