Four Months

Calvin is 4 months old! Our little friend has turned all baby in the past four weeks. His personality has come out full swing and I just love it so much. He started laughing when we were in Vegas for  Halloween a few weeks ago, but now he really laughs- a full belly laugh, mostly when you are bouncing him.  It's the cutest.

We had his doctors appointment today. In the past few weeks every time I go out people always either comment on how chunky Calvin is or how big he is. Considering he was pretty small at his 2 month appointment I was really expecting some serious growth (like off the charts) at this appointment. He is still just little Calvin, I guess. He is turning out to be tall and thin like his dad. He is measuring 25 inches in length, the 40%-ile. Weighing in at 14 lbs, 14 oz (35 %) and his head is ranking at the top at 16.75 inches in the 76th %ile.

He is a little chatter bug and just loves to talk, but he only talks or smiles at people if he has their full attention. When we are out and about he just loves looking at people and everything around him.

 

He is a champion night sleeper. Robert bathes him and then gives him a bottle around 7 and then after he eats, we put him in his crib and he is usually out by 7:45 and sleeps till 6:30 or 7 am. When we were in Vegas we had a rough week with his nights, and the night we got back to Reno he slept through the night once again. Silly kid. The other day I heard a noise coming from his room at 4 am and was startled because he has been sleeping through the night. I turned on the monitor and he was wide awake, playing with the slats on his crib, talking to himself. I think he fell asleep a few minutes later, but I was laughing so hard. That little kid is really curious and finds EVERYTHING fascinating. Apparently the crib we bought is too exciting. Now he will usually play with the slats on his crib for a few minutes before he falls asleep for his naps.

He is taking 2 2 hour naps a day, and then one cat nap in the late evening, and eating roughly every 4 hours (except last week, when he was going through a growth spurt and eating every 2.5-3 hrs).

He starting rolling from back to stomach a few days before he turned 3 months but refuses to roll back over from his stomach to back. The only time he will roll from stomach to back is if I put him on his stomach to begin with. He also loves walking with his dad. Robert will hold Calvin's fingers and he will trot around the house for a good 15 minutes. I think he will skip crawling and go straight to walking. He just loves using his legs and standing up.

He also loves his friend Emmeline. 

He doesn't really ever take a pacifier anymore (which was some of our doing. It was becoming a sleep prop and he would wake up in the middle of his nap and couldn't fall back asleep with out it, so we just bagged it. It took a few days, but he does fine without it now!). He will take one if he is upset, but he sucks on in for about 10 seconds and spits it out. He does love to chew on it, though!

Just recently he starting grabbing his toes and rolls around. He also loves grabbing peoples noses, especially his dads.

A lot of people have asked us if we have started solids yet, and we haven't. After a lot of research and talking to pediatricians we decided to skip the baby food and rice cereal and go the Baby Led Solids route. Since we aren't spoon feeding him he will need more hand eye coordination and needs to be able to sit up on his own before he starts, so we will probably start closer to 6 months. (If you haven't heard of it, I would highly recommend looking into it. I am a HUGE fan).

We just love this little boy more and more each month, and are excited to see what big changes come this next month!

Halloween Week

The week before Halloween Calvin and I went down to spend time in Vegas. Calvin was getting blessed on the First of November, so we decided to go down the week before and hang out since Robert was preparing for an exam (thus, we wouldn't really see him, anyway).

Natalie and Emerson decided they would come down a week early, too. It was a lot of fun to hang out with everyone! The week was eventful: The Children's Discovery Museum, Nevada Day Parade, Family lunches, Halloween and of course, Calvins Blessing (which will come in another post).


One morning we went to the Children's Discovery Museum. If you are in Vegas I HIGHLY suggest it. They rebuilt it last year and it is fabulous! They even had a little infant play area that Calvin loved....mostly because it had a ginormous mirror.

The Thursday before Halloween we went to story time with the two boys and they had a Halloween themed story time, it was adorable.

 Afterwards we went to lunch by my dad's office with the gang. Darwin eats up the camera, he also loves his cousin, Calvin.

On Halloween/Nevada Day my dad was in the 150 year celebration parade in downtown Vegas.

My two nephews, Ernie & Caleb dressed up like my dad. Attorney Wixom on the left, and Regent Wixom on the right.

 Layne made a dinosaur tail for Darwin who is obsessed with dinosaurs (he can name every dinosaur, that's ever existed. Pretty impressive for a barely two year old!) So here he is, walking down Fremont street with a dinosaur tail on.

 The rest of the time was spent just hanging out!

Darwin and Emerson are best friend cousins, and total divas. They take wagon riding to a whole new level.

Three Months

Our little Calvin is now three months old. I was looking at pictures from his birth-day and could hardly believe he was that tiny not too long ago. Our little friend here didn't have a doctors check up this month, but I know he has sure grown a lot!

Calvin is getting more and more talkative, which I just love. He is super chatty whenever he is on his changing table and right after I finish feeding him. He has three different phases; he is either incredibly smiley and chatty; really, really, really intense and quite, just staring at things (see black and white picture :) ; or hoppin' mad because he is overly tired. The past week has been an eventful one! He has started reaching and grabbing toys, rolling over from back to stomach and he got a TOOTH!

PS- I took pictures of him for almost 30 minutes to try and get him to smile. His kind of half smile at the top was the best I could do! He would only just stare at me :)

He was sleeping great, from about 7:30 to 5 and then back down till 8 until the past two weeks when nights were a nightmare (which we figured out was due to the tooth). But now he really is consistently sleeping through the night. We start putting him down around 7:30 and he sleeps until 7 or 7:30 am! It is beautiful. Our doctor said that once he was 10-12 lbs then he doesn't need the middle of the night feeding anymore and they usually just wake up out of habit. So that is when we started trying harder to get him to sleep through the night. So after some long nights he is a champion sleeper!

He is now eating every 3 1/2 hours and has dropped his evening cat nap and just takes 3 naps a day that are all roughly 90 minutes. At least once a day he will take about a 20 minute nap but wakes up chatty and happy so I usually don't put him back down.

He is almost out of some of his 3-6 month onesies already! He is still in his 0-3 month jeans, which fit him perfectly.  It depends on the brand, but almost anything Carters is getting on the snug side….especially his pajamas with footies because his feet are the size of an average 10 month old! 

He hates his carseat, so car rides aren't all that fun unless Robert or I are back there to help entertain him and keep him distracted. It also means that carseats in the shopping cart are a no go, so whenever we go into the store we strap him in the Bjorn. He loves loves loves to look around (which is why he hates sitting in his carseat in the cart), so I am pretty excited for when I can actually sit him in the cart!

We just love this little munchkin man more and more each month!