Our life in the last month, Elliott at 4 months

 
Well here I am late to post about our last month again!  We have had a fairly busy month as John's mom and her friend Susan came to visit for 10 days and I started back to work. I am working 2 days a week for 2 months and then just covering for vacations, whenever I can find babysitters :)!
I mentioned last month that the Dr here wanted me to take Elliott off his reflux medicine, but sadly it didn't go very well. I have learned that you are not supposed to quit these medicines cold turkey. Anyhow, he was off the meds for one week and has been back on them since then. At his four month appointment again the Dr recommended stopping the medicine, but this time we are going to slowly reduce it over 3 weeks..... And pray it goes ok!

John's moms visit was right in the middle of the month and it was so great to have some help, some time away with John and for the company in general.  John and I were lucky enough to sneak away for a 10 mile race in Bern, they say it is the most beautiful 10 mile race and about 20,000 other people joined us for it.  We then also got to spend the night in Bern which included a fantastic meal at an Indian restaurant. It was a good time away and we were so thankful that John's mom was willing to watch the kiddos.

The week after Johns mom left I started to work again. I am so blessed to have my friend Tammy coming to the house to watch Hannah and Elliott until the end of June, then after that I have several friends to watch the kids just when my boss needs vacation coverage. Daycare costs and our tax situation makes it too expensive to take the kids to a daycare or to pay a nanny. But it is nice to be able to work a little bit and it has been a good transition so far. And Tammy seems to be a baby whisperer. Elliott always takes nice long naps when Tammy is here. I am starting to think it is because he loves to eat and he loves his nice full bottles of milk, he is John's son and John mentions all the time that he is usually always hungry!

Elliott has only rolled a few times, I think mostly on accident. I think he is getting close to doing it more purposefully. He still loves to stand and always giggles when he is standing and does "So Big" at the same time. He has still been eating once for 10 minutes or so at night, between 4 and 5:30 lately, and goes to bed at 7, wakes up around 7. Overall it is ok, but I would love him just to go the whole 12 hours soon! Also I must note that Hannah has started to play with Elliott and give him quite a bit of attention.

This month was also the first flight of the airplane that John has been working on

 His low points are car rides and sometimes 45 minute naps... but I guess we all have downsides. His stats this month are: 6.77 kg... almost 15 pounds and 63 cm tall. That is all until next month.