Liam - 4 Months

~ 4 Months ~

Our little Liam is 4 months old.  He is such a sweet, smiley baby and is growing and changing so much.  He loves to put anything in his mouth, especially his hands and toys.  He is still slobbering so much that we have to keep a drool bib on him and change his clothes at least once a day.      

~ Firsts ~

Rolled on his side

He rolled on his side, but has a long way to go before he rolls over.  The playmat has a lot of hanging toys on it and he loves to roll onto his side and grab for his toys.  

Held his pacifier

He held his pacifier for the first time and eventually put it in his mouth, but is still learning how to perfect this trick.  I think this will also take some time.  

Laughed

He laughed for the first time and it was so sweet.  I love hearing his sweet little laugh.  

Blowing Bubbles

He loves to blow bubbles and make raspberry sounds.  

First Night Away from Mommy

I had a bunch of friends in from out of town for a mini high school/EIU reunion.  Our friend Stephanie's husband is the new GM for the Chicago Bears.  There were 9 of us total and we stayed at the Hyatt at McCormick Place, had dinner at Sunda and went to the Bears football game on Sunday.  It was a lot of fun, but I definitely missed my boys.  There is a picture below of Daddy with the boys and he sent it to me the next morning and said they survived.  

Ate Rice Cereal

He tried rice cereal for the first time and was not a fan.  He kept spitting it out and does not like it one bit.  

4 Month Doctor Visit

Liam did great at his doctor appointment.  He was all smiles until she looked down his throat and he got his shots.  Our poor little guy screamed when he got his shots, but he quickly turned into our happy boy after some comforting from mommy.  Weight:  14 pounds, 11 ounces (25-50th percentile) Height: 25 inches long (50th percentile); Head: 16.75 (75-90th percentile)

Schedule:

He wakes up around 5/6am, sometimes he wants his pacifier and sometimes his bottle.  He normally goes back to sleep and gets up for the day around 7am and goes to bed around 7/7:15.  He normally has bottles around 6:30am, 8:45am, 11:45am, 2:45pm, 5:30 and 7pm.  He drinks from 4-6 ounces.  He naps around 9am, 12pm and 3/3:30pm.  The first two naps are normally 45 minutes to one hour while the last nap is around 2 hours (sometimes only 1 hour).   

Size:

He is wearing size 6 months, some 9 months.  He still wears size 2 diapers for daytime and size 3 for overnight diapers.  He wears size 9 months for onesies.  He has the cutest little rolls just like his big brother Grayson did when he was this age.  His wrists are so chubby it looks like he has rubber bands around them.   We love our little chubby Liam.  

Looks:

I think he looks more and more like Grayson the older he gets.  Sometimes people can't tell who is who when I show them pictures.  He still has the same features, although I did see some golden hair under his dark hair.  I hope his hair stays dark, but we will see as he gets older.  

Liam's Godparents:

We asked our good friends, Dominic and JoAnn Sergi to be Liam's godparents.  They were so excited and honored.  They are such great people and we think the world of them.  We love them like family.  Liam's baptism will be Saturday, February 6th.  

Grayson ~ 4 Months

Flipagram Video of Grayson's First 4 Months

Grayson is now 4 months old!  He is a cooing and drooling machine.  He has been sucking and chewing on his thumbs a lot as well.  He loves playing airplane and being pushed on his elephant mat with Daddy.  It's so cute to see them play together.  Grayson has really started to giggle and loves to smile.  He is now grabbing for all of his toys on his activity playmate.  We added a few hanging toys to make it more interesting and easier to grab onto.  Sophie the teething giraffe is one of his favorites.  He is now able to hold both the regular and teething Sophie and loves to chew on them.  His other favorite toys are a soft ball with circle loops attached and his crinkly paper that Bryan and Lauren gave him.  Another new thing he is doing is putting the pacifier in his mouth and then taking it out and putting back into his mouth.  We caught this on video while I was in the backseat with him.  (see video below)  He loves when we sing songs that I loaded from the Baby Genius CD on my phone such as This Old Man, Where is Thumbkin, A Tisket, A Tasket, Mary Had a Little Lamb, The Alphabet Song, I'm a Little Teapot and Little Bunny Foo Foo.  He likes watching baby tv, but I only put that on every once in a while.    

Grayson has dark brown hair with the cutest little swirl in the front, beautiful brown eyes, two cute dimples, a darker completion and chunky little legs that we love to squeeze.  Most people in the beginning said he looked more like me, but he is starting to look more and more like Craig.  It's so fun to see how much he changes every week.     

He is on a good schedule now.  He gets up around 7am, naps at 9, 11:30/12, 2 and 4.  His naps are anywhere from 30 minutes (normally) to 2 hours (rarely), but the average time is 30-40 minutes.  I'm hoping this gets better as he gets older.  He eats around 7am, 10am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm (rice cereal), 6:30pm, 11pm and 3am.   He eats 4-5 ounces (half breast milk and half formula), but we will probably start doing 5 ounces at all feedings except when I nurse him (11pm, 3am and 7am).  When I nurse him at night he is good about eating and then going right back down.  He is still sleeping in the bassinet part of the pack n play in our room, but we are moving him to his crib after his 4 month check up.  We start bath around 6:15 and then he's down for the night at 6:45pm.   He still loves bath time and we took the newborn insert out so he has more room to move around.  The only problem with that is he likes to move around so much that he almost goes under water so we have to be very careful and might need to buy another bath tub that keeps him in place.  He is wearing 6 months clothes, 6-9 month onesies size 2 diapers for day and size 3 overnights for night. 

Grayson Cooing ~ 12/11/13

     

4 Month Check Up ~ January, 6, 2014

He got 2 shots and an oral vaccine at his 4 month check up.  He didn't even notice the first shot, but cried after the second shot and then as soon as I comforted him he was better.  He weighed 16 pounds, 8 ounces (75th percentile), was 25 1/2 inches long (50th percentile) and his head was 17 3/8 (98th percentile).  She said we can start feeding him rice cereal so we stopped by Buy Buy Baby on the way home and picked some up.  We go back in March for his 6 month visit.

Notes on pictures below:

Our nanny Marta gave him this bear.  We are very lucky to have such a great nanny and Grayson absolutely loves her.  She only speaks spanish to him so he will hopefully be bilingual.

He tried Earth's Best rice cereal and wasn't too sure about it at first.  He made funny faces and spit it out.  I'm sure the texture was very strange to him.  After a while he seemed to like it a little more, but not sure he will ever get excited about rice cereal.  I tried it and can understand his lack of excitement.  We are doing the rice cereal at 5pm before his bath.