Mummascribbles – Oscar you are 4 months old – Mummascribbles

Dear Oscar,

How are we here already? Please stop growing so fast! 

The last month has been a little bit amazing because you are truly growing into that little person now. The one where when you are 4 years old, we’ll look at you and recognise that cheeky face from your babyhood. When we look back at photos of Zach, there is such a recognition of the person he has become and that is what we will be recognising from here on in with you. 

You are still poorly of course! You’ve developed yet another cold but nothing as bad as you have been previously. We are however on chicken pox watch as your big brother has had a bad case of it. I’m hoping that the antibodies in my breastmilk are strong enough to fight that one off though – you’ve had enough illness in this start to your life. None of it though, has stopped you from that rapid development through babyhood.

It’s been a couple of weeks now since we heard your first giggle. It was small but definitely there. Over the past two weeks, you have been practising it and you are there. You love saving it for your daddy and your brother although just today I got some too. It is such a wonderful noise, that little part of your personality that defines what makes you laugh. I haven’t managed to capture it on film yet but I will don’t worry!

This last month has also found you discovering your voice. Oh my god, I think we have another Zach on our hands! Your favourite thing is talking. You have full on conversations with your toys on a daily basis. All we have to do is pop a toy in front of you and that’s it…the noises start coming out and you don’t stop! You also love talking to your hands and feet and also your muslins! And sometimes, to us! It’s just the cutest thing and I can see you are going to be an absolute chatterbox!

You have also discovered your hands and feet this month. Watching you try and shove both fists in your mouth is hilarious. Most of the time you are munching on your hands and the other day when you were sat on my legs, you found your feet, started talking to them and then bent down to try and eat them!  

You also discovered the joys of soft play. You have been many times before but you slept most of the time! Now you have been in there and you were mesmorised, if a little…whoa!

We brought the Jumperoo down from the loft becuase you are totally ready for it. Over the last week we have been weaning you into it – a few minutes here and there every day and you are starting to really enjoy it. I know that you’ll be bouncing away in there in no time. It’s also that scary thing that shows me just how quickly you are growing. You had a bit of a slow down when you were really poorly with the cough but you are well and truly making up for it now. I swear you feel like you have doubled in weight over the last few days and when we first put you in the jumperoo with a box underneath you, you were kind of on tippy toes. Just a week later and you are totally flat footed on it! How can someone grow that quickly?! 

You are so very nearly rolling! So far you have made it three quarters of the way over so it’s only a matter of time. I know now that I can’t leave you anywhere that you might fall because it’s going to happen very soon. And then like a flash you’ll be on the move! That’s when the fun starts! 

Your sleeping could be better. You were an amazing sleeper right up until Christmas Eve and then a switch flicked in you and it all changed. There were a few nights where I literally saw every hour! You have suddenly decided that you are not so keen on your Snuzpod, but that you simply want to be in mummy and daddy’s bed. Yep, co-sleeping has happened yet again! A couple of days ago, your daddy suggested we try you in your cot and you know what? I wasn’t ready! I actually cried at the thought of it! By now, Zach was sleeping in his cot but I feel like the last four months have gone so fast. I don’t feel like you are that old, it feels like you’ve only been around for a couple of months but you haven’t. And that’s why I am not ready. There’s a big possibility that you are my last baby and I feel like I have to saviour every single moment that I have with you. So, if you could just start liking your Snuzpod again, that would be really helpful because then daddy won’t start threatening the cot again. 

Like I said at the beginning, this month has been amazing and I know it’s just going to keep getting better and better. 

Keep growing beautiful boy. 

Loads of love,

Mummy

xxx