I was reading a friends blog today, she just had a baby not even a month ago and she already has a couple posts about her cutie!! She is good!! My baby is creeping up on 5 months now and I have what, 4 posts??? I suck! I decided to be better and follow my friend's example. I know that I am going to look back and wish that I wrote down everything that Tyler started doing during the first bit of his life but stupid me just thought I would remember. Guess what?!?!?! I FORGOT! AHHH, I'm mad at myself. "All things Tyler" are running into themselves. I can't remember what happened during what months. I'm just going to post the 3 and 4 month pictures of my cutie pie and then just get better from here on out! Here he is at 3 months. I LOVE these pictures. First, I just think he is the cutest!! Second, I will never forget how much I LOVE the way he focuses on something and THIRD, I need to remember that he puts up with a lot from me and my "picture taking." I'm not good at it but I'm trying to learn and he is who I'm learning on. I am hoping to be worthy of a professional camera purchase someday so I HAVE to practice practice practice. I'm SURE he does not love it! (Hence the crying baby in the last picture - I waited one picture too long to take the Santa hat!)




Here is what I remember (not all of these things are done at 4 months. Probably 3/4 were done at 3 months.) Onto the 4 month pictures! First, his pictures don't look much different than his 3 month pictures. Thank goodness I take a million pictures EVERYDAY of this little man ... at least I have some proof as to what happened for some of his milestones! hahaha Can I tell you how much I love these pictures too? Tyler is such a day to day baby. Meaning, one day he is happy and the next he is REALLY happy! He struggles with sleep (yes, still, during the day he has a hard time sleeping) and it makes it hard sometimes but he still smiles. Unfortunately, for me, he just smiles a little less on the days he is having a hard time. I hate to say my baby is a hard one. Tyler is my first so I don't really have anyone to compare him to. With that being said, on the days he struggles with sleep he is a little less happy. Never the less, I LOVE this little boy! He makes me the happiest!! Tyler's smile in the second picture makes me tear up! Is that crazy or what?!?!?! I just love how happy he is! This is how he is most of the time... unless you catch him when he is hungry or sleepy (which is also a lot of the time. haha)




At 4 months we took Ty to the doctor and he weighed a whole
12 lbs 10 oz. 25%
24.5 inches long 25%
Head: 17.2
I don't know the % for this but the doctor did mention that I shouldn't worry that his head is bigger than his body because it's normal. HAHAHAHA I never thought Tyler's head was big, but I guess it is??
The doctor was impressed that Ty jumped into the 25% for height and I thought, jumped?? I thought he always was in the 25%.... but NOPE! He was in the 15% and NOW he is in the 25% . So my post for his 2 month visit was wrong. Oh well!! (maybe I should go fix it??)
Facts about Tyler:
HE LOVES TO JUMP!!! And thanks to Chad's cousin, Candace, he has some place to do it! It is the BEST!!! Now he jumps everywhere, even if he isn't in the jumper. I LOVE IT!
He LOVES to kick!
He loves to hold my face like this:
Usually he is eating my face and/or pulling my hair when he does this, however this is the only picture to show what I'm talking about so please excuse my face!
Tyler can sit up all by himself. He is bent over and can only stay up for a half minute but he can still do it.
He can roll over from front to back and back to front. He doesn't do it often but he can still do it and it is so fun to see.
He can laugh so well. OH MY GOSH it is so cute!
He can really cry too. OH my GOSH it is not fun to hear! I don't know what happened!!! One night he decided to use his diaphragm and WOW it was loud! (don't worry we took the monkeys off the straps!)
Tyler is also eating rice cereal. (NOT everyday - mostly because I'm lazy!) BUT this week I will feed it to him everyday and then when I get back from NJ it will be onto Green beans! He is going to LOVE green beans! :)
Tyler found his toes and he LOVES them! I love how he is cross eyed, in this picture, looking at them. Usually they are in this mouth!
He loves to look at himself in the mirror. He smiles at himself every time.
He is good at holding onto things. In fact, while at the doctor, Tyler grabbed hold of the his stethoscope and the doctor said he was impressed at how well he was able to do that! He can even hold his bottle, for a second at least.
He is getting really good at standing. I think it is because of his jumper.... again Thank you, Candace!
While I don't have a picture and really need to get one, here is one of my favorite things Tyler does.... I have been encouraging binkies, why you ask??? Well because I come from a long line of thumb suckers (well, maybe not a long line.... just some of my siblings) but my youngest brother and I sucked our thumbs until we were..... older. I didn't want Tyler to get stuck on the thumb. It is easy, if you have to, to cut a binkie. It is NOT possible to do that to a thumb. So, binkie is is. However, my little man has been sucking his thumb since he was in the womb.... (see second picture)
Anyway, back to my favorite-ish thing....now that Tyler is able to hold onto things he will grab the binkie out of his mouth, hold onto it and then put his thumb in his mouth... OOOH I really wish I had a picture of him doing this, next time I will get one. It is pretty darn cute and funny.
One of Tyler's favorite things, besides me of course :), is his dad!
Chad is the best dad in the WORLD and my baby lights up when he sees his dad come home at night. I am telling you, Tyler LOVES his dad! Chad can get Tyler to smile and laugh better than anyone else!! And while I might ... maybe just a little... take for granted how awesome of a dad Chad is to Tyler I LOVE LOVE LOVE to see these two together. I LOVE how both of them just love each other so much. They are equally happy to see each other when Chad comes home at the end of a very long day. I swear Tyler just knows that Chad is coming home and wakes up.... he wants to see his dad. I can't say it enough, Tyler LOVES his daddy! and It is AMAZING what having a baby can do to a man. I must say, I am really liking the change! (Not that Chad needed to change; regarless, it is awesome!)
These two!! AHHH I just love them!

On a more difficult note, Tyler is still struggling with sleep. (he is doing better in his crib though, he will sleep there for more than 15 minutes. It is GREAT!!) I talked with the doctor about it and am getting help. Don't get me wrong, I sleep... when I am tired, I sleep. I sleep at night and wake in the morning rested. I do not feel deprived. Tyler sleeps. He might put up a fuss and he might be a very light sleeper (like his mother) and he might wake up more times than I would like (at night) BUT he sleeps. It is just during the day that Tyler really struggles. I know that our trip to NJ isn't going to help the situation. It isn't going to be easy and his sleeping pattern is going to be SO off. After NJ it is going to be a HARD transition. There will be a lot of crying in this home.... from Tyler and ME. I am going to really be working with him to get him to sleep. UGH I'm not looking forward to it. I hate to see my baby cry! I HATE IT! Anyway, the doctor gave me some information and ideas and tricks that I am hoping will work. Wish me luck!

My little man is growing up! When I look at his newborn pictures I miss him. I miss his hair! I miss that it used to be really dark! OOH MY GOSH I MISS IT! Isn't that a silly thing to miss???... hair???? but then I hold my sweet baby boy and he smiles and laughs and the missing goes away! He is growing up way too fast and before I know it he will be changing the world... in the meantime, I'm just going to love him and soak up all the smiles and cries and just be thankful I'm finally a mom and that I have a beautiful family!!
Oh by the way, as of today, Tyler weights 13.7 lbs. LOVE IT! LOVE HIM!!