4 months!

Our little "Hawke man" has changed so much in the last month. I feel like everything I said about him when he was three months seems weird because now he's a completely different baby. His personality is starting to shine--big time. He's a squealer and loves to make noise. He is also now able to hold small toys in his hands and he smiles all the time.

When he's on his tummy sometimes he prefers to suck on his hand more than he likes trying to rollover. We can tell he wants to be mobile soo bad. He loves to stand and be sitting up. He doesn't like laying on his back as much, unless he's under his toys like in the picture below. Or sometimes he finds something interesting to watch. When he's on his back he starts to bed forward or back and then squeals in frusteration when he can't seem to sit up on his own. He usually starts crying until one of us comes to pic him up. This is one way he is extremely vocal.

He's smiley, too. I can tell he's even starting to get a little ticklish because when you tickle him he doesn't laugh but he makes these funny little grunty type noises and smiles. Can't wait til he really laughs.

He is mostly sleeping through the night. Usually he will wake up once at around 4am and want to eat a bit. He might wake up again at six and then he'll sleep til 8. He likes to be up for a while and then he'll take another nap. He's not the best napper. He hardly ever sleeps longer than an hour during the day. He usually takes 3 cap naps though, after 11am.

He now weighs 16lbs 3 oz and if I remember right he is 24.5 in long. His clothes are tight, but a little bit long on him. haha. He's a good eater. He definitely prefers to nurse. Sean sort of has a difficult time feeding him since I've been at work (one of the many reasons why I'm quitting). He won't take the bottle til he's super hungry. He likes it fresh! :) He hasn't tasted any baby food yet. He doesn't seem ready or very interested. I remember before he was born I thought learning to nurse would be hard. That was true, but I never thought about how difficult it would be to decide when to introduce food nor did I think about how hard it would be to teach him to eat. Maybe by next month he'll be sampling a little rice cereal.

He loves it when I sing to him. Usually it calms him right down if he gets a little worked up. He just listens and smiles. He still doesn't like the paci too much. If any, he prefers the one the hospital gave him. Lately I've been able to get him to suck on it to help him fall asleep, but sometimes he just moves it around in his mouth or bites on it like he doesn't really know what it's for. ??? It makes me feel like he's not a real baby... like he's a little man in a baby's body because he seems to just want to get bigger and skip this phase where he cant walk or crawl. He doesn't even like a paci... what a weirdy! :)