We went to the doc this morning for his four month check-up and HOLY COW!!!!
Weight - 16 pounds, 5.5 ounces (75th percentile)
Length - 27 inches (99th percentile!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is the length of an average 7 month old!) I can finally say he got something from me - although I'm not super tall, my family sure is! Most of my cousins, aunts, and uncles on my Dad's side of the family are over 6 feet tall, including the girls!Doc said we can start on rice cereal if we want to, but we certainly don't have to until 6 months.
Here are some things that Ethan's been up to this month:
- He loves to stand up - if you're holding him the wrong way, he'll wiggle until you stand him up!
- He's gotta be about to get some teeth because he is drooling nonstop and always chewing on his fists.
- He's discovered his reflection in the mirror - he'll smile sooo big at that cute baby!
- He's getting really good at holding onto toys and even pushing buttons on the toys (totally by accident, though).
- He is sporting the mohawk look these days. His hair has pretty much completely fallen out on the sides, but not up top! But parts of it are starting to grow back already.
- He's decided that it's fun to be fussy between 3-4:30 each afternoon. That makes for a loooonnnnng hour and a half before Lonnie gets home!
- He loves it when I sing and read to him - especially any song with hand movements.
- He is SO smiley!!!! He loves to smile at pretty much anyone. (but I still think he smiles more for me!)
- He's started rolling over again, and he does it anytime I put him down for tummy time.
- His cooing has turned into squeals. Unless you're looking right at him, it's sometimes hard to tell if he's crying or just "talking."
- He LOVES to be outside. If he's fussy, usually a walk in the stroller or a good swing in the hammock takes care of it, sometimes just stepping out the door will work!
As always, here are Ethan's monthly football poses. He's definitely getting bigger!
One day:
One month:
Two months:
Three months:
Four months:
It's been a great four months!!!
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2 comments:
Margie,
The peds nurses (all the girls at Jen's party are peds nurses and moms with babies around Ethan's age) were talking and we thought that sounded wrong. There's no way 16 lbs could be 50%. So I looked up a CDC chart and it said somewhere slightly greater than 75%. Maybe you'll have a football player after all! The chart link is: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/growthcharts/set1/chart01.pdf
I'm not sure how the computer could be so off unless she typed it in wrong.
Whatever...you just want to be able to call him a chunk!!!
j/k - I'll check it out
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