Joel is 4 months old

oh my! Our little baby boy is 4 months old today.
He was Baptized on Sunday April 19th in the same Christening gown that my sister and I wore and in the same church...it was lovely!

Joel has come so far. He is eating solids like a champ. He's been on them for a few weeks now. So far, rice cereal, oatmeal, barley (tried it once, seemed to really make his spit up) sweet potatoes, applesauce, bananas, peas, green beans, peaches, prunes (once to help his stool) just tried pears this weekend (on his first camping trip to the beach which he did AWESOME at) and squash tonight. He still needs to try carrots. I make most of his foods and freeze them.

He is doing really well on his tummy, really holding his head/chest up now.,,he still doesn't really like it, but tolerates it more. He doesn't seem to have any interest in rolling over, but wants to sit up and can sit up by himself impressively well (he will topple to the side or throw himself back, but wants to be sitting (if not standing, his favorite position) if he is lying on your lap of leaning back in his high chair he tries so hard to get himself pulled up to sitting, lol! He is so cute with all his sounds he is making too, lots of babbling!

I just love our little guy so much!!

We are still waiting on the Bfather's TPR, arrhh! I can't believe there is only a few more days left of April and things are still on the balance. When we think about it it makes us so nervous and we are just so anxious to get word. We pray to GOD that things are said and done any day now.

Happy 4 month birthday our little man! We love you so much!!

He has his 4 month well check with Karen (NP) on Wednesday evening. We weighed and measured him at home recently and got 16 for HC, 14.8 for weight and 24 (last time we checked) for height. So we'll see how that compares.

I'll post his ht, wt, hc and percentiles after his appt.

A few more thing, we've given him a sippy to experiment with, water and a tad of Motts for Tots juice which is already watered down juice and the other day he learned how to drink from it perfectly without spilling (Avent magic cup) he can even hold onto the handles and do it himself getting 1-2 oz at a time.
He officially moved into the size 2 diapers this weekend, the ones were like little bikinis on him and he peed out the side of one onto my shirt yesterday, lol!
He really enjoys his exersaucer and walker, is holding onto toys and putting them into his mouth, sucking his thumb, loves his soft animal blankies and his baths.

Bye!