4 1/2 months

Dane playing in his Baby Einstein Jumper. He is not quite sure how to jump though.

Dane as a Persian Prince

Dane is growing like a weed and changing every day. This week he discovered he can squeal and that he has feet. Instead of talking he just squeeks and squeals all the time. He has also started to eat cereal on a regular basis. I would say he pretty much has the eating thing down now. Somehow in the process of learning to eat he forgot how to sleep. This has been an extremely rough month. For the longest he was sleeping around 10 hours and only getting up one time but those days are long gone. Now we get up between 3 and 5 times a night. It is so strange because he is not eating but once or twice but for some reason he wakes up several times. I think he is teething because he is constantly chewing on his fist, your fist, his bib, his burp cloth or basically anything he can. I can't imagine that this is the only reason for his poor sleeping habits though because this is like the 3rd week of it. I am so thankful that I have such a wonderful and loving husband who gets up with him in the morning sometimes to let me catch up on some sleep. Besides the lack of sleep we are having a blast. He is always laughing and smiling. I just can't seem to get enough of it. Today we went on a walk and played pretty much the whole day. It is really rough being a stay at home mom sometimes :)


This is Dane with his crazy Uncle Mike.