4 Months

Stats:

Height - 25 1/4"  ~ 48%

Weight - 16.1 ~ 61%

Head Circ - 43  ~ 73%

Here is what Brody is up to at 4 months...

• Still quite the little sleeper for us at night.  He typically goes to bed between 8:00 and 8:30 and gets up about 7:00 AM.  Every once in a while he wakes in the night and we have to go in and soothe him back to sleep.  It's pretty rare that this even happens, but if it does, it is not hard to get him back to sleep. Whew!
• He rolled over again!  I am trying to be better about practicing tummy-time and he will occasionally roll over from tummy to back if he feels like it.  Success!  And he even sorta kinda tried to roll over from back to tummy the other night.  Didn't make it, but the attempt was there. 
• He's a screamer!  Even Pammy (his daycare lady) says this.  :)  One night while visiting with some friends, Brody was enjoying watching three little girls play together and he all of a sudden started screeching and squealing so LOUD!  I thought he was upset at first (he was in my lap, but facing out so I couldn't see his face) but nope, he was screaming in delight.  Pure glee at watching flirting with the girls.  Pam says he loves to do this with the daycare kids too...she says it's like they are his own live television show that he just loves to watch everyone play!
• We're still swaddling...  I'm afraid we've created a bad habit.  I don't even think he technically needs the swaddle, but he's grown so accustom to the routine of it, that he expects it when going to sleep.  We're even swaddling for naps now too, I'm sad to say.  On the bright side, he generally breaks his arms out of it an hour or so after falling asleep though, so I'm not too concerned about it anymore.  We are no longer using the fleece velcro Halo swaddles though, because to my horror one morning, I went in to find the darn thing covering his face - clear up to his eyebrows!  YIKES!  So, instead we wrap a very very thin little blanket around him just tight enough to keep his arms down while he drifts asleep.  It's so thin that if it did happen to go up over his face, I know he'd be able to breathe through it.  Anyway, enough about that.
• He still eats 5 times a day at 6 oz. bottles each.  Usually somewhere around 7:00, 10:30, 2:00, 5:00 & 8:00.  On days that I work (Mon, Tues, Thurs, & Friday), I pump 4 times a day and only nurse once (at the 5:00 PM feeding).  Although, unfortunately, my supply is decreasing quite a bit, so I think this is going to change soon.  Not sure yet on exactly what I'll do, but I know I want to continue to pump at least 3 times a day and we'll supplement with formula (once we've finished the stock-pile of frozen milk I have too) for the bottles I can't produce for him. 
• Since I work so early in the morning now (start at 6:00 AM...yes folks, that means my alarm goes off at 4:15 AM four days a week...ugh!), Jeff gets Brody up for daycare in the mornings.  He either wakes him up at 7:00 AM or Brody will wake up on his own around this time.  Jeff says he simply LOVES this time with his little buddy in the morning.  And I have to admit...I'm a little jealous.  Brody is SUCH a good happy boy all day long, but mornings really are the best.  I'm sad I have to miss out on it four days a week, but I think it's awesome that Brody and Daddy get some bonding time together!
• Brody still sucks on his fists, and you saw from a previous post, he has found his thumb.  Generally, pretty much every he gets his hands on goes in his mouth. And he still drools, A LOT!  I keep thinking he's got to have a tooth coming in any day now, but none yet.
• He outgrew his swing!  Ha ha.  Granted, the swing we had at home is considered a "travel" swing, I think, so it's smaller than other swings I've seen.  But, he's such a big boy now that the thing wouldn't swing anymore when we put him in it!  Good thing he doesn't need this for naps anymore. :)
• Brody can hold his head up on his own now (and has been able to for quite some time, actually).  He is also getting really good at sitting (not on his own, of course) with the Bumbo or supported by pillows.  And he LOVES to stand!

So handsome in my sweater!







Sittin' on daddy.





First time hangin' out in my exersaucer!






Such a big boy!





Say waaaaaht?!