Rollin', rollin', rollin'

 

Happy 4 months Nathan!!  Thanks to Nathan's discovering how to roll on his stomach, he is sleeping awesome now!  I still put him down on his back, but he rolls over almost immediately.  He started off sleeping from around 9pm - 4:30am or so.  Luckily he would go back to sleep after I fed him.  Then the other night he slept from 8:30pm - 7am!!!  Of course I woke up thinking I heard him at some point, but did not.  We are loving this new trend, but know it will only last until the dreaded teething starts.  And just this past week, he started to roll from his stomach onto his back.  I have yet to see it, but believe Mimi and Pop's account of it happening. 

One thing I've noticed recently is that Nathan's eye that had been clogged seems to have cleared up on its own.  I'm super excited about this, because I didn't want him to have to go through any procedures to clear it up no matter how "minor" they are.

Two weeks ago we also decided to try giving Nathan rice cereal.  He did really well eating it, but an unintended consequence we discovered was it made him constipated.  So we have since put off giving him more for the time being.  Hopefully his stomach will continue to mature and we can try it again soon.

Happy belated Easter!  I'm a horrible mother and forgot to get a picture of Nathan on his first Easter.  We were in such a hurry to get out the door for the early morning service that there just wasn't time.  There isn't an excuse for why I didn't get one afterwards... 

Nicholas LOVES dying Easter eggs

 The Easter bunny came...

One of his favorites was some "Engineer Turtle" (AKA Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtle) socks that were in the big egg below.

So handsome - he was hesitant to put on the tie at first, but didn't take it off all day once he put it on

Nicholas recently had a big wedding he was a part of.  "Q" and "U" got married at his school and he was one of the groomsmen.  It was really pretty cute and he was excited about the whole thing.  They even had a reception afterwards.  Several weeks ago, we registered him for Kindergarten.  I think he is excited about it.  We are keeping our fingers crossed he gets Mrs. Bell (AKA Uncle Brad's sister) for his teacher. 

Finally, Nathan is able to stick his foot in his mouth.  We think he is teething, since he loves chewing on anything (his hands, our hands, toys, etc).  Only time will tell...

Of course Nicholas had to get in on the foot chewing action too...

No Airplane Necessary

Tonight Nicholas experienced his first fruit - bananas. Of course he loved them as he has every other food (carrots, squash, and sweet potatoes). It's so funny to think of all the tricks people do to get babies to open their mouths and shove the spoon in - "Here comes the airplane" and the standard of mom or dad opening their mouth to have the baby do the same. We have never had to do this with Nicholas. If the spoon is in his line of sight, his mouth is open. The only issue we do have during dinner is keeping his hands out of his mouth. We learned early on to keep one hand restricting his movement, while the other one feeds him. All in all he is a really good eater. :-)

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Gabe - Nicholas and I wish you a happy birthday! Gabe had the day off and spent it with Nicholas and also cutting the lawn. We had a delicious dinner at Mimi and Pop's followed by a combo platter of desserts.

Yesterday was another day of firsts. Nicholas and I had our first pumpkin carving (I know Pawpaw claims we did one when we were little, but sorry I don't remember it) :) Daddy carved a great scary pumpkin!





Then later that evening, Nicholas tasted his first baby food (besides cereal) - carrots. He gave us his customary grimace at the first bite, but soon learned to love them.




Finally, Gabe and I just have to laugh at this patch of dark hair at the back of Nicholas' head. It's the only hair left from when he was born. Crazy how dark his hair used to be!



Happy Birthday Gabe! We love you!