Benson at four months!

Benson is FOUR months!!

Time is flying and he is already a third through his first year! Can't believe that.

At four months Benny:

Weighs 17 pounds (80%) and is 26.75 inches (97%).

He wears 6/6-9 month clothing most comfortably. He can still wear some of his 3-6 month stuff though.

He still eats every 2-4 hours during the day and has recently started sleeping longer stretches (and through the night 3 times!). We've been letting Taylor top him off with a small formula bottle each night (I got some formula for backup in case I have to be gone and don't have any pumped milk). It's been so nice have a few extra hours of sleep!

He is SUCH a flirt! Since he started smiling, he does it all the time! You don't even have to do anything special to get him to smile. Just look at him and he will do a huge cheesy grin. It's incredibly adorable and will melt you. And don't even get me started on his giggles…i just love him!

He also started experimenting with his voice and its the sweetest thing. He will “respond” to you most of the time if you say something to him. And he has the cutest expressions to go along with his talking.

He still doesn't nap in his crib well. I recently got him this “magic sleep suit” that's supposed to help with their jerking reflex and train them to sleep still but it hasn't worked very well. Ha. The longest he will sleep in it is like an hour. So hopefully I figure something out for him before he starts rolling over because then we can't swaddle him at night either!

He HATES the car 90% of the time. He likes the stroller alright. He likes being in the baby carrier. Likes being outside. Loves kicking his legs like crazy. Lovessss milk more than anything. Loves being held and hates being left alone.

I'm thinking of waiting another month or maybe even two before starting food. I tried a little rice cereal yesterday and he still has the tongue thrusting pretty bad. I just don't think he's ready but that's perfectly ok with me!

Holds his head up really well and is pretty steady now. I swear he is going to be crawling next month, this kid wants to be mobile! He somehow moves himself from the places we put him in.

Losing tons of hair (cue crying face). He will probably be bald on top next month. He still has all the hair in the back, though! And he has horrible cradle cap that we can hopefully get under control soon.