happy 4-months, baby boy!

Smiles continues to be such a joy in our lives. He is sleeping about 10 hours through the night now. But his naps don't go so great during the day. He's really big on catnapping, so it's still hard to get a big chunk of sleep out of him when there's daylight. Usually, he'll just sleep about 20 minutes at a time and then wake up since he's such a light sleeper. Unfortunately, that makes him a mess in the evenings. =( Although he's still pretty much just eating and sleeping most of the time, he sure can let out an angry, tantrum-y cry when he's tired and wants to be held to go to sleep. His legs and arms will outstretch while his body gets all stiff and his face turns a bright red... typical baby tantrum. But he'll make it up to us when it's time to eat and he'll be so sweet on us, full of smiles and cooing. He responds really well to Bill. Bill is the best at getting him to talk and smile. This one seems more of a daddy's boy. =)
Josiah has also found his hand. Sometimes we'll catch him just turning it and looking at it. His standard position is to hold his hands in front of him. He usually has them together or close to his face. When he lays on his activity mat, he'll reach for one of the stuffed animals as he concentrates really hard. The cutest thing is that he has found his thumb. He'll start out sucking his hand and will sometimes find his thumb. There are times when we see him actually sucking on it when he doesn't have his pacifier. I think we have a thumb-sucker in our future.
Hiccups and being in his car seat continue to be Josiah's least favorite things, aside from being tired/hungry. =) He gets super fussy when he has the hiccups, which is pretty often, unfortunately. He always has this look like he doesn't know what's going on with his body. "This is weird... What is my body doing?" And the only thing to remedy his car rides is to give him his paci, but if that thing falls out, it is screaming/crying all the way home. =) It stresses me to no end hearing him cry like that. On occasion, William will join in the crying fest when it gets to be too much.
One thing that's been a little concerning is that Josiah's head is almost always turned to the right. We didn't realize how much he was doing this until we noticed that his head is extremely flat on that side. So we've been trying to correct it by turning it and sticking a rolled up blanket on his right side to prevent him from turning that way. It doesn't work so well, so we'll talk to the doc about it when we see her next week. On a good note, Josiah is developing better head control and is able to hold his head up on his own most times... though it's still really wobbly.
Lastly, Josiah's hair is starting to grow back after losing a lot of his baby hair in the front. He seems to be getting the same mohawk patch that William had when his hair grew back. We won't have a problem cutting it this time around. =P
As always, we are incredibly grateful to the Lord for sustaining and watching over our Smiles.