Four month checkup

Yesterday Cameron had his four month checkup and another round of shots. Poor baby, four shots and a vaccine by mouth. Of course he cried a lot and fell asleep for a bit on the ride home. He also took a little evening nap after a bottle. But, he actually woke up for a bit and played and was pretty happy.

Over the weekend we made more attempts at eating rice cereal. Later on Sunday, I took a chance and mixed it with just a bit of apple/prune juice as I was afraid the little guy was having "tummy issues". He really loved the cereal with the juice in it. He gobbled it down very well. We didn't get a full night's sleep but a nice stretch until 3:30.

Last night I did give him the rice cereal with juice again and he ate that well plus two good bottles at different times but all before bedtime. Not too surprisingly we had another restful night. I checked on him a few times when he made some noises but he never woke up fully wanting a bottle. We went all the way until 5:30 this morning. I think that is still more related to the shots but who knows.

Cameron weighed in good at 14 pounds and the doctor said that in the next few weeks we could start trying some stage 1 baby foods. Yay!

Cameron really enjoys spending at least some time on his belly. He'll grab for soft toys to chew on and will scoot a little bit to get to what he wants. He's working on rolling back onto his back but that gives him some trouble still and frustrates him sometimes.

Caleb meanwhile is doing well aside from being a challenging 3 1/2 year old whose "listening ears" don't work half the time. During the doctor appointment yesterday he would not leave the doctor's rolling seat alone and drew on his face and legs with the pen I had given him in hopes that he would draw in a little notebook until we were done. I am sure that I should have remembered to bring him the special markers he has that only work on the Crayola paper. That's the tough thing about an appointment on Monday.

All in all life is good although hectic. We're hoping to try harder to have more routine on our weekends. Easy to say today on Tuesday. We'll see come Saturday if we can focus our attentions and stick to it.

Hope everyone is doing well. Take care!

CC