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Four months old!!!

Weight: 14.3

Height:25 inches

Loves: his mommy 🙂 His sisters and his daddy too!! Also, his monkey and his sophie giraffe. Still loves to be held and prefers this to any seat, stroller or bouncer 🙂

Dislikes, being put down and going to sleep

Sleeps…… NOPE! We have had the worst month of sleep yet! I’m pretty sure that he slept better when he was a newborn. He wants to be held all through the night and the minute I put him down his eyes pop open and he screams.

Other than the “no sleep issue”, we’ve had a great month! He is learning and doing so much!! He bats at his toys in his gym, he brings toys to his mouth. He is constantly smiling and cooing. He’s still trying to roll over but hasn’t quite mastered that yet. He can lift himself up when on his tummy but isn’t a big fan of tummy time. He entertains himself for a little while when he’s on his mat or in his exersaucer. He chews on his hands constantly but doesn’t seem to have any pain there.

He looks like a good sleeper but trust me, he’s not. Mama is exhausted and most nights I don’t get more than 2 hours of sleep and it’s completely broken up.

He really is a happy baby 🙂

Always chewing on his hands

Love’s all his toys!

He’s quite the little selfie taker

He’s a big fan of sweet potatoes!! His first time eating them was so cute! I never saw a baby more excited to try their first food. He would open his mouth for more every time the spoon came near him. He was all smiles!

That picture just cracks me up. Ha!

Oh Beckett, you are a complete joy!!! Everyone in the house rushes home to see you every day. You’re never put down because there is always someone wanting to hold you and love you up. You’ll probably never sleep through the night but that’s okay. We love you anyways!

Winter has finally arrived in the Northeast

   
 
The kids had Friday off from school and are home again today. 

  
Beckett is the seriously the happiest baby!! 

   
   
Jon and I (Beckett too) took Lucy to a birthday party on Saturday. Lucy did a great job skating around with Jon but the poor little thing was so sore all day yesterday. During the party Megan and Chloe went to the mall together. I have to say that I LOVE when these two do mall trips together because they have the funniest stories to tell me when I pick them up. They laugh the entire time!! Half the time they laugh through their stories they’re trying to tell me. It’s seriously the best!! 

   
 
  
 
We spent yesterday at the car dealership. 

  
It’s time for me to go back to the minivan. I never really liked the SUV. I never had the room I needed in it. I still have two car seats and it was such a pain getting the big girls in the backseat. Driving a van actually makes me feel younger. LOL Probably because I bought my first one at 25 and have always had little kids in it. Hey, I’m turning 40 this summer so I’ll take what I can get! 😉 

  
The Super Bowl was last night and it was the most boring game of all time!! Lucy was a little upset that the Patriots didn’t make it.

  
And of course a Sunday around here isn’t complete without donuts!! 

  
This picture is hard to make out but it’s of Lucy and Carleigh playing in the snow. It was SO cute to me watching these two little girls play outside that day. Makes me so thankful that she has a bff who lives across the street.

   
 
Emma is back at school after having an entire month off for Christmas break. We loved having her home!! She got really attached to Beck and I think leaving him was hard on her. 

  
I love being able to spend time with Kirsten and her sweet little Gioia. It’s been so much fun having babies together again!! 

   
Sometimes the light is just right and you’re daughter looks so pretty that you just HAVE to take a picture

  
And sometimes they look so cute and you know that you’re going to miss them while they’re at school all day

  
  
We were pretty bummed out about the Patriots losing last week

  
I think Beckett looks just like Jon in this picture! 

  
Chloe was showing Jon some yoga moves

   
 
We’ve also been loving spending time with Aislinn and her family. Babies, babies everywhere in my life again!! Love it! Alison came up to visit last week, I wish I would’ve gotten a picture of her and Beckett. She’s ready to pop at any minute too!! Looking forward to that call.  

    
  
  
When Lucy was little she used to play with this little girl named Kiersten. It’s been a few years since they’ve gotten together but they rekindled their friendship this year once they started riding on the bus together. Her mom snapped this picture the other day. 

   
 
That’s them when they were little

   
Megan taking care of Beckett when I was sick last week. I wish I would’ve gotten a picture of Chloe too. She was in the kitchen making dinner for everyone. I’ve been blessed with the best girls! 

  
My parents came up to help out with Beckett so I could get some more rest last week. 

Unfortunately, I wasn’t the only one to get sick

  
Poor Lucy caught it too! She was sick with a high fever for 4 days. 

She started to feel better yesterday so we took a walk to get Chloe from the bus. The weather has been awesome this winter (knock on wood)!! Yesterday was in the 50’s

   
 
So that’s been life lately 🙂 

Of course there are about 400 pictures of Beckett on this camera roll but I’ll post them next week along with his 4 month stats. I can’t believe he’s going to be 4 months already!!

