4 months old :)

dear baby miles,
it's true what they say...time flies when you are having fun! and we are certainly having fun together, this is a very fun age for you to be. you can follow us with your eyes and seem interested in what we are saying. you also smile ALL the time and laugh and laugh while watching the fan and kicking your legs.

i'm not sure exactly how much you weigh...your 4month doctor appt is on friday so i'll be sure to give an update on height and weight. a couple weeks ago you were 14lbs so i'm sure you're still packing on the pounds!

this month has brought some changes...i went back to teaching part time and so you spend the mornings with your babysitter here at the house. i think things are going well for everyone. but i absolutely love coming home to hang out with you in the afternoons...i wouldn't trade it for the world!

eat & sleep
ahh finally we are in a groove as far as your eating goes. it's just now not uncomfortable for me and some other issues have worked themselves out, and i'm glad we've stuck with it! you are too. you get up with me around 5am to eat an early breakfast, then you have a bottle from your dad or the babysitter, and then generally wait to eat again until i'm home around noon. other than that you eat every 3-4 hours now. unfortunately your spit up issues remain.

you go to sleep sometime between 7-9pm, occasionally sleeping all the way until 5am, but usually needing a snack somewhere in there. you are pretty good about sleeping in until 8 or 9am, and usually take 3-4 naps throughout the day. such a sleepyhead!

skills
1. rolling from tummy to back! you are doing this allll the time now! you wake up and roll right over. or roll right over and wake up. it's still exciting for us to see.
2. suck on your fists. you traded in the thumb in favor of sucking on BOTH fists. you do this alot, it is too funny!
3. blow spit bubbles. you drool everywhere. and you make bubbles with it. such a boy!
4. the army scoot/crawl. one nite when we were visiting your grandpa in corpus we woke up to you banging your head against the wall. we couldn't believe it, but you are becoming mobile. if i set you in one end of the crib, you can quite quickly make your way to the other end...booty up in the air wiggling around to help you out. too funny! i can't believe you will be crawling around everywhere soon.
5. kick your toys. you are beginning to enjoy your jumper and your floor mat quite a bit. but rather than hit the toys with your hand, your curl your body all the way up into a little ball and kick the toys vigorously over and over.
6. water aerobics. you love your bath and can splash water all the way out of your tub and the main tub onto me! you go crazy! anytime you are fussy in the evening, i stick you right in the bath and you are happy as can be.
7. watch tv. that's right, it has begun. you enjoy watching tv. this month you watched a lot of tennis with your daddy. this past weekend it was rainy and you and i laid around and watched lots of football.
8. coo and babble. you are talking more and more! it makes me laugh.
9. laugh. i heart the way you laugh. you make yourself laugh. you laugh at me. you laugh at your puppies and the fan. it makes me so happy to see you so happy.

adventures this month
this month you stayed with your babysitter in the mornings, hung out with your daddy, made a road trip to corpus christi to see your grandpa, hung out with your mom mom and nana, went to home depot, saw the ocean for the first time, shopped at academy, watched the rain, and loved living life! and we loved living it with you. can't wait to see what's in store next month.