4 Months

Grant turned 4 months old yesterday (July 19)! To celebrate, Grant and I went to Hy-Vee for an afternoon of grocery shopping! ;) We don't go to the pediatrician for his 4 month well baby check or shots until August 11, so I'll update after that with his stats. However, I attempted to measure Grant at home yesterday using a tape measure. I'm sure it's not accurate, but it will be interesting to see how far off I am! I got his length as 26in and his head as 18in. I'll get him weighed tomorrow, but I'm guessing he's around 18 pounds now since he was over 16 pounds 3 weeks ago. When I enter these stats into the Child Growth Chart Calculator on babycenter.com, I get the following message:

"Based on the data you submitted, your child falls into the following percentiles.
Length= between percentile 75 and 90
Weight= between percentile 75 and 90
Head Circumference= above percentile 95"

Probably close to accurate since those percentiles go along with where he fell at his 2 month check up. We know he's a big boy (with a really big head)!!!

At 4 months, Grant loves being held, playing with Dexter, and his exersaucer. He's recognizing people and smiling in response to things. Whenever we put him on his back, he rolls over to his tummy within a minute. Most mornings he's on his tummy looking around by the time I get from my bed to his crib in the nursery. Grant's really close to sitting up on his own! For now he can stay up for about 15 seconds before falling to a side or nose-diving to the floor. He's also recently discovered his voice. He loves to screech over and over again! For having such quiet parents, we sure have a noisy little baby! :)

Here are some pictures I took of him yesterday.