Atkinson Family Life: Four months old!

A walk down memory lane... Where has our newborn gone?!

Well Asher you’ve been with us for four months now! You have brought us more joy than we can measure. Your smiles, coos, and baby laughs are the best! I love being your mommy and spending each day with you. My favorite part of the day is going in your room when you wake up from a nap. You are always so excited to see me and you smile so big that your face can hardly contain it! You are just such a happy boy! I think your daddy’s favorite part of the day is coming home from work and being greeted with your grins and squeals of delight.

There are moments when you’re not so happy, moments when you’re fighting sleep, or tired of being in your carseat at the grocery store, or you don’t want to have your pajamas put on, but you are just as precious to us in those moments as when you’re happy and sweetly cooing. I hope you’ll always know that we love you unconditionally and no-matter-what! :)

You’re growing up before our very eyes!! Four months has flown by and yet you are like a completely new baby! You smile (A LOT), you make all kinds of cute sounds, you giggle and laugh when we are goofy or singing songs.

You hold on to anything you can get your hands on (toys, hair, your paci, our hands…), you still love your playmat but now you reach up and grab the toys and hold on tight or put them in your mouth.

In fact, everything these days goes in your mouth. We think you might even be working on some teeth with how much you chew on everything! And your sweet mouth is a constant source of drool!

You still love bath time, you even like having us put lotion on you after bath time, but you hate having PJs put on! Crazy! You go from laughing and smiling to very upset in a matter of moments (no matter how hard we try to distract you)! We think you know that bedtime is coming once PJs are on and you just don’t want to have to leave the party yet! :)

Your new found love this month has definitely been your exercauser!! I almost cried the first time we put you in and you reached out and started to spin the little toys. You have definitely come a long way from the baby who just laid and looked at toys. You’re such a big boy! You are even starting to get the hang of moving around in your exercauser to look at all the different toys.

Something else you love… TV. Oh boy! We try to turn you away but you’ll strain your neck to see it. Yikes. Thankfully, you also love books. You have a few books with mirror pages and they are your favorites. You have started trying to pull the books from our hands so you can get them (surprise surprise) in your mouth!!

Something else you did this past month that was amazing (to us) was you rolled over!! Your dad was beginning to get worried, so we practiced!! Nana and Papa bought you a tummy time play mat and that helped a lot. It only took you a day to get the hang of rolling over and then you did it several times. You always look so pleased once you get on your back.

Usually this means you’ll stick your hands right back in your mouth but sometimes you vary it and go for your… toes! That’s right! You’re a toe sucker. :) When we are changing your diaper it’s the first thing you do – bring your toes right up to your face. Too cute!

Asher, you are even getting the hang of a routine!! Don’t worry I can say that without jinxing it because you’ve already been off your routine for two nights… but we KNOW you’ll get back on it soon (right!?) :) You go to bed between 7 and 8 pm and you sometimes sleep all the way until 7 am!! Other times you wake up at 5 am, but after a quick feeding you go back to sleep until 7:30 or 8!! You take a morning nap around 9 or 10 and have slept as long as until 1 in the afternoon! (Typically it’s more like 11 or 12 though). Then you take an afternoon nap around 2 or 3 so you’re awake to see daddy when he gets home! You sleep at night in your crib (hooray!) and you take your naps in your swing (uh-oh). We’re going to work on that this month. :)