4 months

As with all of my posts, this one is waaaayyyy over due! I am a horrible blogger but I have a hard time setting aside time to do it.

Landon will be 4 months old tomorrow so here is an update..

We go to the doctor on Monday for his second set of shots and he will get weighed so I don't know his current weight, but he seems to be getting heavy and it is starting to hurt my back constantly picking him up and carrying him around.

He can sit up if he is supported. I put his Boppy pillow on the floor and he can sit up pretty good against that and play with toys on the floor.

He still loves his Bumbo, but will only want to sit in it for a few minutes. To make it a little safer having him in it in the kitchen we put it in his wooden high chair that we got from Michele and that way he is more secure in it.

He likes to throw his toys off of the tray on the high chair, but doesn't like the loud sound they make when they hit the floor. He still startles easily but I think we are getting better about that. If he hears a loud noise he looks at me to decide if he needs to cry and I usually try to smile and talk to him so then he will smile too.

I thought we were done with swaddling! He went about a week without being swaddled for naps or at nighttime. Then one night after he had been asleep for about an hour, he started screaming and I could not get him calmed down. I tried the pacifier, rocking him, swaying him, bouncing him.... nothing worked. So I got the blankets out and wrapped him up as tight as I could. I laid him in the crib and he would take his pacifier and within 30 seconds to 1 minute he had stopped crying altogether and was asleep very shortly after that! What the heck!!!! I was so excited at the thought of not having to swaddle him for a couple reasons...1. I feel like I am punishing him because he does not have access to his arms. 2. I pretty much have to do the swaddling or else he comes out of it. 3. Since he is wrapped up he gets hot so I have to keep the AC cooler than I normally would. 4. I want him to be able to sleep without being dependent on it. I guess I will just have to take it day by day.

He puts everything he can get his hands on in his mouth and drools constantly.

He does not spit up as much, but now he is drooling all over the place, but I guess that is better than something that smells like sour milk.

We are still breastfeeding and I do not see an end to that in the near future. I have however started trying to give him one bottle a day so that when he goes back to Chanute I will be able to leave him for a little bit. He had been doing ok with them, but I had quit because it was extra work for me to have to pump and then still feed him froma bottle. Then because he wasn't used to them when we tried he would throw fits and refuse the bottle.

He had been rolling over really well from his stomach to his back, but he hasn't done if for a few days. I think he forgot how to do it. He has tried to go from the back to the stomach, but can't quite get there yet.

He makes alot of sounds and smiles alot. He loves the dogs and will smile at them when they walk by. He likes to watch me or Daddy feed Maddie.

He still likes going for walks in his stroller and falls asleep within a few minutes.

We have joined a playgroup and he likes to interact with other babies... especially girl babies! :)

He hates when I am on the computer!! He finds it so boring and squirms when on my lap and cries when I lay him on the bed or on the floor with toys while I do it! Another reason why I don't hardly ever blog or post on Facebook!

Last weekend at Lisa's apartment we took him swimming in her pool. The first day he was ok with the water.. He didn't cry or really smile. The second day he smiled alot and even kicked his legs when I bobbed him up and down and held him on his tummy as I walked him around the pool..

I haven't uploaded pics in awhile so I will post some when I update you with his 4 month stats from his Dr's appt Monday!