We had Nathan’s four month appointment earlier this week. He doesn’t technically turn four months until next Tuesday, but he’s had a lingering cold so we moved the appointment up.

Our boy is getting big! He’s 15 lbs 8 oz and 23.5 inches. Both of these measurements keep him around the 50th percentile. He got another round of immunizations and did pretty well with the shots. It hurt my heart to have to drop him off at daycare when all I wanted to do was go home and cuddle him all day. But work I must, so I lingered at daycare after dropping him off and then the teachers gave him some extra love for us.

As for the cold, we are in week three now and he’s still fighting it off. It’s just been a stuffy nose and thankfully it finally seems to be getting better (knock on wood), but I think we have to accept that we are going to be dealing with constant colds and other illnesses for the next, oh, decade or so. The trick is keeping Gary and I from also catching it! We were, unfortunately, not so successful with that this first time.

In other Nathan news he’s doing better and better at propping himself up on his elbows so maybe we’ll see some rolling soon. He’s also using his hands a lot more. He’s started grabbing his feet when we are changing him and makes these jerky motions with his arms as he tries to grab for dangly bright stuff that we put in front of him. It’s very cute.

Being with Nathan just gets better and better as he grows and develops. I mean seriously, what’s better than seeing your baby smiling from ear to ear at you as you talk nonsense in high-pitch tones?? It’s so awesome to watch as he changes and figures things out, and it just blows my mind when I look back at pictures of how tiny he was just 4 months ago.

Four month pictures coming soon so keep an eye out. Ill try to do my usual photo shoot around the 28th.

So the other day we had our two month doctor appointment and I have to say that our little Nathan is not so little anymore. When he was born he was 5 lb 14.8 oz (which put him in the 10th percentile) and 19″ long (which put him in the 15th percentile). Well now he is 11 lb 13 oz and 22.75″ which puts him squarely in the 50th percentile for both. So we’re excited that he’s caught up, but we really doubt that he is going to stop at the 50th percentile. My money is on him going to the 75th percentile before leveling off, but we won’t find that out until his next doctor’s appointment which is in 2 months.

Other than that the appointment went well. He’s healthy and all that. He seriously did not like the four shots he got and we’re still struggling with reflux. Hopefully that will get under control soon.

So here are some pictures showing how he’s grown in the past two months:

Nathan on May 8th

Nathan on May 28th

Nathan on July 2nd

Nathan is 6 weeks old today and had two exciting firsts!
He had his first outings in the Baby Bjorn. One of the trips was to BJs and was for an hour or so and he did really well. I think he was too small for the Baby Bjorn initially, so I feel some relief knowing that he will tolerate it now and errands might become a little easier. There’s definitely something nice about having two free hands and no bulky stroller! Or a shopping cart that is not 80% filled up with a carseat.

In other exciting news, we are very proud to announce that Nathan had his first trip to a liquor store. Just a small local store this time…we wanted to break him in. Next time we’ll try out the giant wine and liquor-mart to see how he does.

The last 6 weeks seem to have flown by. Nathan is doing really well. He’s growing like a weed it seems and is now over 9 1/2 lbs. Right now he mostly just sleeps, eats, cries, poops, stares at walls and occasionally at us and makes lots of baby noises. He has reflux which has meant some interesting projectile spit-ups and sleeping in the carseat. Hopefully the medication we’ve just started will help and he won’t be as uncomfortable anymore.

More updates to come, hopefully more often than they have been so far.