Simon – Four Months Old

This face!!! Be still my heart. I don’t think I’ve ever been so smitten by anything EVER! It’s kind of ridiculous how much I am obsessed with him. I am literally with him 24/7 and I can’t get enough of him. Claire is just as smitten with him. I think Brant has a tinge of jealousy. 😛 He is just perfection.

Humor me again as I jot down just a few things about him so I can remember.

– He won’t take a binkie

– We got him out of (almost) exclusively sleeping in his baby swing. He sleeps in his crib, but has to have his soft chenille blanket rubbing his face. He rubs his face with it to soothe himself to sleep.

– I put him in his crib awake, but tired, and he will fall asleep. His little cues are so easy to read so he doesn’t ever really get into those crying fits where I’m like “I don’t know what’s wrong!” Thank heavens!

– He used to take a bottle, now he won’t. Boobie or bust! Not ideal for when I want a night out!

– I kiss his cheeks probably 100 million times per hour, and he takes it.

– He is a little cuddle bug! We call him “cuddlekins”. He will nurse at night, and I fall asleep, and then he falls asleep, and he just lays there next to me and holds me.

– He is starting to laugh more. It is so sweet.

– (I hope I don’t jinx myself by saying this) but he is seriously the. easiest. baby. ever. I thought Claire was easy (past her newborn phase), but I had no idea what easy was. It’s kinda ridiculous. All you colic moms can now curse our names from here to eternity. I give you permission.

– The simplest things make him smile.

-He does well in the car. (Claire did not).

– Claire cries probably 10x more per day than he does, and he’s the baby! He’s a boy, and boys don’t have as much drama

– This is kinda funny. Brant seems to think that he starts to salivate when he sees me (cause I’m his food). Brant will bring him to me, and he will just immediately start drooling like crazy.

– But he drools a lot anyway… haha

– He is just the most loveable thing on earth!

HOW is it that he’s already 1/3 through his first year! It’s so sad. I love my baby!!! I could have 100 million babies just like him (and then pass them on when they hit the terrible two’s at 16 months old) 🙂