Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Cole-4 Months

I cannot believe it, but our baby boy is already 4 months old! In one way, it seems unbelieveable that 4 months has already passed and in another way, it is like he has always been here with us. Crazy how that works! Anyhow, we had his 4 month check-up yesterday and everything looked good. I'll start with the stats first:

Weight-16 pounds, 6 ounces---75th%

Height-27 1/8 inches---95th%!!!!

Head-16 3/4--50%

Needless to say, it appears that Cole has his daddy's height. When the doctor walked in one of the first things she said when she saw him was "Wow! He's long, huh?" :) Everything checked out great with Cole, the only concerns we had were checking his head and neck again and his napping pattern. As far as his head and neck, everything looks great, so it looks like we have no worries with that anymore. In terms of the napping, Cole is the king of the 45-minute nap. This is not always the case, but it is pretty common that he takes many of these cat-naps throughout the day. The doctor told us that that is just the sleep pattern of some babies and we can hope for it to stretch out in the future. Let's home that time comes soon, because 45-mintues isn't the longest time when you're trying to get stuff done! :) His night sleep is better though, even though it is not consistent. We put him down between 7:30-8 and his is normally up once during the night for a feeding-often around 3ish. He then goes back to bed until around 7 or 8, which is nice because I am normally able to feed him before I go. Last night though, he slept from 8:30-6--that felt like heaven!! I would love for that to stick, but I think it was probably due to the 4 shots he had to get. :(

What is Cole doing now? Well, he is a busy little boy. He has recently discovered his hands and feet. He will stare at his hands like they are the most amazing thing in the world. When he is laying or sitting up on our lap, he will grab at his feet for long stretches of time. Cole's favorite activities include laying on his playmat and trying to catch all the dangling toys (sometimes trying to mouth them as well), and also to cuddle with his "lovey" and put it up over his face. He is a crazy kicker and just kicks away when he is playing on his mat or when he is excited. In the last couple of days he has become quite the talker and just squawks so loudly it makes us laugh. He can roll from his stomach to his back and is SOOOO close to going from his back to his front, but that darn arm keeps getting in the way. We thought he almost had it the other night with Mia, Ava, and Aidan all cheering him on, but needless to say he got stuck. :) Cole's temperment continues to be mild. He is a very content, happy little observer who very willingly gives out the smiles and laughs. He also loves to watch Mia and will follow her movement and give her lots of smiles. He likes to hang out in the Baby Bjorn, now facing outward with daddy, which is very cute. He still has very little hair and I am pretty sure his eyes are going to end up dark, unlike Mia. I am well overdue for some good pictures of him, but that is my goal for this week. Until I get one or go through my pictures and find a better one, I leave you with a not-so great snapshot of both Mia and Cole....

Don't mind the pink nose-it was from face painting at the zoo

1 comment:

sarahalexander said...

I know what you mean about the 45 min nap! That's all Bella will give me, maybe 2 times a day, besides that she is up all day!! Glad to hear you are alive and well!