Oscar is 4 Months Old

Good Evening, Everyone! :)

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Hope you are all good. What a month it's been. I say that...I think everything has kind of settled down on the baby front and not much has really happened.
Oscars routine has changed a bit though and little changes come every day, I'm just always there with him when they happen, that they don't really seem that big to me at the time. Only looking back, it's when I see how much he has changes over the past month. This is why I'm so grateful to MYSELF, yes myself, that I have been keeping up with these monthly updates. I just can't see myself remembering all the little things unless I write them down, which I do. I think it's so important to remember all of his firsts. It's not the exact date I need to know though, I think knowing the month of when something happened is just as good.
I started thinking about it the other day actually. Would I care if there was a clay mould of my feet and hands from when I was little ???? No. Would I care if I didn't know when I started turning over or when I first had my spoon full of solid food? No.
To be honest I just love those moment my dad caught on camera when I was dancing away, listening to MTV when I was about 2 years old. That memory of when we went for a picnic by the river when I was about 5. That moment when we first saw our new apartment, the video shows me and my sister running from one end of the room to the other....it seemed so big (the apartment was quite tiny).
I just think capturing every moment is completely unnecessary, it's the memories that we make ourselves, that are important.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is, that with our first children I think it's so easy to get carried away with trying to capture every moment in their lives on camera or picture, rather than just enjoying the moment there and then.
Here are the memories I've made about Oscar this month though. I might have missed a few and I might make a big deal about something trivial, but that's ok, because I know that in the end I will always have this blog to come back to and read through all these first months of him, that I have probably forgotten about in a few years time :)
Hope you enjoy the post, as much as I've enjoyed another month with my little guy :)

Joggers and top from Tesco. The hat is from a set from h&m :) And dribble bib is Lovijoy...I got a set of 5 with different design for 10.95 :)

EAT

He still eats every 3 hours during the day, but I can see that he will be able to last longer quite soon, as he doesn't really get upset before I feed him...unless I've faffed about for too long :D 

A major change in his diet is that I am now giving him 2 scoops of baby rice before he goes to bed. The first night I did it, he slept for a whole 8 hours then woke up for a feed at 4AM and didn't wake until 7. I didn't want to get too excited about the 1 feed a night thing as he has done it once before. It was quite cool though, and even though the next night he only lasted 6 hours, it's still better than feeding him 3 times a night :)

Yesterday he actually only woke up once for food. I did try to give him some at 6 AM, but he was just being fussy rather than hungry, so after settling him and taking him next to me, he slept for another 2 and a half hours :)

I did think about starting him on solids slowly after he turned 4 months old, but I will probably wait for a little longer and probably start around Christmas time with a spoonful on mashed sweet potato or carrot or smth :)

PLAY

He now has a jumperoo, which he loves. He goes all crazy on it :D he is still a bit too short for it though, as we have to put a pillow under his feet. But I can see him reaching the floor all by himself in a short time. I took apart the swing that we had because he wasn't really interested in it. He still likes the rattle/crinkle/vibration toys and enjoys chewing on all of the toys he has :D

I turn around for a second and his wiggled himself sideways on the mat and is acting like nothings happened. Good thing I didn't look away for too long as I would've probably found him under the Christmas tree :D

SLEEP

He has a 30 minute nap after being awake for 2 hours all day, except around 2-3 PM when he goes down for a long 2 hour nap...this is when I get things done...bleached the whole bathroom yesterday :D and cleaned the flat and in the process broke our massive coffee/tv table :D 

Like I mentioned before he now sleeps longer during the night and only eats 1-2 times. He does go down earlier as before though around 7.30. This is because he now doesn't have a nap after waking around 5PM after his long lunch time nap. He goes to sleep with little or no fussing after being awake for almost 3 hours.

One of the rare times when he actually looks happy being on his stomach :D 2 minutes later he faceplanted into his mat though and then he wasn't that happy anymore :D

MILESTONES

So last month he started rolling over...he has since become very lazy and pretends he doesn't know how to do it anymore :D But every now and then he proves himself wrong and does indeed roll over...only when he really really wants to though. He is not really happy being on his stomach anyway. 

On the theme of rolling over, he is actually very good at turning himself on his side now and is actually quite happy sleeping on his side for a good couple of hours. I am thinking he will very soon be able to roll on his stomach...I don't think he will like it though, because then he will have to get back on his back :D

He is also very vocal. He can babble away for a long time...it's extremely amusing when he does it at night...:S :D

Another thing that is definitely happening now is teething. The drool and the chewing is non stop :D and his tops get so wet it's unbearable :D he is not a big fan of the dribble bibs though and even if he is ok with me putting them on, most of the time they just end up in his mouth.

