4 months old

Noah is 4 months old and I took him for his well baby checkup.  Here are my happy boy's stats:

 Length - 27in, 95th perecntile
Weight - 17lbs 4.2oz, 90th percentile
Needless to say, he's a big boy, about the size of a 6-7 month old.  He's even wearing size 3 diapers now.  He had 3 vaccines, one oral - which he must have thought was yummy, because he did not miss a drop.  He had two shots and got all red in the face, but I picked him up immediately and he recovered without actually crying.  Noah did show off his tricks - smiling, "talking", clasping his hands together, grabbing his feet.  The dr repeatedly remarked what a happy boy he is. He truly is a good-natured little boy!  Noah is so close to rolling over.  He gets on his side and uses his arms to stop.  He's also cooing and "talking" to us. Sometimes in the car Joshua will translate and say "Noah says 'Watch Toy Story on big TV.'" when he wants to watch a movie at home. Noah is a beautiful, smiley, bald little boy!

I must say that Joshua was in rare form.  He was quiet the whole time but very busy.  First he decided to be a frog and hopped on his hands and knees saying "ribbit, ribbit" to and from the exam room when Noah was weighed.  I was cringing at the germs that would be all over a doctor's office floor, but what can you do.  At some point he stood up in a chair (which none of the adults noticed), got my phone out of my purse, sat down in a chair and started a search on google.  I took the phone away and he started circling through and around one of my legs which he is really a little too tall to easily do anymore.  Later he was hanging on my legs partially upside down smiling at the doctor who said "Joshua, is that comfortable? I don't think I could do that."

I did tell the dr about Joshua getting an ear infection and also about how we gave him the prescribed decongestant and J freaked out for hours.  Poor guy was hysterical, kicking, bucking, rolling on the floor - absolutely miserable.  Dr. Hensley said he would have never prescribed it and to throw it away.  Mommy and Daddy learned he is too young for a decongestant. Then the dr had to bribe him with a sticker to look in his ears which looked fine. He spent the rest of the visit quietly opening and closing the door. When the dr and med student left he followed them out and headed for the waiting room (Noah still had to get his shots) so the dr grabbed his hand and led him back to the room "Let's wait for mommy to leave, okay?" I can't really complain because despite being busy he was quiet and would sit in the chair when I asked him to, he would just climb back down seconds later looking for something to do.

Joshua reading Good Night Moon.