4 month stats

Cole had his 4 month appt today. It was kind of a traumatic experience with the shots. The poor baby turned bright red because he was crying so hard. Luckily, he's such a happy baby that by this evening he was back to himself. Right now, he's relaxing and watching Grey's Anatomy with me. He also tried his first oatmeal cereal tonight. He didn't love it but he didn't do to bad either.

Here's the stats:Weight: 15 lbs 2 oz - 53rd percentile
Length: 24 3/4" - 43rd percentile
Head circumference: 16 3/4" - 60th percentile

I Must Be Doing Alright

I feel like I haven't blogged specifically about Cade in a long time. It's hard to believe that he's going to be 3 in a few weeks. He continues to do amazingly well despite his rough start. A few things that I have been impressed with lately:
1. After breakfast, he puts his bowl and spoon in the dishwasher or sink without being asked.
2. When he comes upstairs, he almost always makes sure that the lights and TV are off. I even asked him yesterday if he could make sure he turned off the lights. His reply, "Cade already did."
3. While I was busy with Cole, he put a dirty empty bottle in the sink for me without being asked.
4. He knows how to use words like "probably" and "actually" correctly in sentences.
5. He started to learn to rhyme with grandma and now does it all by himself. I think it started with "Elmo, Melmo" and now he just makes up words to rhyme with whatever he's talking about.
6. He continues to want to take care of his baby brother and hold him. Alot of times he wants Cole to stay in his room for nap.
7. He knows how to vacuum with the real vacuum. When I told him that we needed to check to make sure that the bag wasn't full, he pushed the vacuum over and opened the door to check.
8. He decided one day during nap that he was going to take care of his own poopy diaper. By the time he was screaming for me, he had taken his pants off, his diaper off, put it in the garbage can and was sitting on his futon. He had poop all over his hands and a poopy kleenex next to him. I couldn't even be angry since he was trying to be so independent. It was a pretty nasty clean-up job though.

Dr. Cade fixing piggy

4 months

Cole turned 4 months today. He rolled over for the first time on Thursday from tummy to back. He surprised himself and Cade and I. He has even been able to repeat the feat a few times on Thursday and a few times since then. He continues to be a very happy baby that likes to talk and smile. Right now, he's watching TV with us. He's already hooked.

Catching up in pictures

12 weeks

13 weeks - 3 months

Brotherly love

My favorite picture so far

Cade in a pair of 3-6 month pants! He put them on himself.

Happy boys

Grandma and Cade

Trying to get a picture with Grandma and Grandpa

OK, let's try with just Cole

14 weeks

Cade and Evan riding Thomas

Friends

15 weeks

Happy St Patrick's Day

16 weeks