4 months!

Wow, where did the time go? Between sleep issues, unexpected travel, and work and school craziness, we barely noticed that Holden turned 4 months last Thursday!

A month ago I was mourning the fact that our little guy was no longer the snuggly scrunchy newborn that he once was. Now, I've adjusted and have really come to love this 3-6 month stage. In one of my books I read that this is the "golden age" of babyhood because their social, giggly, and talkative, but they're still fairly stationary, and thus fairly easy to manage, which is indeed wonderful.

When I look back at the entries of the past month I realize that we've been fairly obsessed with the whole sleep thing and little else, and I think that's partly because he hasn't changed nearly as dramatically as he did between months 2 and 3. That's not to say he hasn't grown or isn't doing new things (like sleeping better!), it's just that it wasn't a month of major milestones. Rather, I feel like this was the month that Holden decided start practicing just about every trick he could think of even if his little body's not quite strong enough for most of them. He's been trying mightily to sit on his own, which amounts to him propping himself up on his hands for a few seconds before toppling forward. He's recently decided he also wants to practice standing too. And he's started working on the volume of his voice (which I hear might become a nuisance for us when we go out in public spaces).

Next up on the list of challenges for us seems to be teething, since he just started throwing mid-afternoon gnawing fits on a semi-regular basis. Hope that gets better after the first tooth or two comes in!