Baby Ben is 4 Months Old

We are just loving our squishy little Baby Ben.  He is a sweet little snuggler and loves to be together.  Baby Ben loves to have faces all around him and is so sad if we leave him alone.  He especially loves his big sis, who can make him smile and giggle faster than anyone else.  Holly is an all-star to Baby Ben.

These days Ben mostly wants to be walking around with Mom, but he also enjoys rolling back and forth on a blanket and playing with his favorite toy, which happens to be a crinkly fairy.  Sorry about that, Baby Ben.  We vary up the activities with the Bumbo, the exersaucer, the bouncy seat, and tummy time on the floor.

A couple months ago, Ben had figured out that the secret to happiness is sleeping for 8 straight hours at night, and I sang his praises daily (while he took 3-hour naps).  Sadly, his sleeping habits have changed big time, and he even beats out Baby Holly for worst sleeper ever at this age.  Baby Ben takes 3 thirty-minute naps during the the day, and rarely sleeps for longer than 2 hours at a time during the night.  (Holly took 3 forty-minute naps every day at this age and woke up every 3 hours at night.)

Ben loves to take baths and when I first lay him down in the water, his eyes get wide and he always looks like he's going to cry, but then he smiles.  Here was my attempt to record him at bath time, but I had a little too much help:

At his 4-month checkup, Ben was 26 inches long (87th percentile) and 14 lbs, 14 ounces (44th percentile for weight) and his head was in the 10th percentile for circumference.

Whenever Ben is doing something so cute and fun, I try to stop a take a video, but by then he stops doing it as much.  But here is one I took recently, anyway.  When Ben sees Holly jump on the bed, he starts giggling (although you don't see much of it here).