The West Side Story: Tucker: Four Months

Tucker,

You have turned into such a little baby instead of a tiny infant. I guess that will make more sense once you have your own kids, but for now (unless you do have your own kid by the time you read this) just trust me. You have turned into such a giggle box though. You love to laugh so much! Especially when your brother is around. You absolutely adore your brother. I hope you two continue to be the best of friends as you grow up and always take care of each other. When you start to smile, you have this little Elvis smile you do and only smile with half your mouth. It makes you just that much cuter. Even when Trenton cries, you start crying too. You have the most adorable little pouty face :) Luckily you don't cry that often and are a very happy baby for the most part.

Even though I tried so hard to avoid it, you are a finger chewer/sucker. Only occasionally we will find you actually sucking on your fingers, mostly you just chew on them; especially your thumb. Trenton doesn't like it when you have your fingers in your mouth though and always pulls them out for you. I guess he is teaching you?

You have rolled over a few more times and try so hard! You will be doing it all the time pretty soon. Rolling to your side is no big deal now. Also, you are about to move up into 6-9 month clothes. It is so hard for me to wrap my head around this because Trenton wasn't wearing that size until he was 11 months old and almost walking. You aren't even sitting up yet! You are our big boy :)

You had your first real big sickness this month :( You were diagnosed with a bad case of bronchiolitis again but I think it sounded more like RSV. We almost had to admit you to the hospital because your oxygen level was at 94%. Luckily the steroids worked for you once we exhausted all the other options. Then once you started getting better from that, you got a low grade fever for a couple days and were fussy and cranky, crying a lot. So now I'm pretty sure you are getting a tooth soon. You've been teething for awhile now, but we can feel a pretty big bump on your gums now. You also got a full body rash all over your head and stomach, I'm guessing that is from teething as well. I bought you an amber necklace so I'm hoping you are not sensitive to amber and it will help with the pain. You haven't been sleeping very well either so I, personally, really hope that gets fixed soon. Mommy is tired!

You are loving all the "big brothers" you get at our new job too. The other day Daddy had to leave so I was by myself with all the guys and you and Trenton. I needed to go outside but it was snowing so I asked the guys if someone wanted to hold you and they all jumped up excited to hold you. We didn't really think any of them wanted to hold you so it was a huge surprise. The one that got to hold you was so sweet with you too. I guess we will have to let them hold you more often :)

One thing I love about you is that you are so relaxed and carefree. You don't really care whats going on and are very "go with the flow". We love it compared to your crazy brother :) You also love kisses and laugh every time Daddy or I kiss you. Which we love that as well. And it is a good thing since Trenton still loves to kiss you every chance he gets.

I am excited to see you continue to grow and become your own little person. You are such a joy :)

I love you Tucker

Your first Valentine's Day!

And your first snow day! You are my cute little teddy bear who could really care less that I set you in a pile of snow. Besides, you were practically sweating in that little suit of yours