4 Months

Beckham Brooks,

You are now 4 months old! Wow, how the time flies! I can't even begin to describe how much fun you are these days. You laugh, giggle, smile more and more everyday. You're still working on the whole sleep training thing. Some nights are definitely better than others, but that's expected. You love to stand on our laps and just look around. You seem so curious about everything, which I love! We tried giving you some cereal, but that didn't seem to sit well with your sensitive tummy. So, we're going to hold off on that for a couple more weeks. But I have to admit, watching you try out some oatmeal and banana cereal was one of the funniest things you've done to date. You weren't quite sure what to make of it and kept looking at me like "why are you doing this to me?"
One of your favorite things to do these days is to be on your tummy and work on your scooting skills. You can tell that you want move so bad. Each day, you get better and better. I'm sure you'll be scooting around in no time. You also love to sit in your bumbo on the kitchen island. You just sit there and watch your dad and I cook, wrap presents, make a bottle, etc.. Like I said earlier, I love how curious you are.


I know one of your dad's favorite activities is to play superman with you. You absolutely love it! You giggle and laugh so hard..it's so darn cute. You've also become quite the snuggle bunny. One of my favorite things is when you snuggle your head into my neck and have your arms around my shoulders. You love to just lay on me and hang out. I hope that sticks around forever!!!! Well, you may not want to snuggle so much when you hit your teen years, but I can be hopeful!

It's amazing to me that you've grown so much in the last month. It's like one morning, I woke up and you looked so different. You seemed more lean and definitely longer! When we were at the doctor this week, she thought you may end up being 5'10! We were shocked, considering your dad and I aren't tall people. You must have some Woodward in ya somehwere. I have loved every single moment with you. That of course, includes the sleepless nights and the fussy times.


I cannot wait to see what you do next! Next week is your first Christmas, I'm very excited to see what you think of wrapping paper and the family activities. You'll experience your first Hummel Christmas Eve party. Hope you're ready, there's going to be lots of people that will want to play with you and hold you! This exact time last year, is when we found out you were growing in my belly! It was the best Christmas gift I've ever had.


So, here we go into the month 5! Keep the fun coming! xoxo
We love you, Beckham Brooks

He wants to move!

Here is a video of Becks starting to move! He actually starts to scoot a little.. we couldn't believe! Please be patient as it takes our little performer to warm up. Also, excuse the videographer, it was taken on Brian's iphone. Looks like Becks is gonna be mobile before too long...Watch out!

Sweet face

I love this picture of Beck. He loves to snuggle and has such a sweet face...love him to pieces!

CIO

Day 1

For those of you who don't know, CIO = Cry It Out. This is our method for sleep training Beck. Last night was our first day of this. He did so good! Last night we gave him a bottle, bath, book and bed. Mother's call it the 4 B's. Beck went down between 7 and 730. He only cried for about 10 minutes, which is great! I gave him a "dream feeding" at 10:15pm and he didn't even wake up when I was burping him. I was shocked! (Dream feeding is when you pick your baby up out of the crib without waking him, feed him, burp him and put him back to bed) He slept great the whole night! At about 4 am and 5 am, I had to go put his paci in and then he slept til 715 am this morning! I was so proud of him!! I'm hoping this keeps up and he transitions easily into his new routine.

Night #2 here we go (ding, ding)

Hands

Beck seems to have big hands and we can't quite figure out what side of the family they came from. What do you think? Any resemblance? I love these pictures... definitely framers!


Beckham absolutely loves Uncle EE (Brian's brother, Ian). None of us could get Becks to calm down and go to sleep except one person... EE! Beck always smiles whenever EE is around, it's so cute! (I love how Beckham is looking at him in this pic)