Four Months Old- August 24th

Our sweet boy is four months old. Where has the time gone? You are getting so big and learning new things everyday; you are seeming less and less like a baby everyday.

--You weigh 16 lb 14 oz, 25.25 inches long. Such a chunker lol:)
--You are wearing a size three diaper now, and wearing six month clothes. Some are a little snug and others are a little big. We are hoping to make it in six months for the rest of the summer like days.
--Wearing fleece sleepers to bed now at night. You seem to like it more than the sleep sacks. It was an easy transition.
--A couple weeks ago you slept through the night without needing to eat for about a week straight, but now the past week you have woken up around 2-3 wanting to eat a bottle and then you'll go right back to sleep until usually close to 7am. You still go to bed around 8 pm. Sometimes 730 if you get sleepy or overtired. We usually feed you a bottle and then lay you in your crib to fall asleep on your own. You are usually pretty good about getting to sleep in around 10-15 mins.
--You are eating around 7 ounces about every 3-4 hours (size 3 nipples, breast milk). Sometimes you'll eat a little less. You will usually eat a full bottle before bed if its been 2 hours or so since you last ate. We are hoping to try rice cereal tonight after your 4 month appointment if your doctor gives us the go ahead. We hope this will keep you full the whole night and you'll sleep through the night again.
--Talking up a storm...gooing and makings sounds. You've gotten very loud the past couple of days when talking to us. Too cute!
--You are grabbing toys and sucking on them more and more.
--You suck your thumb or whole hand.
--You tolerate books a little bit more now.
--Still love bath time..splash all around.-
--You always sleep on your stomach now, we stopped worrying and just let you be. We find you all over the crib..Up against the sides, head facing the back of the crib etc. We lowered your crib one level bc you were lifting yourself up above the crib.
--Still drooling all the time..we always have to have a bib on you.
--You seem to like daycare and are a pretty good baby from what we hear. If we could just get you to nap like you do there. You seem to take several cat naps at home or wont sleep the best in your crib maybe an hour tops.
--You love walks sitting up in your stroller and being outside. You love to people watch too when we take you out to eat.
--You grab your paci and hold it in your hand and then put it back in your mouth all the time. Its too funny!
--You've lost most of your hair on one side and a little in the back. haha Hopefully some new hair will grown in soon. Its still red tinted and wavy. When we take you outside and its humid it curls right up. hehe
--You've started using your bumbo and tray more, playing with rings, using your musical jumper..you are a little small yet. We usually put a blanket underneath so your feet can touch. You seems to like to play with it for a 10 mins or so and then you want out. Hopefully in the next month you'll start to like it more.
--Lots and lots of smiles..you def recognize us when we pick you up at daycare you goo and smile. A few more laughs lately, a lot of silent looking ones. We are waiting for you to giggle non stop. You have just had small ones off and on. We love your big smiles though. You love to stand up on us and we say so big! You love playing air plane and looking all around. You def do not like to just sit still.

Playing with toys

Here are some pictures of you playing with your rings...you were shaking them up and down. So talented!!

Bottle holding

You are starting to kind of holding your own bottle. Sometimes you'll hold it for like a minute wo/ us needing to hold it. hehe Too cute!

Baptism-Aug 18th

It was a big weekend for you. You were baptized in our church; where we were also married on Sunday. It was such a great day and you were such a good baby throughout the whole thing. Grandpa and Grandma Kraemer and Ross and Sarah came up on Saturday to spend the day with us too.

Here are some pics:



You and your godparents, Matt and Jodie:

Sleeping through the night

Sleep

After a couple of rough weeks of continuous wake ups; you have slept good the past couple of nights!! Yay! Lets hope you were just going through a phase and this will continue! Sunday night you had slept till 430 without waking up and eating and then last night we put you down around 8-830 and we had to wake you up at 640 for daycare!! You have never made it that long without waking up and needing to eat!

Now mom just needs to remember how to sleep through the night again. haha I kept waking up over and over. haha

Good job baby!!!

We stopped using the sleep sack and put you in fleece sleepers, and we try and lay you down after eating before bed to put yourself to sleep. You almost always roll onto you tummy to go to sleep. We used to freak out and try and move you back but now we just let you be. You def are a tummy sleeper:)

Sleep regression?!!?

The past couple of weeks have been rough! You have been sleeping like a newborn again. I've heard this is typical around this age(3-4 months). The first couple of nights after daycare you were sleeping about the same or until around 4am and then wanting to eat but now you are back to waking up over and over. Some nights it was around 11, 1, 2, 4, 5 etc.. We'd have to give you your paci and rub your back and you'd usually go back to sleep. This has just made for one tired mommy and daddy. I took out my middle of the night pumping around this time too in hopes of getting more sleep and only having one of us up to feed you in the middle of the night. You had other ideas in your head though. We are really hoping this is just a phase and you go back to being a pretty good sleeper. It would be so nice if you could make it through the whole night without needing to eat or at least only waking up to eat like you used to. We can hope.

Last night we tried to attempt sleep training you. Wed lay you down to put yourself to sleep which you were getting good at the first time going down for the night. The past couple of nights you were just not having it..taking about 30 mins to get to sleep. When you'd wake up shortly after wanting your paci wed wait 5-10 mins before going in. You would cry and then stop and then go back to crying and then the cries just got louder. Eventually we gave in and gave you your paci and then you went right to bed. You managed to only wake up around 1 to eat and then slept till 6. Hopefully things are going to get better! Wish us luck in sleep training you. Its so hard to hear you cry.

Paci holding

Yesterday you picked up your paci and you were holding it in your hand and then you kept trying to get it in your mouth..after a bit you were successful and got it in your mouth. It was so cute/funny to watch. Now if you could just do this all the time; especially at night! hahaha