4 Months

Dear Justice,

What a month you've had! First off, you did finally get to see the same radiologist again for your follow up upper GI and swallow test- it showed, what we already knew: God had healed you! It was truly exciting to see just HOW much!! While the first time you'd had the upper GI you're little body was CONTINUALLY refluxing...now, it showed only one time of reflux the whole study! Pretty incredible! And what a testimony of the Lord's mercy and love for us!

Of course, as irony would have it this month was by far your fussiest month-I wondered if all the gassy/colicy business was because you were now 100% breastfed and you just weren't use to that? But really you had already been pretty much breastfed other than the nighttime feedings and your fussy times didn't coincide with that...see? I clearly put a lot of time and thought into what was going on. But bottomline you've had some serious unhappy times this month!! But, thankfully that's what it is to be a baby and you deserve some uninterrupted scream time. Let's just let it be done, ok?! ;-)

Now, don't get me wrong 90% of the time you're still the happiest most giggly laid-back baby ever! You even did some rolling over and enjoyed time in the Bumpo seat and of course were sweet and cool about life in general.

You went to Nacogdoches with Mommy this month-just the two of us-to see your newest cousin Olivet. You were a dream baby on both trips-only crying at the very end -as in like the last 20 minutes of a 6 hour trip! DREAM BABY!
And spent our time in Nacogdoches being passed from one grandparent to the next with equal coos and smiles for all! In fact, the one full day in Nacogdoches we spent the majority of it up at the hospital waiting for Olivet to be born- because of one thing or another all three of your daily naps equalled about 30 minutes each and yet did you fuss and cry? Nope. Not once.
You would even wait patiently for me to come feed you if I was tied up with your Aunt Anna or some other distraction.
One nap, I literally swaddled you, stuck the paci in your mouth, put your noise maker lamb next to you on the couch and just diverted my eyes for about 5 minutes and you went right to sleep! Who does that?!

Yes, we love your laid-back ways and are grateful for the joy that you bring to our lives. You're perfectly happy to chew on your fist and drool enough to fill up swimming pools and watch the world go by!

We can't wait to see what you decide to do next, and we love all that you bring to our family!

All my love,
Mommy