Short Sports!!

A couple of weeks ago, James finished up a program at the YMCA called Short Sports.  It was a half hour class that was held once a week for 8 weeks.  Each class would start with some "stretching", and then kids would play a different sport each week.  The class was technically for 3-5 year olds, so he was the youngest one there.  He LOVED it (well, except for maybe that parachute play that had at the end of each class - he wanted to keep all of the balls to himself!).

I was the only crazy parent there that was taking pictures and videos.  Lucky you!

PS The movie was set to James's (current) favorite song.  We probably listen to it about 20 times a day.  Seriously.

4 Month Old Charlie

 On August 24th, little Charlie turned 4 months old!  That morning I sang Happy Birthday to Charlie, and James asked if we were going to eat Birthday cake :)

The little guy wasn't too excited for this photo shoot (see the bottom left pic below!), so I had to work hard to get that smile above.

James gave him a little pep talk,

And once he got his hands on some toys, he was much happier :)

Charlie had another excellent check up this month (aside from getting shots).  He gained 2 lbs (up to 14lb 3oz) and grew 1.5", up to 25.5" (70th percentile!).  I was pretty shocked to find out that James actually weighed more at 4 months (he was 14lbs 7oz), but Charlie's an inch taller.  Maybe that's why he seems so big to me.  And why strangers comment on how HUGE he is.  I really had one lady tell me "Wow, he's huge!" three times.  Thanks, lady.

As for milestones this month, he's found his toes (but they haven't found their way into his mouth...yet).  He also started sleeping in 8 hour stretches!  I'm not 100% certain (probably because sleep deprivation is slowly killing off my brain cells and my memory is shot), but I don't think James did that until he was 18 months old!  Charlie had an awesome week of sleeping mostly 7 or 8 hours at a time, but after his shots, he started waking up every two hours :(.  That lasted about a week, and he's thankfully now back to his good sleeping habits.

That's all, folks!