4 months, Part Deux

We finally had Aidan's 4m doctor visit today.  Just when I thought I'd met everyone in the practice, a complete stranger walks in.  We continue to have no preference whatsoever for one doctor over another.  I liked Dr. Brogan and Dr. Finch just fine.  My husband likes Dr. Mahmud a lot.  Aidan seems to have a crush on Dr. Vitelli.  And today we had the CRNP, Gail, and she seems good too.  It's nice not to have to stress over who we'll be getting.

I digress.

The really important stuff, of course, would be the stats. 
13lb 7oz - 25th Percentile
23.5" tall - 10th-15th Percentile
16" head - 10th-25th Percentile

So we don't have a huge kid.  We knew this.  His weight is holding nice and steady on the 25% line, and that's what we keep an anxious eye on while I stubbornly refuse to give him formula or solids.  But I mean, come on.  He's hardly wasting away..

Onward...

Aidan's eczema is getting worse.  We found a great cream that  has cleared up his face a lot, and we're going to have to start using it all over his little body.  I didn't realize how bad it was until one of his leg folds cracked open during the exam and he started bleeding.  He cried, my heart broke, fun was had by nobody.

Their belief is that it's likely due to a food, and it's likely soy.  I have been keeping it out of my diet for the most part, but I should probably do a bit better to avoid the small amounts that are in most things.  We could have him allergy tested, but since cutting back on soy reduces the reaction, we're fairly sure that's what we're looking at, so there's really no reason to do the testing at the moment.

On the positive side, he is right on target developmentally and he consistently amazes people with how expressive he is.  The doctor said she rarely saw such an animated face on a kid his age.

Happy Mother's Day!

To celebrate my first Mothers Day as an outside baby's mama, I took my little one to the Zoo.  We are fortunate enough to have a small neighborhood zoo in our backyard, which is a lot less daunting (and a lot less expensive!) than planning a trip to the Phila. Zoo.

Aidan donned his Zoo finest:

Including the hat that his great grandpa gave him before he was even born!

We even brought along Aidan's lady love, Auntie Megan:

It has occurred to us that our wild, ferocious cat may have let himself go a bit when we saw his Puma cousin at the zoo.

Puma:

Stormers:

We've got a roller!

This is the face of a little boy who just ROLLED OVER! April 22, 2011.  You were 15 weeks and 4 days old :)

Mommy is so, so proud.  We were visiting Mommy's friend Jenn, and mommy put you on the floor for some often-forgotten tummy time.  As I was saying that you never even TRY to roll over, YOU DID IT!  Just to show mommy that you could :)

You have since repeated this trick for mommy and daddy and all of your Wednesday night friends!