Our sweet Ryder turned four months old last Thursday. Everyone told me, "Just wait till your second!" when Wyatt was such a good baby. Joyfully, I have an even better second baby than the first!
He sleeps like a CHAMP! He goes down at 8 pm and sleeps till 7 am. He's not a great napper, but who can complain when he lets me get such great sleep at night? He's a happy happy boy. This grin is a typical sight at our house. I wouldn't say he's quite as laid back as his brother though. Few things seemed to phase Wyatt, but Wyatt didn't smile as easily either. Ryder startles far easier than Wyatt. He tires of activities quicker and lets you know when he needs a change.
He also looks very much like his daddy! Check out this one of Randy at 3 months...
It's the eyes. They melt my heart every time. Ryder's have been described as puppy dog eyes.
As of today Ryder is halfway weaned. His first feeding is the only one that isn't supplemented. I forced myself to make it to six months with Wyatt, but I just couldn't do it with Ryder. Besides, he's also become the world's second most distracted nurser, right behind his brother. Except his brother didn't have an almost 2 year old sibling to distract him! Mercy.
As for his brother...
Wyatt is getting better and better with his brother. Ever since he drew blood after scratching Ryder's face in Walmart, he's been much more gentle. I think the incident helped him grasp the consequences of what he does to Ryder.
And he constantly surprises us with what he remembers and knows. Last week we were going to women's Bible study at church and I had a casserole on the passenger seat. It was heavy enough that it set off the seatbelt alarm. In the backseat Wyatt says, "Ding ding ding! Gwamma!" remember a time several months ago when my mom didn't get her seatbelt buckled in time and the alarm went off. How on earth he remembers such things I don't know!
He has learned to count to ten, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't understand the actual concept. He knows how to say the words in order, but he'll tell me I have two toes or tell me the numbers in a very mixed up order.
He also spells his name, "Y-A-T-T!" The W gets lost somewhere. We started singing "Twinkle, Twinkle," and his version goes like this...
Twinkle star (looking up at the sky and "sparkling" his fingers)
How Y-A-T-T ("How I wonder" morphed into this)
Up above world
Like a diaper
And that's it! Makes me laugh every time!
He digs everywhere. We put a fence around our garden, so now he digs anywhere he can, which is actually a lot of places right now since we are reconstructing our backyard. A sandbox is part of the hardscape plans.
I'm blessed with how well he listens and obeys. Not to say he doesn't have his share of discipline, but he's learning. This learning is going to be interrupted by the twos. I'm not calling them terrible, but I can see it coming already! It's so hard to believe that in 2 weeks from today, my baby boy will be two. This time has gone way way way too fast.
And we've loved every minute of it!
