Dear Mateo Benjamin,
What a month this has been for all of us. You are four months old now and your Grandma Suzi has started watching you during the days as I have gone back to work. I started back on April 22nd and it took Grandma a couple of weeks to follow your schedule. She just wanted to play with you a lot!!
You are still on a 3-hr schedule with 3 naps a day and the biggest news here is that you are no longer being swaddled. You graduated to the sleep sack and are very happy with it. You don’t squirm too much when we zip it up to close you in, but we suspect that will change in the near future.
While your daddy and I are getting ready for work each morning, you sit in your swing/rocker and look around at the fish hanging above your head. This month you are finally able to grab the fish and pull hard enough to turn on the music. You still haven’t noticed the blinking lights to the music yet.
During other wake/play times you have figured out how to kick the bumble bee hanging overhead in your floor gym and make music there too. You so love that bumble bee!! I wonder for how much longer this will entertain you. By the way, you are great at entertaining yourself and it is a joy to watch you do your little baby thing!
This month you also said your second ‘word’. It was “yeah”. Okay, again you just made the right kind of sounds to make us think you said an actual word. We’re still wondering what your first word will be. On that note, you “talk” all the time and we have the most wonderful conversations. I’m convinced you are spilling all your secrets and describing your naptime dreams. Your babbling is so adorable and just makes our hearts swell. You squeal with delight but aren’t quite giggling/laughing yet. We think you’re getting close though.
Other tidbits about you ~
You’re getting closer to rolling over from all the movement you do. You did a whole lap around the floor gym while on your back. Your legs rarely stop moving…that’s got to be some kind of sign of things to come!
You’re gumming your fingers a lot and drooling bunches. The drooling gets worse before it gets better. You also like to stick out the tip of your tongue a lot. It’s so cute and we finally got a picture of it too!
Story time before bed is a nice time for all of us. You are so relaxed and quiet. Sometimes I let you have the pacifier and you just hang out – we read and you chew on the pacifier. I think you’re looking at the pictures. You might just be enjoying our voices and tones.
We celebrated Mother’s Day this month with Grandma Suzi. Your Abuelo Guillermo and Abuela Rosalba were here too. We went to breakfast and you fell asleep while we ate. You had many of the other patrons checking you out.
It is so fun to watch you sleep. Daddy and I come in to check on you before we go to bed each night. I love to look at you and your Daddy is fascinated with your breathing while you sleep. What a sweetheart you are!!
We love you tons,
Mommy and Daddy
“About Benjamin he said, "Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders." – Deuteronomy 33:12
Third Month
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