4 months old

In two days my son will be 4 months old. 4 months! Where has all the time gone! On the other hand, look at how much my life has changed! I can hardly remember life without him.

Why does that happen? When something big happens in life, I often feel like it's been forever and just yesterday all at the same time. I guess it's just because it's such a large adjustment/change that you jump right into it physically and psychologically, but it is also such a big change that the beginning of it is more memorable than the average day.

I can hardly believe that almost 2 months ago we closed on our house and moved here. I feel like we just celebrated 1 month here. The 2nd month definitely went quicker than the first. And I can't believe that that means Roman has spent half of his life here already! In his first 2 months of his life we lived in 4 different towns/cities, and we've been here that same amount of time. Only two more months until Christmas! Wow (and YIKES...there are so many projects to get done around here before then!)!

What has changed since Roman was born?

• Well, we had a baby, for starters! ;-)
• We got out all the baby stuff he needed for a week, then we packed it all back up...
• We took him to small group and church and a few doctor's appointments for me and for him, then we said goodbye to all of our friends in Lafayette.
• We moved down to Indianapolis to stay with my parents.
• My husband started a new job.
• We got up to feed him at midnight, at 3AM, at 6AM...you get the picture...
• We celebrated Kendra's graduation from high school and her send-off to college (Crazy!) :-)
• He had his first bath in a tub, his first stroller ride, his first party, his first trip to a winery, his first garage sales...
• He started holding his head up, putting weight on his legs, grabbing for toys...
• We packed up.
• We moved again.
• We celebrated 1 month since he was born.
• He started lifting his head up, smiling at us, cooing, walking with our support...
• We packed up.
• We moved.
• Finally...into our house! 
• He grew, and grew, and grew...
• We survived the colic (after about 2 1/2 months)! 
• We painted...and painted...and painted...and painted...
• We started going to a church in town.
• We took him to the church nursery and crossed our fingers that he wouldn't be too bad...
• And he loved it! Now he can't get enough of the church nursery.
• He started rolling over from his back to his stomach (never to sleep on his back again).
• One or two days later, he started rolling from his stomach to his back.
• Done with those milestones, and many, many more.
• He plays with toys and scoots around the room; he jumps in his jumper and laughs out loud. 
• We finally found something that works for the GERD, and now he only spits up some at each feeding (and it only took 3 1/2 months...)!

There are a million bullets missing from this list, but you get the picture: a lot has happened! I'm sure many of you have similar experiences from your lives where more than you could imagine was crammed in a very short time frame. What a whirlwind adventure it's been so far! Here's to 4 more months for me to look back on and wonder where the time went!

:-)