Sitting on a high chair like a real boy :) he looked so cute in his big boy outfit. The hat is from Tesco, trousers from Next and denim shirt from Primark.

This is probably everything for this month. 

Almost forgot...he had his last vaccinations yesterday, which means there is no more until he is 1 year old :) On a bad note though, he is now running a fever. I noticed he wasn't really himself when he woke up and didn't really eat. At first I didn't really think much of it, but then he didn't eat a lot at his next feeding as well and felt a bit hot. I took his temperarture and it showed 37.8...I know it's not much, but he is so tiny so there are lots of cuddles and hugs today and not much else :)

I was going to go and meet up with a few friends for some Christmas Market fun, but I don't really want to drag O around when he is not feeling 100%.

Happy 4 month birthday, little monkey :) I baked the biggest cake ever :D 

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xoxo

Morning Routine

Good Afternoon, Everyone!

I thought I'll share my morning routine with you guys. Everyone has their own little routine they do in the morning weather it's snoozing your alarm 8 times or having a poo :D yes I said ''poo''

But here is my routine, it might be a bit different to yours or you might find some similarities :)

This is what the sky looked today just before the sunrise :) So pretty and purple :D

7AM I wake up...ok, I'm being woken up by little hands and feet kicking me and pulling my hair :D I take Oscar next to me around 6 just so I can get another hour of sleep. He sleeps next to me anyway in his co-sleeper, but I take him in our bed for an hour or so because it settles him back for a nice nap.

(On days when D will take him in the morning this is the time I wake him up. Because O wakes up quite happy rather than crying and screaming D won't wake up because of him.)

I change his nappy in the living room.

This is how I've set up the changing ''station'' in the living room. D orders the diapers and wipes online and the delivery came last week, which explains the boxes on the side. The whole chest of drawers is for Oscar...his clothes and medicine and papers and all that jazz.

Oh hello Christmas tree :D yes it's now part of my morning routine to look at the pretty tree...plus it's hard to miss it now because it's the first thing you see when you get to the living room.

We then go to the kitchen and I will make a coffee for myself and prepare Oscars bottle while I hold him and talk him through what I'm doing....I know this might sound a bit silly, but he really enjoys watching and listening to what I'm doing.

I either have costa americano coffee or kenco Colombian...I have my coffee with 2 sugars and a bit of milk :)

While we watch some morning tv and lounge on the sofa I drink my first coffee of the day and once I'm done it's usually time for Oscars feeding.

8AM - I feed Oscar, burp him and then put him down on his playmat. He is then quite happy to entertain himself for a good 30 minutes. 

While he plays I wash his bottles from the night and morning feed and make myself another coffee.

But before I drink it I wash my face and teeth :) I use the Simple kind to skin products. I do have to say though that I don't really like the wash...I know it's soap free and that is the reason, but I like my face washes to be a bit more foamy :D

I only use the cleansing lotion at night when I take off my make up. The toner I use in the morning as well :) And I also have the cream, but I keep forgetting to use it :D

Then I go join O on the floor. I sit on the rug and drink my coffee and play with him until around 9.

9AM - Oscar goes down for his morning nap...this is usually when I have a shower in the morning, but I only have a shower in the morning when I'm going somewhere. Otherwise I have showers before going to bed at night.

Sometimes I only wash my hair in the morning, because my hairdryer is in the bedroom I can't dry my hair at night because O is asleep then and if I don't dry my hair and go to sleep with wet hair I will have an afro in the morning :) true story

10AM - Oscar wakes up and I change his diaper and change him out of his pyjamas...I forgot to mention that O has his poo in the morning around his first feed...either after or during :D

I then put him down on his mat again until I prepare the washed bottles with water and measure out the formula.

We are going to start introducing some solids to him once we get some plastic/rubber cutlery so we have the Hipp organic baby rice there. I opened it just to see what it looks like :D
I also give him his vitamins with his morning feed

Sometimes if he is being good I take him to the bedroom and he will be entertained by our crazy bedroom light until I dry my hair (This is when I've had a shower or when I've just washed my hair)

If not I usually just sit next to him again and have some breakfast...it's usually a yogurt. Or I leave him and put on a bit of make up. If he is having a fussy day I do my make up sitting next to him as well.

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11AM I feed Oscar again and then wash his bottle and fill it up with fresh boiled water.

I've got a bit of an OCD when it comes to dirty dishes in the sink, and I kind of have to do them once the dish count hits 3 or so :D I definitely need them done before I go to bed, because I hate waking up to a sink full of dirty dishes...I wish I had a dishwasher, this way I could just hide them :D

And then morning is over and it's time to do daily things...they obviously depend on the day. If I have nothing planned for the day I go for a walk with Oscar around 12 :) 

Hope you enjoyed reading about my morning routine.

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xoxo