A growing boy

The Brodster had his 4 months appointment yesterday. He weighs in at 13 pounds and 7.5 oz and is 23 inches long (I think). He continues to hang out in the 25% for height and weight. He received two more shots :( but did so much better this time around. We gave him 2 does of Tylenol yesterday and that's all he needed! Praise the Lord because last month he was fussy the rest of the week and Mike and I were both on the edge of a meltdown.

We forgot a blanket for the sweet man and he gets striped down to his diaper and it was a bit cold in the room. We thought daddy's jacket would be the perfect remedy :)

The last week we've noticed that B was not satisfied by any amount of milk he received. He woke up every night (which is highly unusual) and would scream his little head off as soon as he sucked me dry. We ended up giving him additional frozen milk in a bottle to try to satisfy him. All week I thought I was failing at giving my son adequate milk and I hated thinking he needed a bottle after nursing because I wasn't good enough. I pumped and pumped like crazy to get my already dripping like a cow milk supply up more. We were very glad we had a Dr. appointment coming up. So all to say we brought our concerns to the Dr. Low and behold we leaned Brody is simply showing classic signs of being ready for food!! Who would have thought?! First timers!! We hurried off to buy some rice cereal for our starving son. Again, these first timers are so naive! Who would have thought there were a million different types of rice cereal?! Whole wheat, regular, apple, banana, etc!!! Thankfully an experienced mom was in our same aisle laughing as she overhead Mike and I in panic over these dumb cereals. Needless to say we settled with the plain old original rice cereal.

We waited until almost bedtime to feed our son his first bite of food. Rice cereal is a hit with the B man (not a hit with his momma though, don't judge me, yuk!!) He's a pro at eating, we never had any doubts though :) This rice is also a fan of filling B's belly, all three of us had a very sleep filled night! Well I guess at 4:30 am I woke to B chatting with his friend monkey on his bumper in his crib for about 15 minutes before re falling asleep. Such social boy!

It was a beautiful afternoon today and my pasty white skin wanted to get out an enjoy it. So B and I made a fun little fort for him to play in. Success! He was happy and I was happy :)