4 month check up and other updates from this week

Max's 4 month update was Thursday (not Friday as previously blogged) and here's the stats: 17 lbs. 15 oz. for weight (95th percentile), and 26 3/4" tall (95th percentile)!!! As the doctor said "He's a big boy!" but healthy and happy - we are blessed! He is such a cute, I can't stand it! His sunburned cheeks are doing better, but are still rosy as can be, which makes him even cuter when he smiles! He's such a social little man and loves to talk talk talk! And as soon as he catches you looking at him, he throws the biggest smile your way that just melts your heart! He is getting stronger everyday too, even though he doesn't like to eat from the bottle during the day, he's making up for it at night and still isn't sleeping through the night. His strength, though is helping him sit up in the "entertainment center" and bumbo chair, which gives him a few more choices of perspective when awake now. He also hates to have blankets on his feet, and loves to play with the hanging toys with his toes. He's rolling from side to side, but not all the way over yet. I'm sure that will happen any day now. Tummy time isn't Max's favorite thing in the world, but we are working on it. He is still teething and likes to suck the two middle fingers on his right hand, and has started to suck his thumb on his left hand! He knows his hands, likes to touch his ears, and also play with the little bits of hair he has on the sides of his head. He really is an angel baby and I can't help but adore him!
This past week was a little rough. Karmann woke up Thursday night with a high fever. It was a 24 hour thing that luckily only included a fever and no other symptoms. She recovered fast and was back to normal by the weekend. Her thing lately has been "tomorrow mommy, I'll ___ tomorrow." It could be anything from giving me a hug or kiss good bye, to taking a shower, to going potty. Her latest saga with potty training, though is her saying "I never want to go pee pee or potty EVER AGAIN!" Its difficult to explain that that can't really happen, but she has it in her mind that it could! Its getting a little better, though. This past week she did go poop twice in the potty for us! However, I can't forget to mention that Friday when she was home sick, I came home in the morning before lunch so that Kris could attend a meeting, and Karmann was playing in my red shoes that I had worn to work. I had just been trying to get her to go potty, as she was doing the pee pee dance, and of course she refused. As soon as I turned around to go sit down, she announces that she indeed IS going potty - right through her clothes and directly into my shoe!!! After we went to the potty and got her clean clothes, I went to clean up the puddle, and she realized that she peed in the shoe, and she said "Mommy, I am sorry I peed in your RED shoe!" She figured it out that with the pee, she would not be able to play in them any more. Her other favorite saying is "I promise". This too is a procrastination strategy that she also uses when she doesn't want to go. She says she promises not to go in her pants or promises she'll tell me later. She's smart and she is currently getting away with it!

 Max's rosy cheeks from Spring Training games

 Daddy's home this week - his students are on Spring Break!

 Daddy got the entertainment center down from the attic - Max is a happy Boy!

Karmann being silly!

Well, I promised photos this time, so I am going to stop now and hope to get a few uploaded before I head to the kitchen to clean and then to bed. Daylight savings was this weekend...not looking forward to the consequences.