Happy Four Month Birthday Cavin!

What an exciting month it was! Somehow I feel like from here on out I'll be saying that. Can you say chhhhaaatterrr box? Yep, Cavin found his voice and he likes to talk about it. Mike and I try to guess what he's 'talking' about but only Cavin knows what his issues are.

This month marked mommy going back to work and the grandmas taking over. Grandma Martin took care of Cavin for the first two weeks...

While Grandma Fye took over for the last two weeks...

Mike and I are so grateful that Cavin had this time to spend with his grandmas before heading to day care like the grown-up I feel that he is now. Thanks mom and Judy!

At the beginning of his third month he rolled over from his back to his front and quickly became OBSESSED with doing so. We wake up to grunting over the monitor to find our very diligent baby spending the overnight hours training himself to flip to his tummy. There were many nights where one or both of us spent an hour or two up in the middle of the night flipping him back over to his back due to the SIDS paranoia. After a week or so of walking around like zombies we gave in. I mean no matter what he always ended up on his tummy! We realized he was self swaddling and comforting himself. And, walla! He slept longer. The bags under my eyes and I will take that! And it turns out the little one wanted to sleep as much as we wanted him to b/c he learned to flip to his tummy VERY quickly.

So the end result....

Sometimes it takes him 10 minutes to get into the perfect position...meanwhile he has traveled all over his crib moving and shaking around to find the. perfect. position. So with his booty in the air, his tummy on his hands, and his head cocked to the side, we all sleep just a little better.

Other than Cavin becoming a complete talking roley-poly this month, he's also taken his first sip of water (not by our choice...our day care provider thought it was hot outside), looks at and grabs his toys (which he immediately brings to his mouth), has become a serious drool-monster (apparently the first sign of teething), and he's been on his first airplane. And the most exciting thing he's done this month....visited the great state of Texas for the very first time!

Now on to the stats!

Weight: 14 lb, 6 oz (50th percentile)

Height: 26.5 inches (95th percentile)

Head circumference: 75th percentile - it's a Spruiell noggin'!

The doctor said he is doing great! He's looooong and lean just like his parents and he is developmentally doing very well...so we are happy.

This month we were confident that we'd have an easier time getting a picture of Cavin and Elmo. He has full head control and is sitting up well when we lean him on things. Little did we know that our wiggly worm had other ideas in mind. This kid REALLY wants to move so we ended up with ONE successful picture (above). Here are some of the unsuccessful ones...

I like to call this one the Heisman...

Happy 4 month to our baby boy!