Happy 4th month bubba. We celebrated your 4th month two days in advance. It was another Saturday when we drove to Wicklow and looked for a place somewhere nice. Thanks to Instagram, I learned about the place called Mount Usher Gardens so that's where we went. You slept all the way going there! Hurray!
What have you been up to? Let's see...
At four months, I can say you have already overcome your acid reflux. Thank God a thousand times for that! You're still tiny at second percentile which made me worry for days on end. But lately, the Lord has been asking me to cast all my worries to Him and that He's got you at the palm of His loving hand. Someday, I know you will grow bigger in length and weight. In the meantime, I'll enjoy your smallness and rest in God's assurance that my breastmilk is enough to sustain and nourish you. You are bright, alert, active and hitting all your developmental milestones. At this stage, that's all that matters.
Also... (*drum roll please*) you've overcome your car hysterics! Hurray! You have finally discovered that you can do other things in the car like sleeping or just amusing yourself at whatever passing scenes and colors you can perceive or thumb-sucking fist-sucking. You still cry, but only for a short time. Well done bubba. By the way, your fist-sucking drives your daddy nuts!
Hmmm, what else? You scream now whenever you get excited or happy or fussy. You can be demanding sometimes and your dad insists that you got that stubborn behaviour from me! (How unfair is that?!) But you know what else bubba Zeya? You've learned to laugh, to reach for your toes, to grab objects especially mommy's hair. Praying I won't go bald by the time you're one! You're still learning to roll over and flip, but we'll get there.
I want to thank you Zeya for stretching our hearts and filling them with so much joy and love and patience too. Your dad and I, we are trying hard every single day to love and take care of you the best way we know how. And that's what we celebrate today---four months of having the privilege to be your mom and dad and having the opportunity to shower you with love we never knew we could give until you came along.
I love you Zeya. With all my heart. :)
Photos from your fourth month celebration at Avoca Cafe in Mount Usher Gardens:
Here's mommy trying hard to hold a wriggly baby!
The lighting of your cake. Thank God there's a Filipino waiter whom we politely asked to take photos of us. So here, your dad lighted your candles for the second time.
Family photos:
With just you. This photo didn't capture your long eyelashes. Shame. :)
The blowing of your candle lights:
And now with daddy and your drool. :)
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This is part of the Love Letters to Zeya Series | - On my quest to write my dear son a love letter each month on his first year.
