oatmeal

so - mom and dad have been having me practice eating cereals - i've had rice cereal and oatmeal. here i am - eating my oatmeal!

OPEN WIDE

MMMM!

YUMMY!

i really enjoy the change from my bottles!!

:(

last night was rough - he was up a good chunk of the night with a fever - runny nose - and cough... he went to the doctor today with daddy and he has an ear infection and some sinus problems... so they gave us an antibiotic that should help with both... and we're also giving him tylenol for the fever.

he's been okay since i've been home from work - sometimes gets pretty upset. he is now fast asleep on daddy - and he sounds like crap...so stuffy! i feel horrible for my baby boy (and my hubby) adam is doing GREAT with aiden and taking WONDERFUL care of aiden

tonight will probably be a long night too....

4 MONTHS!

my little man is getting SO BIG!! we had our 4 month appt. yesterday - he's 26.5 inches long (90th percentile) - 17 lbs 14 oz (90th percentile) - head circumference 45.5 cm (a little over 95th percentile) WOW!!

ms. kristen said that aiden is meeting all of his milestones and developing wonderfully - she did say because of his size and how much formula he is taking that we can introduce solids if we wish. i plan on doing cereal - he's already getting it in his bottle - and it's mainly for practice any way - until he loses that tongue reflex. we already have aiden sit at the table with us for dinner - so we'll just have him practice eating off a spoon -in addition to his bottles.

he had his second round of shots also - and he was A LOT crankier/fussier after this set. although he wasn't as upset after the shots themselves this time. he's a trooper! still very hard to watch though.

sleep has started going better - not GREAT - but better. we got aiden a new sleep suit - to transition him out of the swaddle that he was fighting so bad and i can now put him in his crib - awake and he'll be asleep within 5 minutes. AND i still get some rocking/cuddle time at night - because we still need to keep him upright after he eats so we rock/cuddle before bedtime - but it's nice to not have to rock him for his naps too. and he's not waking MANY times a night now either so i'm not so tired during the day - which is nice. here is aiden in his magic sleep suit! adam calls him the stay-puff marshmallow man...

so what is aiden doing now...

• consistently rolling from back to front
• when on belly - pulling with his hand and pushing with his feet to get to the edge of the blanket
• spins himself around when on his back
• attempts to hold his bottle when eating
• giggles sometimes
• starting to enjoy peek-a-boo
• put your toes in your mouth

i'm really gonna try to update more often... lets see how well i do by the time his 5th month update comes! ;)

AHH!

what happened to all my blogs that i follow.... they aren't in my reading list any more... it says i don't follow any blogs.... SO not true!