Alex enjoyed a visit from Nana and Pepaw last weekend! They came in on Thursday afternoon. We enjoyed Santo's for dinner on Thursday night. On Friday afternoon, Alex had his 4 month old check up. And Nana came with us to the Dr.!
Alex weighs 15 lbs 1 oz (60th percentile for weight) and is 26 & 3/4 inches long (95th percentile for height). Maybe we have a little basketball player in our family! We discussed introducing solids to Alex at his appointment. His Dr. explained that at this point, his main source of nutrition is still his bottle and that any cereal we wanted to introduce would just be for "fun". Until he loses the tongue reflex completely, she said he probably wouldn't accept a spoon. If he starts acting interested when Mark and I are eating our own food, then it would be OK to try a small TBSP of rice cereal. (I think I am secretly happy that it's not time to start solids yet. This means that my little boy is still little! Although, it's not quite a secret, huh? I just told my family & friends who read my blog.) Alex's Dr. was happy about our progress with his head development. He also had his 2nd round of immunizations, for which he and I both cried (again...) We go back for his 6 month old check-up on Oct 21.
On Friday night, we took Nana and Pepaw to B.A. Sweetie's candy company, and got both sets of grandparents together for dinner at Texas Roadhouse. Although when we got to Sweetie's, they were closing in 5 minutes! We rushed all around the store looking for candy to show Mom & Dad, and I think we stayed past store closing time. I carried Alex all around the store. He was so cute looking all around. I told him that he would love candy someday. I saw that my Dad picked up all kinds of gum with old-fashioned labels. It was really cool. I bought some Bazooka!
On Saturday morning, I went for a long walk at the lake-to-lake trail in Middleburg/Berea area with Mom & Dad. That afternoon, we took them to Lake Erie and got some ice cream at the Honey Hut. Mom watched baby Alex on Saturday night while Mark and I went out! On Sunday, we had our traditional breakfast at Katherine's before Mom & Dad drove back home. All-in-all, it was a great weekend! I truly appreciate how my family has made a huge effort to visit us often at such a special time in my life!
On to more Alex developments: His 4 month old birthday was this past Wednesday, and he is officially in Size 2 diapers. (How sad...) He has found his feet and likes to grab them. He is rolling over like crazy now. In his bassinet, we use an infant positioner to keep him on his back, but I woke up this morning, and he had kicked it down to the bottom. Don't know how much longer we will be using that infant positioner!! And he likes the Noggin channel A LOT!
Mark and I celebrate our 1 year anniversary this coming Sunday. I have a surprise planned for Saturday afternoon, and Alex is staying with Grandma Candi and Grandpa Greg on Saturday night. We are having Alex's 4 month old pictures taken on Sunday, our actual anniversary. So, I will have more formal pictures for everyone soon.
He is almost 18 weeks old and eating 5 1/2 -6 oz. every 4 hours. We're officially entering the stage of only using the bigger 9 oz Born Free bottles. And yet another baby product retires to my storage...
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