4 Months

4 month stats:

Weight: 17 lbs 10 oz

Height: 26.5 in

 

The baby boy is growing too fast! I held my friend's 5 day old newborn yesterday and it made me miss my Luke as a brand newbie. Babies are so delicious, and Luke at 4 months is at such a fun stage because we get so many smiles and laughs out of him each day—it truly makes me so happy and content as a mommy to see Luke's huge grins.

Luke is just such a good baby. He rarely fusses and if he does it's because he's getting tired or over stimulated. He goes to sleep so easily needing just one lullaby snuggled up in my arms, with his special blankie by his face, to make his eyes droopy and his body calm. Each day we seem to be getting into more of a regular schedule which I am excited about—I nurse him about every 3 hours and then he takes about 4 naps each day in between feedings. He is a rock-star night sleeper going at least 10 hours every night but sometimes 11 or 12. While we were in SG he suddenly thought he needed to wake up every 4 or 5 hours and that was not cool. When we got home I decided he could just cry if he needed to be awake before it had been 8 hours and so he did the first 2 nights home and then we were magically on the 10 hours+ plan. That makes me such a happy mom. Of course I never go to bed very early and soak up a solid 8 hours for myself but even 6 or 7 hours of consecutive sleep feels amazing.

Luke loves: batting and grabbing his toys on his little play mat, sitting in the Bumbo and feeling so big and more at the kids' level (but the Bumbo almost always makes him spit-up from the pressure on his tummy), smiling for all of us and all the folks who sit behind us at church, snoozing in the carseat—he cannot stay awake in it for longer than 5 minutes, and the ceiling fan still ranks pretty high. He has found a new true love though—his hands. As long as he can find a fist to suck and gnaw on he is a happy, drooling boy.

These pictures really seem to show how dark Luke's eyes are. They are definitely a dark blue right now but they seem to be changing, little by little, to more of a gray. I had those same eyes as a baby and so did Caroline, and we ended up most certainly non-blue-eyed, so we shall wait and see.
 

I love my darling boy (whom Livs aptly calls "chubby chubby bear")