4 Months Old....

Wow it has been a huge month of firsts. We started baby food about three weeks ago. And he LOVES it. We started with cereal for three days, then we went to baby food. Apples, Banannas, Pears are of course some of his favorites. But the banannas give him gas, so we are holding off on them. Sweet peas, squash, sweet potatoes and green beans are pretty good too. But he is still having a hard time with the green beans, I usually have to mix them with oatmeal to get him to eat them.  He eats baby food once around 9am then he gets any leftovers he may have had around 3pm. Then at 7 he gets oatmeal. This routine seems to be working very well. He also has a 4 to 6 oz bottle about every 3 to 4 hours a day. (boy is he getting big since we started big boy food)

Collin is also now wearing 6 months clothes, 3 month clothes do not fit anymore the onsies do not snap. Also some clothes are 3-6 months, those do not fit much either but they can work.

Sleeping.... um yeah that is the biggest roller coaster yet. I have no idea how long he is going to sleep at night. We started great with 5 hours at a time.. then 3 hours.. then 8 hours.. then 2 to 1 hours.. ahhhhh this mommy is going crazy.. I just give up in this department, so all of you mommies out there that have your little one on a sleeping routine at night that works.. congrats. He doesn't have a hard time going to sleep at all, he usually just passes out after about 5 mins of rocking him. Its the waking up part, anything can wake him up, he is a super light sleeper, and when he rolls over in his sleep, he for sure will wake up. So it is very cool, that he can roll from front to back and back to front, but it is not helping at all in the sleeping department.

We had our first giggle a couple of days ago, it was so cute, since then he has had lots of sqeeks but not a nother giggle yet. He loves to play on the floor and is alot more active with his toys, and EVERYTHING goes in his mouth. Especially his fists, they get chewed on 24-7.

So yesterday he had his first trip to the Zoo. Now mind you, the Victoria Zoo is super small, only about 15 differnt animals. But it was perfect for Collin. He cooed at the parrot, and gooed at the goats, then he panted at the lions. (on a grown-up note, the 2 lion cubs were so COOL. they were super playful with one another and they are huge. I have never seen in person to lion cubs play fight with one another, it was amazing.) but Collin loved it. So in all the Zoo was a success and a ton of FUN, plus is was such a pretty day.

Here are a couple of pictures from the zoo and the past couple of weeks.

 At the ZOO....

Time for Baby Food

So yesterday was a big day... our first time to eat from a spoon. I have tried rice cereal in his bottle a couple of times before but it always made him constipated. So that only lasted about a week. And Josh and I decided that we would just wait for solids to be fed by a spoon. So yesterday was the day. I sat him down in his high chair and had to prop him up with some stuffed animals but it worked. I mixed one tablespoon of oatmeal cereal with 1 oz of formula water and we were set. He loved it, the second I put the spoon in his mouth he knew what to do. He looked like a little bird every time I had to go get more, his mouth was wide open. Too cute. I know what moms mean when the messiest things can be the things you remember the most and they make your heart melt. He was so cute, but so dirty.  So today we tried it again around the same time. I chose lunch time for his solid foods, just to make sure he doesn't have any reactions. He knew what was coming he was all smiles and mouth was open, he was ready. I am going to do one more day of just oatmeal then on Friday we are going to try some sweet potatoes. Hope he likes them just as much.

Also yesterday he went to the doctor for a weight check up. He weighs 13lbs and 14oz, in one months time he has almost gained 2lbs. On the other hand he was 24 inches long and that is how long he was last time so no growth there... just wait.