4 months old!

Dear Conor,

You are four months old now!!!  The first time we did your monthly pictures you required a lot of extra support and this time you were holding your own little body up and I had to take pictures fast because you were trying to roll!

Trying to pick up the sticker.

Your smile lights up your entire face!

I love your cute little chin - it only makes an appearance when you hold yout little head up!

Time is going by way to fast and you are growing and developing like a weed! This month you have learned so many new things. You are now opening your hand to grab things with a pincher grab (you had grabbed your Daddy's arm hair a few times), you reach for the birds and toys that hang from your playmat and you pull on them. You reach to turn the pages of a book, and you hold several of your toys.

This is your current favorite toy.  You love to hold it.

You even like to hold things when you sleep!

You have also become very verbal.  You are also experimenting with fluctuations in tone.  You like to talk in low tones and then let out these shrieks in a high pitch voice.  Sometimes you talk for long periods at a time - often in the morning or late afternoon.  Other days you choose not to talk that much at all.  Your Daddy and I both enjoy listening to you babble and often we find ourselves talking to you in order to keep you talking!

You have also moved up in clothing sizes.  You are wearing a lot of size 6 pants (due to your size and the fact that you are wearing cloth diapers a lot more now) and in shirts you float between 3-6 and 6 months depending on the make and style of the shirt.  Your continue to be wider than you are tall so we do have to roll your pant legs a lot but that just adds to your cuteness!

Such a cute baby with your Grovia Hybrid Diaper!

Your Bum Genius Freestyle Diapers -we use these at night mostly.

Spending more time hanging out in your cloth.

Your sight is incredible.  You follow your Daddy and I around the room.  You smile when you see us approach you and you love to watch Hunter as he does his thing at your level.  I love watching your face change as you recognize that we are coming to get you - you often go from fussy to smiling as we get closer.  You have always been an alert baby and with the improved eye sight this behavior is only enhanced.

You have hit some type of sleep regression.  You are no longer sleeping for 4 hours at a time.  You have slowly moved your own bedtime back from 10pm to anywhere between 7 and 8.  You fuss a bit at 9pm but a quick little hand hold and you are back asleep until 11pm when you need to eat.  After that you sleep again until 2ish but at that time if I don't pull you into the big bed to sleep with Daddy and I you are up for at least an hour and then every hour thereafter.  If you are in the big bed you fall asleep pretty quickly and sleep for at least 2.5 hours.  We used to let you do your 8-11 sleeping in the swing but for the last week I have been putting you in your crib on the boppy pillow (you still don't sleep well flat).  At 11pm we transition you into our room and into the Rock n Play.  As you are outgrowing that we will be using a friend's co-sleeper for the next few months until you are sleeping longer periods of time and we can transition you fully to your crib.

Sleeping in the big bed early in the morning.

As far as naps go - they are not something you do reguarly or for long periods of time. You tend to take a few 30-40 minute naps a day. Sometimes these naps can stretch past an hour but more often than not 30 minutes is all we get. You will nap in the car but once the engine is turned off you wake up! Sometimes I have tricked you and left the car on while I carried you inside and you have slept a little longer but that hasn't happened too often. While you don't take long naps - you do generally wake up a happy baby and that's all that matters :)

15 minute naps on the floor are ok too!

You have grown so much in the last month that I am worried I will forget to document all the new things that you do.  We have your 4 month check-up this week so I will be certain to post your stats then!

My how you've grown!

xoxo
Mom