4 months!

Ross is 4 months old today! Some recent changes include: hair that lies a bit flatter, serious attempts to roll over, and laughing so hard he has tears in his eyes. He won't be weighed and measured until next week, so the stats will have to wait, but he's fitting this 6-9 month top from Grandma Georgia very nicely! 

His eyes remain a beautiful deep blue, but some days I think I see flecks of brown starting, so I'm not entirely convinced they won't still change colour.

He is a wonderful napper during the day, although a bit less reliable at night. He sometimes sleeps a blissful 10 hours, other times he wakes up every 4 hours.

While Ross works on the art of wriggling in circles and rolling over, Madeleine discusses the day's events with Daddy on the phone. She is obsessed with the phone these days, so it now lives on top of the fridge (which is quickly getting crowded with all the other things we need to keep out of her reach) in order to prevent calls to Timbuktoo or emergency services. She loves talking to Daddy though and acts out all her stories, so it's always very clear to me what she's trying to say, but sometimes not so clear to Daddy. 

May is the month of birthday parties for all her little friends from our antenatal group. We got her all dressed up like a ballerina for this one party, and then she threw a fit when we tried to take her picture (because, of course, SHE wanted to take the picture). Here is the best we could get - all the others she was blurry and lying on the floor in what Steve calls her "hippy protest" - a non-violent form of protest against all unjust parenting acts.