Tate- 4 Months

I can't believe he's 4 months. This month he became way easier, way more fun, and we love him even more and more. He makes us laugh and laugh and he sweet little personality is becoming more apparent each day. Here are a few things I don't want to forget (I know this list is obnoxiously long):

• He opens his mouth wide and smiles every time we go in for kisses. It makes his lips 100x more kissable. I can't get enough!
• We have come to the realization that he would have made the PERFECT third child. He LOVES action and loves watching commotion around him. He was in heaven while around his cousins in California. He is 10x easier when there are a lot of people around.
  
• He has been rolling from his back to his stomach since he was 3 months. It was rough at first b/c he started doing it first while he was swaddled at night which meant that the swaddle had to go. We had few hard, long nights/ days without the swaddle, but he is now completely weaned (even though we swaddle him loosely for naps).
  
• He knows how to roll from his stomach to back, but rarely does it. The second we put him on his back, he rolls right to his stomach and he gets upset when he's there for too long b/c he wants to be on his back.
• He stopped talking to us for almost 2 weeks! I couldn't figure it out, but then started back up talking with even more and more noises 2 weeks later. When I told the doctor, she said that lots of times when babies begin to do something else (i.e. roll) they stop working on other things.
• He is a little raptor. He squeals and squeals and even startles himself sometimes.
• He doesn't like it when we walk down the stairs. It must scare him. He tightens his whole body and raises his arms and grunts.
• He started laughing a little, but hadn't done a full on laugh untill about two weeks ago. We still don't hear it too often, but when we do it melts our hearts. It's adorable!
• He is such a smiler-- I love it! He smiles over and over again all day. He even smiles when he's mad (like his mom).
  
• This past month, he met his cousins, Stetson, Reddek, Emery, and Emmet. He also met his aunts and uncle, Kira, Chris, and Jenny.
  
• He flew to California with the Olson family flawlessly! We still haven't had a bad plane trip (cross your fingers for us this month-- we are going on 5 flights in the next 2.5 weeks).
• He is not a big fan of the wind-- though he is getting used to it. He grunts when it blows in his face.
• He said goodbye to his girlfriend, Sage, who left for Singapore along with her parents, Nate and Jess (so sad!).
• He is grasping objects better and better all the time. They always go straight to his mouth and he gets frustrated when he can't fit them all the way in.
• When he is laying/ in his bouncer, he kicks his legs and moves his arms NON-stop.
• Tummy time is more fun now
  
• He will stay entertained in his carseat for about 45 min if the I-Pad is playing baby Einstein. If not, he'll work himself up in to hysterics and scream and scream. He doesn't sleep in his carseat.
• He loves sucking on his fingers.
• His hair is rubbing off of one side of his head. It is also growing in very blond and since his hair was a reddish blond when he was born he looks bald in some places (awkward/ adorable)
• He fake coughs and it cracks us up
• Let's not talk about sleep this month. It makes me tired even thinking about it!
  
• He is a daddy's boy. He could stare and smile at his daddy all day. As for mom, I think he gets sick of looking at me!

He is growing so fast. We took him in to his 4 month appointment at 3.5 months and he was:

• 23 3/4" (70%)
• 12 lbs 10 oz (25%)

Yesterday, we weighed him and he was already 14.2 lbs. He is growing, growing! It's exciting and sad all at once! I'll post some picture soon (we just got a new computer and it's taking forever to organize them so I've been postponing blogging for while). He is adorable and has his mom and dad wrapped completely around his finger.