Mommy got home from work, you were hungry, but mommy wanted to kiss you, so you decided to suck on her chin. She must have let you do it for awhile so Vovo could take pictures.
Later, I asked mommy what happened to her chin and she realized it was a hicky from you sucking on her chin.
That will teach her to not feed you!
Seems that when we went to Michigan, you started falling a sleep with 1 eye open. Maybe you were doing it sooner and I just noticed it for the first time.
Even now that we’ve been back in Washington for a bit, I still notice you falling a sleep with your left eye (usually) slightly open.
Cracks me up.
You turned 5 months today, time is going really fast. There’s no doctor visit this month, so we won’t know how much you grew. We can see your 6 months clothes getting really tight, you started wearing some 6-9 months clothes last month. You have discovered new laughs and sounds, and has been using them a lot. You are sitting by yourself a little better every day, but you still get angry when we try to make you roll over. We can’t figure out why, since we know you can do it. You can hold your head very high up and does a lot of mini pushups when on your tummy. You also try to move around while on your stomach, so you rotate your body inch by inch to look at different things.
I took you to the Pediatrician this morning because you have had a cold for a month. It’s a mild cold that come and goes, when we think you are back to normal your nose gets stuffy again. Since there are so many people around with pneumonia, we thought it would be better to check and make sure your lungs are clear. We saw a different doctor and you were very nice to her, smiling the whole time. She said you just have a common cold and that you probably have been catching different viruses one after the other. You were also weighed (but with your clothes on) – 16lbs!
You started sitting by yourself today. You can balance for quite a bit before you fall to the sides. It’s funny to watch. Sometimes you even put your hand on the floor to help.
While driving to the henry ford, we passed under a lot of tunnels. Each tunnel we passed under, you would open yours eyes really big; until you finally fell asleep.
Last night you slept from 11 PM to 5:30 AM, wow! We were shocked! I woke up at 5:30 AM because you were making some noises, and your daddy checked what time it was. To our surprise, you slept 6h30 hours straight! And just two days ago (on your 4th month birthday) you slept from 10 PM to 4 AM. Hopefully this is a new trend 😉
You are 4 months old today. We took you to the Pediatrician for another round of shots and to check on your growth / development. You weighted 14lbs13oz and measured 24 inches long. Dr. Howson said you’re doing great! You were in a great mood, smiling and responding to the physical examination very well, you just got upset when the nurse gave you the shots. You cried for a little bit, nursed and was already sleeping on your carseat when we left. Your next appointment is in February, you will be turning 6 months old then and we’ll talk all about food.
And we’re not talking about the weather, unfortunately. Your dad was sick a couple of weeks ago with a sore throat and cold symptons. Then last Monday I got sick. Your grandparents arrived from Brazil on Thursday and got sick too. Now you finally got sick too. So far you just have a runny nose and a cough that comes and goes but doesn’t seem to bother you. Let’s hope you don’t get as sick as we all got!
V1: when you came home from the hospital, it was pretty simple: walk around the room.
(I later realized I always walk clockwise.)
V2: walking and rocking
V3: I noticed while walking around the room, you would get pissed after passing by the lamp, so I decided to start in front of the lamp and slowly walk away from it.
V4: you nicely allowed me to rock you to sleep while sitting, saving my back a lot of pain.