Gavin 4 months

Time is seriously flying. I feel like I just gave birth to Gavin, and here we are only 2 months away to him being 6 months {as in half a year!} old. Holy cow!

- Every month gets easier. His "fussiness" is slowing down which is in turn helping our energy level go back up and helping us enjoy our time with him more. This parenting thing is so confusing at times, though. You think for a second you've got them figured out, then WHAM, they go from sleeping through the night to waking every 3 hours, and from 2 hour naps to 30 minute naps. There are growth spurts, and sleep regressions, and wonder weeks, oh my! We're currently working on a sleep schedule, and so far it's going okay. We're trying to stop putting him to bed asleep and start putting him to bed drowsy, which is sometimes quite difficult. Baby steps!

-The magic sleepsuit wasn't so "magical" for us. :( I will say it helped transition Gavin from the swaddle... but it did not increase his sleep like most parents said it did. Was it worth the $$? I think so, since again it helped him go from swaddle to no swaddle... and, he looks like the stay puff marshmallow man.

- We've been battling all kinds of skin problems with Gavin pretty much since he was 2 weeks old. It started with baby acne (which went away after a few weeks), then he developed cradle cap, and now he's got eczema! The cradle cap will go away after treatment with baby oil and brushing, then it will pop back up. I'm just glad he has some hair to cover it! The eczema started about a month ago and I think I've finally found the solution, Cetaphil and coconut oil. We're just trying our best to keep his sensitive skin moisturized and healthy!

- In addition to his skin problems, the kid has crazy gas. A few times he's woken in the middle of the night SCREAMING bloody murder and pulling his legs to his belly, which is usually from gas problems. After some gas drops, bicycle kicks, eating and soothing, he's usually back to sleep. The poor baby just doesn't know how to deal with the tummy pain! I recently came across this product and it's helped us tremendously with his gas problems. Those Swedes really know what they're doing (also invented this magical baby product), don't they?!

- Gavin has started to learn how to use his hands and is grabbing things when he's interested in them. We keep thinking he's starting to teethe, because he's been drooling like crazy and seems to want to put EVERYTHING in his mouth! Between his interest in grabbing my hair, and my postpartum hair loss, I think I might be going bald soon...

- Gavin visited Santa a few weeks before Christmas. I kind of procrastinated, so we were stuck going on a weeknight since I knew the last few weekends in December would be crazy. We didn't get to the mall until 7pm, and by then he was exhausted. Poor thing was falling asleep in line so he finally woke up about 10 minutes before we saw Santa but was in a daze. The good news is he didn't cry, but the bad news is he looks like he has NO CLUE what is going on. Which he doesn't, but it's just all that more obvious in the picture.

- Gavin's first Christmas was amazing! He was spoiled rotten and told us he looooves all of the gifts he got. :)

- We spent our second year in a row having a relaxing NYE at home. Last year I was pregnant and nobody knew yet, so we just went to dinner and watched the ball drop at home. This year we got takeout from Olive Garden and didn't even make it up until 11pm! Party rockers, I tell ya!

- I told you in my last post that we dealt with Gavin's first illness, a viral infection. It definitely scared the bajezzus out of us, but he was over the fever in a few days and kept his normal happy-go-lucky personality the whole time which was reassuring.

My rosy cheeked sickling!

- Gavin is learning to roll over by accident, but I don't think he's doing it "on purpose yet". Tummy time is getting better and his head is so strong!

Poor guy is losing so much hair!

- Gavin is clocking in at 14 lbs, 15 ounces these days. Can we talk about his thunder theighs? Love.

His 4 month checkup is on Friday, and I have like 43098304 questions for the pediatrician. The other day I was thinking how amazing it would be to be married to a pediatrician... haha. He'll also get another round of shots :( I've never heard him scream as loud as he does when he got his last round so pray for me...

Until next time!