4 months!

Well we made it to 4 months! I am not one who dislikes the first 4 months, but I can't say it's my favorite stage.  Thankfully, Brayden has been much easier than Tucker was during those first four months.  He has become VERY interactive with both Max and I and Tucker.  It is so cute:) He smiles and giggles and he has really started to screech-those are my favorite noises.  He is quite the squealer!

He is a big fan of playing on his playmat.  He doesn't mind being on his belly, but is more content being on his back.  He can sit on his bumbo and play with toys on his tray, and he doesn't mind his bouncy seat either.  

Brayden had a great check up! He is 13.13 pounds and 25.25 inches, up from 23.75 inches last month.  He did drop from the 50th to just above the 25th for weight so I just have to be sure he's actually eating really well.  Tucker was actually a bit bigger at this age (14.4 lbs).  He has moved into 3-6 month clothes too:) 

He is such a joy and we LOVE him so much!

He can push himself up onto his elbows and he is half way there to rolling over from back to belly.  He gets stuck on his side-his arm is int he way:)  He definitely wants to get over though-he usually screeches when he gets stuck!

He started to sleep really well at night (11-12) hours a few weeks ago, which has been awesome!  His naps started to get better too-he wouldn't wake up 45 min in, and if he did, the binky would put him right back to sleep! Then a week ago hit....and all hell broke loose!  Night sleep was still great, but he was waking up after 40-45 min and it was almost impossible to get him back to sleep.

So we made the decision to do cry it out (CIO) with him to teach him to go back to sleep on his own. He will fall asleep awake in his crib but for some reason could not fall back to sleep if he woke up half way through.  We figured we'd break his swaddle habit at the same time.  Well after 2 days of him sleeping for the first 30-40 min max, and then SCREAMING the rest of the time, and never falling back to sleep, we put it on hold.  He had his 4 month check up on Friday and Saturday we were going to a wedding so he was with my mom all day.  Shockingly, back in his swaddle, he took AMAZING naps today, and slept most of the night with one arm out of his swaddle.  He's an anomaly! So we will tackle that again in a week or so.

He also suddenly refused to take a bottle Friday night, and then again on Saturday, and on Sunday! Saturday I fed him at 9:30 and then he didn't eat again until 3:30ish.  My mom called me to tell me that he refused his 12:30 bottle (he slept great though!) and then he ultimately downed his 3:30 bottle, thankfully.  But Sunday I had an event all morning and he refused to eat.  Not sure what's going on but I'm hoping it works itself out soon because I leave him with a babysitter once a week at least, and I'm going back to work in two months!

He's a little more flexible with his schedule than T was because we are out an about a lot more.  Typically he eats at 7:15, 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 6:15 and then goes to bed around 8.  He is up for 75-90 minutes and then will sleep for about 90 minutes.  He still takes a 30-45 min catnap between his 4 and 6 feedings.  He usually wakes up between 7 & 730 (although today he was up at 8!) and then we go from there.