Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Kolt all grown up and rolling

It has been crazy around here. I have been working on simplifying our life, but I'm not sure how or what to not do. So I have not posted as much as I should about Kolt's growing up. He is 4 months old now. He rolls over, although he did it when I wasn't looking for a couple of weeks. I have finally seen it for myself. He is a polite baby and will often simply wimper instead of scream. He very much preferes to nurse vs the bottle. He is to the point that on occassions, he will refuse to take a bottle and just wait for me to come home. I try not to leave him for more than 4 hours at a time. He is still not sleeping through the night. He preferes to get up and cuddle up with me in bed. We are having minimal success with binky's and warm socks with him in bed--but if he doesn't sleep with me, he sleeps in his swing usually. I love my swings. He loves to be talked to. He giggles quickly and often. I LOVE IT. His sisters are very good at singing him songs and talking to him when I take to long to finish cooking dinner or something. He will play in excersize saucer or on his mat. But his favorite toy is the stuffed doll/beanie baby. He has a dragon that roars and a tigger that is a rattle: not to girly right? He likes to pull his blankets over his face--scares grandma Julie when he does that. But he likes it next to his cheek. He is much bigger than my other kids were at this age. I think Kaylyn didn't way this much until she was 9 months to a year. Kolt is in the 50% for weight, height, and head circum. He is supposedly a very average kid, but in our family, he's big. Pediatrian thinks he'll be as tall as daddy and very quickly pass up his sisters in height. Seeing as Kylee is the next biggest in 50% for girls, Karla in the 30%, and Kaylyn in the 3%....he will seem big at home. We had another instance where someone miss guessed Karla to be a kindergartener. And at the park the lady was surprised when Todd let Kaylyn go down the slide by herself--when he told her she was 3 and 1/2 she was surprised but a little more understanding. But Kolt has just had his first meal of rice cereal. He only eats about 5 spoonfulls at this point, but it helps, I think. It doesn't help him sleep through the night which was what I was hoping, but maybe soon. I'm thinking about getting family pictures soon for the Christmas cards, but I'm also looking at just modpodging shots again this year--we will see. Pictures to follow soon, maybe, I hope