4 Months

I love taking photos of Nathan and he's usually pretty cooperative.  Yesterday, as we were taking his 4 month photos he didn't particularly like the flash on the camera.  He would smile for the photo, but after the flash would go off he would scowl.  We were having a lot of fun watching his changing expressions.

Here are a few things about Nathan at 4 months.

• After a few bad, bad, bad weeks of waking up several times a night and some sleeping training, he is now sleeping through most of, if not all of the night (he's done in 3 times this week!)  Knock on wood.
• His stats at 4 months: 14 lbs, 6.5 oz (26.13 percentile), 24.8 inches long (31.22 percentile), and 15.94 head circumference (14.79 percentile.)

Watching General Conference with mommy and daddy

• He is a finger sucker.  Usually it's just two fingers, but sometimes he jams three in there.  I can hardly keep them out of his mouth.
• Likes his nighttime rub down with lotion.  He gives me a lot of cute noises while I'm giving him his baby massage.

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• If you come pick him up after a nap he will give you the biggest smile.
• One way to make him happy is to rub his head.  It's usually a pretty good way to get him talking to you.

• He has figured out how to stick out his bottom lip.  The little nugget looks like he's pouting. 
• His favorite time of day is when Brad gets home from school.  It's even better than bath time.  And I think it's Brad's favorite time of day too.  They go and play together just the two of them.  I love seeing my boys together.

Battleship New Jersey

This last Saturday was Museum Day.  The long and short of it is that you can go see a participating museum for free!  Yes please.  There were quite a few participating in our area, but the Battleship New Jersey (#32) topped our list.  We've wanted to see it, but it was a little out of our sightseeing budget normally.

So we planned it out.  I invited some friends from our church while unbeknownst to me Brad invited his photography club from dental school.  We ended up with quite a few people coming along.

The Photography Club

Anyways, on Saturday we packed up little buddy, took our first trip over the Ben Franklin Bridge into New Jersey, and saw the Battleship.  Before going I didn't know how cool this battleship really was.  It is the most decorated battleship, fought in 17 battles, and served in 4 wars (WWII, Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf.)

Funny story.  The dental group arrived first so they went ahead while I waited about 5 minutes for our friends to arrive.  I thought that with all the photos they would be taking for sure we would catch up to them.  We never did.  Turns out Brad's group accidentally followed a tour group and went on a different route of the boat.  They ended up missing out on about half of the ship.  And it was all the really cool stuff too like the navigation deck, Tomahawk Missiles, museum, and the helicopter.  Their mishap paid off in another way.  They convinced one of the veterans to show them the dental facilities since they were from the dental school.

We're glad so many of our friends could come with us.  We had a great time!

Happy Little Boy

Nathan got really excited the other day.  And you know what?  He giggled.  Just a little bit.  So I got excited and grabbed the video camera hoping to get him to do it again.  He didn't giggle again, but he sure was acting cute and being talkative.

So if you'll forgive my annoying attempts to get him to giggle I'll let you see it.

Tired Boy

Lately, when Nathan is tired he'll start mumbling to me.  He often tries this voice to get me to come in to see him while he's going to sleep.  For instance, the other night when we were going to bed, Nathan woke up and started mumbling.  And no joke, during his mumblings he said mom. Ok, maybe it just sounded like he said mom.  But he does try to sound so sad and pitiful when he does it, it's almost a little funny.

Scooting

Tummy time is interesting these days.  Half the time Nathan just wants to flop to the side and get stuck rolling over.  After he's tired of holding his head up, he starts moving his legs.  And you know what?  He's scooting around with his forehead to the ground.  With his mouth open.  He leaves a nice snail trail of spit behind to mark his progress.  I have a feeling this kid is going to be an early crawler.

Hands

3 Months

I've been looking forward to Nathan turning 3 months.  Not because I want him to grow up, but it's just another milestone.  I was so excited on Friday when I could finally call him 3 months old.  I dressed Nathan up and had Brad take his 3 month pictures.

I didn't realize until Saturday that the 6th was Thursday, not Friday.  I was a day late in celebrating.  Brad noticed my mistake, but was too nice to correct me.  Good job mom.  Good job.

Anyways, Nathan is still 3 months old.  So at 3 months:

• He's learned to roll over from front to back.  But only to the right.  He tries to roll to the left, but he mostly just flops over and gets stuck.

• Has finally figured out how to use a pacifier.
• He is over the swaddlepod.  We find him in some great positions when he's asleep.

• Loves it when daddy comes home from school.  He has extra big smiles for him.
• He likes to play with his hands.  He's really cute when he's cross-eyed looking at them.

• We don't bathe him in the kitchen sink anymore because he just splashes way too much. He just gets so excited.
• He giggled for the first time about a weeks ago.  I was rocking him in the nursery as he was falling asleep.  He normally smiles a few times as he's falling asleep, but he started giggling too! It was the cutest thing.  I've been trying to get him to do it again, but he only giggles in very small bits.