I am 4 months old today!

Ethan is 4 months old!!

Here's what he is up to:

• Drinks 4 6oz bottles of formula a day. The dr wants us to switch from the Neosure formula he has been on, so I will be doing that once I finish the stash we have.
• Sleeps 7pm-8am most nights, and I wake him around 11pm to feed him once, putting him right back to sleep.
• Sleeps 9-10:30am and 1-4pm for his naps. He just goes right to sleep when I put him down. Such an easy baby!
• He weighs 14lb 5oz (39th percentile) and is 24.5 in long (37th percentile. By comparison, Audrey was 13lb 1oz at her 4 month appt and 23.5 in long (around 20th percentile for both).
• He was proclaimed "perfect" by the doctor at his 4 month check up today. He received his vaccines and didn't have any reaction, not even fussiness like last time. 
• He smiles and laughs easily and loves to interact with anyone who is around. Every time he laughs, he hiccups.
• He wears 3-6 months sized clothes, and a size 2 diaper. He can fit into some 6-9 month clothes and I don't think he will be 6 months before we have to move him up.
• He sucks his thumb while he's sleeping and is starting to do it more when he's up as well. I have to admit, it's super cute, even though I know it will be harder to break him of it down the road. But no more paci hunts!!!
• He still loves to be in a carrier snuggled up to me, and frequently takes a catnap between 4-7 while I cook dinner.
• He is easy going and almost never cries. The car is just about the only place he's not happy. We switched him to a convertible carseat from his infant carrier to see if the position change would help, and it's a marginal difference at most. He doesn't mind other seats; maybe it's that he has no one to talk to.
• He rolls from his tummy to his back and can get up on his elbows while on his tummy to look around. He's got great neck control.

He is simply the most wonderful boy in the world and we love him more every day.

Happy belated anniversary to us! And other items of note

Nick and I celebrated 13 years of marriage this week. We went out on the 2nd, the day after our anniversary, for a wonderful dinner ALONE. I forgot how nice it is to be served food and NOT worry about feeding anyone else or food allergies or crying etc etc etc. Just us. We both feel so blessed to be celebrating a milestone, even if it isn't a big one.

Last week Audrey, Ethan and I went with our MOPS group to a small farm not far away. Audrey got to pet lots of different types of animals, and even retrieve an egg from a hen who had just laid it. She LOVED being at the farm and all the animals, but far and away her favorite was getting to ride a pony for the very first time. She just loves horses and thought this was fantastic. She told the lady who was guiding the horse to "let go and let me go fast!" I am in real trouble if this continues to be her favorite thing. Horseback riding is not a cheap hobby!! But she was pretty stinking cute up on that pony. Farmer Audrey!

Meanwhile, Ethan has perfected the pouty lip. He has always done this when he is getting ready to cry, and boy can he stick it far out there!!  It is just too cute and I admit, I let him go for a minute when he's getting upset just so I can see it. And then it promptly breaks my heart and I cuddle him to make it all better.