Four Months Old

Chan Chan turned 4 months old today!  He actually had his check up last week and passed with flying colors.  He's tracking, laughing, cooing, babbling, holding his head up, rolling over, and briefly sitting up like he should be at this age.  He measured in at 16# 10.5oz and 25.5 inches which is 75% for both weight and height.  Esme was a proud big sister and wanted to be as involved with his check up as she could be.  She was also very concerned about his shots.  I was also worried too since he didn't handle the first set at 2 months so well.  And true to form, he was super fussy after these ones too.  Chan only got 2 shots this time but he was still fussy for the rest of the afternoon and didn't want to be put down or he'd start crying a sort of pain cry.  It was sad.  He did sleep well that night and no issues after that so I was glad it was short lived.

So Chan has been in his own room since last weekend but he's still waking up at night.  I put Allen in charge of going in to soothe him or put the pacifier in and Chan usually goes right back to sleep.  However usually around 4:30am he's wide awake and has a hard time falling back asleep so Allen usually brings him in bed with us so I can feed him and then we all go back to sleep.  We're hoping that he stretches out this early morning feed and starts sleeping through the night completely soon.

And Esme is still loving her big girl bed.  She's always asking for us to come and lay with her now that there's so much room.  It was also her idea to "let" Chan sleep in her crib last weekend so it was neat to see her put all that together.  Esme's been having night terrors every so often for the past few months and she had one in her new bed too last week. She just starts screaming out in the middle of the night for about a minute and then goes back to sleep. It never lasts long enough for us to go in and see what's going on and they usually resolve on their own.

Esme trying to take baby Chan's blood pressure at the doctors office

The proud big sister

Chan enjoying his jumper