You are 4 months old now! We had quite the eventful month. As I left off in the post before this, we have been having so much fun watching the Cardinals in the post season. Well, during this month of your life, the Cardinals won the World Series! Look at you, the only baseball season you have ever been around for and your team already won! Mom and dad went downtown to celebrate and you got to watch the final game with your Poppy. It was such a fun time!
Speaking of baseball, you got to meet Jim Edmonds this month! We were out at his restaurant, 15, for Grandpa Rick's birthday. You were being fussier than normal, so I took you for a walk. We sat just outside the bathroom when a little girl came up to you saying, "Baby!" She really wanted to see you. So I held you out to meet her and right behind her came her dad, yep, Jim Edmonds! You were still fussy, so Jim asked if he could try to calm you down. He told me he had 4 kids and he knew what to do. So I handed you over. You really seemed to like Jim Edmonds because he was able to calm you down. We went to his table and met his wife and son too. They were a very nice family. We did get a picture, but I was told it was blurry. I may post it here once I get it if it isn't too bad. We'll see!
Of course Halloween happened during your 4th month. You were a monkey. We delivered Halloween candy to all the neighborhood kids and then we went to visit your cousins. We started by visiting Will and Harrison. Will was pretty excited and gung ho about Trick or Treating, but you and Harrison were perfectly happy just hanging out with Poppy.
After we left Will and Harrison's house, we headed over to Grandma Gerry's house to hang out with your cousin Alyssa. We ended up doing a little Trick or Treating with Alyssa. You really hammed it up and showed off much to your Grandma's delight! It was a fun Halloween this year and I know it will only get better!
We also carved some pumpkins this year. I decided to do our innitials to represent our little family. Daddy carved a scary scene:
You have started staying overnight with your Grandparents this month too! The first time was not for a fun reason at all. Your mom and dad were sick and so Gram had to pick you up. Lucky for us though, you loved staying with Gram and you gave us some time to recover. Yay! Then mom and dad went to Chicago for Jackie and Willie's wedding. You stayed with Grandma Gerry and Grandpa Rick for most of the weekend. You loved being with them and they loved having you. I really don't enjoy leaving you, but it's nice to know you are in such good hands when it is necessary. It's also good to know that you have so much fun! I know you will be spending many nights with your grandparents in the future!
You have had so many developmental improvements this month too! Your fantastic head control has allowed you to do so many new things. The first thing you do now is take a bath without the sling. You are loving not having that silly sling in the way. It allows you to sit deeper in the warm water and it also allows you to splash around in the water more!
You have also been enjoying your Bumbo and Exersaucer a lot! I'm pretty sure you just enjoy doing something other than laying on you back now that you are able to. Chrissy sends me pictures of you playing in your exersaucer at her house and you also like to play in the ones at both of your grandmas houses. I put together your Jumparoo, but your legs have to get a bit longer for you to fully enjoy that. Just a little more time and it will happen!
Another thing you have started doing is grasping onto me when I hold you. I used to just hold you, but now you hold me back. It's such a wonderful feeling to have you clutching onto me! Also, when you are breastfeeding, you have started to reach up for my face and you like to grasp onto my mouth and my nose. When you are bottle feeding you like to try to hold onto the bottle.
And the coolest thing you have started doing this month is rolling over. You have been going from your tummy to back for a while now, but you started also going from your back to tummy! Sometimes in the middle of the night you will roll over in your crib. Although this wakes me up way more often than I would like, I'm so happy that you are so strong!
You are getting to be such a big boy! Here are your 4 month photos:
Mommy and daddy are having so much fun with you lately. We know the best is yet to come too. You make us so happy Alex! Thanks for the first 4 months . . . we are looking forward to the rest!
Love,
Mom