Beckett is going through his 4 month sleep regression. Some people call it the wonder weeks or leap weeks. Whatever it’s called it just sucks. I am TIRED, SO TIRED. 

I came upstairs with him at 7:30 last night. I nursed him to sleep and went back down so I could tuck Lucy in. I miss tucking her in. It’s been Jon’s job lately since Beckett is pretty demanding at night. After I tucked her in, said good night to Chloe and Megan I quietly crawled back into bed. Beckett was fast asleep in his bassinet. Until my eyes finally closed. It’s like an automatic button. Mine close, his open. So I scooped him up and tried putting him back to sleep. Every time I would put him down his eyes would open and he would cry. This went on until 2:45am. By that point I just needed some sleep so I stumbled to his room and placed him in his crib. I made my way back to bed and looked over at the monitor and saw him staring at me  

 
Like “are you kidding me?” “Do you think this is going to work?” “I’m just going to sit here and stare at you until you come get me” “you’re so foolish, mama” ” I know it’s working, you’re feeling guilty” Then he pooped and I knew I couldn’t leave him in a messy diaper so I walked back in his room and as soon as he saw me he gave me the biggest smile. I felt like he was mocking me. So I didn’t make eye contact. I mistakenly made eye contact during the diaper change and he gave me another big smile. Oh man! This kid knew exactly what he was doing. Little stinker. So I scooped him back up, kissed his little face, nursed him and rocked him back to sleep. As soon as he was in a deep slumber I ever so gently placed him back in his crib and his eyes popped open and again he gave me the biggest smile. So once again I scooped him up, took him back to my bed and decided that co-sleeping would be our thing. 

   
    
   
Lucky little guy 

Just a few pictures from Megan’s semi

Megan had a few friends over before the dance to get ready

And just because

He would make the cutest date ever!!

Makes me want to get dressed up and go somewhere fun!!

Wow! Time sure is flying by now!! I can’t believe this little boy is already 3 months old. December was such a busy month for us and looking back at the beginning it’s obvious how much he’s already changed!!

Weight: Beckett didn’t have a dr’s appointment this month so I’m going by our bathroom scale and he’s a whopping 13 pounds. (Skinny little thing).

Loves: He still loves to be held and walked around. We spent the month dancing around to Christmas music, which he loved too.

Dislikes: the car seat. This boy will scream his little head off without giving in. He hasn’t been too crazy about taking walks in the stroller lately and I think it’s because he would rather be held.

Sleeps: He must be going through some sort of growth spurt because he won’t sleep more than 4 hours at a time right now. It’s been a rough couple of weeks. He takes little cat naps throughout the day.

He’s been talking up a storm lately. It’s so cute to watch him test out his voice. He moves his tongue in different shapes to make different sounds, gets louder and softer. I’ve been giving raspberries to him and when I do he sticks his tongue out too. I think it’s only a matter of weeks before he’s giving them right back to me. He’s still drooling a lot and sticking his hands in his mouth. He’s trying to roll from his back to his tummy and almost made it all the way over the other day. He will lay under his play mat for about 20-30 minutes at a time listening to the music and watching the lights.  He’s noticing the dog more lately and turning his head whenever someone calls his name. Just this morning he grabbed on to his toes when I was changing his diaper. I can’t wait to see what this next month brings 🙂

A month of pictures:

sleep baby

funny face

selfie time

bumbo shots

christening

happy baby

sad baby

sweetest baby

New Year baby

I love you, baby!!!! Happy 3 months!

Marlene gave us tickets to go see Annie in Providence for Christmas. This is most always a mommy date (Jon joined in once to see Elf) but this year I couldn’t leave Beckett so all four tickets went straight to the girls. Jon and I dropped the girls off at the PPAC and headed straight to East Providence to our favorite little Middle Eastern sandwich shop. Beckett loved it:

  
Look at that excited little face!! Jon and I hadn’t been in that area since before we moved. It was EXACTLY the same!! I joked that we should stop and get Beckett his first pair of Dr. Martens while we were there and sure enough the shoe store on the corner was still open and the boots were still in the window. We even stopped to take a selfie in front of our first date spot, Andrea’s:

  
We were entertained with selfies that the girls sent to us before the play started 

   
  
I loved the fact that they all got to enjoy this together. It was their first official sister date. How lucky are they that have each other?? Life long bff’s. 

We celebrated my dad’s 70th birthday this week. It was great getting everyone together

Ashlynn finally got to meet Beckett

  
All of the grandchildren (9) singing happy birthday

   
 
Seems like every time I take a picture of the grandchildren there is another one added. This years photo

 

With Mimi and Baba

  
And a big family photo (minus Andrea)

  
Happy Birthday, Dad!! We all love you so much and are so thankful for you.