{Braden at 3 months}
{Braden at 4 months}
The 3rd & 4th months of our life with Braden were drastically different than the first two. (And we mean different in a very good way.) After the first two months, we were getting a little more sleep at night, we started to feel a little more like "parents", and life in general became a little less stressful.
I can't say life went back to "normal" because I wouldn't even know what normal means anymore. We were definitely still lost somewhere in that baby haze, but we could tell that we were starting to feel a little like ourselves again. Like maybe, someday soon, we would once again be Bill & Nicole instead of just Braden's parents.
For me, I was so happy when that God-awful "post-partum" period was over (why doesn't anyone warn you of how gross that is?!),I was of course thrilled to have lost most of the baby weight, and even going back to work felt sort of good. Bill and I found ourselves in a good routine of taking turns, splitting most of the work 50/50- we took turns getting up at nights, took turns putting baby to bed and getting baby up, took turns giving each other "me" time... It was like suddenly, we fell into in a groove.
For me, I was so happy when that God-awful "post-partum" period was over (why doesn't anyone warn you of how gross that is?!),I was of course thrilled to have lost most of the baby weight, and even going back to work felt sort of good. Bill and I found ourselves in a good routine of taking turns, splitting most of the work 50/50- we took turns getting up at nights, took turns putting baby to bed and getting baby up, took turns giving each other "me" time... It was like suddenly, we fell into in a groove.
And as for Braden... I don't even know where to start with all the changes in him!!!
He stopped being a limp biscuit and turned into this big boy with an even bigger personality! It seems like every day in the 3rd and 4th month, a baby does something new. In just two short months, Braden began smiling, laughing, talking, mocking your faces and noises, pushing up on his arms & raising his chest, rolling over, grasping and reaching for toys, standing on his own, sitting up on his own, taking bottles and then eating solid foods, and every day, noticing the world around him a little more and trying to interact with all of it!
Looking back on it, I can't believe all the ways he has grown. This time is definitely the most exciting time in a baby's life- and his parents' lives.
He stopped being a limp biscuit and turned into this big boy with an even bigger personality! It seems like every day in the 3rd and 4th month, a baby does something new. In just two short months, Braden began smiling, laughing, talking, mocking your faces and noises, pushing up on his arms & raising his chest, rolling over, grasping and reaching for toys, standing on his own, sitting up on his own, taking bottles and then eating solid foods, and every day, noticing the world around him a little more and trying to interact with all of it!
Looking back on it, I can't believe all the ways he has grown. This time is definitely the most exciting time in a baby's life- and his parents' lives.
I guess the best way to describe what it's like to have a baby this age is that you stop asking yourselves, "What were we thinking?", and instead begin asking yourselves "What did we ever do without him?"
Here's a little album of the tricks he mastered in his 3rd & 4th month...
Smiling- alot!
Laughing
Discovering his hands
Reaching, grasping, rattling, kicking...
Rolling over!
Raising himself up high!
Sitting up!
Even standing while holding onto something!!!
It's amazing, isn't it?
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