Aiden slept through the night without any feeding for the first time yesterday. He woke up several times complaining and fussing, but giving him a passy and turning on the vibration in his crib seemed to work in calming him back down and getting back to sleep.

In most of the cases he still requires to be rocked to sleep. In the evening for night time sleep he usually does better about falling asleep on his own.

He loves to stare at different parts of his body, mostly fingers. While sitting up mostly on his own he likes to look at his feet.

His new bath routine included taking a full bath in the bathtub together with mommy, daddy and 4 rubber duckies. He seems to enjoy it. During the 20 minute process he splashes his hands in the water, in turn getting everyone wet.

Aiden also has learned to giggle. It’s absolutely the most adorable thing in the world. Generally he giggles and laughs in the response to mommy and daddy’s kissed to the cheeks and tummy. He doesn’t do it too often, but I’m hopping that will change.

Aiden has learned to grab things. Currently if a toy is held out in the front of him he will reach his hand trying to grab it. Also while being held, any clothes, jewelry, hair, and other surrounding objects tend to be fair game for Aiden’s grabs.

Besides holding things he is getting pretty good at passing objects from one hand into the next. Currently his favorite “small toy” is a set of colorful keys on the ring. While holding them, at times he gets angry which leads to vigorous shaking and throwing of the keys.

Since starting solid foods over a week ago Aiden became constipated for 48hrs. Apparently a normal occurrence, but of course Elliott and I got completely worried over it. After a full day of eating prune sauce Aided finally had his poo-poo. We never thought we would be this happy over a diaper full of poo.

Aiden has also started teething. There are no visible teeth yet, but probably will appear soon. He loves to stick soft toys into his mouth, especially a purple giraffe that came as a part of his play land. He also seems to enjoy chewing on his burp cloth, especially if there is mommy’s finger behind it.

Mommy started teething together with Aiden. Even though all four wisdom teeth were removed years ago, a new one has showed up.  It turned out to be a “paramolar”, which seems to be fairly rare.

We have started solid food.  We tried some rice cereal, but mostly he enjoys different flavor fruity foods including apple, pear, banana and prune. His favorite flavor so far tends to be pear, but apple sauce is a close second.

For Aiden’s 4-month birthday we visited Grandma Alla and Grandpa Gena’s house. Aiden got scared and maybe slightly disoriented after being in unfamiliar place.

For several days now Aiden has been able to roll over onto his side. He still struggles to do it at times, but he is getting better at it. We have repositioned the mirror on his play mat, he loves looking and smiling at himself. Also anytime we carry him around in the front of a mirror it seems to capture his attention.

Aiden almost crawled on his own today, after a while of trying and making very little progress he got frustrated. Mommy and daddy quickly picked him up in order to prevent more crying.

He is also almost able to roll over on his side. His changing table is slightly curved on the edges which make it easier for him to roll. But even when lying in his bed he can almost roll over on his side.

For mother’s day Aiden bought mommy a great card with a kitty on it.

Aiden has made a lot of developmental progress in the last month or so. He is great at holding up his head and following things. While laying in his crib he reaches/plays with his toy tiger and cowboy, both of the toys have rings which he has learned to grab and shake.

Probably the most noticeable accomplishment is his speech. He does the standards goo’s and gaa’s, but he is also starting to develop other sounds–at times it almost sounds like he can say “mama.” I’m assuming it will be his first word based on his current patterns.

Aiden loves looking at his books, especially the “colors pop up book”. The first picture in the book is a yellow lynx cat which he seems to have a preference for.

He has definitely learned that asking for attention gets results. Instead of crying for it, he starts “talking” which makes him sound very pitiful. When someone is in his sight he sort of reaches his arms up. Both mommy and grandma tend to encourage that behavior.

He’s having hard time falling asleep on his own; generally he needs to be rocked to sleep with a passy in his mouth.

Aiden now eats from the bottle during the day while mommy is at work. This process at first took a long time, but it got better. The bottle definitely comes second in his choice of preference. His current eating schedule usually ends up being every 4 hours with occasional 5 hours segments. Generally he eats 4-7 oz. from the bottle.

Today was mommy’s first day back at work after a 13 week stay with Aiden. While mommy and daddy are working, Aiden will be spending time with Grandma Alla and Grandpa Gena.

While the family was over for Easter, Aiden got to spend some time with both grandmas. He looked around the table curiously while everyone was eating–definitely an activity overload.

During this month we’re trying to stretch his eating habits from 3 to 4 hours.  It has definitely proven to be problematic at times (mommy usually gives in if there is too much crying).