It's Been A While

I'll start out this post with some pictures of my favorite person in the whole world...

I knew it had been a while since I last updated the blog, but I didn't realize that it had been almost two months! Now that's embarrassing.

Life is great. The little man is now four and a half months old. I can't believe it. Here are some baby updates..

-He's been rolling over since just before his four month birthday. He now sleeps exclusively on his belly. (Just like his Momma.) I place him on his back but he just sort of looks at me like, "when are you going to learn that I like to sleep on my belly," and immediately rolls over. He can roll from his belly to his back as well, but rarely does it, which is a little funny because they say that belly to back is much easier. While he can roll over he hasn't quite figured out that rolling over continuously can get him from place to place, so he isn't quite on the move just yet, which is great. Less for me to worry about. :)

-At his four month check up he weighed in at 17 lbs, 4 oz, which put him in the 75% for height and weight. Maybe he is leveling off a bit because at the previous check up he was in the 95%.

-Our pediatrician said we could start him on rice cereal (solid foods) any time after the four month mark. I've been doing a lot of reading on starting solid foods lately and I think I'm going to wait until at least five months and possibly six. Breast feeding has been going very well for us and he never seems unsatisfied after a feeding. Infants under six months get all the nutrition they NEED from milk/formula. I am also doing a lot of reading on making your own baby food, which I am strongly considering doing. I'll save more detail for another post.

-The little guy is still a total snoozer and STILL sleeps for like 17 hours a day. That means he sleeps basically from 7pm to 7am and takes three 1.5ish hour naps. That's a crazy amount of sleep. I think I'm the only mom out there Googling "does my baby sleep too much?" Most moms have the opposite problem. My pediatrician says it is totally fine and to enjoy it while it lasts. He's just a sleepy little guy!

-It kills me to say this, but I think he is a little behind in the laughing department. He smiles all the time and has laughed quite a bit but not consistently. He laughs, then realizes what he is doing and laughs some more but then seems to forget how to do it and I won't get laughs for days. Maybe all of my funny faces and noised and tickles aren't funny enough for the little guy.

-He is a thumb sucker. ( see picture 2 above) It happened all of a sudden at around three and a half months. The pacifier is old news now and the thumb is where it's at. I don't quite know how I feel about it yet. I actually think it's cute, but when the time comes to break the habit... well, that's another story. It's a lot easier to get rid of a pacifier than a thumb. :)

In other updates--

It looks like the hubby and I are taking a little vacation in August. It is a work related trip to Vegas and technically lasts three nights. That is a bit more baby separation than this mommy can handle so I think I'm going to come home a day early. Think of all the planning I'm going to have to do in terms of breast pumping. I can't even worry about that now. Like Scarlett O'Hara I will think about that tomorrow.

We are still working on the housing thing. I will divulge that we are in the works to build a new house. Nothing is official yet because the property we are looking to build on has a structure that would have to be torn down. I have been hacking through red tape in terms of permits, etc for a while now. Most people seem to think I'm crazy for taking this on. Well, maybe I am. The municipality the land is in is reviewing our prints this month, (we have already worked with the architect and have the plans, etc) so hopefully they will approve them and we can move forward. The building process would take at least 8 months which means we would be in our current home way longer than we planned. Hopefully all the effort will be worth it!

I have more to share but Mommy duty calls. I'll be better at blogging though!