Bran...4 Months

Brannock is 4 months old and all smiles!  A lot of people have started to say Bran looks like his Mommy, but we still think he is a good mix of both of us.

Weight: 15 lb. 6.5 oz.
Height: 25 inches

Sleeping Pattern: Bran has continued the great sleeping pattern.  He consistently sleeps through the night from about 8:30p.m.-6:30 a.m.  By the end of the month we stopped swaddling and instead had him in a wrapsack with his arms out.  This has been very entertaining because now he can wiggle around a lot more at night.  We never know what way Bran will be facing in the crib by the morning!

Feeding Schedule: You eat 6oz. or nurse every 3 hours during the day, with no night feedings.

Bran Likes: Laughing, playing, and cooing.  Being tickled. Bran is becoming very playful. 

Bran Dislikes: Being overly tired (yet he fights naps). He also dislikes being startled (Mommy burped really loud while Bran was eating and he cried hysterically, it was pitiful!)

Changes This Month:

Bran can roll up onto his side now.  He swings his legs around and almost never ends up where he started while playing on his playmat. He loves playing with any toys he can grasp.


Bran can sit up well with support.

Bran laughs hysterically now.  It happened for the first time when the Mayhill's came over for a cookout at the beginning of the month. Mommy was bouncing Bran up and down on her lap and Bran just couldn't get enough.  Bran is such a smiley and happy baby.  He also laughs uncontrollably while being tickled.
 

What We Have Been Up To:
We spent Mother's Day weekend at Lake Norris in TN.  We went with a bunch of Mommy's college friends, their husbands, and kids.  We had five kids two and under in one house.  Bran was the youngest and the only boy. It was our first longer road trip with Bran and he did great.  We only had to stop once both ways and he slept most of the ride.

Happy Mother's Day!

Bran with all of his ladies.

Our little family on Mother's Day.

Boats rock babies to sleep.

Bran really enjoyed watching all the "big" girls play all weekend.  It was Bran's first visit to a lake and he even got to go on his first boat ride! Bran and Daddy got Mommy the perfect Mother's Day gifts, a necklace with Bran's birth stone and a very sweet picture, poem, and figurine to display.

Mommy went back to work after 16 weeks at home with Bran.  Mommy did better than expected and only cried once after she dropped Bran off the first day. Mom is working 2-3 days a week and Bran is at an in home daycare.  He has a 4 and 6 year old girl to play with that love all over him all day.  They love to share their my little ponys and he has been known to come home with the occasional glitter on his head.

We spent Memorial Day in Sardis at Grandma Lude's house.  Bran got to meet all of his great Aunts and Uncles.  He also got to meet his second cousin Zane for the first time.  They look and act a lot alike, although I think Bran takes the award for biggest ham and wiggle worm.

Bran also had a visit from Peg (all the way from Asheville) this month.  She brought a custom measuring board with Bran's name that we'll be able to keep track of our growing boy on (Thanks Peg, Mark, and Jackie!).

Photo Ops:

Go Cavs!

Bran's Baby Mullet

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