4 months already?!

Here is what the little dude has been up to:

• He weighs 14 lbs 15 ounces and is 26 inches long putting him in the 50th percentile for weight and 80th for height
• He is a phenomenal sleeper.  I put him down around 7 and I usually don't see him until 7 (give or take) the next morning!
• Every morning I sing him a good morning song when I get him up.  (good morning to you, good morning to you, good morning dear Joshua good morning to you.  Sung to the tune of happy b-day).  He just loves it.  He gets the biggest smile on his face.  He feels extra special on the weekends when Mommy and Daddy BOTH sing him the song.
• We thinkg the teething process has begun.  No teeth are poking through yet but he is drooling a lot more, his cheeks get red, and he loves chewing on things especially my finger. 
• He is quit the cuddle bug which I just love!
• Comments we hear a lot are: 1) he looks just likes his daddy 2) look at all that hair.  3) It looks like he got a little crew cut 4) he is going to be a football player (Daddy LOVES this comment) 5) He looks so curious
• He no longer takes a pacifier.  Around 10 or 11 weeks he just decided he did like it anymore.  He would get so mad when we would try to give it to him. 
• He is officially a left handed thumb sucker and I think is the cutest thing EVER!
• He is laughing!!!  It is funny because what makes him laugh one day makes him just stare at you like you are crazy the next.  He laughs at really random things and most of the time we aren't trying to make him laugh.  It sure is the best sound!
• He has been more interested in Aspen watching her walk around.  The feeling is mutual as Aspen has started to sniff him a little more and lay by him on his blanket.  Before she would just walk away when I would tell her "gentle" or "no lick"
• He enjoys being read to.  I try to read to him once a day.  It really holds his attention and he really studies the pictures.
• He likes to look at himself in the mirror.  When I put him in front a mirror he usually smiles at himself.
• He is the most kissable thing!  He must get at least 500 kisses a day from us. 

Sometimes when he is napping I think about life before him and how the baby we use to imagine is really here.  It seems so surreal sometimes.  I just can not believe he is mine!  He has turned our world upside down for the better.  He has stolen our hearts that is for sure!

And here are some pictures from the past month

 We call this his melatonin smile.  He was trying so hard to stay awake on our walk.  Doesn't he look loopy?
 

 When he sucks his thumb instead of curling his fingers he puts them over his face.
 

What a big boy!

 

 Yum, tasty hand!  May I have another?
 

 On our way to our first MOPs meeting. 
 

 All bundled up for a morning walk.

Tummy time.

 Doing one of his favorite things...playing with his tongue.  Sometimes he tries to grab his tongue with his pointer finger and thumb.

"Okay, I'm all ready to eat now."  Not really.  I just cleaned up his booster seat and thought we would put him in there for fun. 
 

 He loves grabbing this rattle!  He tries to pull it into his mouth.
 

Some day we will have a family portrait where he is smiling and looking at the camera.  Papa tried really hard to get him to do those two things.  He gets an A for effort.