Four Months

Weight: 6850g

Length: 64cm

Head Circumference: 42cm

These measurements all put Sam into the 50th percentile - meaning he is all in proportion and an average sized baby!

He can roll from front to back and half way over onto his side when on his back.

He can hold things in his hands, and puts things into his mouth.

He is a big time drooler! He has probably started teething.

He is a thumb sucker.

He always has big grins when he sees his Dad in the mornings.

He still wakes up through the night for a feed. Sometimes it is only once, sometimes it is twice, and on a bad day it is three times!

He goes in the big bath now so he can streth out and kick and splash about.

And just quietly... he had his first taste of real food the other day... a lick of chicken gravy off Dad's finger - umah! But he did love it!

A belated Christmas post

Sam was only three months old for his first Christmas, so he didn't really know what was going on! Santa had a lot of trouble filling his Christmas stocking.

We thought we would get a good Santa photo this year because Sam is too young to be scared of Santa. The problem was that we had to wait so long in line to see Santa, that we had to wake him up when we got to the front of the line, and of course, once he was awake he wanted MILK! So he really wasn't very happy at all! He actually ended up grabbing handfuls of Santa's beard!

Sam got an Elmo play gym from us (which Josh likes to play with more at the moment), a toy dog that plays songs and games (a bit like Josh's Tad), a bib and rattle, some dummies and teats for his bottle, Other presents he got were a mobile, clothes, a vibrating bouncer chair (which magically put him to sleep in the middle of a very noisy room), stacking rings and a book.

A Good News Day!

Today we got the results of the followup ultrasound... and you can probably guess from the title that it was good news and everything is normal! Yay!

Last night Sam slept through the night from 8pm to 8am. Another Yay!

It has been really great seeing Josh and Sam play games together already... I can't wait til Sam is a bit older and they can really play together. Josh plays a hide and seek game with Sam where he hides behind my chair and pops up on different sides. Sam always looks around for Josh and smiles when he see him. He really loves his big brother :)