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Father's Day

We celebrated our first Father's Day. You can read about it here.

4 month checkup

Dawson got his 4 month checkup at the Doctor's office today. The Dr. told us just what we expected, that Dawson is doing great. We did talk about our two concerns: 1) his constant spitting up and 2) his flattening head.
1) If Dawson didn't spit up, he might be the easiest baby in the world. The Dr. put him on some medicine to counter the acid-reflux causing the spit up. But it's really just a convenience for us (less changing of clothes for all of us) because the spitting up isn't hurting Dawson and he's still growing fine.
2) We've gotta get Dawson more tummy time and get him to sleep on his right side, neither of which he really likes. The flatness should go away in a few years and it's nothing to worry about yet but we've gotta address it.

Dawson is 26 inches, which puts him in the 90th percentile for height and 14.5 lbs, which is the 50th percentile for weight.

Oh yeah, he also got his 4 month shots. While he didn't cry a lot at the time of the shots, he's been fussy all day because of the soreness.

Rolling Over

Ignoring his cries of protest, we've been giving Dawson some extended "tummy time" the past couple weeks. This morning at 6:30, Erin came into the bedroom very excited that the tummy time has paid off; Dawson rolled over from his belly to his back 5 times in a row! He'd been rolling over partway but never all the way over without any help.

Around 9:30 I put him on his belly hoping to see the same thing and all he did was cry in protest. After I picked him up, he screamed for about another half hour. So I guess I'll have to wait to see it for myself...

Three Months

Our little boy at three months...
-chews on his tongue when he is happy
-weighs 15 pounds
-looks really long
-tries to converse in his baby language of cooing and squawking when we talk to him
-kicks his feet when excited
-puts everything in his mouth
-holds tight to his burp cloths and Mommy's clothes
-grabs for toys like rattles
-loves to be on the floor under his octopus garden
-sits in his Bumbo chair
-is starting to like tummy time a bit more
-smiles and jabbers a lot when Mommy or Daddy come around
-relaxes when Mommy sings or sways with him in her arms
-likes to hear you say, "ACHOO" after he sneezes (he giggles)
-is spitting up a lot after he eats
-sleeps for 8-9 hours straight at night!!!
-naps for 2-3 hour stretches during the day
-eats 5 and 1/2 ounces of formula per feeding
-uses his binky less
-visited Grammie and Papa's farm in Iowa for the first time

A Twist of Fate

Dawson's Daddy figured out an interesting tidbit that would have made our family quite diffr=erent from now. Read more here: A Twist of Fate

Smiling Boy

Within the past few weeks or so, Dawson has begun interacting with us a lot more. It happens during the 3 or 4 times per day in which he's wide awake. Last week, I was sitting next to him on the coach reading to him from a book about preaching and he just started busting up laughing. I don't know what was so funny about the book but he loved it. Then I started making a funny noise and hitting my forehead with the book and he was cracking up like crazy. It was one of the best moments as a dad so far.

A couple posts down are some pictures of Dawson smiling. Here are some videos of him laughing. It's hard to get him to coo in cue. I had another video with some good and loud coos but for some reason, I'm having trouble uploading it to Youtube.






He's also doing this thing when he gets so overwhelmed by everything going on around him that he can't decide which way to look, so he turns his head back and forth, trying to get it all in.