Four months old

James is already 4 months old, and we can hardly believe it. At his checkup about 2 weeks before his 4 month mark he was weighing in at 14lb 7oz and measuring 26.5 inches. He's wearing 6-9 month size clothes and getting more fun to be around every day. Some of his milestones this past month have been:

* Rolling over in both directions, though still not on purpose
* Making crawling motions like an inch worm, and actually moving
* Going to regularly eating cereal every day
* Grabbing his spoon as we're feeding him, as well as grabbing at our bowls and plates. I even caught him shoving his fist into my pasta the other day, trying to grab a bite for himself.
* Fully reaching for toys he wants
* Turning himself 180 degrees while playing on his back (The other night I caught him with his bum stuck up against the side rails of his crib, feet stuck in the air, completely unable to extricate himself. He didn't find the situation as funny as I did)
* Sucking on his toes
* Discovering he likes kissing (James LOVES kissing people on the forehead with his open fishy mouth)
* Holding onto other people's hair/nose/ear/mouth as a handle and not wanting to let go
* Doing much more babbling - more constant, as well as more kinds of sounds. He wants to be a part of every conversation, and he wants to sing along to songs with lyrics as well, though he's silent for instrumental music


Here's the latest picture in his Star Trek onesie:

3 month smiles

Just ignore the fool I'm making of myself and pay attention to the cute smiles. Please.

-Amy

Three months old

It's that time again. Okay, it's a few weeks past that time, since he's coming up on four months now, but here we are anyway.

James' milestones this month have been a lot of fun. Here are a few of them:

*eating his first solid food (rice cereal, and a little banana)
*holding his head up on his own
*playing with his toys (and eating them)
*discovering his feet and toes
*sitting up with support
*playing for longer periods of time by himself
*halfway rolling over from his stomach to his back
*halfway rolling over from back to front


First of all here's the latest picture in the Star Trek onesie so you can see how much James has grown this month


James got to visit with his Aunt Abby and cousin Lorena this past month. They all had fun. Lorena was pretty confident in her abilities to take care of a baby - we had to keep a close eye on her because she was a little TOO confident, lol.



This was his first experience eating rice cereal. Once we got him to stop staring at the camera, he realized that he LOVES eating food. He laughed through the entire feeding.




Here's a quick video clip of James trying to roll over.






And now here is a load of other pictures for your viewing enjoyment. Most of them are from my phone so the quality is pretty poor :P
















-Amy

James' favorite new toy

Two months old

Well, James made it to two months old. He just had his 2 month appointment with his doctor this week, and he has grown to 11 pounds 7 ounces, and 25 inches in length. He's getting stronger every day; he holds his head up and looks around for several seconds at a time, and he's making motions with his torso and legs that would suggest he's trying to prepare for crawling. He's interacting with people and toys, and is getting much better at entertaining himself for longer periods of time.

He is taking up a lot more space in his Star Trek onesie.



Favorite napping spot


For some reason, James thinks Mickey Mouse is hilarious. He likes making faces at the toy. I think he's waiting to see if Mickey will make faces back ;)





Believe it or not, James put this Clifford on his own face so he could take a nap. I think it's bizarre, but he loves to have his face burrowed into one of our shoulders or one of these WubbaNubs sitting right on his face.


These smiles are getting more and more common. It's a lot of fun figuring out what's going to make him smile and laugh next.



More funny Mickey Mouse. James is starting to love his crib mobile. He can lay there for quite awhile watching it go around, but he yells at us when the music stops so we can go back in and wind it up again, haha.


-Amy

Grins and giggles

James takes over

These days we find our lives have been completely taken over by our little boy - not that we're complaining. We constantly have the camera out, and when I can't reach for that, I'm taking pictures with my cell phone every time James does something cute. Since I'm his mother, I find that EVERYTHING he does is adorable, so that makes for a lot of pictures. I thought I'd just post a bunch of those taken to date here.

-Amy