Sam's 4 month survey

Monthly Survey

1.       How old is baby? 4 months!

2.       Doctor’s appointments?: His next one is scheduled for August 2nd.

3.       Stats:

a.       Weight: 15lbs 8oz

b.      Height: 26 inches

c.       Clothes size: Anywhere from 3-9 months depending on the brand.

d.      Diaper size: Huggies size 2...possibly moving up to a 3 soon.

e.      Hair color: Turning red!!!

f.        Anything else? He has the most amazing blue eyes! They've got a really neat pattern. :)

4.       Milestones:

a.       Verbal skills: He loves to talk! He's even starting to explore different sounds that he can make.

b.      Teething: He's drooling like a fountain and his gums are swelling. I can feel a little bit of something on the bottom, too, but can't quite see them yet.

c.       Rolling: He can roll from his tummy to his back and just today (7/19/12) he rolled from his back to his tummy!

d.      Crawling: He can scoot pretty far if he has something to push off of with his feet.

e.      Anything else? He can zero in on something he wants to play with and then bring it to his mouth.

5.       Things he likes: He likes to stand on laps, he likes to sit up to look around. He likes playing on his play mat. He can actually turn himself 180 degrees! He also just moved up to his jumper, which he really likes! He even figured out how to play with most of the stuff on there. His hand/eye coordination is pretty amazing!

6.       Things he dislikes: His car seat and tummy time.

7.       Sleeping: He's still sleeping through the night. He goes to bed around 7-7:30 and sleeps until around 6am. He occasionally still wakes up for a feed around 4-5am, but will usually go back to bed.

8.       Eating: He will drink a 5oz bottle of breast milk about 4 times a day while I'm at work and then I nurse when I'm home. If I'm home he'll occasionally get a bottle of breast milk, but otherwise I just nurse. We're going to be increasing the amount of milk he's been taking in in an effort to keep him from getting hungry every 2 hours during the day, but he's still sleeping through the night for now, so we're going to hold off on cereal until closer to 6 months.

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10.   Things we’re looking forward to next month: We’ll be making a visit to Nama & Grandpa’s cottage for a day, but other than that August is pretty quiet.

11.   How I like motherhood:

a.       Likes: Seeing the interaction between my two kids. Sam loves to watch Clara and Clara just loves Sam to bits. She says hi to him and gives him kisses all the time.

b.      Dislikes: It’s still a struggle some days. And I know it will b e until the day I die, but it’s worth it. I just need to remember to take a few minutes for myself once in a while. If that means getting a little less sleep I guess that’s what it’s going to take.

Pictures!!

Sleepy Brewer fan

Smiley guy

Hanging out in the jumper

What?

Mommy, stop taking my picture!