The Picker Family: Jace ~ 4 Months

We have got a happy, healthy, chatty, bouncing baby boy on our hands! He had a great first Christmas and was a trooper through all of the shuffling around and busyness of our celebrations.

We've survived our first month as a family with mom back to work and Jace starting daycare with Papa and Gma Beckmann four days a week. I'd say most days we even thrived! I'd pick Jace up from Papa and Gma's to hear Gma report "He had a great day!" Mom's adjustment had it's ups and downs, but I truly do like my work and the people I get to spend my days beside. The busyness of December and Christmas added another dimension to the adjustment too.

Jace had his four month appointment on December 28 and we learned the following stats:

Weight

14.5 lbs

30%

Height

24.2 inches

13%

BMI = 58%

Head Circumference

17.1 inches

94%

Jace is the smallest of our babes coming in about a pound lighter and an inch shorter than Luke and Nora at this age. All of them have had the same big heads though 😊

Sleeping - Jace eats at 7:45/8pm then sleeps until 6:30/7am to eat again. He typically only wakes in the night if he breaks out of his swaddle, but we can wrap him back up, give him his pacifier, and he's back to sleep pretty easily. We've started giving him one hand out of his swaddle during the night with the hopes that we can transition him out of the swaddle. He's taking about 4 naps a day and a cat nap in the evening around our dinner time to make it through to bedtime happy.

Eating - He's eating about the same as last month, every 3-4 hours. Depending how long he goes between eating during the day, he occasionally skips a mid-evening feeding. He's still only eating breast milk and I'm hoping we can keep that up!

Growing - He's wearing 6 month clothes and size 2 diapers.

Fun - This past month, Jace has started to giggle some. He's pretty ticklish in his neck and thighs. He'll sometimes even giggle just at sounds we make. He also started rolling from his front to his back. Just last night he was rocking onto his side while laying on his back so rolling the other direction might be coming soon. He's getting better at putting toys into his mouth and enjoys gumming them...until he inadvertently tosses them aside 😊 Jace is really just so much fun these days with his happy noises, interest in discovering the world around him, and witnessing his new skills.

Christmas - We celebrated Christmas December 22 - 25 (22 - Moyers/Beckmanns, 23 - at home, 24 - Greens extended family, 25 - Pickers). It was a wonderful four days with family. Brent was able to have most of the week between Christmas and New Years off work and I only worked a couple days. I just love to end the year low key and regrouping together 💗

Christmas with Beckmanns/Moyers