Meghan: Little B is 4 months old!

Is it possible that Branson is already 4 months old?! He has been such a light to our family that it's hard to remember what it was like before he was with us!

He can officially start eating baby food now! He's keeps trying to roll over onto his belly, but doesn't quite know how to get that arm out from underneath him yet. He's really good at tummy time and lifts his head super high. We can almost hold him without supporting his head. He'll be really good and then all of the sudden his head will flop back, but he's getting so close! He's also just recently gotten much better at grabbing things and holding onto them. He got a new bumbo-like seat and he absolutely loves sitting up like a big boy! He still spits up and drools a lot (oey), usually choosing to spit up the second we put him in his car seat or bumbo. Seriously, we could have burped him for an hour straight before putting him in the seat. Nothing. Put him in, waterfall. He still has quite a bit of hair, but a lot has rubbed off as well. He actually has this funny little ring around his entire head, which is so weird to me because it's a thin line, not a huge spot like you would expect if he rubbed off the hair or something?? He loves attention. If you're smiling at him he's happy as a clam and smiling back, but turn your head to focus on something else for a second? He's upset. Silly boy!

He is currently teasing us when it comes to sleep. Sometimes he'll sleep all the way through the night and other nights he'll wake up famished and downing an entire bottle at 4am. Oey. I also think we have a binky problem. We tried really hard from the beginning to put him down without a binky so he'd learn how to fall asleep without it, and he's been really good with that. The problem was/is the middle of the night when I'm so tired that I'd put the binky in his mouth, hoping he'd just fall back asleep rather than needing a bottle. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't and I'd eventually have to get up. But I think it created a problem now where when he wakes up in the middle of the night he needs his binky to fall back asleep, which stinks because we don't want to have to get up any time it falls out of his mouth. It still only happens maybe once or twice a night, but still.

So anyway, even though he's still interrupting our sleep we love him more than we know how to express! ♥

Here's his 4 month pic and collage

Outtakes

Nolan is always trying to get Branson to laugh ♥ He's pretty successful most of the time too!!

Giving Branson some hugs. Nolan has been talking lately about how he and Branson are going to play "when Branson gets bigger." Melt my heart.

So even though Nolan is constantly being reminded that Branson is still little and can't do all of the things Nolan would probably like him to, he still doesn't always seem to get it and is still trying to figure out just how much he can play with Branson. Plus, he's probably just being 2 and testing boundaries ☺ Once I was working at the kitchen table and Branson was in his rocker next to me. Nolan came into the kitchen and was trying to climb up into the rocker on top of Branson! (Preston asked me before Warren was born if I thought those rockers might tip if older siblings were hanging on it. Well, I can tell him now, it's not. That thing held up great haha!). Anyway, Branson started crying and Nolan got in a bit of trouble, but all was forgiven when Nolan came back into the room with his beloved blanket and handed it to Branson to comfort him. Awww.

Don't you just want to squish him?!!