The 4 month appointment

Another doctor's appointment has now come and gone, and Holden has lived to tell the tale. Yes, this morning he had his 4 month check-up (wow, time flies!), and this time the whole experience was a lot less traumatic than previous trips. For reasons not worth going into here, we switched pediatricians, and Holden seemed to really like this doctor a lot. He even giggled when she checked ears, and was in really good spirits the entire time, until--of course--the shots. This was the second round of the same immunizations he had gotten at the 2-month appointment, which had made him pretty fussy the rest of the day...so, we expect that it will probably be a long evening once he gets up from his afternoon nap. But as the picture shows, he left the office all smiles.

And for those of you wondering, he received a clean bill of health, and the go-ahead to start solid food whenever we'd like. We haven't decided when to do this yet, but when it happens I'm sure there will be a post or two about it. And as has been true in previous appointments, lil' ole Holden is, well, still little. He weighed in at 12 lbs, 3 oz., or at about the 7th percentile. But we don't mind--I'd rather he be a little guy than have lug around a 20 lb. kid. And it means we don't have to buy clothes quite as often as the parents of those bigger rounder babies (although he really does seem to go through them quickly). Besides, to us, he does seem big. He's almost doubled his birth weight!