Length: 25 inches
Weight: 12 pounds, 10 ounces
Likes: Eating my fingers, eating my toes, eating my arms, car keys, traveling in the car, laughing at crying adults
Dislikes: Being left to go to sleep upstairs while my parents have dinner, clean the kitchen, and get our home ready for me to play in the next day

My parents have been so busy over the past month, Daddy still hasn’t downloaded the photos from my visit to cousin Ella from last month from his camera.  Then today, they told me *I* had to do the writeup for month four. Can you believe it?

(In case you’re wondering how I’m able to do this at my age, Beary, who you see with me in all these photos, seems to be the only being that can communicate effectively with both me and my parents, so I’m dictating to him and he’s translating in to English.)

Just after my 3 month birthday, I rolled over from front to back for the first time. It was exciting, but in typical infant fashion, I waited for Daddy to turn away before doing it, so he missed it the first time. I hear that I’m supposed to figure out how to roll from back to front next. This house better be babyproofed before I become mobile because I’m going to start crawling about at some point, don’t say Mommy and Daddy weren’t warned!

Shortly after that, my parents started to say that I sound like a pterodactyl, but I’m not sure this is a fair accusation.  After all, I don’t know what that is, because Daddy never includes it when he sings me Old McDonald’s Farm and neither parent showed one to me when we were at the zoo.  How can they say that I sound like something I’ve never seen or heard in my life?  What nerve…

At the end of August, we went to the beach in Delaware with my paternal grandparents. Mommy and Daddy praised me for being such a great passenger in the car, though it was a bit disorienting to wake up in the middle of a huge downpour on the way home. Those were some loud raindrops, but they weren’t as big as some of the waves we saw on the beach itself. The sand felt funny to me when I was able to put my feet on it, and I’m not used to the way the water goes in and out on the beach, even when being tightly held by a parent, but I think I liked it somewhat by our last day. My grandparents also put me to sleep one night all on their own while Mommy and Daddy went to celebrate their anniversary. I hope they do that again sometime, I hear they have another anniversary in about a year.

I also helped my Aunt Lisa pack up her apartment before she moved to Brookline. I was given two very important jobs. The first was supervisor, and I think I did that very well. I was always watching to see what the adults were doing, except when I took breaks to nap.  The second job was to cheer Lisa and Mommy up when they were sad, so I laughed at them, but Beary says that may have not been the best approach to the task. He also said that while everyone appreciated my age appropriate efforts, it is a job I’ll learn to do better over time. I also had my first night at home alone with only one of my parents when Daddy drove Lisa to Boston, which went well, especially since my Savta is still here and helped Mommy take care of me. I even woke up Mommy so she could greet Daddy when he came home at 1:30 AM, wasn’t that nice of me? I’ll miss having Lisa close by, but I expect she will try to Facetime me and I will avoid looking at the camera or smiling on demand because that’s just how I roll these days.

Finally, I’ve discovered I have a whole range of amusements whenever I get bored. I just open my mouth and try to force in as many body parts as I can at once. One finger, three fingers, a fist, my entire foot, my arm, etc. I literally put my foot in my mouth, and I don’t understand why my parents talk about it with a negative connotation. Adults are so strange sometimes. In the past few days, for example, they say I’m going through sleep regression because they want to leave me alone in the bassinet at night. Why would they want to do things like clean the kitchen or order groceries online at night when I’m not around to distract them? Wouldn’t they rather hold me while I fall asleep on their tummies and then admire my cute face while I sleep? I really don’t see the problem here…

Anyway, I need to sign off now. There are lots of holidays to prepare for, and since I did such a good job on the trip to Delaware, my parents are now talking about going on a trip that’s shorter than the one they had originally planned to take me on this fall to Israel, but much longer than the one to Delaware. I wonder how many states I’ll have visited by the time I’m 5 months old. Oh, and Daddy needs his computer back.  Maybe he will finally upload those photos now…