Little Squirt

Our little man is literally a "little squirt". He had his 4 month check up on Wednesday with shots and all. He weighed in at 11 pounds 14 ounces. I can't believe this little guy is 4 months old and doesn't even weigh 12 pounds. Women deliver babies almost his size. Amazing!! He measured 24 inches long so he seems to be growing long more than wide. I had to get a chickenpox vaccine first since I never had them, so Caleb held my hand while I got mine and then I held his hand and talked in his ear as he got 3 of them. So sad, it made me cry too. He just screamed and looked at me with the sad teary eyes like "why are you doing this to me?" If they could only understand. So anyway..... his doctor seemed just a little concerned that he is still so small so we started him on vitamins (which he absolutely hates) and I've got to bring him back in one month for another weight check and we will see where he's at at that time. It's not like this baby has got huge parents so maybe he's just gonna be a little guy. He sure is cute as a petite little thing. As long as he's healthy that's all that matters to me.

I started my part time hours this week so we had our first Wednesday together. Not that it was too much fun as we had to start it off by going to the doctor and getting shots. Then we went to visit a friend of mine who just had a baby a few weeks ago and then we headed to the nursing home to spend some time with my grandpa for his birthday. We had a busy day and Caleb crashed when we got home. He had kinda a rough night last night. I'm not sure if his legs were sore or he was just hungry or what. He woke up at 3:00 just screaming and I tried changing his pants and rock him back to sleep but that didn't work so I had to get up and feed him. I haven't had to get up in the middle of the night to feed him since he was about 2 months old. Even then it still took him a while to fall back asleep. But he was happy as a clam this morning so hopefully all is good. Next week we start swimming lessons and I'm looking forward to that with him. I think we will have fun.

Have a great weekend. More next week.

Erin