Can you believe that this was just four months ago?! Yup, Josiah is officially four months old today. I found this picture (compliments of Mitch and Melanie- thanks for posting it guys!), and loved it. This was obviously in the hospital, when Chris brought Josiah out to meet his family, who were in the waiting room, and he just looks so happy!
Well, our lives have completely changed since that day- mostly for the better!
It amazes me how much a baby can grow and learn in such a short time.
Here are a few things Josiah has been up to lately:
He is lifting himself up when he is on his belly, and trying to lunge forward.
It looks like he wants to crawl, but isn't sure what the next step should be,
but he's flailing away, so he'll get it eventually (hopefully not anytime soon!).
Spinning around and around in his crib, despite being supposedly held in place with the sleep positioner (he always starts off in the middle of the crib). We just are never sure how we will find him in the morning. Many times, we find him as in the picture below, with one or both of his feet sticking out through the crib bars (sometimes actually stuck!). Yet, he still grins his biggest smile, stuck or not (well, not in the picture, because by the time I got the camera, it seemed that he was kind of wondering why I had not yet rescued him!).
Josiah has discovered his hands, and is using them to explore everything! Nothing is safe, so watch out for your jewelry, hair, or anything else that you don't want grabbed. For a while, I was concerned because he was using his feet to play, and he didn't even really notice he had hands most of the time. Now, I am worried that my baby-proofing has not kept up with his progress! Here he is playing with his crib toy. He can even make it play music all by himself (the same 4 songs, over and over and over again).
Josiah LOVES hanging out with his dad, and no one can make him smile quite as big as Chris can. I think they are really starting to have fun together now that he is playing a bit more interactively (although no football yet!).
Everyone asks about sleeping, and I think, from what we can tell, that Josiah is a great sleeper (although sometimes it does not feel that way at 4 am)! He has at least two naps a day, and goes to bed around 7:30/8:00 pm. Then he gets up once to eat in the night, and goes back to sleep until around 7:00-8:00 am. Of course, this past week has not been that easy, as he is in the midst of another growth spurt, and has gotten up as many as three times a night to eat. Just when you think you have a schedule down...!
In the past few weeks, he has also started rolling over back to front and front to back, sitting up (with a little help- he actually sat up on the couch when he was home with daddy, and did a face plant on the hardwood floor, which led to a weekend in and out of the hospital to check for head trauma. He just started moving so quickly within a short few days, and we were not prepared for the changes we'd have to make, like not leaving him on the couch or bed anymore! By the way, everything is fine!).
He has started to turn pages in stories all by himself (he loves books, and kicks his little feet in a mad storm when we are reading one of his favorites).
He has also found his very loud voice, and likes to use it at very inopportune times!
Josiah is a growing boy, weighing in around 19 pounds, and his interest in watching people eat has grown to the point where you almost feel guilty eating in front of him, 'cause he starts smacking, trying to eat his hands, or lunging at whatever it is you are holding. Very soon!
Here he is, looking like a rather grown up four-month-old,
and not so much like a newborn anymore!
