Four Months

Ethan turned four months old last Thursday.  We had his well-check that day and here are his stats:

15 lbs 6.4 oz  (49%)

25 1/4 inches (55%)

 {waiting for the doctor}

I feel like he is a big baby but apparently he is average.  He is smaller than Luke was at this age by about a pound and an inch.  I guess I spoke too soon last month about the whole sleeping through the night thing.  Because I think the very night I posted that he started waking up again.  It was a nice 10 or so days though while it lasted.  He is a good sleeper for the most part.  He slept from 8:00 to 4:30 last night and then went back to sleep after I fed him until 7.   The doctor said we could go ahead and start with solids, so we bought some rice cereal but haven’t started it yet.  The doctor also said we should wean him off swaddling sometime during his fourth month so that should be fun.  :)

He is such a sweet little guy.  He is really growing up.  He sits in the Bumbo quite a bit and we started putting him in the exersaucer some.  We also started putting him in the high chair while we eat dinner, so that has been nice.  Just this past Saturday, he took his first nap in the swing.  Up until now he hasn’t been a fan of the swing but we kept trying and he finally seems to like it better.  He LOVES watching Luke.  He always tries to make sure Luke is in his line of vision.  He smiles a lot.  It is kind of tough to get laughs out of him but when we do it is so cute.  He loves to blow raspberries and talks to us a lot.  He started teething this month for sure and drools a ton. 

On another note, I am losing MASSIVE amounts of hair.  I remember this from last time but it still just seems wrong.  How am I not bald yet?  It is driving me crazy and my hair is all over everything, including Ethan.  I am ready for this to be done but then I will start getting the weird baby hair, so I’m not really looking forward to that either.

Here are pictures of Ethan’s fourth month:

Hairpiece Fun

When I was in middle school, my Dad decided to get a toupee.  He had gone bald on top when he was pretty young so I think he just wanted to see what it was like to have a lot of hair.  I think he wore it a week, maybe two and then had it removed.  We can all laugh about it now, thankfully.  And looking back it just seems so out of character for my Dad.  Shauna got a lot of use out of it though during Halloween and while filming various videos of herself.  Last week we were upstairs at my parents’ house in the playroom/loft area {side note: my parents’ house is very clean but Luke and Lily pretty much destroy the playroom every time they play in there} and my Mom opened the closet and we saw the toupee.  This is what happened:

Sorry for the bad quality but I was laughing so hard and for some reason I was holding my phone vertically instead of horizontally.  It makes me laugh every time I watch it though, so I needed it on the blog. :)

Family Vacation 2010

This post is way overdue.  Shauna posted about it right after we got back, so this seems like old news.  We had a great time on our vacation all together.  Mom and Dad were a huge help with the kids and I doubt we could have managed without them.  Luke and Lily had a lot of fun and loved swimming in the pool and playing at the beach.  They also loved running up the stairs and playing in the bunkbeds in the house we rented.  Like Shauna said, it was a perfect vacation for the stage of life we are in.  I can’t imagine being cooped up in a hotel room with Luke AND Ethan.  So, it was so nice having a big house with a pool to enjoy.  And the beach was just a short walk away.