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. 

Benny is three months!

Benny baby is three months!

He weighs about 15 and a half pounds (!) and is 26 inches tall. Our boy is gonna be huge!

He is still eating every 3 or so hours during the day and then waking up once in the night and once early morning.

I don't technically have him on a set schedule yet but I need to get that going. We are thinking about sleep training him here in a couple weeks. Currently he naps in my arms most of the time and he needs to learn to self soothe because he's been waking up earlier because he gets restless and can't calm himself. I forgot how hard this part of parenting is...pray for us. Haha.

He holds his head up really well and is awesome at tummy time (when we remember to do it and when he's not in a bad mood.)

He loves being held or being in the baby carrier facing outwards.

He has the sweetest dimple! 

We blessed him in church a couple weeks ago. We had a lot of family that came and supported and the rain cleared up and it was a beautiful day at our home with lots of yummy food after. Thank you to everyone who came and helped! 

He likes looking at himself in the mirror on our baby swing. But the swing has to be going really fast for him to be content.

He kicks and flails and flings his arms like crazy. Especially right after waking up in the morning.

He has recently started smiling! Ahhh. He does the cutest big mouth smiles that absolutely melt me. He loves when you smile at him and talk to him in a high pitch voice. He's also done a few laughs but those are hard to come by at this point.

We started putting him in cloth diapers part time now that they fit him. He's the cutest in them!

So far it seems as though he hates his car seat and driving in the car if he's awake haha. My mom just said today when I was on the phone with her, “every time you're driving and talking to me I can hear Benson screaming in the background!” Haha. Hopefully he will learn to love it.

He still isn't very good at taking a binky. But we figured out the MAM ones stay in his mouth the best out of any other ones.

He is wearing 6 month clothes! He is so tall and chubby!

His hair seems to be holding on! We haven't noticed any falling out yet which is super exciting. Tucker had already started losing it at this point.

He has blue eyes! They're very pretty and I'm hoping they will continue to get bluer!

He has grown to love bath time, something he has in common with his big brother!

Last month he was put on zantac for reflux. He takes it in the morning and evening and its been a lifesaver! He is such a happier baby now.

He is getting bigger by the minute and we love our Benzy baby so much!